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Raymond Foye
Raymond Foye is a contributing editor to the Brooklyn Rail. His most recent publication is Harry Smith: The Naropa Lectures 1989–1991 (2023). Photo: Amy Grantham
You Don’t Buy Poetry at the Airport: John Klacsmann and Raymond Foye
Since 2012, John Klacsmann has held the role of archivist at Anthology Film Archives, where he oversees the preservation and restoration of experimental films. Here he speaks with Raymond Foye about the technical necessities, the threats to the craft, and the soul of analogue film.
The Art of Biography: Cosmic Scholar, The Life & Times of Harry Smith
Raymond Foye sits down with John Szwed to discuss his recent biography of the experimental polymath.
Grace to Be Born, and Live as Variously as Possible
Poet and photographer Gerard Malanga speaks with Raymond Foye about his latest poems, revealing their place in his long career.
Out of Bounds: Marcia Tucker
Raymond Foye speaks with Lisa Phillips, the Toby Devan Lewis Director of the New Museum, New York, about Out of Bounds: The Collected Writings of Marcia Tucker, a comprehensive anthology of New Museum founder and curator Tucker’s writing. The book was edited by Phillips, Johanna Burton, and Alicia Ritson, with Kate Wiener.
The Celestial Cinema of Gregory Markopoulos
Raymond Foye reports on the Temenos, the screening of Gregory Markopoulos’s film Eniaios in Lyssarea, Greece, in the summer of 2022. Addressing the mythological and mystical nature of Markopoulos’s singular cinematic production, Foye traces the developments in the filmmaker’s life that led to this influential work.
Gregory Corso: A Most Dangerous Art
On the occasion of the forthcoming publication of The Golden Dot: Last Poems by Gregory Corso, Raymond Foye reflects on the poet’s enduring engagement with the human condition and explores the unique structure of this final collection.
Delineators: Jordan Belson and Harry Smith
Raymond Foye tracks the relationship between the two mavericks, investigating their influence on one another and their enduring legacies.
Ed Sanders
Raymond Foye speaks with the author, musician, and American-counterculture record-keeper Ed Sanders at his home in Woodstock, New York.
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Allen Midgette
Raymond Foye speaks with the actor who impersonated Andy Warhol during the great Warhol lecture hoax in the late 1960s. The two also discuss Midgette’s earlier film career in Italy and the difficulty of performing in a Warhol film.