Drove up to Beacon Sunday with Sharon Gilbert to see Dia: Beacon, the new museum of Minimalism. Andy Warhol's Shadows had their gallery there, largely because...
Ted Joans has died. He wrote "I, Black Surrealist" for Unmuzzled OX 22. In Paris he was a friend of Andre Breton and the late Charles Henri Ford, who...
The International Hockey Hall of Fame is in Kingston, Ontario; fame lasts fifteen minutes in New York. I have to drive back and forth, so I sometimes stay...
At the moment I'm trying to brush up on my German, but Pascal and La Rochefoucauld in theory are my favorite foreign authors. In theory I like maxim and...
After praising the artist Sari Dienes in the Village Voice, Erika and I were invited to a party at Sari's house in the country. She shared some ten acres with...
Thanks for informing us, Michael. Richard was something of a father figure to some of us. I sent this to one of Richard's close Aussie friends. She's into ...
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Hi Michael---I am sorry to hear that. I knew Richard mostly from the days when he was Executive Director of COSMEP--then really lost touch with him. Of course,...
T H E P E A R L Y G A T E S HUMPHREY BOGART stands before the Pearly Gates. A CHOIR OF ANGELS is singing somewhere. They sound terrible. Slowly, the...
Hi---How are you doing? Pudding House Press published a 12 poem chapbook of my "Greatest Hits"---this is nearly purely archival, as I do not know who would...
The series by Pudding House is a good idea. Your twelve poems are not just good; they're knockouts. The League of Canadian Poets had a similar series; I was...
Images beget desire or loathing. The static representations in paintingt beget both; television only inflames desire. After midnight Tuesday Real Sex played...
Orfreo is a 35-minute-long chamber opera sung by countertenor, soprano, bass and mezzo-soprano accompanied by a neo-baroque orchestra of harpsichord, oboe,...
Why are we in Iraq? "Saddam even tried to kill my Dad," the President has said. Poet and painter and politician wield their power differently. Men in my family...
Craig Highberger's Superstar in a Housedress, a biography of Jackie Curtis, opened Wednesday at the Film Forum. Unlike all previous documentaries, I was in it....
I am sitting in Science North in Sudbury, Ontario. I am 1500 miles from my laptop with its assorted postable pensees. But Yahoo threatens to drop this group if...
I'm from Kingston, Ontario, site of the 1976 sailing Olympics. Those games were mostly at the Stade Olympique in Montreal. That stadium now houses the Montreal...
I was recently having lunch with a group of associates and started talking about the parallels between Iraq and Viet Nam. I know that this is nothing new to...
Christo will be more famous than Andy Warhol until next Sunday when his Gates in Central Park come down. "This is so stupid," my 14-year- old son Ben said as I...
Today is the feast of St George, the patron saint of England. St. George is the Knight of the Red Crosse in the first book of Edmund Spenser's Fairie Qveene....
New York's Small Press Center has attempted to catch the buzz of "Indie Films" by repositioning itself as the Center for Independent Publishing. The Small...
"I was very straight at the time, and the whole junkie mentality really turned me off. The whole death mystique is so strong with hard-core junkies." --...
As an editor I got to know certain graduates of the prison system. Gregory Corso, the poet, was imprisoned for robbing a gas station. The judge was angry...
emily harvey: a life in fluxus By Matthew Rose In one of the last conversations I had with Emily Harvey she talked about salt. "I'm still fighting the salt,...
Michael, I heard that it was a department store that Gregory robbed. This would have been in about 1944. Were there gas stations in NYC at that time? I...
Gas stations in Greenwich Village where Gregory Corso grew up have been converted to boutiques and, in one case, a garden gazebo. I seem to remember Gregory...
