movement birth_place influences birth_date genre article_title name occupation
new york school , language poets brooklyn , new york , united states dante melville , gertrude stein , nathaniel hawthorne , herman may 12 , 1945 poetry bernadette mayer
 bernadette mayer poet , writer , visual artist , editor
bernadette mayer

bernadette mayer -lrb- born may 12 , 1945 -rrb- is an american poet , writer , and visual artist associated with both the language poets and the new york school .
mayer 's record-keeping and use of stream-of-consciousness narrative are two trademarks of her writing , though she is also known for her work with form and mythology .
in addition to the influence of her textual-visual art and journal-keeping , mayer 's poetry is widely acknowledged as some of the first to speak accurately and honestly about the experience of motherhood .
mayer edited the journal `` 0 to 9 '' with vito acconci , and , until 1983 , united artists books and magazines with lewis warsh .
mayer taught at the new school for social research , where she earned her degree in 1967 , and , during the 1970s , she led a number of workshops at the poetry project at st. mark 's church in new york .
from 1980 to 1984 , mayer served as director of the poetry project , and her influence in the contemporary avant-garde is felt widely , with writers like kathy acker , charles bernstein , john giorno , and anne waldman having sat in on her workshops .
