Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Basil King artist and writer ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://blog.basilking.net/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [An interview with Basil King conducted by Michael Seth Stewart (Published 2025)](https://blog.basilking.net/an-interview-with-basil-king-conducted-by-michael-seth-stewart/) - An interview with Basil King conducted by Michael Seth Stewart - [Considering Art Podcast: Basil King painter and poet](https://blog.basilking.net/considering-art-podcast-basil-king-painter-and-poet/) - Bob Chaundy host of Considering Art Podcast interviews Basil King https://consideringart.com/2024/10/14/considering-art-podcast-basil-king-painter-and-poet/ - [Basil King, Russian Novel 2023 Drawing Series: In a new Video](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-russian-novel-2023-drawing-series-in-a-new-video/) - May 2024: Don Yorty sets King's Russian Novel drawings to music in a beautiful new video. Yorty writes: "Basil King sketched forty-three faces with charcoal, and as he sketched them, he began to call them his Russian Novel. When Basil introduced them to me and asked if I would set them to music in a video, - [Basil King’s Illuminations](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-kings-illuminations/) - February 2024: Announcing a wonderful new video just completed by Don Yorty of Basil King's 2001 series Rimbaud Illuminations. View Don Yorty's blog post here. View the video directly here. Don Yorty writes "The Illuminations were drawn in 37 days. Basil had a portable record player and one of the records he played as he painted and - [New videos of Basil King reading now available](https://blog.basilking.net/new-videos-of-basil-king-reading-now-available/) - From the launch of There Are No Ghosts There Are Portraits at the Five Myles Gallery in Brooklyn - Basil reads Part Two of this recent book, September 2022. [29 minutes]. Click here to purchase the book. For Don Yorty's wonderful blog [donyorty.com] - Basil reads the text of In Delacroix's Garden - taped in his Brooklyn kitchen, February 2023. [20 minutes]. Click - [January 2023 - New Publication: In Delacroix's Garden by Basil King and Yuko Otomo](https://blog.basilking.net/new-publication-in-delacroixs-garden-by-basil-king-and-yuko-otomo/) - Yuko Otomo and Basil King compared how captured they and their respective partners -- the late Steve Dalachinsky and Martha King -- were by their separate visits to Delacroix's house, garden, and studio tucked in a cul-de-sac on the Left Bank of Paris. This lovely book of poetry, art, and memory is a result. In Delacroix's - [New Video: Basil King and Charles Borkhuis, Lunar Chandelier Salon, Virtual Reading, November 13, 2022](https://blog.basilking.net/new-video-basil-king-and-charles-borkhuis-lunar-chandelier-salon-virtual-reading-november-13-2022/) - Photo Credit: Lili White. Note: Click Read More to reach the link to the video! Click here to Watch: Reading with Basil King and Charles Borkhuis, Lunar Chandelier Salon, Virtual Reading, November 13, 2022 Basil King has been painting for over seven decades and writing since 1985. He does both in Brooklyn, where he has - [Lunar Chandelier Press Presents a Virtual Reading: Basil King + Charles Borkhuis - Sunday, November 13 at 3:00 p.m.](https://blog.basilking.net/lunar-chandelier-press-presents-a-virtual-reading-basil-king-charles-borkhuis-sunday-november-13-at-300-p-m/) - Lunar Chandelier Press Presents a Virtual Reading Basil King & Charles Borkhuis Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 3:00 p.m. To Receive the Zoom link - Please email Martha King Basil King has been painting for over seven decades and writing since 1985. He does both in Brooklyn, where he has lived since 1969, publishing poetry collections - [Basil King reads November 1st alongside distinguished slate of artists at The Downstairs @ La MaMa](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-reads-november-1st-alongside-distinguished-slate-of-artists-at-the-downstairs-la-mama/) - READING to celebrate Live Mag #19 At Poetry Electric "Freedom and Beauty On the line" Poetry by Andrei Codrescu, Lydia Cortes, Amber Atiya, Gregory Crosby, John Yau and Basil King Dance with Yoshiko Chuma Art by Moses Ros and Judith Simonian Tuesday, November 1, 2022 at 8:00PM LaMama The Downstairs 66 East 4th Street, - [Basil King art is featured in Hurricane Review, April 2022](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-art-is-featured-in-hurricane-review-april-2022/) - King art is on the cover of Hurricane Review #19, with six more works all nicely reproduced in color throughout. To request copies of this annual literary mag, write to: Department of English & Communication, Pensacola State College, 1000 College Boulevard, Pensacola, FL 32504 www.pschurricanereview.wordpress.com - [Basil King essay "The Past is as Present as I Want the Future to Be" (2022)](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-essay-the-past-is-as-present-as-i-want-the-future-to-be/) - This essay is one of 25 interviews and essays in "On Becoming a Poet" by writers associated with Marsh Hawk Press. Al Filreis of Writers House says this anthology is "gratifying not a how-to for becoming a poet. These are stories of what transpired as and when the realization occurred." https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781732614130/on-becoming-a-poet.aspx Pubishers Weekly BEST BOOKS - [AFTER THOUGHT paintings & poems Basil King (2022)](https://blog.basilking.net/after-thought-paintings-poems/) - This latest collection, published by Granary Books, stems from a recent series of paintings that postdate King's 2019 project, "Looking for the Green Man." After producing these fifty portrait variations, King "wanted to do something quiet, possibly beautiful, a place of meditation." This book is 11 x 15 in., bound in lavender cloth over boards with Mylar dust jacket by Judith Ivry. The 16 page spreads feature a poem and a facing painting, and are printed on Hahnemühle paper by Jason Walz. This is from an edition of 20 copies, numbered and signed by King. - [New Book Launch](https://blog.basilking.net/new-book-launch/) - JOIN US