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7 Jul ’25
  • Christian Gullette reads from Coachella Elegy
  • john compton reads
  • Catullus 48 & 99: Juventius poems
  • Martine Bellen, Elaine Equi, and Patricia Spears Jones read at KGB
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A Few Swimmers Appear

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In my words, October 14 – 20

Don Yorty12 years ago6 years ago014 mins

… I’ve been putting some chapbooks together, Sonnets 1 – 60. Working on the books myself and printing them out is helpful for the final editing whenever that may be. Just thinking of the poems in the hands of others helps me to see them better. The end of August was my deadline to actually…

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  • A Few Swimmers Appear

A Few Swimmers Appear

Don Yorty13 years ago1 week ago87 mins

… … Apparent rari nantes in gurgite vasto. A few swimmers appear in a huge whirlpool. —Vergil … sleep vanishes When sleep vanishes then you swim. Awake is no island merely swift stroke and breath. The moon is not the sun’s skull day is not what night forgets. … on seeing a wasp in a…

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Chapbooks: Words are Birds

Don Yorty15 years ago8 years ago02 mins

… I am making chapbooks of poetry I wrote in the 70s when I was in my 20s. They are out of print. I saw online that someone in England was selling a copy of Poet Laundromat for $200. I’m using the same designs as the books had then with illustrations by Stephen Spera and…

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