Don Yorty

Katy Bohinc reads from Scorpio

… Katy Bohinc came over to my place after Lee Ann Brown had suggested that I record her reading some of her poems. “You’ll really like her poetry,” Lee Ann said. Katy had stayed with Lee Ann for awhile and … Continue reading →

Bob Holman reads from Sing This One Back To Me at Saint Marks Bookstore, August 27, 2013 with Salieu Suso on the Kora

24 Feb ’19

… Talk about an archive; I just came across an event I recorded in 2013: Bob Holman at the Saint Marks Bookstore where he read from his new book, Sing This One Back to Me, in tandem with Salieu Suso, … Continue reading →

Gordon Parks at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, November 4, 2018 – February 18, 2019

17 Feb ’19

… The Gordon Parks show of photos from the 1940s closed on Monday at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC although I have archived nineteen of the photos here with a link to the National Gallery too. I … Continue reading →

Leaves of Grass Illustrated by Margaret C. Cook, 1913

12 Feb ’19

… I was reading an Internet magazine, Brainpickings, about the correspondence between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman, writers who have provided me with two of the most enjoyable reads of my life, Dracula when I was thirteen, and Leaves of … Continue reading →

Just Practicing

6 Feb ’19

… … Somebody asked me to perform at a benefit in April, and I immediately said No, and then as we talked, I thought of course I should do it and said, Yes. I’ll practice, and that is what I … Continue reading →

Michael Lally reads from Another Way to Play, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, May 9, 2018

2 Feb ’19

… Michael Lally had and has the knack to make the matter of fact profound, which might be easy enough to read, but isn’t as easy as it sounds; seeing the essence of a thing is a gift Michael had … Continue reading →

The Odd Magazine

30 Jan ’19

… I have been aware of and a participator in The Odd Magazine for many years. It’s a collaboration of writers and artists with its home base in Kolkata, India under the direction of Sreemanti Sengupta. There is so much … Continue reading →

South Mountain Unforgotten

29 Jan ’19

… This two year old Internet photo journal was done on walks in January during the time I was taking care of my father who was dying in the South Mountain, his home for ninety-one years. … South Mountain. Bright … Continue reading →

CA Conrad reads at Karma Gallery, NYC, January 13, 2019

17 Jan ’19

… I was at the Karma Bookstore the other day on Third Street near Avenue A when I heard that CA Conrad was going to read at Karma Gallery on 2nd Street between A and B on Sunday, which was … Continue reading →

Martha King reads from Outside/Inside

13 Jan ’19

… Martha King, who was coming of age in the nineteen fifties and sixties, and lived to tell the tale, has just written an autobiography about those times right up to the present called Outside/Inside. In 1955 she ran away … Continue reading →

Robert Rhodes, Five Cold Windows, January 7, 2019

9 Jan ’19

… Night studies: Five cold windows. Charcoal, pastel and water on paper. … … … … … … You can reach Robert Rhodes through Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10216019557982297&set=a.1600724578546&type=3&theater Instagram: @robertrhodesartist or e-mail: rhodeshut@gmail.com

Kenning JP García reads at Zinc Bar, 12/9/18

19 Dec ’18

… Kenning JP García is from NYC, but when he went to SUNY Albany twenty years ago, one thing led to another, and he decided to stay, which was good for upstate New York whose highways link East and West … Continue reading →