New Book Launch: There Are No Ghosts There Are Portraits, Basil King September 2022 Co-published by Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found CUNY Poetics Document Initiative. Friday, September 23, 2022 at 7PM FiveMyles Gallery 558 St Johns Place, Brooklyn, NY 11238 DIRECTIONS Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two - [Basil King, Kimberly Lyons and Floy Krouchi at the Record Shop - Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 7:30pm](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-kimberly-lyons-and-floy-krouchi-at-the-record-shop-tuesday-10-11-at-730pm/) - On Tuesday, October 11th, Basil King will read from his most recent book There Are No Ghosts, There Are Portraits, co-published by Pinsapo Press and Lost & Found less than a month ago. Kimberly Lyons will also read poems & Floy Krouchi, who just arrived from Paris and won't be around long, will be screening her short film, a poetic journey into the - [Nothing](https://blog.basilking.net/nothing/) - “Nothing’ is the force / That renovates the World” --Emily Dickinson, by homely gift and hindered Words I said about nothing little only that They guess it’s dark because light is something They say most of everything is dark a push pull dark – dark speeding up dark slowing down currently dark - [News! New issues: Talisman & Local Knowedge (2015)](https://blog.basilking.net/literary-magazines/) - 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 Draw" and more of Martha's "Outside/Inside." Plus Talisman has Martha King poetry, to which she - [Peter Valente on Basil King in "Language is Everything" (2021)](https://blog.basilking.net/peter-valente-on-basil-king-in-language-is-everything/) - Poet translator Peter Valente considers Basil King's poetry and politics in constant conversation with his visual art in a thoughtful essay based on his close readings of King's visual and poetic work and an interview. "The dark and the unforgiving can be corrected by a text; history, poetry, politics, language is everything" he - [News! Basil King and Nicole Peyrafitte at The Walker Art Center (2015)](https://blog.basilking.net/news-basil-king-and-nicole-peyrafitte-at-the-walker-art-center/) - In partnership with Associated Writing Programs, which is having its annual meeting in Minneapolis this April, the Walker Art Center is hosting these free events Thursday April 9, 2015 from 5 pm to 11 pm: 5-9: Screenings of Basil King: Mirage, every half hour, Lecture Room, Free 5:30: Basil King book signing, Bazinet Lobby, Free 6:30: Minnesota - [NEWS: in Talisman #44 -- Basil King and more (2016)](https://blog.basilking.net/new-poem-by-basil-king/) - In TALISMAN #44 – 2016 www.talismanmag.net online only FREE Special Section on Neeli Cherkovski New Work by Cherkovski Commentary by Seth Amos, Michael Berger,Patrick James Dunagan, Peter Valente, and A.D. Winans, *Special section: ​Basil King, "Crownstone" *Special section: George Quasha, "fluctuant gender (preverbs)" Wonderful works by King and Quasha, and lovely to - [NEWS: Basil King exhibition SOON (2016)](https://blog.basilking.net/news-basil-king-exhibitions/) - Basil King: Between Painting and Writing -- September 2 to December 24, 2016 in Asheville, NC Curated by Vincent Katz and Brian Butler, at the Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, Asheville, NC. This show will include paintings using images from playing cards, texts of King’s poetry, his covers for poetry books and journals, along - [A Blackburn Celebration! (2016)](https://blog.basilking.net/a-blackburn-celebration/) - Monday, September 26th, 2016 @ 6:30 pm at the Martin Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center: In.On.Or About the Premises: A Celebration of the Work of Paul Blackburn Lost & Found: The CUNY Poetics Document Initiative is partnering with The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church to celebrate their 50th Anniversary with a panel and discussion - [The day after the day of the Trump election (2016)](https://blog.basilking.net/after-the-trump-election/) - The day after the day after theTrump election two good friends, who both teach in colleges that are hardly havens for the 1%, reacted to the election results this way: One cried "How can I teach literature in the face of this?" The other reported he spent the afternoon of November 9 with his honors - [Basil King in new BMC exhibition (2018)](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-in-new-exhibition/) - Creative Democracy: The Legacy of Black Mountain College - Art and artifacts by people who were students at the now legendary North Carolina art school (1933-1956) Exhibition opens: Friday, January 12, 2018 Exhibition Celebration: Friday, March 2, 2018 (6:00pm -10:00pm) Exhibition ends: Saturday, June 2, 2018 Venue: Main Gallery of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts at Appalachian State - [Basil King at John Molloy AND on Pier 36 for Art on Paper (2017)](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-art-exhibitions/) - Basil’s “Bird Script” exhibition opens at John Molloy Gallery on Saturday, February 25, 2017 from 5 – 7 pm. John Molloy Gallery, 49 East 78th Street, Suite 2B, New York City. The show continues until March 31. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Friday, 11 am to 7pm; Saturday 11am to 5pm. Click here for more Several - [Celebrating Allen Ginsberg (2017)](https://blog.basilking.net/celebrating-allen-ginsberg/) - June 3, 2017 @ 3:00 pm - 9:00 pm at Howl Happening Gallery For Allen Ginsberg's 91st birthday, Howl! Happening is holding a celebration that includes the re-release of Allen Ginsberg & William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience; music by Ed Sanders, Steven Taylor, Ernie Brooks, Bear 54; poetry readings by Bob Holman, Hettie Jones, Bob - [The Kings at "Creative Democracy" - The Turchin Center for Visual Arts (2018)](https://blog.basilking.net/the-kings-at-creative-democracy-the-turchin-center-for-visual-arts/) - To celebrate the legacy of Black Mountain College, the Turchin Center for Visual Arts at Appalachian State University has mounted a show called "Creative Democracy." It'll be on view until June 2, 2018. (See previous post, "Basil