Village voice (New York, N.Y.: Newspaper).
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Joel Oppenheimer Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-0056
Abstract
Born in Yonkers in 1930, Joel Oppenheimer was a student of Charles Olson's at Black Mountain College from 1950-1953. He published over a dozen books of poetry, a play, a book on baseball, and was a columnist for the Village Voice from 1968 to 1984. Oppenheimer was the first director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project in Greenwich Village (from 1966 to 1968) and was an active teacher of poetry throughout his life. He died of complications from cancer in 1988....
Dates:
1925-1988