The Poetry Project

"The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery was founded in the summer of 1966 as a direct successor to, and continuation of, the various coffeehouse reading series that had flourished on the Lower East Side since 1960. The first of these, at the Tenth Street Coffeehouse on the gallery block between Third and Fourth Avenues, would move to Les Deux Mégots on East 7th Street in 1962 (both establishments were co-owned by Mickey Ruskin, who would later open Max’s Kansas City); from March 1963, readings were held at Moe and Cindy Margules’ Café Le Metro at 149 Second Avenue, where The 13th Step sports bar is now. ..."
The Poetry Project - Insane Podium: A Short History
The Poetry Project