“Why does everybody think I’m so wild?” Cookie Mueller (1949-89) wondered in one of her short stories, collected in Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black (1990, 2022). “I’m not wild. I happen to stumble onto wildness. It gets in my path.”

Join The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s for a celebration of Cookie Mueller’s 75th birthday. We’ll read selections from her remarkable, incisive body of work, as well as writing that takes its cue from her singular irreverence. Readers include Gary Indiana, Amos Poe, Jackie Ess, Chi Chi Valenti, Lizzi Bougatsos, Kris Lee, Gia Gonzales, and Nicole’s Revenge.

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