Author Archives: Don Yorty

Gabriel Don reads from Living Without Skin

… Gabriel Don and I read together earlier this summer and I was so captivated with her work that I asked her to read for the blog so we could plug her new book, Living Without Skin. Gabriel is pregnant … Continue reading →

Yuko Otomo reads from Study

4 Aug ’19

… In April, Yuko Otomo and Steve Dalachinsky, came over to my place to read some poems. One book that Yuko read from was Study, which are meditations on works of art. Listening to and reading Yuko Otomo is a … Continue reading →

Scott Hightower reads from Self-evident

2 Aug ’19

… Scott Hightower’s Self-evident, published in 2012 by Barrow Street Press, is a book of fifty poems in three sections: Infant Gods, Brújula (Rose of Exile, and Self-evident, which are often departures from a point in time through the medium … Continue reading →

Mitch Corber reads from Weather’s Feather

27 Jul ’19

… Mitch Corber has lived not only as a poet, performing artist and musician, but as a video documentarian of what has gone down on the Lower East Side among the poets and artists who’ve lived here for over 40 … Continue reading →

Edmund Berrigan reads from More Gone

23 Jul ’19

In June, one evening, I stopped by Greenlight Books in Flatbush to hear Edmund Berrigan read from his new book from City Lights, More Gone. I’d already heard him read at the Poetry Project a month before, which was … Continue reading →

The Struggle Continues

23 Jul ’19

… Yesterday, after many years—2007 perhaps—I did some work in La Plaza, a park that I, with many others, began to save in 1987 when the city, state and federal governments wanted to put up a housing project on the … Continue reading →

Neddi Heller at Gallery Gaia

21 Jul ’19

… I’ve been a fan of Neddi Heller’s work since I first met her thirty some years ago, and you can enjoy her paintings here on the blog long after the exhibit closes, but there is nothing like seeing her … Continue reading →

Beautiful Sadness

28 Jun ’19

… Stopped by to see my nephew Daniel in Philly and he suggested that we write a song in the spur of the moment, which intimidated me at first, but then he started to play on his electric guitar and … Continue reading →

Kay Gabriel reads from Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1

23 Jun ’19

… Kay Gabriel is getting her PhD. She’s been, among a myriad of things, a Latin instructor who used to like Greek better—well, she still likes Greek—there is only one Iliad after all—but she’s been developing a fondness for the … Continue reading →

By Robert Rhodes: Night Rain

21 Jun ’19

… I am constantly floored, amazed, inspired and pleased by the output and the quality of the paintings of Robert Rhodes. Living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he has the rolling countryside available to him in all of its seasons and all … Continue reading →

Michael Ruby reads from The Mouth of the Bay

20 Jun ’19

… The inspiration to write comes from many places and in many ways, as many ways to write as there are people, who want to do it and bring fresh perspectives to the written page delivered through their urges and … Continue reading →

Peter Bushyeager reads Monday May 3

17 Jun ’19

… At the Local Knowledge Reading Series at the Parkside Lounge on May 19th, poets Vyt Bakaitis and Peter Bushyeager were featured. Peter began his reading with a poem, Monday May 3, that I had never heard him read before, … Continue reading →