Joe Elliot does something that is very difficult to do, he makes a poem funny and sublime and lets it tell a story too, poetry that is not for some, but for everybody. I’ve been wanting to get Joe … Continue reading

Joe Elliot does something that is very difficult to do, he makes a poem funny and sublime and lets it tell a story too, poetry that is not for some, but for everybody. I’ve been wanting to get Joe … Continue reading
… In early December of last year, Pamela Sneed was scheduled to read from her new book Speaking Tongue at 7 PM at Dashwood Projects in the East Village. The book is a vivid series of water colors done while … Continue reading
Last Tuesday, I had the pleasure of reading with Lee Ann Brown, Johnny Stanton, and Anne Waldman at Bowery Poetry. The poems I read and a recording of my reading follow. I am working on a Vimeo of the whole … Continue reading
… Mitch Highfill lives on a beautiful out of the way street in Brooklyn that has both sun and quiet. I went over to Mitch’s a few weeks ago to do what I have been wanting to do for a … Continue reading
… One of the nicer things about getting older is that I get to know those I know even better. One of the nicer things too is that one of my friends, Maggie Dubris, sends me a New Year’s Greeting … Continue reading
Wednesday, January 8, was very cold and windy, but there was a poetry reading happening at Taylor & Co. Books in Brooklyn that I wanted to get to. It was so bad that the wind coming from the north, as … Continue reading
… Last November Tom D’Egidio read Three Elegies at KGB. Cookie Mueller, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kathy Acker, and I shared the same time and place in the East Village in the early 1980s before the AIDS and Crack epidemics hit the … Continue reading
Before 2024 is over, I’d like to honor the passing of Tom Walker, who was a long-time member of The Living Theater, a rebel and a pioneer, and an exemplary member of his generation. In that spirit, I celebrate him … Continue reading
… I’ll take this bottle with me when I go. Not now. Some hiker dropped it passing on Impossible Hill, a mountainside of stone made visible by human heels and hooves Sharp and steep. Don’t fall! Below is Walnut … Continue reading
… Aakriti Kuntal participated in my blog a few years ago, and I thought it was time to get Aakriti and her work back on again. What follows are some of her poems from her new chapbook, God, Am I … Continue reading
… Laurie Price was in NYC not too long ago and I asked her to come over to my place so that I could record her reading from her new book of poems, These Pages Once Were Skin. Laurie Price, … Continue reading
… A month or so ago, two different friends at two different times in two different places told me that the poet Erin Belieu was reading at KGB, and because I did not know her well, I should go give … Continue reading