Category Archives: East Village Archives

Twelve Postcards

I like making things, and since my husband Akram’s drawings often fit my poems perfectly, I’ve made postcards out of them. In the time of an inundating Internet and a pandemic, postcards are something physical that a friend has … Continue reading →

Steve Dalachinsky reads poems for Artaud and Kupferberg

26 Apr ’19

… When Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo visited a few weeks back, we had a great time talking and recording their poetry too. Here is Steve reading two of Kenny Angel’s (what Steve likes to call “Kenny’s Broadsides”) hand-colored laser … Continue reading →

Penny Arcade reads some poems at Zinc Bar, NYC, 11/24/18

2 Dec ’18

… I was looking forward to hearing Penny Arcade at Zinc Bar because I’ve been seeing and hearing her since I arrived in New York some forty years ago, and she never disappoints. If anyone were to ask, “Who is … Continue reading →

Tom Cole reads from the Tyranny of Structurelessness

3 Oct ’18

… This past July 25th at Howl Happening Gallery on First Street near the Bowery I heard Tom Cole read from two plays he was working on. He read without other actors taking on any of the characters, 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 →

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 →

July 1, Walking Home

7 Jul ’18

… Walking back from Grand Street between Allen and the Bowery; some of the best shopping—my niece is coming. Bought some beautiful cut sunflowers. Stopped by First Avenue and maybe 3rd Street—east side of the avenue anyway—to take these pictures. … Continue reading →

from Big Blue Box of Poems: Taylor Mead with Ken Angel

4 Jun ’18

… About a month ago Ken Angel handed me a big blue box of poems; this box, it turns out, holds many poets whose work Kenny illuminates and they then sign. … … So, starting off, I open the box … Continue reading →

A Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt Whitman with two sonnets by Edwin Denby and Don Yorty

31 May ’18

… A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them. And … Continue reading →