Bill Berkson’s most recent books include Portrait and Dream: New & Selected Poems; Not an Exit, with drawings by Léonie Guyer; and a collection of art writings, For the Ordinary Artist. He is Professor Emeritus at the San Francisco Art Institute, a contributing editor (poetry) for artcritical.com, and a corresponding editor for Art in America. His previous collection of art writings, The Sweet Singer of Modernism appeared in 2004. Other publications include Sudden Address: Selected Lectures and many other books of poetry. He was the Paul Mellon Distinguished Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture for 2006 and awarded the Goldie for Literature by the San Francisco Bay Guardian in 2009.

In early 2011 he curated an exhibition of George Schneeman’s Italian landscape paintings at the Italian Cultural Institute in San Francisco, a version of which show will appear at the ICI New York in 2012.

Photo credit: Joanne Kyger.