King in new BMC Exhibition" posted in January.) Twelve of Basil King's recent bird paintings are featured, along - [Outside/Inside -Martha's memoir-is published (2018)](https://blog.basilking.net/outside-inside-marthas-memoir-is-published/) - I am delighted to announce the publication of Outside / Inside: Just outside the art world's inside, my memoir published by BlazeVOX Books. The book can be ordered now on the BlazeVOX website, or on Amazon, or by pestering your favorite local bookshop. Wonderful warm words Here are comments from advance readers: Martha King’s fascinating memoir bristles with - [Basil King on Instagram - 2019](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-on-instagram/) - Martha King said, "I thought my friend Africa was nuts when she said we should put Baz's paintings on Instagram. Pay for another digital fad? Try to see art on a 5 x 2.5-inch screen? And who'd care?" Surprise: Yes the images are small but you get an idea. The number of "followers" keeps - [Our UK Tour—October 9 to November 5](https://blog.basilking.net/martha-basil-king-in-uk/) - October 9: Images from our first day London – A rest before readings, talks, and screening of “Basil King:MIRAGE” to come in Canterbury and at Kent University on the 10th and 11th. A rest we thought, in a modest chain hotel on Bankside. Turned out we were just down the street from Southwark Cathedral, just - [NEWS: New Haven Screening](https://blog.basilking.net/screening-basil-king-mirage-film/) - Two words: quiet and intense. Martha read from memoir about moving to New York in 1957—and finding a place where Baz could paint and they could live for $50 a month. Down at the bottom of Manhattan Island, a block from Battery Park, when that was below what the cops called the “Fulton Street deadline.” - [NEWS: Far from the Centers of Ambition](https://blog.basilking.net/black-mountain-college/) - Writings about Black Mountain College and it's influence-- from both Martha and Basil King-- are included in a book-length tribute to Black Mountain College, Far From the Centers of Ambition, edited by Lee Ann Brown, and just published by Lorimer Press, Lenoir Rhyne University in North Carolina. Contributors to this very elegantly designed book (in - [NEWS: Events, Publications, and a Show -- November 2014](https://blog.basilking.net/news-november-2014-2/) - 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 by Prose Pros at Side Walk Café, Avenue A @ 6th Street. (Free, donations requested.) - [Our UK Tour--VEG BOX aka Free Range](https://blog.basilking.net/kings-uk-tour-2/) - 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 market and locavore food restaurant. Also possessing good parking, a rarity in Canterbury. We had - [Our UK Tour – Questions asked in Canterbury](https://blog.basilking.net/kings-uk-tour-ken/) - 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 I was a student. I had one idea about making money by writing “The Black - [Our UK Tour – Green Men everywhere](https://blog.basilking.net/our-uk-tour-green-men/) - 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 a child protection officer for the Canterbury diocese. So she knows all the employees and - [Our UK Tour – Looking for the Green Man](https://blog.basilking.net/kings-uk-tour-green-man/) - 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/ ) you get a blast of her common sense approach: …the green man is more complicated - [Our UK Tour – Final installment](https://blog.basilking.net/uk-tour-sussex-and-brookes-oxfd/) - 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 as Oxford Polytechnic and before that as the Oxford School of Art. A hundred years - [Fall Now--and Summer Was](https://blog.basilking.net/summer-visits/) - Three trips this summer: 1) To Sag Harbor, where the factory in which a large cohort of young working women licked the brushes they used to paint glow-in-the-dark watch faces. They later died horribly of radium poisoning, their teeth more devastated than a meth addict's. The building is now being "repurposed" for high end condo - [News from PennSound! “The White Tablecloth” available](https://blog.basilking.net/news-publications-basil-king/) - Basil King’s reading of "The White Tablecloth," recorded at SideWalk Café this past November, is now available. on PennSound. Click here! (Thank you, Zach Carduner at PennSound for working the magic needed to create an MP3 file from an unpromising original.) Even better -- print is also available. “The White Tablecloth” appears in The Spoken Word/The - [NEWS: Screenings of “Basil King:MIRAGE”](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-kingmirage-film/) - Screenings of the film, scheduled to date: October 10, 2013: Kent University, Canterbury, UK October 17, 2013: Sussex University, Brighton, UK October 22, 2013: Oxford Brookes School of Arts, Oxford University, Oxford, UK January 9, 2014: Asheville Museum, Asheville, NC Previously screened at The Beverly Film Festival, Beverly, MA, and at Mark Lamoureaux's loft, New - [The YEAR 2015](https://blog.basilking.net/2015-baz-and-martha-king/) - 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 al) in celebration of the 2014 publication of his The Spoken Word/The Painted Hand. Marsh - [Basil King in John Tranter’s online magazine, JPR 04](https://blog.basilking.net/in-tranters-jpr04-basil-king/) - 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” has just been posted. Click for full text! http://poeticsresearch.com/article/basil-king-delacroixs-pigeon/ Rocking back and forth from - [Congratulations Miles Joris-Peyrafitte!](https://blog.basilking.net/congratulations-miles-joris-peyrafitte/) - With great pleasure – but not that much surprise – we note the SUNDANCE film festival’s special jury award for Miles’s first full-length feature As You Are. The lack of surprise is due to seeing Miles work when he was still a Bard College undergrad on the 2013 short Basil King: MIRAGE along with his - [NEWS: Exhibitions of Basil King art in 2016 –17](https://blog.basilking.net/news-exhibitions-of-basil-king-art-in-2016-17/) - Exhibitions of Basil King art in 2016 – 17 Opening September 2, 2016: Basil King: Between Painting and Writing curated by Vincent Katz and Brian Butler, at