Don Yorty

Dad

… After a year long slow decline, my father died on April 10 at the age 91. At his funeral on June 3, my sister Cathy and I spoke on behalf of our family to thank those who had come … Continue reading →

Damn, April 25

25 Apr ’18

… Yesterday I went to work on my sonnets and they looked horrible. Changes I had made the day before that I thought then would complete everything were not as good as they’d looked; in fact, they were awful, and … Continue reading →

Kimberly Lyons reads from Capella

17 Apr ’18

… Kimberly Lyons was in NYC visiting for a week, and I heard she would be at the Zinc Bar reading from her new book, Capella. I’ve enjoyed Kim’s poetry and prose over the years, and was really looking forward … Continue reading →

Danielle Pafunda reads from The Dead Girls Speak in Unison

12 Apr ’18

… I went to the poetry reading at KGB on Monday night, April 9—Susan Lewis and Danielle Pafunda were reading—and the place was packed. KGB is a jewel of a place so they had to get more chairs. Luckily, I … Continue reading →

Susan Lewis reads from Zoom

12 Apr ’18

… Susan Lewis read with Danielle Pafunda at the Zinc Bar on Monday night, April 9. The place was packed; they even had to get more chairs, but I’d gotten there early to position myself at the bar where I … Continue reading →

Anne Waldman reads from First Baby Poems

8 Apr ’18

… I came across First Baby Poems by Anne Waldman on my bookshelf not long ago and opened it to find an old Amtrak train ticket from the early 1980s—bookmarking the page with the poem, Sonne. I remember the first … Continue reading →

Readings from the Dia Anthology

5 Apr ’18

… … Readings in Contemporary Poetry: An Anthology, edited by Vincent Katz, published by Dia Art Foundation last August, is a work of poetry, and a work of art too. If you believe words not only say what they mean, … Continue reading →

Tony Towle: The New York Clouds for Larry Rivers & April 24th

3 Apr ’18

… I want to start featuring more of Ken Angel’s work, and I can’t think of a better way to start than with two poems by Tony Towle that Kenny has put together. I’ve actually envied very little in my … Continue reading →

Figure on East 12th Street: Gregory Corso and Buddha

26 Mar ’18

… A foreboding figure, like a waiting troll who might ask for a toll, was staring at me from a trash receptacle near Avenue B on 12th Street. It was there and then one day (thankfully perhaps) it was gone. … Continue reading →

John Godfrey reads from The City Keeps

24 Mar ’18

… “The beat’s only a dream unless you dance,” John Godfrey wrote and read at the Poetry Project on February 28, 2018, as I thought to myself, “Have there ever been truer words written?” True words are what you get … Continue reading →

American Music: Lesson One: Pick A Bale Of Cotton. What is Rhythm? Template for Writing a Five Paragraph Essay

14 Mar ’18

… … Lesson One: Pick A Bale Of Cotton … To the teacher: Lesson One uses five handouts. If they are going to be printed and handed out in class, print them back to back to save on paper. If … Continue reading →

John Yau reads from Bijoux in the Dark

10 Mar ’18

… I look forward to John Yau’s erudite—and fun to read—art criticism online in Hyperallergic, keeping me in touch with what’s going on, but I wasn’t familiar with his poetry until I ran across Egyptian Sonnet 2 in the anthology … Continue reading →