Filming Basil King: MIRAGE
The film in progress has been commissioned by The Friends of Basil King – for an event celebrating Basil’s Arc: the Paintings and Poetics of Basil King – and more. Well, a film is a mirage; we know that. The … Read More
Friends of Basil King and Mirage: Basil King
Kim Lyons has organized a small group of poets as “Friends of Basil King” to do something to focus some attention on King’s extraordinary output of visual art. They in turn have gathered some 20 others willing to serve as … Read More
Long ago: Lower East Side 1967 and Western Michigan 1971
Two web publications in one month from what may someday be my memoir book … long in progress. Memoir is a tricky calling at best.All memory is fiction, remade in the moment of the cognitive process, and much fiction the … Read More
Thanksgiving – Thank you OWS
Was it only this past summer that Andrei Codrescu was wondering where on earth are the people who object? Why isn’t anyone out on street, carrying a sign, why isn’t anyone saying anything? It’s about three months since then. That’s … Read More
About Paul Blackburn and more
A Berth in the Haven, from a memoir by Martha King, is online in EOAGH – with fat tags: Paul Blackburn, Thomas Jefferson College, National Poetry Festival 1971, Robert vas Diaz, Dan Gerber, Basil King — and a reproduction of … Read More
Basil’s baseball paintings
There are a few of Basil’s baseball paintings on the Art page, main website. “Pastorale” turns up in several of his poems… In the late 1970s, when Basil’s studio was on Hudson Avenue just up from the Con Edison plant … Read More
New Laurie Duggan chapbook, with cover by Baz published
See Fewer & Further Press for information about Allotments, a 30 page, hand-sewn chapbook printed on laid paper in an edition of 200 copies, 40 of which are special editions signed by the author. The cost is $8, postpaid or … Read More
Learning to Draw is published!
Basil’s collection of 22 Learning to Draw sections is available now from Skylight Press. More comments to come, for sure!