John Tranter, who created the essential JACKET and published its first 40 issues is at it again! This new venture, JOURNAL OF POETICS RESEARCH is already up to issue #4, in which Basil’s prose poem, “A Pigeon in Delacroix’s Garden” … Read More
Just got (unrequested) a look back at 2015 from Facebook, hitting not much of much interest. Thus am prodded to do my own. February – Baz reads at the Dia Foundation with the wonderfully multi-talented multi-named Pam Dick (Mina, Gregoire, et … Read More
Literary magazines live! In print (Local Knowledge 2) and online (Talisman 43). Both new issues include work by both Basil King and Martha King. Rarely together in print if frequently together day by day. They include more of Basil’s “Learning to … Read More
Contrary to normal blog rules, this one is long as there is so much to tell. First: What is “Black Mountain Songs”? A collaborative musical event, inspired by the spirit of Black Mountain College, with songs composed by Jherek Bischoff, … Read More
November 6 at 6:30. Basil will read from his new book, The Spoken Word/The Painted Hand (Marsh Hawk Press, 20l4*) and his old friend Hettie Jones will read some of her not-yet published short fictions. They are both being presented … Read More
Found: Notes on Gentility (date unknown) I’ve never understood women in expensive restaurants who whip out lipsticks to remake their faces right at the table. Inspections in the compact mirror. Baring teeth to check for crumbs of lipstick or food. … Read More
Cleaning closet and old files, and here emerges a pamphlet with text on Basil’s art by Fielding Dawson, written twenty-five years ago. The pamphlet accompanied “Paintings from the Cards,” an exhibition of Basil King’s work at Steve Clay’s first New York … Read More
I’m one of 29 contributors to Wreckage of Reason II subtitled “Back to the Drawing Board.” (I appear in the original 2008 volume as well.) The editors say these stories “use different style and genres … to illustrate moments … Read More