Above, Amiri and Baz at the Poetry Project, February 17, 2013. Below, LeRoi and Baz and Gil Sorrentino, May, 1963, excerpt from Learning to Draw, A History, Basil King, Skylight Press, 2011: It was crowded in McSorley’s. All the bartenders … Read More
Baz has been moving across and back from abstract to figures again. There will be pigeon paintings on canvas this winter. For a look at numbers 1 to 8, copy this link into your browser: http://www.flickr.com/photos/67642740@N08/sets/72157639449256424/show/with/11782313344/ These eight are all … Read More
Basil has loved Watteau as long as he can remember — so in 20013 a trip to Paris meant a chance to see “Gilles” in the Louvre. Two huge impediments: Who knew one needs to reserve tickets online weeks … Read More
October 17: Sussex University; October 24: Brookes Oxford First of all, Brookes Oxford is a new university in Oxford, not the ancient dreaming spires establishment. It was named in 1992 to honor its first principal … but was previously known … Read More
October 11, 23, and 26 Are there old trees in Brooklyn? Yes, but not quite like these– An oak in the Archbishop of Canterbury’s garden. We were taken there by our friend poet Elaine Randall, who is among other things … Read More
October 23, 2013, outside Oxford No visit to the UK without looking for the Green Man. On this day we had the kind assistance of Rebsie Fairholm, the graphic designer for Basil’s publisher, Skylight Press. From Rebsie’s blog ( http://sulismanoeuvre.blogspot.com/ ) … Read More
Questions asked October 10 and 11 Why did you start writing so late? (In 1985 Baz was 50 years old.) I had one abortive attempt after another from the time … Read More
October 10, 2013: A train from London to Canterbury where Elaine Randall and Ian Rose met us, stashed our heavy bags in their car, and took us over (in the rain) to The Good Shed –a marvelous combo of farmer’s … Read More