MEDIA
Interview with Randy Cohen on Person / Place / Thing, on concrete and visual poetry. (2025)
Interview with Ammiel Alcalay with the Center for the Humanities, CUNY. (2022)
Bright Young Bookseller. Featured on Fine Books & Magazines. (2020)
“..Secrets of Librarians” series on Book Marks section of Literary Hub, “Mary Catherine Kinniburgh on the Treasures of The New York Public Library.” (2019)
The New Yorker: “The Odd Literary Paraphernalia of the New York Public Library’s Berg Collection.” (2018)
RECENT TALKS
Oct. 2025 “Occult Archives: Secrets of Poets’ Libraries.” Invited speaker, Occult Humanities Conference, New York University.
June 2025 “In the Wild and In the Stacks: Granary Books and Placing Archives, with the Journal of Artists’ Books and the Kohler Art Library.” Panel, College Book Art Association. University of Madison-Wisconsin.
May 2025 “Roundtable on Visual Poetry,” at the Grolier Club, co-sponsored by NYU Special Collections and the Bibliographical Society of America. With Lisa Pearson (Siglio Press), Charlotte Priddle (Special Collections, New York University), Amelia Grounds (The Bancroft Library at University of Berkeley), Antonio Sergio Bessa (emeritus, The Bronx Museum of the Arts), and Alison Fraser (The Poetry Collection, University at Buffalo), moderated by M.C. Kinniburgh and Conley Lowrance. The Grolier Club, New York City.
Apr. 2025 Opening Conversation for Grolier Club exhibition, After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960–2025, with Steve Clay and Johanna Drucker. The Grolier Club, New York City.
Mar. 2025 “You See What You See: Book Launch & Conversation for Lois Elaine Griffith.” CUNY Graduate Center, with Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. New York City.
Nov. 2024 “The Theran Spiral: Involute of a Circle.” Artist Panel with Cecilia Vicuña, James O’Hern, M.C. Kinniburgh (Subseries, book publisher), Amber Jacobs, and Soledad Falabella. Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York City.
Oct. 2023 “Surface and Relief in Literary Archives: A Talk on Messy Archivist and Granary Books.” Invited talk, The University at Buffalo, Poetry Collection.
Oct. 2023 Small Press Reading Series: “Messy Archivist” and Archives Mini-Seminar. Invited talk, Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center.
August 2023 “Publishing in Transit: Granary Books.” Invited talk, Brooklyn Rail. [online]
June 2023 “Messy Archivist: Small Press Publishing and Archival Design.” Panel, Society for Textual Scholarship Conference on “Design & Text,” New York City.
May 2023 “Islands & Rivers: Poetry and the Art of the Possible in the Age of Climate Change” on Mary Norbert Korte and Diane di Prima, with Anne Waldman, Ammiel Alcalay, Iris Cushing and Jason Weiss. CUNY Graduate Center.
May 2023 “Where is Academic Work?” Keynote address, CUNY Graduate Center English Student Association Conference.
June 2022 Special Functions Lecture on “20th-Century Counterculture Poets’ Libraries.” Invited talk, The Grolier Club, New York City.
