Category Archives: Odds and Ends

Ron Kolm reads from Swimming in the Shallow End

1 Nov ’20

Lynne Sachs reads from Year By Year Poems

31 Oct ’20

7 Postcards

10 Sep ’20

Murat Nemet-Nejat reads from Io’s Song

1 Sep ’20

Ed Sanders reads some really good poems

30 Aug ’20

Sanjay Agnihotri reads at the Parkside Lounge, 2/2/20

4 Mar ’20

… Sanjay Agnihotri is generous with his time and energy. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Local Knowledge, a literary and art journal, as well as the programmer and host of its long-running monthly reading series in Manhattan. I … Continue reading →

Art Young Cartoons

25 Sep ’18

… Patsy Margolin, a country singer, a student of Ravi Shankar, and a colleague of mine in the beginning fight to save the community park and garden, La Plaza Cultural, which led to the bigger battle of saving all community … Continue reading →

The Reverend Billy Choir in La Plaza do The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats

10 Jul ’17

… Yesterday, Sunday, July 9, 2017 folks gathered at La Plaza Cultural de Armando Perez at 9th Street and Avenue C in NYC to say goodbye to the weeping willow tree that was planted by Latino youths in the mid-seventies … Continue reading →

The English Garden: Portraits by Akram: 7/18/14

20 Jul ’14

… Portraits from the English Garden by Akram who decided to join Tom, Martin and me for our Friday walk across Central Park. … … … … … … … … … … … … …

Go Love

28 Apr ’14

… … What’s not to like about a band that has a member who plays the typewriter? Go Love had their reunion, album release and final show at Sidewalk Cafe, NYC, on Friday night, April 25, 2014. Tired as I … Continue reading →

Homesickness by Min

18 Mar ’12

… It is a flying bird without feet but never gets tired It is a strong tree without roots but never turns weak It keeps disturbing wonderful dreams Hence souls wander forever … Min was a student of mine during … Continue reading →

My Brother by Yu

3 Aug ’10

… A class of mine did great speeches. The speech I liked the best was given by a young man named Yu who is so nervous that when he speaks his right hand is clenched in a fist and his … Continue reading →