Category Archives: Books That Come My Way

Barbara Henning reads from A Day Like Today

… Barbara Henning’s new book, A Day Like Today, is about a day among days, that one among many, meditative and observant. The cover is a drawing by the poet Cliff Fyman entitled Woman Walking on Avenue B. Barbara, who … Continue reading →

Tom Savage reads from 135 Poems, collaborations with Bill Kushner

26 Feb ’16

… The poet Bill Kushner always carried a notebook to write in when the spirit moved him, which was often and anywhere. Bill was a real collaborator too. Collaborating helped the writing process along. For the last two years of … Continue reading →

Dean Kostos reads from THIS IS NOT A SKYSCRAPER

30 Jan ’16

… Shortly after the New Year, to get the new year going, I went over to Chelsea to video Dean Kostos in his apartment reading from his new book, THIS IS NOT A SKYSCRAPER, published by Red Hen Press. I’d … Continue reading →

The Significant Anthology

31 Dec ’15

… Here we are at the end of December and I still want to add one more post to my blog before the year is over about a happy event that happened to me this past year: I was included … Continue reading →

Patricia Spears Jones reads from A Lucent Fire

8 Dec ’15

… Patricia Spears Jones came over to my place a few weeks ago to read some poems from her new book, A Lucent Fire, new and selected poems published by White Pine Press. Although it was a noisy early afternoon … Continue reading →

Scott Hightower reads from Part of the Bargain

31 Oct ’15

… I went over to Scott’s penthouse on 23rd Street a few weeks ago to record him reading some poems from a book of his that I like, Part of the Bargain. I thought for a minute to record on … Continue reading →

Michael Lally reads Sports Heroes, Cops and Lace

11 Jul ’15

… On a late day in June I took a train to Maplewood, New Jersey, a lovely little town where Michael Lally lives not too far from the tracks, a simple walk to his home. I wanted to record him … Continue reading →

Michael Lally reads Love Never Dies

3 Jul ’15

… I had the luck of recording Michael Lally reading “Love Never Dies” when his new book, Swing Theory, was published by Hanging Loose Press in May of 2015, on the 10th of May to be exact. Love of course … Continue reading →

Drunken Bee Poems by Philip Good

11 Mar ’15

… I first held Drunken Bee Poems in my hands in 1987 when Philip Good gave them to me, shortly after he moved to New York to live with Bernadette Mayer and her children a few blocks away on Avenue … Continue reading →

Philadelphia Freedom: Ryan Eckes reads from Valu-Plus

28 Feb ’15

… … I love to listen to Ryan Eckes read because there is the sound of Philadelphia in him, a sound that has to do with music, and dancing, and walking (it’s a beautiful city to walk in), and liberty, … Continue reading →

Anselm Berrigan, Alice Notley and Edmund Berrigan read from The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan

22 Feb ’15

… … Anselm … At Saint Marks Bookstore on the evening of April 5, 2011, I recorded Anselm Berrigan, his brother, Edmund, and his mother, Alice Notley, reading from The Selected Poems of Ted Berrigan, which they had just edited, … Continue reading →

All It Is from Unions by Alfred Corn

9 Feb ’15

… If you like a poem, type it out and memorize it and you will get to know it better. Here is a poem by Alfred Corn called All It Is, and that is what it is about, all it … Continue reading →