Live Mag! is an anthology of contemporary poetry and art. It was born at the Bowery Poetry Club when Bob Holman asked Jeff Wright to produce a show. Wright conceived the show as a performance / publication event where publishers, writers, and audience could swap and share. Since then, events hve been held in legendary East Village locations like Bar On A, Sidewalk Cafe, and Mo Pitkins. Continuing a fifteen-year tradition, we carry on a unique partnership with La Mama, E.T.C. We're fortunate to also be part of the Howl! Happening family. Both venues regularly hosts our art, performance, and poetry events there. LiVE MAG! has evolved from its original conception as an onstage event. Now, in addition to multiple shows yearly, it is an annual print anthology of art and poetry as well as appeariong online.
Publisher and Editor, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, moved to New York City in 1976 and began Hard Press, publishing poetry postcards and books. He attended workshops at St. Mark's Poetry Project with Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, John Godfrey, and Jim Brodey. He went on to study with Allen Ginsberg and William Matthews at Brooklyn College where he earned a Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry. In 1987, Wright launched Cover Magazine, the Underground National. Its contributors included Molly Jong-Fast, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, John Yau, Robert C. Morgan, David Ulin, Jeanne C. Wilkinson, KK Kozik, and hundreds more. The 64-page monthly journal circulated nationally until 2000.
Wright has written 19 books of poetry including Doppelgängster, Blue Lyre, Triple Crown, Employment of the Apes, All in All, and Take Ove rwith a forward by Ginsberg. He appears in numerous anthologies and regularly exhibits and publishes his artwork as well. He has reviewed poetry for the Poetry Project Newsletter, American Book Review, Rain Taxi, and The Brooklyn Rail, and written art criticism for Artnexus, Art & Antiques, White Hot, Chelsea Now, and other publications.
Wright has won a Kathy Acker Award and the James Tate Award for 2023.
