Category Archives: Books That Come My Way

Kenning JP García reads at Zinc Bar, 12/9/18

… Kenning JP García is from NYC, but when he went to SUNY Albany twenty years ago, one thing led to another, and he decided to stay, which was good for upstate New York whose highways link East and West … Continue reading →

Anselm Berrigan reads from Something for Everybody

29 Nov ’18

… No matter what, I was determined to get to Anselm Berrigan’s launch for Something for Everybody, his new book of poems, at Mast Books on Friday, November the 16th, although I had a pinched nerve causing pain in my … Continue reading →

Lonely Christopher reads from The Resignation

26 Nov ’18

… Lonely Christopher has had a robust publication history, but The Resignation, his fourth full-length book, has been a long time in coming. He was working on it since 2007, but various health related tribulations, including alcoholism and major depression, … Continue reading →

Karen Weiser reads from Or, The Ambiguities

25 Nov ’18

… I’ve been looking through old video archives and discovered Karen Weiser reading from Or, The Ambiguities in 2016 at the Bryant Park Poetry Series that had just started its winter season with a reading at the Kinokuniya Bookstore across … Continue reading →

Stacy Szymaszek reads from A Year from Today

16 Oct ’18

… I heard Stacy Szymaszek read from her new book, A Year From Today, in August at Spoonbill Books, one of the great bookstores in Brooklyn, shortly before she left to teach in Montana, a journal/journey that takes place during … Continue reading →

Wake Me When It’s Over: Bill Kushner at the Poetry Project

15 Oct ’18

… On Wednesday evening, October 10, under the direction of Lewis Warsh and Peter Bushyeager, twenty-two poets, publishers and artists got together to read and celebrate the publication of Wake Me When It’s Over, the selected poems of Bill Kushner … Continue reading →

Anton Yakovlev reads from Ordinary Impalers

9 Oct ’18

… Anton Yakovlev was born in Moscow, spent time in Paris, and moved to United States where he now lives fluent, as every poet ought to be, in three languages. Ordinary Impalers conjures up, in my mind, Vlad the Impaler … Continue reading →

Michael Broder reads from This Life Now

4 Oct ’18

… Michael Broder is a Latin scholar, educator, publisher, supporter of poets and their work, an HIV survivor (since 1991) and a poet too who writes frank poems about himself. This Life Now, published in 2014—Mr. Broder’s first—is very much … Continue reading →