About Ángel Escobar In 1957 Ángel Escobar was born in Cuba’s eastern agricultural province of Guantánamo. Trained in the theater, he first became visible on the poetry scene in 1997 [...]
Feb 21.10 an audio recording of this talk is on-line here. Our theme for today is Purim, Masking and Unmasking, and the more I thought about this theme the deeper [...]
Samuel Greenberg "Strangeness was becoming an awe of interest" — "Between Historical Life" (p. 110, 1947 edn.) "O what I would give for the knowledge of grammatic truth" —"Between Historical [...]
Segue at Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY 4/3/2010 When pushed to consider what I value in Ben Friedlander's work (which is what introductions are good for) one thing that [...]
presented at Poets House, New York on April 21, 2010 The Swedish poetry magazine OEI (or, as we put it some years ago, a magazine devoted to “conceptual operations and [...]
Allen Ginsberg and Paul McCartney http://www.youtube.com/v/gZvzdzwPVZU Allen Ginsberg by Gus Van Sant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrc96uGWyrE Ballad Of The Skeletons By Allen Ginsberg Said the Presidential Skeleton I won't sign the bill Said [...]
The main purpose of my photo blog, State of the Union, is to record a changing America as it enters "The Long Emergency”, to borrow a phrase from James Howard [...]
Autopsychographia Poets are fakers Whose faking is so real They even fake the pain They truly feel And for those of us so well read Those read pains feel O, [...]