David Aaron Greenberg

David Greenberg (born March 8, 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut) is a poet, art critic, essayist and songwriter. He is known perhaps as much for his associations with the Beat Generation poets Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso as he is for his critical writing on and participation in the New York City Downtown art world and culture of the 1990s. Greenberg attended Rutgers University from 1989 to 1993. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. in English and a minor in Art History. In December of 1989, Greenberg met poet Allen Ginsberg in New York City. Within two years, at the PEN America New Writers series #21, Ginsberg would introduce the then 20 year old poet as his lateset "great discovery". Greenberg published two chap book collections of verse in 1991: Flesh and Astronomy. By 1994, Soft Skull Press published Feeling Gravity's Pull, the first "official" collection of poems by David Greenberg. That same year, Greenberg founded the NYC indie rock band Pen Pal along with poet and drummer Mario Mezzacappa. Pen Pal released one album Best Boy on Paradigm Records in 1996.Pen Pal at various times, collaborated with a wide variety of characters: folk hip-hop singer-songwriter Beck, Lee Ranaldo and Thurston Moore of the band Sonic Youth and played on bills with legendary poet Gregory Corso and Kazu from the band Blonde Redhead. In addition to his poetic and musical projects, David Greenberg has collaborated on numerous catalogues with artist Donald Baechler including 1998's Crowd Paintings (published by Lars Bohman Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden) and 2002's 15 Paintings/15 Texts (published by Bend Kluser Gallery, Munich, Germany). Greenberg's essays on artists Patti Smith and Donald Baechler have appeared in PARKETT magazine; and his writings on photographer Ryan McGinley, poet Gregory Corso and actor Leo Fitzpatrick appeared in the FADER magazine. In 1999, Greenberg teamed up with producer/composer David Sikovic (Sisko) and created the songwriting/production duo Disco Pusher. David Greenberg is the co-author of Strange Messenger:The Work of Patti Smith(published in 2002 by the Andy Warhol Museum)and is currently the on-line Art Critic at Large for www.anewyorkthing.com/GLOB. {{Uncategorized|date=May 2007}