the Black Mountain College Museum &Arts Center, Asheville, NC. Open until December 31, 2016. This show, will also include texts of King’s poetry and some of his covers for - [NEWS: Kimberly Lyons on Basil King's art](https://blog.basilking.net/kimberly-lyons-on-basil-king-art/) - Good news: DISPATCHES FROM THE POETRY WARS http://dispatchespoetrywars.com/ is up and healthy. (The site had a spate of glitches during a recent upgrade.) I am even more pleased to report that a thoughtful article by Kimberly Ann Lyons on Basil King's visual art "Here is Another Somewhere" is in the Commentary section... http://dispatchespoetrywars.com/…/another-somewhere-visual…/ Also available is the complete text of Basil's - [New Publication and an Exhibition](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-exhibition-and-publication/) - The online magazine Talisman has just posted issue #46 with a substantial section of critical responses to Basil King's art and poetry...which a number of the commentators have so rightly considered together. Go www.talismanmag.net to read and see. Yes, see, as there are links to Basil's visual art and a provocative selection - [No English equivalent](https://blog.basilking.net/no-english-equivalent/) - On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Laurie Price sent me this list of words with no English equivalents. She didn't say where she got them but even if they're lexical legends...well, read on: 1. Zhaghzhagh (Persian) The chattering of teeth from the cold or from rage. 2. Yuputka (Ulwa) A word made for walking - [What's art for?](https://blog.basilking.net/whats-art-for/) - Downstairs in the Metropolitan's very modern Lehman donut there is a fascinating exhibition of early Egyptian art. It traces what scholars currently deduce about the evolution of that art as revealed by “predynastic” finds from 4,400 BC (roughly six thousand years ago) though to the establishment of a fully ordered wealthy and profoundly hierarchical society, - [Prose Pros celebrates “Ver Gangen Bangen Heit”](https://blog.basilking.net/prose-pros-5-year/) - Or "Le cadavre / exquis / boira / le vin / nouveau" As the opening act of David Kirchenbaum’s marvelous Boog City Poetry and Music Festival this August, Elinor Nauen and I concocted a variant of the rolling or exquisite corpse. The form comes from the Surrealists of course – a form of disruption, an - [Ver Gangen Bangen Heit a bust as a sound file](https://blog.basilking.net/no-mp3/) - Sorry, friends! The CD of our SideWalk show on August 2 was a wash. Technical gremlins, even before I got my fingers on it. So no MP3 – let alone a YouTube item. Here’s a snippet. No sound. No pictures. See previous post for names of contributors. What's below is up to you and however - [The Prose Pros Reading on December 6](https://blog.basilking.net/prose-reading-levy-blatnik/) - Andrew Levy and Andrej Blatnik were presented by Prose Pros at the Side Walk Café, December 6, 2012. You can put Everything in – Less is more -- Charles Olson said something about space as the essential American condition…am I misquoting? misremembering? Certainly space is a foundational premise in Andrew Levy’s prose work. It is not - [Martha King died - Martha J. King, 1928-2011](https://blog.basilking.net/martha-j-king-1928-2011/) - The other Martha King died more than a year ago. But because she was a skilled and frequently published translator and editor of writings by Italian women, she will continue to be the “other Martha King.” Information about her books and editorial work can be found here. A very touching tribute to her by her - [BUGS! make a plate remarkable](https://blog.basilking.net/bugs-as-decorative-art/) - Why? Why? It’s always about choice unless it’s about obedience to a command, but that simply shifts the origin of the question over to another person. Why is this image chosen? Those three birds? The broken barrel (is it?)? And the lovely insects, so delicately rendered, around the edge. But wouldn’t bugs on the - [NEWS: Recent Martha King prose available!](https://blog.basilking.net/news-recent-prose-martha-king/) - Two free and online. One not! 2013 – “Seventy Years Ago in the South”- Big Bridge 17 - 2013 - “True Stories from Lynchburg,” – Blaze Vox, Spring “A Wedding” in print in Skidrow Penthouse magazine, 2013 (To order, for $15, go to skidrowpenthouse.com.) - [NEWS: Prose Pros presents Jenny Allen and Nancy Giles, February 6](https://blog.basilking.net/news-prose-pros-february-6/) - Prose Pros is me and Elinor Nauen. We've been presenting monthly prose readings for seven years! Our two readers for February are Jenny Allen (New Yorker columnist) and Nancy Giles (CBS-TV columnist). A first for us: both writers have outstanding stand-up credentials! At Side Walk Café, 94 Avenue A at 6th Street, NYC, the back room. - [Prose Pros presents Lynne Tillman and Lynn Crawford](https://blog.basilking.net/lynne-tillman-and-lynn-crawford/) - Literary mischief, bravado inventions from two dazzling writers: Prose Pros presents Lynne Tillman and Lynn Crawford at SideWalk Café, March 6, at 6:30. Lynne Tillman’s fourth collection of stories Someday This Will Be Funny, was published in May 2011. And her second collection of essays, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, is due this April. Lynn Crawford of - [Martha King published in new anthology](https://blog.basilking.net/martha-king-in-new-anthology/) - 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 of conflict, amusement, bafflement and joy that make up a day, a year, an individual - [News: Martha’s memoir in A Public Space magazine](https://blog.basilking.net/news-martha-king-in-a-public-space/) - Fifty pages of my memoir Outside Inside -- expertly excerpted and condensed by Brigid Hughes -- is featured in issue 22 of A Public Space. With many photographs. Issue 22 –print or digital— or an annual subscription -- can be ordered here: http://apublicspace.org/magazine While I posted announcements on Facebook in October and had a marvelous send-off at the November - [News: Prose Pros-Thursday, May 3, 2018](https://blog.basilking.net/prose-pros-thursday-may-3/) - Ammiel Alcalay and Tiokasin Ghosthorse are the Prose Pros on Thursday, May 3. 