1. Bernadette Mayer was born in a predominantly German part of Brooklyn, New York, in 1945.
12 Facts About Bernadette Mayer
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Bernadette Mayer attended Catholic schools early on, where she studied languages and the classics, and she graduated from the New School for Social Research in 1967.
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Bernadette Mayer edited the journal 0 TO 9 with Vito Acconci, and, until 1983, United Artists books and magazines with Lewis Warsh.
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Bernadette Mayer taught at the New School for Social Research, where she earned her degree in 1967, and, during the 1970s, she led a number of workshops at the Poetry Project at St Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in New York City.
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From 1980 to 1984, Bernadette Mayer served as director of the Poetry Project.
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Bernadette Mayer was a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship Recipient, a 2009 Creative Capital Awardee, and received a National Book Critics Circle Nomination for her most recent book, 2016's Works and Days.
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The workshops Bernadette Mayer taught there were "renowned for the variety of textual approaches deployed, and for their emphasis on nonliterary texts," according to a history of the project published online in 2012.
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Bernadette Mayer taught regularly from 1971 to 1974 and sporadically during the later 1970s.
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From 1972 to 1973, Bernadette Mayer co-edited the publication Unnatural Acts, a "collaborative writing experiment" that arose from one of her workshops.
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Bernadette Mayer was elected director of The Poetry Project in 1980 and served until Eileen Myles took over in 1984.
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Bernadette Mayer created and edited 0 to 9 magazine with Vito Acconci from 1967 to 1969, and published six issues full of content by artists including Robert Barry, Ted Berrigan, Clark Coolidge, John Giorno, Dan Graham, Michael Heizer, Kenneth Koch, Sol LeWitt, Jackson Mac Low, Harry Mathews, Adrian Piper, Bern Porter, Yvonne Rainer, Jerome Rothenberg, Aram Saroyan, Robert Smithson, Alan Sondheim, Hannah Weiner, and Emmett Williams.
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From 1978 to 1984, Bernadette Mayer co-edited United Artists books and magazine with her then-partner Lewis Warsh.