Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently

Poetry. Bill Berkson has worked as a poet, critic, editor and publisher, teacher, and curator for over half a century. Steve Evans has described his recent poetry as that of "a serene master of the syntactical sleight and transformer of the mundane into the marvelous." A selection of Berkson's criticism, THE SWEET SINGER OF MODERNISM & OTHER ART WRITINGS, was published in 2004; his epistolary collaboration with Bernadette Mayer, WHAT'S YOUR IDEA OF A GOOD TIME? in 2006; and SUDDEN ADDRESS: SELECTED LECTURES 1981-2006 in 2007. He lives in New York and San Francisco and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1984. He was Distinguished Paul Mellon Lecturer for 2006 at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.