Bowery Poetry Club-R.I.P.

Literary East Village Loses Another Longstanding Page

 

 

When the Bowery Poetry Club closed its doors last week, it sent a familiar ripple of dismay through the rapidly gentrifying East Village.

It was the second loss of a neighborhood literary beacon within the past year. Last September, Life Café, a longtime hub for poets and writers on East 10th Street—Jonathan Larson penned "Rent" there—closed after 30 years. Two years before that, Holiday Cocktail Lounge on St. Mark's Place, a favored haunt of W.H. Auden and Allen Ginsberg, closed after 44 years.

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