Don Yorty

Graffiti Pier, Philadelphia

… It was a beautiful day. The place took me completely by surprise. Touched by many hands through many years with many ideas in many minds apart but together in every season in every weather both day and night, artists … Continue reading →

Stacy Szymaszek reads from A Year from Today

16 Oct ’18

… I heard Stacy Szymaszek read from her new book, A Year From Today, in August at Spoonbill Books, one of the great bookstores in Brooklyn, shortly before she left to teach in Montana, a journal/journey that takes place during … Continue reading →

Wake Me When It’s Over: Bill Kushner at the Poetry Project

15 Oct ’18

… On Wednesday evening, October 10, under the direction of Lewis Warsh and Peter Bushyeager, twenty-two poets, publishers and artists got together to read and celebrate the publication of Wake Me When It’s Over, the selected poems of Bill Kushner … Continue reading →

Anton Yakovlev reads from Ordinary Impalers

9 Oct ’18

… Anton Yakovlev was born in Moscow, spent time in Paris, and moved to United States where he now lives fluent, as every poet ought to be, in three languages. Ordinary Impalers conjures up, in my mind, Vlad the Impaler … Continue reading →

Michael Broder reads from This Life Now

4 Oct ’18

… Michael Broder is a Latin scholar, educator, publisher, supporter of poets and their work, an HIV survivor (since 1991) and a poet too who writes frank poems about himself. This Life Now, published in 2014—Mr. Broder’s first—is very much … Continue reading →

Tom Cole reads from the Tyranny of Structurelessness

3 Oct ’18

… This past July 25th at Howl Happening Gallery on First Street near the Bowery I heard Tom Cole read from two plays he was working on. He read without other actors taking on any of the characters, and his … Continue reading →

Bury Me Under the Weeping Willow

25 Sep ’18

… I recorded this song, first recorded by the Carter Family in 1927 during the famous Bristol sessions, over a weekend in the South Mountain back at Ed Cox’s cabin in 2011 shortly after Hurricane Irene blew over many trees … Continue reading →

The Prologue

25 Sep ’18

wind touches skin wind isn’t skin wind words are birds eye is sky Dear Words Reverberating on my eardrum’s skin you come in like a finger on a guitar string. Sound sends me quivering. Some places hands … Continue reading →

Art Young Cartoons

25 Sep ’18

… Patsy Margolin, a country singer, a student of Ravi Shankar, and a colleague of mine in the beginning fight to save the community park and garden, La Plaza Cultural, which led to the bigger battle of saving all community … Continue reading →

Rain Pastels with Charcoal by Robert Rhodes

25 Sep ’18

… Robert Rhodes, who lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, often paints the surrounding countryside that has remained undeveloped, mostly due to the Amish, since William Penn and his heirs first chopped down the forests and began farming there. There is something … Continue reading →

August Drawings by Akram

31 Aug ’18

… Where has the summer gone? It remains on the pages of Akram, sketches from the recent muggy days, one day following the other. May things be cooler, calmer, and more content in September. In any event, when you do … Continue reading →

KB Nemcosky reads from Early Exits

30 Aug ’18

… In a world that seems more and more like an existential play with a title like No Exit, it’s nice to find a book with the title, Early Exits. KB Nemcosky’s new book, recently published by United Artists Books, … Continue reading →