Don Yorty

Bina Sharif’s Rage on the Page

Over the years, I’ve enjoyed watching Bina Sharif work on stage. Her work is thoughtful, and often pulls comedy out of tragedy; she can be very funny like a stand up comic. On August 1st, Bina posted this on … Continue reading →

Dennis Cooper reads from I Wished

20 Sep ’21

I first met Dennis Cooper in the late 1970s when he visited Philadelphia. He had heard the poetry scene in Philly was hopping and had come to check it out. He read at the Painted Bride if I remember. … Continue reading →

Wanda Phipps reads from Mind Honey

16 Sep ’21

Wanda Phipps with Virlana Tkacz translated a timely play by the Ukrainian poet, Lesia Ukrainka, called Forest Song. Over the summer, a version of the play using other sources as well, A Thousand Suns, was performed by the Yara … Continue reading →

Arup Datta, Rickshaws and Bicycles

15 Sep ’21

Arup Datta during the month of August did a lot of drawings of bicycles, but he began the month with rickshaws. So I’ll start there. Enjoy. “There are still some hand-pulled rickshaws in central … Continue reading →

Terence Degnan reads from I Can Wonder Anything

14 Sep ’21

Earlier this summer, just as the pandemic was easing up, and we could gather in crowds, out in the open air again, there was a poetry reading in Gowanus that I went to, right by the canal, a beautiful … Continue reading →

Some Recent and Not So Recent Art by Dan Freeman

11 Sep ’21

… I just got to look at some art that I hadn’t seen before by Dan Freeman and am quite taken by it so I thought that I would share some of it here. … Yellow and Purple … Continue reading →

Lonely Christopher reads from Death & Disaster Series

30 Aug ’21

Death & Disaster Series was written by Lonely Christopher during his early twenties when his mother was dying and shortly after she died, writing poems instead of committing suicide. I too had a hard time surviving my twenties so … Continue reading →

Scottish Sonnets

26 Aug ’21

These sonnets were written during a trip I took from the Yorkshire Dales to Edinburgh with my friend Pat Maples in June of 2009. A few more were finished in July in the South Mountain in Pennsylvania. These sonnets … Continue reading →

Jenna Cardinale reads from A California

10 Aug ’21

I read with Jenna Cardinale at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn recently. Not only was it great being at a live reading again, but I also enjoyed Jenna’s poetry and asked her then and there if she would read … Continue reading →

The English Garden around 11 oclock in the morning

4 Aug ’21

Yesterday, August the third, my friend Tom and I took our walk through Central Park. We always meet at 96th Street Central Park West and walk east from there through the ravine to the falls where we sometimes go … Continue reading →

Summer Drawings by Arup Datta, Mostly in July

1 Aug ’21

Arup Datta lives in Kolkata. He is always drawing so at the end of the day he has something to show for it, or even mid-day. or, heck, sometimes in the morning, there he is drawing something charming. … Continue reading →

At the Duchamp Exhibit

29 Jul ’21

What I’m usually doing is deciding what to do now and what to do next. I have a list of tasks. This week, among a lot of stuff, I’ve been working on old poems and it’s boiled down to … Continue reading →