On April4, 1980, the New York Book Fair arrived at NYU with 500 presses and enough funds to rent the entire student center. Barbara, as treasurer for the event, negotiated the contract between the book fair and the university. I organized the small press readings. A marathon reading was held downstairs in the cafe. Among the poets scheduled to read were Frederick Buell, Marie Ponsot, Ellen Marie Bissert, Beverly Lawn, Elizabeth Marraffino, Ed Hogan, Jim Villani, Harriet Brown, Enid Dame, Ruth Lisa Schechter, Roberta Kalechofsky, Kathryn Nocerino, Bob Holman, Jeff Wright, Ernest M. Robson, Carol Polcovar, Robert Fox, Ron Welburn, Stanley Barkan, Diana Kwiatkowski, Zack Rogow, Dorothy Friedman, Barry Godensohn, Leah Paransky, Donald Lev, Mikhail Horowitz, Jan Castrow, Lyn Lifshin, Charley Shively, George-Therese Dickinson, Alice Mattison, and Oliver Lake. With the help of Home Planet News and Box 749, additional small press poetry readings were presented at the Cedar Tavern and the Cornelia Street Café. The readings were documented in the April, 1980, issue of our magazine:
NYS Waterways Project - 1980 2
In April, 1982, coinciding with the New York Book Fair, Waterways published an issue of poetry by children celebrating the act of reading. In response to our call for submissions more than 500 children sent in poetry about reading. The young poets whose poems were selected for publication were also invited to the book fair at NYU where they performed their poetry.
Waterways: Poetry in the Mainstream Vol. 3 No. 2 The Joys of Reading
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