Gregory Corso was a junkie but James Dickey was a liar. Dickey was also an alcoholic, but I've known lots of alcoholic writers. My first father- in-law, for...
When the Internet goes to Hell, it really goes to Hell. Kirby Olson has an interesting ezine, RealPoetik. Two weeks ago, he was collecting one- line poems....
michael, hi, all members do is email through you? ok that's easy but what about the web site? elle [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
George Macuinas, the Lithuanian artist, first used the term "Fluxus" in 1961 on an invitation to some lectures at Gallery A/G in New York. Jonas Mekas founder...
about fluxus fuchs us, the less said to the letter the better. of which there was but one begetter. later. On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 22:34:17 -0000 mandreox...
Poet, born in New York City. He spent three years in prison as a juvenile, then worked as a manual labourer, reporter, and merchant seaman (1950-53). Based in...
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,...
My dear friend Sharon Gilbert died yesterday. Sharon illustrated with Colette the most recent Unmuzzled OX, a translation by W.H. Auden of Carlo Goldoni's...
hi Michael, The photograph on the front page is wonderful. It reminds me slightly of a "real" ethnographic photo I found recently, and which I just posted in...
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...
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...
"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." --...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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 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...
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....
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...
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,...
Images beget desire or loathing. The static representations in paintingt beget both; television only inflames desire. After midnight Tuesday Real Sex played...
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...
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...
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 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,...
