• About WordPress
    • WordPress.org
    • Documentation
    • Learn WordPress
    • Support
    • Feedback
  • Log In
Skip to content
14 Jul ’25
  • Catullus 2, 3, 5, 8, 11, 13 & 51: Lesbia poems
  • Christian Gullette reads from Coachella Elegy
  • john compton reads
  • Catullus 48 & 99: Juventius poems
Don Yorty

Don Yorty

Explorations

Random News
  • Home
  • About
  • Art I Like
    • East Village Archives
  • Books That Come My Way
  • English Lessons
    • Grammar
    • Reading
    • Writing
  • In my words
    • Music
    • Photos
    • Recipes
  • My Poetry
    • A Few Swimmers Appear
    • Fucking
    • Home
    • Poet Laundromat
    • The Prologue
    • The Sonnets
  • Odds and Ends
  • Poetry
    • American Poets
    • Bill Kushner Interview
    • Sonnets
  • Translations
    • Catullus
    • Charles Baudelaire
    • Juan Ramón Jiménez
  • Traveltravelogues, essays, journals
    • China Journal
    • From Notebooks Kept
    • Guatemala Notebooks
    • Home Movies
    • NY Chronicles 2000 – 2001
    • Oaxaca Sketches
    • Scottish Sonnets
    • Yangtze Sonnets
Headlines
  • Catullus 2, 3, 5, 8, 11, 13 & 51: Lesbia poems

    6 days ago6 days ago
  • Christian Gullette reads from Coachella Elegy

    3 weeks ago2 weeks ago
  • john compton reads

    3 weeks ago3 weeks ago
  • Catullus 48 & 99: Juventius poems

    3 weeks ago3 weeks ago
  • Martine Bellen, Elaine Equi, and Patricia Spears Jones read at KGB

    3 weeks ago3 weeks ago
  • Tony Towle reads Digressions with Ken Angel Davis

    2 months ago
  • Home
  • Edwin Denby

Edwin Denby

  • American Poets

Edwin Denby reads from Snoring in New York

Don Yorty9 years ago2 months ago03 mins

… Snoring in New York was published by Angel Hair in 1974 with a beautiful photo by Rudy Burckhardt on both the front and back covers, dark leaves, white moth. From 1976 until Edwin’s death in 1983, Rudy Burckhardt’s son Jacob recorded Edwin reading his poems. Snoring in New York doesn’t have page numbers, which…

Read More
  • American Poets
  • Sonnets

Edwin Denby reads The Climate and People on Sunday

Don Yorty10 years ago2 months ago23 mins

… … THE CLIMATE I myself like the climate of New York I see it in the air up between the street You use a worn-down cafeteria fork But the climate you don’t use stays fresh and neat. Even we people who walk about in it We have to submit to wear too, get muddy…

Read More
  • American Poets
  • Sonnets

Sonnet 8 from A Sonnet Sequence by Edwin Denby

Don Yorty10 years ago3 years ago02 mins

… From 1976 until 1983, Jacob Burckhardt recorded and edited Edwin Denby reading from his Collected Poems. Here is Sonnet 8 from A Sonnet Sequence. 8 Three old sheepherders so filthy in their ways Whores wouldn’t touch them with a ten foot pole Saw once the Christmas star which in a blaze Pierced like delight…

Read More
Don Yorty 2025 Powered By BlazeThemes.
  • Home
  • About
  • Art I Like
  • Books That Come My Way
  • English Lessons
  • In my words
  • My Poetry
  • Odds and Ends
  • Poetry
  • Translations
  • Travel
 

Loading Comments...