I scanned 30 drawings that Akram drew thinking people might like looking at them. Akram never drew anything before I gave him a sketchbook with some pens and pencils to help him relax while he studied for his medical exams. His tensions, depressions and worries … Read More →
Category Archives: Archive
Corso, Keats and Shelley
One night at the Ukranian bar across from St Marks after a poetry reading Gregroy Corso and I argued about who was the better poet, Shelley or Keats. Gregory thought Shelley was better because according to Gregory Shelley represented the Romantic ideal more perfectly than … Read More →
Pomes Penyeach
I was looking for a little chapbook of Pomes Penyeach by James Joyce that I bought in the 70s at Middle Earth Books in Philly, but I can’t find it. I really have had a hankering for the Pomes. This afternoon dangling from a ladder … Read More →
Archive Three: Little Caesar
I’ve been going through cardboard boxes at my father’s house and have found a lot of old magazines and letters from friends I forgot that I had. Some have not survived the mice. Fresh Paint’s been nibbled on but has lived to tell the tale … Read More →
Bill Kushner’s 80th: Dennis Moritz reads a poem
Bill at eighty the sexy man stays sexy all his life his small room awakes to a wide world full of enigmas surely a happy soul we are in distress this is our metaphysics it hurts for a moment but alert still alert questions questions … Read More →
Going Back to Work Again
In 1970 I was living in East Lansing, Michigan where some friends were attending MSU. I started to read my poetry at the Aardvark Coffee House. Even in the beginning I was more of a performer than a reader. I’d film the audience with a … Read More →
Archive 2: artifacts from Notley reading, 92nd Street Y, 4/7/11
On Thursday night I took the 6 uptown to the 92nd Street Y to hear Alice Notley read from her new book, Culture of One. I met Bill Kushner there and after wandering the halls we found the reading room, went right up to the … Read More →