Author Archives: Don Yorty

Mariposa de Luz por Juan Ramón Jiménez

… Mariposa de luz, la belleza se va cuando yo llego a su rosa. Corro, ciego, tras ella… la medio cojo aquí y allá… ¡Sólo queda en mi mano la forma de su huída! .. … Butterfly of light its … Continue reading →

Tom Savage reads his Bamiyan Buddha Poems

18 Jul ’16

… I went over to Tom’s apartment on East 11th Street a few weeks ago— it’s just around the corner from where I am—and he read some of his Bamiyan Buddha poems from two of his books, Afghanistan (Fly by … Continue reading →

Uche Nduka reads from Eel on Reef and Nine East

15 Jul ’16

… Uche Nduka, a native Nigerian and now a native New Yorker, was kind enough to come over to my place a few weeks ago to read from his two books of poems, Eel on Reef and Nine East. “Fool … Continue reading →

from Fucking, Part 5

13 Jul ’16

V for Janis I’ve smoked a thousand cigarettes and watched you sleep Your Raphael angel curls Your bee stung lips Dare I touch you where the sun hasn’t? Dare I say wake? There is the smell of pepper in your … Continue reading →

Catullus 48

1 Jul ’16

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Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt from the 1940s

30 Jun ’16

… Some photos are really magic capturing the exact moment. Many photos by Rudy Burckhardt are that kind of magic even when it’s a building or landscape that doesn’t really move or change. When he snapped, he caught that building … Continue reading →

Rocky Ledge # 5

23 Jun ’16

… Going through boxes and uncovering stuff. Here is Rocky Ledge #5 edited by Reed Bye and Anne Waldman in Boulder, Colorado summer of 1980. I am wary of scanning too much of this magazine because the scanning might damage … Continue reading →

HARD PRESS – SERIES 21: 12 POSTCARDS

22 Jun ’16

… Rochelle Kraut designed these postcards with the poems of poets roaming the East Village in the early 80s. There were plenty of them. Shelley will always have a special place in my heart because she gave me my first … Continue reading →

Robert Frost reads Mending Wall

9 Jun ’16

… It is Time that, after all, doesn’t like a wall. As we all know those that are built to keep people out don’t work that well if indeed they work at all. The Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of … Continue reading →

Greg Masters reads from What All the Songs Add Up To

8 Jun ’16

… I saw that Greg Masters was going to be having a book party for his new book, What All the Songs Add Up To, written from the 1970s to the present, some forty years of poems. What a great … Continue reading →

Paolo Javier reads Starfish Aorta Colossus from Court of the Dragon and a poem by Frank Lima

7 Jun ’16

… Last week on a sunny afternoon Paolo Javier came over to my place after work—he teaches English at a public high school—because I’d asked to record him reading from his new book, Court of the Dragon, published in 2016 … Continue reading →

Bob Rosenthal reads from Cleaning Up New York

31 May ’16

… Before Bob Rosenthal became Allen Ginsberg’s secretary in 1977, he was cleaning apartments in NYC and studying for an MA in writing with Francine de Plessix Gray, the writer and critic, whose class was focused on nonfiction, the new … Continue reading →