6:30 to 7:45. (Also good food and good company.) We will pass the hat for the readers. Hope to see you there. Avenue A @ 6th Street. -- Martha King and Elinor Nauen - [NEWS - our new web design](https://blog.basilking.net/our-new-web-design/) - Hope you've noticed. Thanks to Lori Ortiz, we have simplified our site without reducing the information. It's now easier to choose when or if you want more, thanks to links to Flickr, Small Press Distribution and the like. If you want more information about Lori, send me a message via the Contacts page. Comments and - [NEWS Outside/Inside to be published this October](https://blog.basilking.net/martha-king-memoir/) - NEWS - Outside / Inside by Martha King has a publisher! Martha King's memoir Outside/Inside (just outside the art world's inside) will be available from Blaze VOX Books in October 2018. For a preview of the book, see Eileen Tabios' great blogspot Galatea Resurrects! https://galatearesurrects2018.blogspot.com Eileen is featuring King's chapter on Frank O'Hara in her - [Outside/Inside reviewed!](https://blog.basilking.net/outside-inside-reviewed/) - With great pleasure I'd like to draw your attention to an impressive review of my memoir, Outside / Inside, in the most recent issue of an online literary review also well worth your attention. Thank you, editor Bronwyn Mills. The magazine is The WALL issue #6: https://www.wittypartition.org/ Conejo: paint on wood. Un Gato en - [Our new website name](https://blog.basilking.net/our-new-website-name/) - We have a new website name You may still use www.basilking.net but when the home page opens you will see the new domain name: basilking-marthaking.com This is the domain name going forward. The new name makes it clear that works by both of the Kings is presented here. We've also made some other adjustments to - [Another fine review of Outside/Inside!](https://blog.basilking.net/new-review-of-outside-inside/) - Very pleased to announce a review by Mike Foldes - online in the current issue of RAGAZINE https://www.ragazine.cc/2019/01/outside-inside-book-review/ For many years when I was of high school age I wondered what it would be like to go to Black Mountain College. I didn’t know at the time what little I’d heard applied to an institution - [New book from Martha King](https://blog.basilking.net/new-book-martha-king/) - MAX SEES RED -- is King's first-ever novel, a murder mystery in which a painter named Max tries to find out who murdered a young literary editor in her Hudson Valley summer house. One of his oldest friends, an experimental novelist, has bumbled into making himself a prime suspect. The action takes place in the - [Fine Review of Outside/Inside](https://blog.basilking.net/fine-review-of-outside-inside/) - Fine review of my memoir in Golden Handcuffs Excited to let everyone know that Ian Brinton has reviewed my memoir, Outside/Inside in issue 27, Vol 2, of Golden Handcuffs Literary Review. A very thoughtful review that places my book in finely drawn historical context. If you subscribe (this is an excellent wide-ranging mag published IN - [News about Max Sees Red](https://blog.basilking.net/news-about-max-sees-red/) - Comment & a review "I love Martha King’s astutely roving eyes & ears, what & who she notices, how deftly she weaves perceptive commentary in & out of encounters, & especially how accurately she pegs the now faint smells of 1970s NYC’s low-key squalor crisscrossed by the ambitions & conflicts of its “aht” world. The - [Important UK magazine features King work](https://blog.basilking.net/uk-magazine-features-king-work/) - tears in the fence, #69, Spring 2019 is now available. This issue ranges wide as tears does -- and includes Basil King's new poem, "Pick Up a Stitch -- Drop a Stitch," work by Laurie Duggan, and this comment by editor David Caddy on Martha King's memoir, Outside/Inside: Martha King's memoir, Outside/Inside...just outside the art world's - [Scoring at last: The new Whitney](https://blog.basilking.net/the-new-whitney-museum/) - Late out of the gate? Not to worry. Yes, the Whitney finally got it right. A museum with space designed for being with works of art, with a glorious lightness, so we see the work, not the housing. Only later realize the housing makes it so with its careful use of real light and the - [Martha reading at Berl's Poetry Shop](https://blog.basilking.net/martha-king-at-berls/) - Martha at Berl’s Poetry Shop, July 17, 7 PM To celebrate publication of Bone Bouquet --Spring 2015, Krystal Languell and the other editors invite all to a reading from the newest issue Berl’s on Front Street in Brooklyn, down under the Manhattan Bridge. [F train stop at York Street.] Please note correct date: Friday, July - [Moving and Standing Still](https://blog.basilking.net/baz-and-martha-king-moving/) - We are still at the same address, same website (www.basilking.net), same Flickr site for Basil King art. But a move is a move, whether cross-country or just from upstairs to downstairs. We have moved within our house, up to down, to top half, to bottom half, to all, and now back to half. Six different configurations since - [Green Man Mystery SOLVED](https://blog.basilking.net/green-man-mystery/) - My esteemed China-scholar sister Charlotte Furth solved the question I asked last year. Who is this wildman, who currently lives in an empty fireplace in our bedroom? We know how he got into our possession - a purchase by our grandparents, when Asian artifacts were routinely pried from their places of origin in ways that -thankfully- - [Yuko Otomo and Eddie Berrigan](https://blog.basilking.net/yuko-otomo-and-eddie-berrigan/) - A wonderful reading was held last week at the Dominque Levy Gallery during the exhibition of Chung Sang-Hwa, but the art just below, "Dream of the New Year" is not his. Afterwards BASIL wrote this to YUKO You and Eddie gave a wonderful reading. It was like listening to two different languages. Eddie spoke in his - [History Now is here](https://blog.basilking.net/history-now-basil-king/) - Basil King's new book, History Now, Marsh Hawk Press, 2017, is here. It is the latest segment in what poet Laurie Duggan is calling King's epic, Learning to Draw. Eileen Tabios in her online "poetry