I thought he was driving in front of me the other day, but it was just an illusion. I imagine a lot of other solipsists out on the road, or at least they seem...
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....
