SpokenHeard with Nick Piombino and Susan Dobbe Chase

Nick Piombino is an American poet, essayist, artist and psychotherapist. He has been associate with poets from both the New York School of the 1960s and the Language Poets of the 1970s.  He studied poetry in writing workshops with William S. Burroughs at City College in 1965 and at the Poetry Project with New York School poet Ted Berrigan in 1967. Piombino gave his first public poetry reading with singer-songwriter Patti Smith, at The Kitchen, in 1973.   A fixture on the New York poetry scene for decades, Piombino remained friends with both Allen Ginsberg and Jackson Mac Low until their deaths.  Piombino’s many books include Boundary of Blur, Contradicta, FreeFall, and Poems.  He was the recipient of the New York Foundation for Susanthe Arts Fellowship in Poetry.  He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, the artist Toni Simon.