engagement" Galetea Ressurects, calls it HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. All five books to date are pictured below. Another publication, a beautiful chapbook In the Field - [Review of History Now -- in JPR](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-history-now-review/) - New comment on Basil King's art and writing Joshua A.W. Gardner in his review of Basil King's latest book of poetry, History Now (New York: Marsh Hawk Press, 2017), "connects the dots" between King's visual art and the poetry he has been writing since 1985. Gardner finds his "intellectual kinship with the poet - ["Victorian Times and After" - as video!](https://blog.basilking.net/victorian-times-as-video/) - Don Yorty has recorded Basil King reading ALL of "Victorian Times and After" from History Now, from Marsh Hawk Press, 2017. Visit Don's wonderful blog: http:// donyorty.com/blog/2017/09/14/basil-king-reads-history-now/ If you have an hour, try it. Or wait. Don plans to break it into three sessions of about 20 minutes each. Thank you Don! - [Outside/Inside on Don Yorty's blog...](https://blog.basilking.net/outside-inside-on-don-yortys-blog/) - One of my all-time favorite blogs -- for range, enthusiasm, and blend of visual with text -- is Don Yorty's EXPLORATIONS. He has just mounted his video of my reading at the HOWL Gallery, the formal launch for my memoir. Thank you, Don. http://donyorty.com/blog/2019/01/13/martha-king-reads-outsideinside/ (And yes, the book is available on the BlazeVOX website--see "books") - [Dispatches Winter 2018-19 is online -- with review of Outside/Inside](https://blog.basilking.net/dispatches-review-outside-inside/) - Click here https://www.dispatchespoetrywars.com/category/dispatches-news/ to see a WHOLE lot more. It's a huge issue and well rewards some time. But first, ahem, do read Roy Skodnick's response to my memoir, Outside/Inside. https://www.dispatchespoetrywars.com/commentary/a-wild-brave-and-isolated-bohemia-a-review-of-outside-inside-by-martha-king/ Thank you, Dispatches crew ! --Martha - [](https://blog.basilking.net/1355-2/) - Celebrating YUKO OTOMO's new book Martha and Basil King join in celebrating YUKO OTOMO's new book Anonymous Landscape (from Lithic Press) is a marvelous full-length meditation on anonymity and civility among other things. The Kings are delighted to join John Godfrey and Charles Waters in celebrating its publication at: McNally Jackson Books - SOHO 52 - [Don Yorty celebrates Basil King](https://blog.basilking.net/don-yorty-celebrates-basil-king/) - New on Yorty's blog Lovely episode on Don Yorty's blog -- combining images from Basil King's Green Man Comes to 4th Street portraits with a reading by Baz of Part 7 of his long poem with the same name. When I posted this on Facebook I said people might want to go through it twice - [Enjoying MAX](https://blog.basilking.net/1375-2/) - Enjoying MAX at the beach The wonderful Laurie Price, poet/ artist / editor, takes MAX SEES RED on Mexican beach vacation. She has this to say: "Wonderful! Plus structure & suspense & character development." Max Sees Red, by Martha King. An art world whodunit set in SoHo and the Hudson Valley in 1979. See Amazon - [First blog post](https://blog.basilking.net/hello-world/) - Greetings. Baz did these graphics in 2002...but they seem apt for this September. The series is called "Twin Towers."[slideshow] For some reason they didn't all load -- and two bottoms are cut off. I have a lot to learn! - [September 9](https://blog.basilking.net/september-9/) - I've posted Basil's Twin Towers graphics as a photo album on my Facebook page, for now. My Facebook page is Martha Winston King (as there are several hundred Martha Kings within). If you visit here, you are welcome to "friend" me. If I don't know you, say you visited this site please. - [Martha is in BEAT SCENE](https://blog.basilking.net/martha-is-in-beat-scene/) - BEAT SCENE #65 --Kevin Ring, editor, has just published a large section of my BMC memoir. Contact kev@beatscene.freeserve.co.uk for info on how to order. - [Learning to Draw is published!](https://blog.basilking.net/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! - [Henderson and Wilentz at Prose Pros this Thursday](https://blog.basilking.net/henderson-and-wilentz-at-prose-pros-this-thursday/) - You're invited to SideWalk Cafe, Avenue A at 6th Street, NYC, Thursday October 6, at 6:30, for a reading by David Henderson -- seminal member of the Black Arts movement, poet, editor, essayist -- along with David Wilentz, martial arts critic and Asian film enthusiast (perhaps known to some as the son of Ted Wilentz, - [New Laurie Duggan chapbook, with cover by Baz published](https://blog.basilking.net/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 by a check mailed to Jess Mynes 121 Lockes Village Road - [Coming this Thursday – Prose Pros does it again Levenberg and Simmons](https://blog.basilking.net/coming-this-thursday-prose-pros-does-it-again-levenberg-and-simmons/) - We’ve put another odd couple together, although Diane (Simmons) and Mitch (Levenberg) actually know each other. Mitch is coffeeshop counters in the city, subways, garbage cans going crash in the night, misconceptions…. Diane is pickup trucks with bad alternators, roadside waitresses prone to being stiffed on tips. This happensThursday, November 3, at 6:30 – at - [I’m a civilian](https://blog.basilking.net/im-a-civilian/) - I had my first office job in San Francisco, c. 1959. Typing insurance policies. On forms with six carbon copies. Before computers, before, before, before. Electric typewriters with variable-space characters were brand new, and a bane on us because W took up 3 more spaces than L did, so erasing was a huge problem. Another - [Basil’s baseball paintings](https://blog.basilking.net/basils-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 on the Brooklyn waterfront, I was working as an editor at Sloan Kettering, where the - [Sheherezade](https://blog.basilking.net/sheherezade/) - There are other spellings…this is the one Andrei Codrescu has embraced. She, She Here, the iconic spinner of tales and excursions, of conversations long into the night. Why is she our ever-fascinating icon? Weak words can save lives? Hers