Category Archives: Books That Come My Way

Michael Broder reads from This Life Now

… 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 →

KB Nemcosky reads from Early Exits

30 Aug ’18

… In a world that seems more and more like an existential play with a title like No Exit, it’s nice to find a book with the title, Early Exits. KB Nemcosky’s new book, recently published by United Artists Books, … Continue reading →

H. Melt reads On My Way to Liberation

25 Aug ’18

… A liberated writer liberates the reader. So, reader, get ready. I heard H. Melt read at the Bryant Park Reading Room series in NYC on July 31. A new poet for me, I learned that they are both writer … Continue reading →

Seth Pennington reads from Tertulia

9 Aug ’18

… Last week at the Bryant Park Reading Room, organized by the charming Paul Romero, I had the pleasure of hearing Seth Pennington read, someone I’d been corresponding with for over a year, but had never met. Seth 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 →

Bernadette Mayer reads some Bee Sonnets

1 Aug ’18

… Last spring, before leaving upstate New York where I’d been living for awhile, I made a beeline for Bernadette Mayer’s house so that I could record her reading from a new chapbook she’d given me called the complete work … Continue reading →

Brendan Lorber reads from If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving?

24 Jul ’18

… “Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?” Christopher Marlowe asked us in iambic pentameter a few years back, and I thought of that as I began to read If This Is Paradise Why Are We Still Driving? … Continue reading →

Anne Waldman reads from Trickster Feminism

15 Jul ’18

… I met up with Anne Waldman on a Friday last April at her house in the West Village to record her reading from First Baby Poems, a favorite book of mine. Anne had just come from Penguin Books where … Continue reading →

Thomas March reads from Aftermath

13 May ’18

… There is the expression “new wine in old bottles,” the container from the past, but what you drink and enjoy very much the present, what things are like today. I thought of that listening to Thomas March read from … Continue reading →

John Deming reads from HEADLINE NEWS

12 May ’18

… I enjoyed HEADLINE NEWS the moment I opened it, a great find—actually it was given to me so I should say a great gift—an instantaneous read full of surprises and fun, each poem with a real headline, a fact, … Continue reading →

Sarah Rose Nordgren reads from Darwin’s Mother

5 May ’18

… Mid-April at KGB I heard Sarah Rose Nordgren read from her new book, Darwin’s Mother, wonderful poems of structure and sound that are not always comfortable to listen to because something is alive and waiting on the page, words … Continue reading →

Kimberly Lyons reads from Capella

17 Apr ’18

… Kimberly Lyons was in NYC visiting for a week, and I heard she would be at the Zinc Bar reading from her new book, Capella. I’ve enjoyed Kim’s poetry and prose over the years, and was really looking forward … Continue reading →