Author Archives: Don Yorty

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas

.. … Never until the mankind making Bird beast and flower Fathering and all humbling darkness Tells with silence the last light breaking And the still hour Is come of the sea tumbling in harness And I must enter again … Continue reading →

sweet spring is your time is my time is our time by e. e. cummings

12 Feb ’16

… sweet spring is your time is my time is our time for springtime is lovetime and viva sweet love (all the merry little birds are flying in the floating in the very spirits singing in are winging in the … Continue reading →

In Memory of W. B. Yeats

4 Feb ’16

… Last week, 77 years ago, William Butler Yeats died on January 28, 1939 at Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France. His later years remain controversial; he became more conservative as his anti-democratic sympathies grew, as well as his admiration … Continue reading →

Dean Kostos reads from THIS IS NOT A SKYSCRAPER

30 Jan ’16

… Shortly after the New Year, to get the new year going, I went over to Chelsea to video Dean Kostos in his apartment reading from his new book, THIS IS NOT A SKYSCRAPER, published by Red Hen Press. I’d … Continue reading →

John Lennon and John Legend

26 Jan ’16

… The first time I heard Yoko Ono sing I was tripping on acid. I was tripping with Gloria who had put the record on after we’d been listening to Iggy and the Stooges. This was East Lansing, Michigan, probably … Continue reading →

Dorothy Friedman reads Bill Kushner from White Rabbit

25 Jan ’16

… I saw Dorothy Friedman at the memorial reading for Bill Kushner at the Poetry Project in October, and she told me that she too would like to read some poems by Bill, so I asked her to come over … Continue reading →

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21 Jan ’16

… Love comes when least expected and love comes like the rain blowing naked over us making us all wet. Love never makes a fuss. As I grow old, love stays forever young returning like the sun or moon, the … Continue reading →

Blue Sorrow, Green Sorrow

19 Jan ’16

I’ve been going through a lot of stuff, throwing out a lot of stuff, and came across this forgotten session, and liked it, was glad I found it, my nephew Daniel and I rehearsing before a performance, January afternoon, the … Continue reading →

Dylan Thomas reads Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

18 Jan ’16

… “Rage, rage against the dying of the light?” Or simply say as Emily Dickinson said, “I must go in; the fog is rising.” Or as Allen Ginsberg said to his friends, “I always thought I’d be terrified, but I … Continue reading →

The Significant Anthology

31 Dec ’15

… Here we are at the end of December and I still want to add one more post to my blog before the year is over about a happy event that happened to me this past year: I was included … Continue reading →

Sweet Little Angel

31 Dec ’15

… I performed a song at the Poetry Project with my nephew Daniel. May every day be full of love. Love, love, love, love, love, love, love. … … Sweet Little Angel I got a sweet little angel Sweeter than … Continue reading →

Mark Statman reads from That Train Again

19 Dec ’15

… I went to Mark Statman’s home in Brooklyn. He shares it with his wife, artist Katherine Koch. They have several dogs, and the dogs, I must say, remained a pretty calm audience throughout Mark’s reading although you might hear … Continue reading →