did. A story to postpone annihilation? Don’t we all tell that tale? What, indeed, gets you - [About Paul Blackburn and more](https://blog.basilking.net/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 Basil's great disturbing and loving portrait, Paul and Joan. Visit http://eoagh.com - [Eva Hesse at the Brooklyn Museum](https://blog.basilking.net/eva-hesse-at-the-brooklyn-museum/) - Eva Hesse: 1936–1970 Her life time. The paintings currently on view at Brooklyn Museum – from now until January 6 – were done in just part of one year. They are the last paintings she ever made. She then went to Germany and entered sculpture, clearly empowered, enbolded, interested, propelled in some major way by - [Thanksgiving - Thank you OWS](https://blog.basilking.net/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 all. Hello. Hello. Hello. Thank you! And count on us to support peaceful protest! As - [Long ago: Lower East Side 1967 and Western Michigan 1971](https://blog.basilking.net/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 same, with memories reappearing in altered states. Except when it isn't and they aren't. Does - [Tom's concerns about smug OWS protesters](https://blog.basilking.net/toms-concerns-about-smug-ows-protesters/) - Tom Clark commented very cogently to my post about protests, 1967 and now. (See below) I asked my friend Amiel Alcalay who has been involved with CUNY student supporters of OWS as I too remember the disconnect, the smug, cavalier and self-righteous attitudes that abounded in the anti-war Viet era. Amiel replied that now, just - [Rug Time](https://blog.basilking.net/rug-time/) - Our friend Tony Landreau, Anthony N. Landreau, happily glossed our rugs when he visited. When his bag contained 3 gallons of wine and clean socks. When his bag was a proper suitcase holding notebooks, clean shirts, and suits. Rug scholar, weaver, photographer, painter, always a teacher but offhandedly. You like this? Well… a Tony-drawl. Baz - [MOMA's great retrospective of Willem deKooning](https://blog.basilking.net/momas-great-retrospective-of-willem-dekooning/) - Yes, it’s January 9, 2012. Show’s over. Now begin – deKooning’s women get him out of the closet but do you notice that these violent creatures all sit, sit quite still. They don’t move head, hand or leg. Eyes and teeth move. And the color rages. But they simply sit in the closet that he - [Friends of Basil King and Mirage: Basil King](https://blog.basilking.net/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 advisors. An event - Their plan is an event, “Basil’s Arc - The Paintings and - [Filming Basil King: MIRAGE](https://blog.basilking.net/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 upsidedowness of the preparations is fascinating – because film is the filmmakers medium. We know - ["Basil King: Mirage" - a film](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-mirage-a-film/) - The Friends of Basil King are launching a fundraising drive to complete this film and present "Basil's Arc" The Paintings and Poetics of Basil King" September 22, 2012 in New York City. Here's the one-minute trailer: TO DONATE BY CREDIT CARD OR PAY PAL ACCOUNT click: (Lunar Chandelier, Kim Lyon's small press, is hosting the - [Invasive](https://blog.basilking.net/invasive/) - INVASIVE ! You can click on these photos to see them larger. [slideshow] Are we supposed to hate ourselves for everything? Found photos: Loose strife:Eric Coombs, Oregon Department of Agriculture; Broom: © Smithore | from Dreamstime.com; Phragmites: http://vilaslandandwater.org; Kudzu: Don Bragg (nativetreesociety.org). And my apologies. As - [What is "The Friends of Basil King"?](https://blog.basilking.net/what-is-the-friends-of-basil-king/) - Poet Kimberly Lyons initiated this idea—and the whole is now a project of Kim’s small press, Lunar Chandelier. Here’s the official announcement: Lunar Chandelier Press is proud to present Basil’s Arc on September 22, 2012, in New York City – A consideration of the paintings and poetics of the painter/poet Basil King, now in his - ["After the Movie"](https://blog.basilking.net/after-the-movie/) - The movie making upended us both more than we expected. Like moving studio or household to a new place…many old corners get excavated. It’s supposed to be cleansing – a chance to toss out detritus – and it is until suddenly it’s, “I did WHAT?” Or worse: “Why didn’t I finish this? Follow that? - [Collections](https://blog.basilking.net/collections/) - We all collected stuff back in 1947, 48, when I was ten or so. Seashells, matchbooks, playing cards. Playing cards were huge. They were prized for the pictures on the back…we called them trading cards – avidly sorted by categories (sunsets, animals, foreign places)… avidly traded to achieve something – maybe it was large numbers - [More Basil's ARC available](https://blog.basilking.net/more-basils-arc-available/) - Items variously on the web: http://poetryproject.org/multimedia/basil-king-reading-12512.html for a film of Baz reading "14 Eyes" from his Learning to Draw/A History at the Poetry Project in New York on January 24, 2012 And for a slideshow I called "The House of Cards grows" http://www.flickr.com/photos/67642740@N08/sets/72157629262469713/show - [John Chamberlain](https://blog.basilking.net/john-chamberlain/) - Six circles of his work at the Guggenheim. On those damned tilted floors, and those whimjammy alcoves courting vertigo! Still another occasion to curse Frank Lloyd Wright, who hated any art but architecture. Or really to despise the Guggenheims for having the arrogance to hire him with no heed whatsoever to what Wright plainly said - [Learning to Draw continues](https://blog.basilking.net/learning-to-draw-continues/) - Oh Arcimboldo, who brings portraits of George Bellows, Hubert Selby, Charles Darwin, Gustave Courbet, Joan Mitchell, Agnes Martin, D.H. Lawrence, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Fielding Dawson, Gene Swenson,Amiri Baraka, Eva Hesse, Nicholas Poussin, and Norman Rockwell out into view, one following after the other? Basil King continues Learning to Draw in a lovely hand-sewn chapbook called Portraits - [Keith Haring exhibit in Brooklyn](https://blog.basilking.net/keith-haring-exhibit-in-brooklyn/) - Keith Haring (American, 1958–1990) Untitled, 1982. Sumi ink on paper. 