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Kay Gabriel reads from Elegy Department Spring / Candy Sonnets 1

23 Jun ’19
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… Kay Gabriel is getting her PhD. She’s been, among a myriad of things, a Latin instructor who used to like Greek better—well, she still likes Greek—there is only one Iliad after all—but she’s been developing a fondness for the … Continue reading →

By Robert Rhodes: Night Rain

21 Jun ’19
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… I am constantly floored, amazed, inspired and pleased by the output and the quality of the paintings of Robert Rhodes. Living in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he has the rolling countryside available to him in all of its seasons and all … Continue reading →

Michael Ruby reads from The Mouth of the Bay

20 Jun ’19
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… The inspiration to write comes from many places and in many ways, as many ways to write as there are people, who want to do it and bring fresh perspectives to the written page delivered through their urges and … Continue reading →

Peter Bushyeager reads Monday May 3

17 Jun ’19
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… At the Local Knowledge Reading Series at the Parkside Lounge on May 19th, poets Vyt Bakaitis and Peter Bushyeager were featured. Peter began his reading with a poem, Monday May 3, that I had never heard him read before, … Continue reading →

Ama Birch reads from Sonnet Boom!

12 Jun ’19
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… I met Ama Birch about six months ago and now that I know her I keep running into her everywhere I go including a well-attended poetry reading she gave at the Seward Park Library not too long ago. I … Continue reading →

The Reading for Bessie’s Resurrection @Brooklyn Tea, May 19, 2019

11 Jun ’19
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… On May the 19th, a pleasant Sunday afternoon, there was a launch for Kimberly A. Collins’s new book of poems, Bessie’s Resurrection, fresh off the presses from Indolent Books. She had two special guests reading with her, Antoinette Brim … Continue reading →

Ira Joel Haber: Perspectives

30 May ’19
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I came across the photographs of Ira Joel Haber on the Internet, got in touch with him, and asked if I could post some of his photos here because I enjoy their perspectives. I am looking forward to exploring his … Continue reading →

Simon Pettet reads from Hearth

14 May ’19
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… It has been over a year, way over, since Simon and I got together at my apartment to record him reading from two of his books, As a Bee and Hearth. As a Bee went smoothly although it was … Continue reading →

White Faced Lieutenant, a play by Dennis Moritz

6 May ’19
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… White Faced Lieutenant, a new play by the poet playwright, Dennis Moritz, is a prayer of remembrance dedicated to his father, Wallace Moritz, a radar-bombardier in WWII, who was shot down over Japan and spent five months there in … Continue reading →

Ron Kolm reads from Welcome to the Barbecue

1 May ’19
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… Ron Kolm came over to my place on Sunday to read from his new book, Welcome to the Barbecue, short poems that chronicle a romance that are both personal and universal, and very precise and clear in poems so … Continue reading →

Larissa Shmailo reads from Sly Bang

27 Apr ’19
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… I had the pleasure of being among the writers who read at Jefferson Market Library in celebration of Larissa Shmailo’s new novel, Sly Bang, published by Spuyten Duyvil Press, a book where haunting disturbing poems are found among the … Continue reading →

Steve Dalachinsky reads poems for Artaud and Kupferberg

26 Apr ’19
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… When Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo visited a few weeks back, we had a great time talking and recording their poetry too. Here is Steve reading two of Kenny Angel’s (what Steve likes to call “Kenny’s Broadsides”) hand-colored laser … Continue reading →

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