Don Yorty

Amy Barone reads from We Became Summer

… At the Zinc Bar recently on a Sunday afternoon, I heard Amy Barone read along with Thad Rutkowski and Dorothy Friedman. The idea at first was just to document Dorothy, but then I videoed all the poets and I’m … Continue reading →

What Would You Give?

17 Nov ’19

… Just practicing. I heard this song sung by Bill Monroe and Doc Watson—no one can do it better—certainly not me. I added some words, some verses that I think fit the times and also defines how I feel about … Continue reading →

Jim Cory reads from Birds and Buildings

17 Nov ’19

… I like in the title of Birds and Buildings how the birds come first and the buildings come second; there is something very poetic about that and also something a little askew. What is more important, bigger, the building … Continue reading →

Thinking about the Future on the Day the Clocks Fall Back, November 3, 2019

3 Nov ’19

… In English we deal with the future by using nine helping verbs called the modals: will, shall, can, could, would, should, may, might and must. Only will will ever happen; all the others are possibilities, the wouldas, couldas, and … Continue reading →

Woodcuts by Francisco Toledo

30 Oct ’19

… Intense, scary, personal, sensual, funny, obscene, off-putting, the work of Francisco Toledo conjures all of those, and often at the same time, as the observer goes from one moment to the next, back and forth, again and again experiencing … Continue reading →

Summer Paintings by Joan Eardley

29 Oct ’19

… I am not sure if these are all really summer paintings, but they all seem to have summer in them. The artist Robert Rhodes introduced me to Joan Eardley; I knew nothing about her—still don’t know a lot—but I … Continue reading →

from Nombres de las iguanas por Francisco Toledo

29 Oct ’19

… From Nombres de las iguanas by Francisco Toledo a book without titles, dates, methods or materials from 1974 – 2001. Use your imagination; the artist certainly did. Francisco Toledo (1940 – 2019). Descansa en paz. . . … Continue reading →

Basil King reads The Green Man Comes to 4th Street, Numbers 1 to 7

24 Oct ’19

… When I was visiting Basil and Martha King recently, BAZ took me upstairs to his studio to see what he has been working on since January, a series called The Green Man Comes to 4th Street, engaging portraits with … Continue reading →

Mark Statman reads from Exile Home

21 Oct ’19

… On September 15, tired as I was, I made my way to KGB for a poetry reading, and as soon as I got there, the atmosphere of the place began to resuscitate me. It was going to be, and … Continue reading →

Lynn McGee reads from Tracks

21 Oct ’19

… Before I knew Lynn McGee was a poet, we worked together as colleagues, teachers at BMCC. We were working off campus at a public school on the Lower East Side, when one day she showed me a poem she’d … Continue reading →

Thaddeus Rutkowski at Zinc Bar

29 Sep ’19

… In celebration of his first book of poems, Border Crossings, Thaddeus Rutkowski read at the Zinc Bar on September 22. I was lucky enough to be there to capture his engaging reading that is both cerebral and affectionate. When … Continue reading →

Bertha Rogers reads from Wild, Again

28 Sep ’19

… On September 17, Bertha Rogers read at the Bryant Park Reading Room Series, which happens outside near 6th Avenue and 42 Street where the whole world meets, and fire engines clang and ambulances scream, and even though it was … Continue reading →