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PHOTO BY SARAH FERGUSON
Steve Cannon in 2014 at the fi nale of A Gathering of
the Tribes, on E. Third St., when he was forced to
leave the legendary space.
An epic farewell
for Steve Cannon
of Tribes salon
BY LINCOLN ANDERSON
Friends and family of Steve Cannon packed the
Bowery Poetry Club on Sun., July 14, for a marathon
memorial for the late East Village poet and
arts icon.
Cannon, 84, who was blind, died July 7 while recuperating
from a broken hip he had suffered a month
earlier in a fall in his Avenue D apartment.
A writer who also had an earlier career as a teacher,
in his mid-50s, Cannon turned his E. Third St. apartment
into A Gathering of the Tribes, a welcoming,
anything-goes literary and arts salon. He was known
for nurturing — and haranguing with tough love —
generations of young poets and writers. He also published
some of them as an independent publisher.
“It was six hours. It was Steve’s domain,” Bob Holman,
founder of Bowery Poetry Club, said of the event,
which he emceed. “There was heckling. The hecklers
were being heckled. There was music. There were
tears.”
He said 10 members of Cannon’s family, mostly from
Baltimore, were sitting at “the big table in the corner.”
Meanwhile, a big blown-up whacky photo of Cannon,
with his glasses askew, by Clayton Patterson, was “the
backdrop” for the memorial speakers and performers.
The memorials came in the form of poetry, reminiscences
and music. Two Boots Pizza fi ttingly provided
its aptly dubbed A Gathering of the Tribes pies.
“It’s got a lot of meat,” Holman noted of the pizzas
named after Cannon’s famed space. Summing up the
eclectic mix of people, performances and pizza at the
memorial, Holman said that, both literally and fi guratively,
“It was A Gathering of the Tribes.”
Hoylman added it’s hoped that a complete six-hour
video of the memorial will be available for viewing by
midweek.
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