Discipline: Literature – poetry

Barry Wallenstein

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995
More: www.barrywallenstein.com
Barry Wallenstein received his Ph.D. in literature and modern poetry from New York University in 1972. From 1965 until 2006 he taught literature and writing at the City College of New York where he founded the journal Poetry in Performance and the Poetry Outreach Center, which in 2012 celebrated its 40th anniversary. His poems first appeared in 1964, and since then he has published nine collections. In the early 1970s he began collaborating with jazz artists in the performance and recording of his poetry, establishing long-term relationships with renowned jazz musicians, including saxophonists Arthur Blythe and Charles Tyler, and pianist John Hicks. He currently performs in New York City with pianist Adam Birnbaum and the internationally known French horn artist Vincent Chancey. Barry continues to collaborate with musicians internationally. In recent years, he has worked with Serge Pesce in France, Massimo Cavalli in Portugal, and the band Drastic Dislocations in Switzerland. In 2012 he composed lyrics for eight ballads by the saxophone artist and composer, Pepper Adams. He continues to work on lyrics for jazz composers.

Studios

New Jersey

Barry Wallenstein worked in the New Jersey studio.

The yellow clapboard New Jersey Studio, located on a grassy, sloping site, was funded by the New Jersey Federation of Women’s Clubs and built as an exact replica of Monday Music Studio (1913). The studio’s porch rests on fieldstone piers that increase in height as the ground slopes to the west. Like Monday Music Studio, New Jersey…

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