Don Yorty

Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo read from Frozen Heatwave

… On April 1 of this year, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo came over to my place for coffee and bagels and to read some poetry. It was a wonderful afternoon, as easy as the Vimeo you are about to … Continue reading →

ESL Lesson: Reading a Short Story: Daydream

20 Sep ’19

… Daydream by Roberta Allen Introduction: This activity is for students with high beginner to low intermediate skills; they are beginning to know enough English to work with others reading, speaking and writing it. Communication has begun. The first activities … Continue reading →

Anne-Adele Wight reads from An Internet of Containment

2 Sep ’19

………… I was in Philly a week ago and stopped by to see Anne-Adele Wight who lives in a lovely high rise apartment in Center City with a view of the Delaware River that made me feel that I had … Continue reading →

Jim Cory reads from Have You Seen This Man?

29 Aug ’19

… What are friends for? When you are dead and gone, sometimes someone advocates for your remembrance, giving your past a present, an amazing accomplishment when the word lives. Through serendipity and fate, Bryan Borland and Seth Pennington, publishers at … Continue reading →

Lines 644-691 from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book Three with a photo by Stanley Stellar

18 Aug ’19

… When I recently saw the photo by Stanley Stellar of a beautiful painting of a phallic man with a dolphin, I remembered some lines from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, a tale told by the captain of a ship who tries to … Continue reading →

Spring Sonnets

18 Aug ’19

… On May 15, 2019 at 8 PM at the Poetry Project at Saint Mark’s Church on Second Avenue in New York City for the launch of my book, Spring Sonnets, Mitch Corber, the East Village recorder of such events, … Continue reading →

Michael Ruby reads Subway Poems

13 Aug ’19

… I heard Michael Ruby read at Zinc Bar earlier this year and was very taken by his Subway Poems, which he has been writing on his way to and from work over the years. They have an easy feel … Continue reading →

Martha King reads some unpublished poems and then a word about Max Sees Red

11 Aug ’19

… I was thinking about recording Martha King reading from her new book, a mystery called Max Sees Red, but when I got to her place, she decided it might be better to read some poems instead, unpublished ones that … Continue reading →

Gabriel Don reads from Living Without Skin

6 Aug ’19

… Gabriel Don and I read together earlier this summer and I was so captivated with her work that I asked her to read for the blog so we could plug her new book, Living Without Skin. Gabriel is pregnant … Continue reading →

Yuko Otomo reads from Study

4 Aug ’19

… In April, Yuko Otomo and Steve Dalachinsky, came over to my place to read some poems. One book that Yuko read from was Study, which are meditations on works of art. Listening to and reading Yuko Otomo is a … Continue reading →

Scott Hightower reads from Self-evident

2 Aug ’19

… Scott Hightower’s Self-evident, published in 2012 by Barrow Street Press, is a book of fifty poems in three sections: Infant Gods, Brújula (Rose of Exile, and Self-evident, which are often departures from a point in time through the medium … Continue reading →

Mitch Corber reads from Weather’s Feather

27 Jul ’19

… Mitch Corber has lived not only as a poet, performing artist and musician, but as a video documentarian of what has gone down on the Lower East Side among the poets and artists who’ve lived here for over 40 … Continue reading →