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7 Jul ’25
  • Christian Gullette reads from Coachella Elegy
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  • Catullus 48 & 99: Juventius poems
  • Martine Bellen, Elaine Equi, and Patricia Spears Jones read at KGB
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New York Poets, The Bowery Poetry Reading Series 2025

Don Yorty4 months ago4 months ago22 mins

… … Ed Friedman and Bob Rosenthal created, coordinated, and curated seven poetry readings at Bowery Poetry on Tuesday nights from January 14th to March the 4th 2025. These readings featured twenty three poets. Most of these poets were already here when I arrived in New York City in 1979 and moved to the East…

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Voyages by Lonely Christopher

Don Yorty4 months ago4 months ago02 mins

Voyages is a play by Lonely Christopher about the life of Hart Crane, seminal scenes, acts that created the poet. I love Hart Crane. I first encountered him in my romantic twenties, an inspiring poet whose life, prophetic, tragic, and profane, was very much there in his words. On February the 3rd, a month ago…

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Hart Crane’s Voyages III & V read by Tennessee Williams

Don Yorty4 months ago04 mins

In my twenties I was lucky to find an LP of Tennessee Williams reading Hart Crane poems at a record store in Philly. I’ve converted them to Vimeos and include Voyages III and V here. Enjoy. III Infinite consanguinity it bearsThis tendered theme of you that lightRetrieves from sea plains where the skyResigns a breast…

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Jada Gordon reads some of her poems

Don Yorty5 months ago5 months ago08 mins

Jada Gordon is a cohost for the KGB Monday Night Poetry Series, and over the years has introduced me to many new poets. I’d like to return Jada’s wonderful selfless efforts promoting the work of others by sharing some of her poetry with you here.  A few Saturdays ago, Jada came over to my place…

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Joe Elliot reads from An Everything

Don Yorty5 months ago5 months ago213 mins

  Joe Elliot does something that is very difficult to do, he makes a poem funny and sublime and lets it tell a story too, poetry that is not for some, but for everybody. I’ve been wanting to get Joe Elliot on my blog for a long time, and am happy to report that you…

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Mitch Highfill reads from 5

Don Yorty6 months ago6 months ago07 mins

… Mitch Highfill lives on a beautiful out of the way street in Brooklyn that has both sun and quiet. I went over to Mitch’s a few weeks ago to do what I have been wanting to do for a long time, record him. Mitch is a generous poet with an imagination that leaves much…

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Maggie Dubris sends New Year Greetings

Don Yorty6 months ago6 months ago01 mins

… One of the nicer things about getting older is that I get to know those I know even better. One of the nicer things too is that one of my friends, Maggie Dubris, sends me a New Year’s Greeting every year, and this year, the times being what they are, I thought that I…

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Ryan Cook reads “Mascara” at Taylor & Co. Books

Don Yorty6 months ago6 months ago03 mins

Wednesday, January 8, was very cold and windy, but there was a poetry reading happening at Taylor & Co. Books in Brooklyn that I wanted to get to. It was so bad that the wind coming from the north, as I crossed 10th Street along Avenue C, almost knocked me over and the clear garbage…

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Three Elegies by Tom D’Egidio

Don Yorty6 months ago6 months ago14 mins

… Last November Tom D’Egidio read Three Elegies at KGB. Cookie Mueller, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kathy Acker, and I shared the same time and place in the East Village in the early 1980s before the AIDS and Crack epidemics hit the fan. Beautiful, forever, their energy filled my memory, and I remembered youth. Rest in Peace,…

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Aakriti Kuntal reads from God, Am I Your Eyelid?

Don Yorty7 months ago7 months ago010 mins

… Aakriti Kuntal participated in my blog a few years ago, and I thought it was time to get Aakriti and her work back on again. What follows are some of her poems from her new chapbook, God, Am I Your Eyelid?, a reading from that book, some art, and links to her work. I…

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Laurie Price reads from These Pages Once Were Skin

Don Yorty7 months ago7 months ago06 mins

… Laurie Price was in NYC not too long ago and I asked her to come over to my place so that I could record her reading from her new book of poems, These Pages Once Were Skin. Laurie Price, a world traveler who is now residing in Oaxaca, Mexico, is a photographer, mixed media…

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Erin Belieu reads from come-hither honeycomb

Don Yorty7 months ago7 months ago011 mins

… A month or so ago, two different friends at two different times in two different places told me that the poet Erin Belieu was reading at KGB, and because I did not know her well, I should go give her a listen. The night of the reading, KGB was packed with the poet’s fans,…

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