Will Alexander Benefit in NYC Tonight!

Poetthinker Tonya Foster sent me the following email today, so for those in NYC, please drop by this benefit, and for those of us not there, please consider sending something to help Will Alexander (right, photo from Green Integer) one of the most singular contemporary poets, help pay his medical bills if you can.

Dear Friends in Poetry, in Life:

Poet and artist Will Alexander has become seriously ill. He has no health insurance. In order to help him defray the cost of treatment, poets will gather and read Will’s work as well as poems for Will. If you can't attend the reading below, please make a donation to Will Alexander --he really needs the help of myriad communities right now. (His mailing address is W. Alexander/ 400 South Lafayette Park Place, #307/ Los Angeles, CA 90057.) Will is one of our GREAT/most singular poets and thinkers. I understand that this is a time when many feel "heavy burdened" but ... Please help if you can. Feel free (and in fact feel encouraged) to forward this or post on your blogs, lists, groups of friends who will help.
love and much,
Tonya Foster

BENEFIT READING FOR WILL ALEXANDER
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST, 6-8PM
BOWERY POETRY CLUB
308 Bowery / F to 2nd Ave, or 6 to Bleecker
$10 suggested donation, more if you can

JEROME ROTHENBERG
TONYA FOSTER
JOEL KUSZAI
BILL MARSH
MARCELLA DURAND
TOD THILLEMAN
JOHN HIGH
RODRIGO TOSCANO
ELIOT WEINBERGER

(and more tba)