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Tony Towle was born in New York in 1939 and has lived there most of his life, at present in Tribeca. He became associated with the New York School of Poetry in the early 1960s, and won the Frank O’Hara Award in 1970, in conjunction with which North was published. Other volumes include Autobiography, Works on Paper, and Some Musical Episodes, the latter from Hanging Loose Press in 1992, which also published The History of the Invitation: New & Selected Poems 1963–2000.

Links

link Jacket 3: Ken Bolton’s poem ‘(Two Portraits)’ (one of which is of Tony Towle)
link Jacket 10: Tony Towle: Five poems
link Jacket 15: Tony Towle’s 1972 poem ‘Vacations’, dedicated to Kenneth Koch
link Jacket 16: Tony Towle’s poem ‘The lead drains from your heart...’
link Jacket 16: Ken Bolton’s review of Tony Towle’s New and Selected Poems
link Jacket 25: Leon Edelstein’s review of two books by Tony Towle
link Jacket 25: Tony Towle in conversation with Leo Edelstein
link Jacket 25: Tony Towle: Five poems
Tony Towle working at Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, Long Island, 1966. Rauschenberg’s lithograph Accident in the background. Courtesy of Tony Towle

Tony Towle working at Universal Limited Art Editions, West Islip, Long Island, 1966. Rauschenberg’s lithograph Accident in the background. Courtesy of Tony Towle

Biographical note

From 1964 to 1979 Tony Towle worked at Tatyana Grosman’s Universal Limited Art Editions, the celebrated Long Island atelier where such well-known artists as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, Barnett Newman, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Dine, Marisol, Claes Oldenburg, and James Rosenquist did lithographs and etchings. He has written reviews for Art in America and Arts as well as gallery and museum catalogue essays.

He was editor of the Newsletter of the Poetry Project of St. Mark’s Church from 1988–1990, and has taught poetry workshops there and elsewhere. He has two grown children, Scott and Rachel.

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