On October 13, 2025, Bob Holman, Charles Bernstein, and Anne Waldman read at KGB. It was a standing room only event. Sometimes I had to push folks gently out of the way when they leaned into the camera. The bartender told me afterward that she had never sold as many drinks. It was a drinking thinking crowd that wanted more.

Bob Holman read first and his reading follows on the Vimeo. The current day and the ancient day walk together when Bob Holman reads these poems. There are old words with the new, a supermarket on the way where Basho walked. The writing and the performance, the then and the now are one.

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Bob Holman at KGB. October 13, 2025

A favorite book of mine, Bob Holman’s Sing This One Back to Me is published by Coffee House Press. Check it out there: https://coffeehousepress.org/products/sing-this-one-back-to-me for more poetry and other stuff, check out: https://donyorty.com/

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When Charles Bernstein reads, the word is serious, and not so serious, agreeing and not agreeing at all, but anyway you look at it, much to your surprise—there is always a surprise—the word is fun.

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Charles Bernstein at KGB

You can check out Charles Bernstein’s newest book, The Kind Of Poetry I Want, at The University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo236892992.html for more poetry and other stuff, check out: https://donyorty.com/

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The poems of Anne Waldman love and hold, and take you somewhere safe and sound, under the wing of mother bird—ah, but she’s flying now so you’d better hold on when Anne Waldman reads her poems.

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Anne Waldman at KGB, October 13, 2025

This is “Anne Waldman at KGB, October 13, 2025” by Don Yorty on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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photos by Jeff Wright and Ken Angel Davis

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Bob Holman’s Sing This One Back To Me is a favorite of mine. You can check it out here and share my enthusiasm:

Sing This One Back To Me

From West Africa to NYC, the oral tradition comes alive through collaborative storytelling of Holman and legendary griot Papa Susso. An epilogue to Bob Holman’s

 

You can check out Charles Bernstein’s The Kind of Poetry I Want: Essays & Comedies below:

The Kinds of Poetry I Want

A celebration of the radical poetics of invention from Charles Bernstein. For more than four decades, Charles Bernstein has been at the forefront of experimental poetry, ever reaching for a radical poetics that defies schools, periods, and cultural institutions.

 

“To understand the radiance of the poetry world you have to look at Anne,” says Eileen Myles. Anne Waldman’s most recent book is Mesopotopia, the takes on the path sweeps mysteries from the cradle to the grave:

Mesopotopia – Anne Waldman

Mesopotopia explores the vast sweep of our accelerating, precipitous world. From the cradle to the grave, from the mysterious poetic origins of Mesopotamia to our own dystopias of the twenty-first century, Anne Waldman crafts a singular, radical investigation into the syncretic layers of quantum space and dreamtime.

 

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Three Exploration blog posts with Bob Holman, Charles Bernstein, and Anee Walsman.

 

Bob Holman reads from Sing This One Back To Me at Saint Marks Bookstore, August 27, 2013 with Salieu Suso on the Kora

 

 

Charles Bernstein reads from Near/Miss

 

 

 

 

Anne Waldman reads from Trickster Feminism