Don Yorty

Catullus 48

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Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt from the 1940s

… Some photos are really magic capturing the exact moment. Many photos by Rudy Burckhardt are that kind of magic even when it’s a building or landscape that doesn’t really move or change. When he snapped, he caught that building … Continue reading →

Rocky Ledge # 5

23 Jun ’16

… Going through boxes and uncovering stuff. Here is Rocky Ledge #5 edited by Reed Bye and Anne Waldman in Boulder, Colorado summer of 1980. I am wary of scanning too much of this magazine because the scanning might damage … Continue reading →

HARD PRESS – SERIES 21: 12 POSTCARDS

22 Jun ’16

… Rochelle Kraut designed these postcards with the poems of poets roaming the East Village in the early 80s. There were plenty of them. Shelley will always have a special place in my heart because she gave me my first … Continue reading →

Robert Frost reads Mending Wall

9 Jun ’16

… It is Time that, after all, doesn’t like a wall. As we all know those that are built to keep people out don’t work that well if indeed they work at all. The Berlin Wall, the Great Wall of … Continue reading →

Greg Masters reads from What All the Songs Add Up To

8 Jun ’16

… I saw that Greg Masters was going to be having a book party for his new book, What All the Songs Add Up To, written from the 1970s to the present, some forty years of poems. What a great … Continue reading →

Paolo Javier reads Starfish Aorta Colossus from Court of the Dragon and a poem by Frank Lima

7 Jun ’16

… Last week on a sunny afternoon Paolo Javier came over to my place after work—he teaches English at a public high school—because I’d asked to record him reading from his new book, Court of the Dragon, published in 2016 … Continue reading →

Bob Rosenthal reads from Cleaning Up New York

31 May ’16

… Before Bob Rosenthal became Allen Ginsberg’s secretary in 1977, he was cleaning apartments in NYC and studying for an MA in writing with Francine de Plessix Gray, the writer and critic, whose class was focused on nonfiction, the new … Continue reading →

Cliff Fyman reads from Nylon Sunlight and Fever

29 May ’16

… I went over to Cliff Fyman’s apartment last Monday in the early afternoon to record him reading from his chapbooks. Most chapbooks are beautiful to begin with and Cliff’s are no exception. To hold them in your hand is … Continue reading →

Photographs by Rudy Burckhardt from the 1930s

14 May ’16

… Rudy Burckhardt was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1914. While going to medical school in London, he discovered photography. He came to live in New York in 1935. “I really became a New Yorker rather than an American,” he … Continue reading →

Maged Zaher reads from The Consequences of my Body

8 May ’16

… … https://vimeo.com/165756028 …… A year or so ago, I saw Maged Zaher read at the Poetry Project on a Wednesday night. Because I taught classes Monday and Wednesday evenings, I missed most of the readings, though sometimes things worked … Continue reading →

Groggy Morning

6 May ’16

… May 2, 2016 Groggy morning. Working on my own stuff and reading The Consequences of My Body by Maged Zaher, which I’m happy to say I’m enjoying. Finding the time to do things. You can get a lot done … Continue reading →