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Joe Brainard
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Joe Brainard was born in Salem, Arkansas, in 1942, but shortly thereafter his family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he grew up. From an early age Joe showed artistic talent, winning virtually every art contest he entered. He even designed his mother's dresses. Artistic talent seemed to run in the family. His paternal grandfather wrote poetry, his father drew and painted (until the obligation of supporting a family turned that into a fading dream), and two of Joe's three siblings became artists, aided by private art lessons. For Joe, art was a calling, but it was also a way that he, a gentle, skinny, unathletic stutterer, could deal with the world outside his home; the world of public school in a working-class neighborhood. At the age of 16 Joe got to know two fellow classmates who, like him, felt somewhat marginalized: poets Ron Padgett and Dick Gallup. Through them he met two graduate students at the University of Tulsa, the poet Ted Berrigan and Patricia Mitchell, both of whom would prove to be lifelong friends. Still in high school, Brainard, Padgett, and Gallup produced The White Dove Review, an art and literary magazine. After graduation and a few months of study at the Dayton Art Institute, which had given him a full scholarship, Joe moved, in late 1960 or early 1961, to New York City, where Padgett had gone to study at Columbia. Berrigan soon followed. Joe stayed for two years, living in low-rent tenement apartments on the Lower East Side and barely scraping by—s
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The Dial-A-Poem Poets
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Dial-A-Poem Poets: Disconnected
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St. Mark's Poetry Project / NY, Mar-31-1971
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St. Mark's Poetry Project / NY, Apr-15-1981
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Dial-A-Poem Poets: Disconnected/Recorded GPS, Feb-11-1974
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All Poets Welcome
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St. Mark's Poetry Project / NY
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The Dial-A-Poem Poets / Recorded Calais, VT, July 1970
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The Dial-A-Poem Poets: Disconnected
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The World Record - Readings at the St. Mark's Poetry Project 1969-80
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Disconnected
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Giorno Poetry Systems: Disconnected