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.
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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