As part of Paris Gallery Weekend, the gallery invites Hélène Aji and David Reckford to pay tribute to Alice Notley, the American poet who died in 2025.
Alice Notley was born in Bisbee, Arizona, in 1945 and grew up in Needles, California, in the Mojave Desert. She attended public schools in Needles, Barnard College, and the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She lived mostly in Needles, New York, and, since 1992, in Paris, France.
She is the author of numerous books of poetry, essays, and lectures on poetry, and has edited and co-edited books by Ted Berrigan and Douglas Oliver. She edited the magazine CHICAGO in the 1970s and co-edited the magazines SCARLET and Gare du Nord in the 1990s. She has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Award, for her lifetime career.
