For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 3. This item is unavailable.For the Artists: Critical Writing, Volume 3

This new volume gathers reviews and essays on visual artists and writers published by Greg Masters in various magazines, journals and websites over the past decade. Essays on and reviews of shows by Dutch photographer Gerard Petrus Fieret, and painters Louise Hamlin and Matthew Wong. There are dozens of reviews of books issued by both mainstream publishers and independent small presses.

When he arrived in Manhattan's East Village in the mid-1970s, Greg Masters pounded rock and roll drums in basement dives, "alternative" spaces, CBGB and Irving Plaza and attended readings and workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. He co-edited the poetry magazine Mag City from 1977-1985. In 1977-78, along with a crew of poet comrades, he produced Public Access Poetry, a series of readings by "downtown" poets broadcast on a nascent cable station. Preserved on tape and digitized four decades later, the shows are now viewable on the websites of The Poetry Project and Penn Sound. From 1980-83, he edited The Poetry Project Newsletter. Over the past decade, he has published more than a dozen books under his imprint Crony Books, including Collaborations, poems written in the late 70s-early 80s with a dozen other East Village poets; You Among the Coordinates, a collection of stories; At Maureen's, a double journal written with Bernadette Mayer; and four volumes of poetry: What All the Songs Add Up To, It Wasn't Supposed to Be Like This, The Complete Thoughts of Greg Masters and A Million Revolutions.