Bernadette Mayer

Bernadette Mayer (May 12, 1945 – November 22, 2022) was an American poet, writer, and visual artist. She was connected to both the Language poets and the New York School.
Mayer wrote more than 30 books of poetry. She won a Guggenheim fellowship in 2015. She taught poetry at New England College in New Hampshire, Naropa University in Colorado, the New School and other colleges.
She said about poetry, "“The idea of perfection in a poem is pretty stupid. Because if nothing else is perfect, why should a poem be perfect?”