Author Archives: Don Yorty

The Prologue

wind touches skin wind isn’t skin wind words are birds eye is sky Dear Words Reverberating on my eardrum’s skin you come in like a finger on a guitar string. Sound sends me quivering. Some places hands … Continue reading →

Art Young Cartoons

25 Sep ’18

… Patsy Margolin, a country singer, a student of Ravi Shankar, and a colleague of mine in the beginning fight to save the community park and garden, La Plaza Cultural, which led to the bigger battle of saving all community … Continue reading →

Rain Pastels with Charcoal by Robert Rhodes

25 Sep ’18

… Robert Rhodes, who lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, often paints the surrounding countryside that has remained undeveloped, mostly due to the Amish, since William Penn and his heirs first chopped down the forests and began farming there. There is something … Continue reading →

August Drawings by Akram

31 Aug ’18

… Where has the summer gone? It remains on the pages of Akram, sketches from the recent muggy days, one day following the other. May things be cooler, calmer, and more content in September. In any event, when you do … Continue reading →

KB Nemcosky reads from Early Exits

30 Aug ’18

… 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 →