Author Archives: Don Yorty

Cliff Fyman reads from Taxi Night

… A few years back Cliff Fyman drove cab at night and began to make poems out of what customers said as he took them to where they wanted to go. Cliff came over to my place last week to … Continue reading →

Dust of Snow by Robert Frost

3 Feb ’20

… Dust of snow. It is unexpected. Grace comes in a moment. Dust of Snow The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of … Continue reading →

I DON’T WRITE ABOUT RACE: June Gehringer reads at Zinc Bar

29 Jan ’20

… A few Saturdays ago was a miserable snowy afternoon, more wet than snow, and I wanted to get to a poetry reading crosstown so I checked online for the M8 bus schedule (not many on a Saturday) and caught … Continue reading →

Bob Holman at Howl reads from Life Poem and The Unspoken

25 Jan ’20

… Friday, December 6 was a jam packed night. Life was as full as it can get. I had been teaching English all day midtown and then made it down to the Bowery for some fun at Howl for the … Continue reading →

Rae Armantrout reads 19 Unpublished Poems

24 Jan ’20

… I went to hear Fanny Howe read at Zinc Bar last year on a Sunday in December and had the added pleasure of hearing the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, Rae Armantrout, read unpublished poems that will soon appear in … Continue reading →

Fanny Howe reads from Love and I

23 Jan ’20

… … On December 15, a Sunday afternoon, a great crowd gathered at Zinc Bar to listen to Fanny Howe and Rae Armantrout read. There had been a reading of Fanny Howe’s work the night before at Poets House, but … Continue reading →

Writing in the Present, Past, and Future: The Dog and Its Bone: Intermediate ESL

17 Jan ’20

… Objective: In groups of three, students will write a story. First, by looking at three sequential pictures, they will name the nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that they see. Then, they will write the words they’ve discovered on separate … Continue reading →

Burt Kimmelman reads from Wings Apart

12 Jan ’20

… Burt Kimmelman’s new book has a wonderful title, Wings Apart, and what is especially wonderful about this new book is that you can read it in one sitting, which—and this is not redundant—is a wonderful thing to do. You … Continue reading →

Wanda Phipps reads at KGB

11 Jan ’20

… On October 15, 2019, there was a reading at KGB Bar for LiVE MAG!, the EV publication Jeff Wright edits presenting art and writing in downtown Manhattan as they happen. What excited me about this particular reading was the … Continue reading →

Samuel R. Delany reads To the Fordham

29 Dec ’19

… … The Segue Reading Series, curated by Lonely Christopher and Rijard Bergeron, hosts readers on Saturday afternoons at the Zinc Bar in NYC. On December 18, they presented Samuel R. Delany, who read a short story called “To the … Continue reading →

Peter Valente translates Vers Dorés by Gérard de Nerval

26 Dec ’19

… In my early twenties when I started to study French, I listened to Edith Piaf, translated Le Petit Prince, and bought a bilingual book of Symbolist Poets that included Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine and Gérard de Nerval, … Continue reading →

Sreemanti Sengupta reads from Losing Friends

25 Dec ’19

… I’ve known Sreemanti Sengupta for many years now, and all because of the Internet. Though I’m in New York City and she’s in Kolkata and you, dear reader, are wherever you are, here we are together, optimistic company in … Continue reading →