Category Archives: Books That Come My Way

Ted Rees reads from Dog Day Economy

On March 26, I attended a reading in Philly at Vox Populi on North 11th Street, featuring Jena Osman, Ted Rees, and Samuel Delany that was hosted by Lonely Christopher for the Segue Reading Series. It was great. Samuel … Continue reading →

Celebrating The Life of a Kalamata

10 Apr ’22

At KGB, a few weeks ago, I attended a reading for Didi Champagne’s new book, The Life of a Kalamata. Dorothy Friedman, Jeff Wright, Linda Kleinbub, and Patricia Carragon each read a poem before Didi took the stage. Didi’s talents … Continue reading →

Dazié Grego-Sykes reads from Black Faggotry

31 Mar ’22

Early March in the cold pouring rain, I made my way west on the M-8 bus toward the LBGT Community Center on 13th Street near 7th Avenue. The poetry reading that night, on the second floor at the Bureau of … Continue reading →

Elaine Sexton reads from Drive

19 Mar ’22

Life, we all come to realize, even if we never read Heraclitus, is in constant motion, which is one reason why I walked over to 2 Horatio Street last Monday to record Elaine Sexton reading from Drive, her new … Continue reading →

Sean Singer reads from Today In The Taxi

2 Mar ’22

At KGB last December, I heard Sean Singer read from a forthcoming book of prose poems called Today in the Taxi, similar journeys, different passengers, with the words of others sometimes added, Duke Ellington, The Talmud, Franz Kafka, helping … Continue reading →

Alfred Corn reads his translation of Rilke’s First Elegy from the Duino Elegies

13 Feb ’22

A few years ago, the news that Alfred Corn was working on a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Duino Elegies made me very happy. When I was in my early twenties, Rilke was one of the poets who showed … Continue reading →

Star Black reads from Waterworn

2 Feb ’22

Many people may think of Star Black as a photographer who has documented NYC downtown art and literary events. She also curated the Monday Night Poetry Readings at KGB Bar beginning in 1997, an event that has been going … Continue reading →

Susana H. Case reads from The Damage Done

19 Jan ’22

If you have been deciding whether your next read is going to be a novel or a poem, I have the perfect solution for you. Pick up Susana H. Case’s new book, The Damage Done, and the problem’s solved. … Continue reading →

Maria Lisella reads new and published poems

14 Jan ’22

I went to Maria Lisella’s apartment in Queens, a walk from the train, the elevated N. She thoughtfully had prepared a meal for me, soup, bread, cheese, grilled vegetables. Her cooking like her poetry takes what is everyday and … Continue reading →

Julia Knobloch reads from Book of Failed Salvation

12 Jan ’22

Many of the poems in Julia Knobloch’s new chapbook, Book of Failed Salvation, are love poems that are secular, but explore the divine as well. The poet may try, as impossible as it may sound, not only to embrace a … Continue reading →

Dean Kostos reads from Broken Color

6 Jan ’22

In Broken Color the poet looks at art, but the poems are not, to my mind, ekphrastic; the poems are more about the looking than what the looking is looking at, pleasure after thought; they are poems about being, more … Continue reading →

Le Pont Mirabeau read by Guillaume Apollinaire and translated by Ron Padgett

21 Oct ’21

The best translation by far that I have come across of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poetry is by Ron Padgett in a book published by the New York Review of Books in 2015 simply titled, Zone, Selected Poems. When Ron Padgett … Continue reading →