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Called “a consummate poet” by Robert Creeley, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1945. A most prolific poet, her first book was published at the age of twenty-three. Many texts later she continues to write progressive poetry from her home in East Nassau, New York. For many years Mayer lived and worked on the Lower East Side of Manhattan where she was the Director of St. Mark’s Poetry Project from 1980-1984. Bernadette Mayer has received grants and awards from PEN American Center, The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, the NEA, The Academy of American Poets, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters.
""""The richness of life and time as they happen to us in tiny explosions all the time are grasped and held up for us to view in her magnificent work."""" -- John Ashbery """"Mayer writes the kind of nonsense that makes sense, and sense that is nonsense: I can’t think of a better catering device in these topsy-turvy times."""" -- Daniel Wenger - The New Yorker """"Bernadette Mayer is one of the most original writers of her generation. All her work is full of brilliant observation, humorous and sometimes astounding conclusions, and amazing juxtapositions inspired by linguistic associations, patterns of movement, chance, mathematics, whim, and imagination."""" -- The Washington Post ""The poetry of Bernadette Mayer (1945-2022) is as whimsical and difficult as raising children, one of her main subjects... Mayer’s avant-garde, fragmentary language echoes the cacophony of a full house, or is it the other way around?"" -- The New Yorker
