Bruce Weber Poet and Art Historian

LISTEN to my January, 2021 WIOX Radio conversation with Bruce Weber to discuss his life as a poet, poetry event organizer and art historian, and to delve into his new book There Are Too Many Words In My House recently published by Rogue Scholars Press.

Bruce Weber is the author of five previously published books of poetry: “These Poems are Not Pretty” (Miami: Palmetto Press, 1992), “How the Poem Died” (New York: Linear Arts, 1998), “Poetic Justice” (New York: Ikon Press, 2004), “The First Time I Had Sex with T. S. Eliot” (New York: Venom Press, 2004), and “The Break-up of My First Marriage” (Rogue Scholars Press, 2009).

Bruce’s work has appeared in numerous magazines, as well as in several anthologies, including “Up is Up, But So Is Down: Downtown Writings, 1978- 1992” (New York: New York University, 2006), “Riverine: An Anthology of Hudson Valley Writers” (New Paltz, New York: Codhill Press, 2007), and “The Unbearables Big Book of Sex” (Autonomedia, 2010). He has performed regularly in the Tri-State area, both alone and for many years with his former performance group, Bruce Weber’s No Chance Ensemble, which produced the CD, “Let’s Dine Like Jack Johnson Tonight” (http://members.aol/com/ncensemble).

A former museum curator and director of research and exhibitions for a major gallery in New York, he has organized many exhibitions and authored numerous publications on American art. Currently Bruce is lecturing, writing and curating exhibitions revolving around the historic Woodstock art colony.

For twenty-five years, Bruce produced the Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word / Performance Extravaganza in New York City. Bruce moved with his wife, the artist and writer Joanne Pagano Weber, to Saugerties in 2018. This January 1st marked the second Hudson Valley New Year's Day Spoken Word/Performance Extravaganza . The first was held at the Beverly Lounge in Kingston, N.Y. and he hopes to return there next January 1st, This year because of the pandemic, Bruce organized Perfect Pitch -a live stream that took place New Year’s Day with curators including Teresa Costa, Phillip Levine, Sam Truitt and Mikhail Horowitz, and David Schell a Green Kill Performance Space in Kingston, which featured 36 writers and musicians from the Hudson Valley area, each performing from 6 to 8 minutes, that was broadcast on You Tube. Pitch Perfect