New York Is a Poem: An Evening with Andrei Codrescu

One of the greatest poets of our time, American bard ANDREI CODRESCU is coming to the Romanian Cultural Institute on Murray Hill for an evening of brilliant verse, sparkling conversation, and irresistible charm. The prodigious author, who was born in Romania and moved to the United States while still a teenager, will converse with a formidable literary duo made out of Romanian-American poet and novelist CARMEN FIRAN and American poet and academic SHARON MESMER. The event is occasioned by the publication of Andrei Codrescu’s latest book, no time like now (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), a must-read, bittersweet hymn to glorious New York City.

“I wrote my first book of poems, License to Carry a Gun (Big Table, 1970), when I first lived in New York City, 1967-1970. Those were troubled times and I was 21 years-old. Decades later the city has changed and the times are still troubled. These poems,…