Nicholas Mandernach - NY School of Poets

Nicholas Mandernach of the UCB Theatre discusses the New York School of Poets, a group of poets from the 1950s who led a movement of plain-spoken, emotionally direct and often very funny poetry. Anthony discusses the Billy Joel song Leningrad and Will mentions the rejected books of the New Testament (especially the Acts of Paul and Thecla) -- two subjects of equal import. NY School of Poets (particularly Frank O'Hara, John Ashberry, James Schuyler) Billy Joel's Lenningrad The Acts of Paul and Thecla