Author Archives: Don Yorty

KB Nemcosky reads from Early Exits

… In a world that seems more and more like an existential play with a title like No Exit, it’s nice to find a book with the title, Early Exits. KB Nemcosky’s new book, recently published by United Artists Books, … Continue reading →

H. Melt reads On My Way to Liberation

25 Aug ’18

… A liberated writer liberates the reader. So, reader, get ready. I heard H. Melt read at the Bryant Park Reading Room series in NYC on July 31. A new poet for me, I learned that they are both writer … Continue reading →

Seth Pennington reads from Tertulia

9 Aug ’18

… Last week at the Bryant Park Reading Room, organized by the charming Paul Romero, I had the pleasure of hearing Seth Pennington read, someone I’d been corresponding with for over a year, but had never met. Seth and his … Continue reading →

Ken Angel’s 43 Poems by Bill Kushner and Tom Savage

7 Aug ’18

… I was visiting Ken Angel in his studio last week and on leaving he handed me—he is a gift-giver—an early printing of a book he did of some of the poetry collaborations that Bill Kushner and Tom Savage used … Continue reading →

Five Female Indian Poets

5 Aug ’18

… One thing that’s been good about Facebook is that it has connected me with poets from other parts of the world. This is a very expansive endeavor that focuses finally on the clarity of a poem. Through poetry groups … Continue reading →

Bernadette Mayer reads some Bee Sonnets

1 Aug ’18

… Last spring, before leaving upstate New York where I’d been living for awhile, I made a beeline for Bernadette Mayer’s house so that I could record her reading from a new chapbook she’d given me called the complete work … Continue reading →

The Lake Isle of Innisfree read by W.B. Yeats

31 Jul ’18

… The flawed human we all know as William Butler Yeats wrote like an angel, but when he read his words, he didn’t intone them so much as drone them, which if one listens enough to old recordings, seems to … Continue reading →

Brendan Lorber reads from If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving?

24 Jul ’18

… “Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?” Christopher Marlowe asked us in iambic pentameter a few years back, and I thought of that as I began to read If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving? … Continue reading →

Selwyn Rodda @ roomartspacenyc, May 26 – June 5, 2018

23 Jul ’18

… I heard about an art opening last May through a Facebook friend, Philip Nikolayev, and from the painting he included with the invitation, I was very interested. And I almost went, but at the last minute I was asked … Continue reading →

Homer Erotic

23 Jul ’18

… Poet, provocateur, musician, among so many other things, Barbara Barg died of cancer in Chicago on May 22, 2018 at the age of 71. Even though I was expecting the news, the earth trembled under my feet when I … Continue reading →

Anne Waldman reads from Trickster Feminism

15 Jul ’18

… I met up with Anne Waldman on a Friday last April at her house in the West Village to record her reading from First Baby Poems, a favorite book of mine. Anne had just come from Penguin Books where … Continue reading →

July 14, 2018

14 Jul ’18

… The unflattering sketch of Marie Antoinette above on the way to her execution was done by Jacques-Louis David, a Jacobin who had voted for her death. Though some in the crowd jeered and spit, Marie Antoinette, we can see, … Continue reading →