Author Archives: Don Yorty

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

… 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 →

Patricia Carragon reads at Zinc Bar

24 Dec ’19

… There are important stones one never sees because they are the foundation that hold everything up; not only the capitol, the stadium, and the church, but even the poetry reading. What are buildings or books without the words? Over … Continue reading →

George Wallace reads from Outside Paso Robles

15 Dec ’19

… I had been talking to a friend over the summer who suggested that I read and meet the poet George Wallace. “You will like him,” my friend told me. When I heard that George Wallace was going to be … Continue reading →

Dorothy Friedman reads at Zinc Bar

10 Dec ’19

… On September 22, I went over to Zinc Bar to hear some poets. I was especially looking forward to hearing Dorothy Friedman because she’s always fun, a surprising adventure in English, the language itself and its delivery. The poet … Continue reading →

Vittoria repetto reads from my fingers wonder

3 Dec ’19

… Vittoria repetto read at The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division with Linda Whalen Quinlan on November 22. I went to hear her. I think she has been one of the movers and shakers in the LES poetry scene over … Continue reading →

Maggie Dubris reads from Brokedown Palace at the Bowery Poetry Club

1 Dec ’19

… Some writers shine and heal like saints. Maggie Dubris is one of them, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart. Over the years, I’ve met all sorts of people from all walks of life who love … Continue reading →

Yemen by Haithem Al-Ezzi

29 Nov ’19

… At one time, peace and calm prevailed throughout my city, and everyone was sleeping in tranquility. Suddenly, without any previous alarm, there were horrible and unspeakable voices everywhere. We saw people being killed, body parts flying, ground burning, houses … Continue reading →