Category Archives: Books That Come My Way

Katy Bohinc reads from Scorpio

… Katy Bohinc came over to my place after Lee Ann Brown had suggested that I record her reading some of her poems. “You’ll really like her poetry,” Lee Ann said. Katy had stayed with Lee Ann for awhile and … Continue reading →

Bob Holman reads from Sing This One Back To Me at Saint Marks Bookstore, August 27, 2013 with Salieu Suso on the Kora

24 Feb ’19

… Talk about an archive; I just came across an event I recorded in 2013: Bob Holman at the Saint Marks Bookstore where he read from his new book, Sing This One Back to Me, in tandem with Salieu Suso, … Continue reading →

Michael Lally reads from Another Way to Play, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, May 9, 2018

2 Feb ’19

… Michael Lally had and has the knack to make the matter of fact profound, which might be easy enough to read, but isn’t as easy as it sounds; seeing the essence of a thing is a gift Michael had … Continue reading →

The Odd Magazine

30 Jan ’19

… I have been aware of and a participator in The Odd Magazine for many years. It’s a collaboration of writers and artists with its home base in Kolkata, India under the direction of Sreemanti Sengupta. There is so much … Continue reading →

Martha King reads from Outside/Inside

13 Jan ’19

… Martha King, who was coming of age in the nineteen fifties and sixties, and lived to tell the tale, has just written an autobiography about those times right up to the present called Outside/Inside. In 1955 she ran away … Continue reading →

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

19 Dec ’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 →