107 x 208 in. (271.8 x 528.3 cm) Collection Keith Haring Foundation. © Keith Haring Foundation The Keith Haring show now up at The Brooklyn Museum seems almost exclusively to be works from the Keith Haring Foundation. Which I take to mean both not sold and - [Tom Fink and Basil King on Learning to DRAW](https://blog.basilking.net/tom-fink-and-basil-king-on-learning-to-draw/) - Tom Fink had a long conversation with Baz about his book, Learning to Draw, which can be found on Tom Beckett’s excellent blog, ASK/TELL. Available on line or inquire at Skylight. In the meantime, Daniel Staniforth’s blog for Skylight Press generously commented on a previous King book, 77 Beastss: Basil King’s Beastiary, from Marsh Hawk - [September 22: Basil King at Anthology Film Archives](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-at-anthology-film-archives/) - The Friends of Basil King will present "Basil's Arc - The Paintings and Poetics of Basil King" at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue at Second Street, New York City, on Saturday, September 22, 2012, from 12 noon to 6 pm. Sponsored by Lunar Chandelier Press -- this free event includes conversations about King's visual - [UPDATE on Basil's Arc](https://blog.basilking.net/basils-arc-schedule/) - Please note a few key program changes: the film begins promptly at 5:15. The reading of King's writings at 3:20 will feature Joe Elliot, Joyce Johnson, Hettie Jones, Martha King, Mitch Highfill and Michael Mann. The basic plan is unchanged: “Basil’s Arc – The Paintings and Poetics of Basil King” at Anthology Film Archives on September 22, 2012, starts at - [Stories of Sandy Aftermath](https://blog.basilking.net/sandy-aftermath/) - It’s an okay Sunday morning, November 4 – but we Kings had the unreal experience of almost nothing happening here on the favorable high ground on the western end of Long Island. I believe we are 18 feet above sea level...and we've been spared both Irene and Sandy... Sandy killed several people in our neighborhood - [Beverly Film Festival features “Basil King: MIRAGE”](https://blog.basilking.net/beverly-film-festival-mirage/) - The screening is this Friday, November 9, at 8:00pm, in the first festival showing of Nicole and Miles’ wonderful documentary. For folks near Beverly, Massachusetts, check out the details here: http://www.beverlyfilmfest.com/ The film has been entered in a number of other festivals over the coming months. More news about the film here: http://basilkingmirage.net/news.html And for - [Students at UNNCArts comment on “Basil King: MIRAGE”](https://blog.basilking.net/students-comment-on-mirage-film/) - Filmmaker and poet Julian Semilian screened the film for his students in experimental film at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (Winston-Salem). (The school's 'movie street' is seen above.) He sent these comments: I can see why Nicole insisted on blu ray. It looked spectacular. It also made a huge - [Week of the election - Tempests](https://blog.basilking.net/two-tempests/) - Was the dawning week just after Sandy warped time. Just after standard time returned. Just after, just after. Was the week we saw, on Tuesday evening, The Tempest as opera, music by Thomas Ades, script by Meredith Oakes. We were gifted wonderful seats. It was Election Day—an evening when I will do anything to avoid - [SICK](https://blog.basilking.net/sick/) - Too damn many mischievous metaphors about being ill. The FLOOO blows through and that silly tongue twister keeps repeating in my head: as a flea and a fly in a flue... imprisoned so what could they do? Said the flea “let us fly” Said the fly “let us flee” They floo through a flaw in the flew - [Beans that are called peas](https://blog.basilking.net/black-eyed-pea-recipie/) - Amy Ormond, New Year’s Day Traditions: http://amyormond.com/?p=284 Truthfully black-eyed peas are already made. Open the bag, rinse and pick over (because sometimes there’s a stone or a lump of dried dirt)….and go. Put in large pot and cover with cold water and salt (I never measure, use somewhere between a tea and a tablespoon.) - [Fifty years](https://blog.basilking.net/daughter-turns-50/) - A daughter turns 50 this Groundhog Day I have no concept to fit this. 50? The other daughter is very soon 49. I have an overstuffed memory. Shrink. But I forget too much. Stretch. Personally I’m sure I’m not older than 35. Maybe not even that. In every fat man there’s a thin man, dancing. - [LOOKING: Process, Progress and a Predella](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-process/) - Basil’s diptych “A Predella for the Green Man” (mixed media on two canvas panels, together measuring 42 inches high by 12 feet long) is complete. Process and progress from July 2012 to January 2013 was documented in photos by Sanjay Agnihotri and Martha King (with the more amateur shots by MK). See the slide show here. See - [Death and the Green Man](https://blog.basilking.net/the-green-man/) - Basil is looking for the Green Man across the globe…being of the opinion that our interfaces with nature are irritants across many cultures. Irritants that make oysters create pearls. Irritants that are never solved. Being of the opinion that no culture lives in “harmony” with nature. (Sorry Rousseau.) And that cultures around the world have - [A Green Man in my Bedroom](https://blog.basilking.net/a-possible-green-man/) - He used to be in my grandmother Aggie’s dining room. He sat in the dark on a heavy mahogany sideboard. There was enough light for me to see holes that lead inside. They frightened me, or he did. He was “a temple ornament” Aggie told me without the slightest sense of shame or embarrassment. I - [The world of LIFE](https://blog.basilking.net/life-magazine-1945/) - Looking for complementary photos for my chapbook “Seventy Years Ago in the South” – to come soon in Michael Rothenberg’s wonderful BIG BRIDGE online - I found that ole Google has the entire archive of Life magazines on line, free. Hard to explain the impact of that magazine on us kids in the 1940s – - [A Recognition: David Rattray](https://blog.basilking.net/david-rattray/) - Eileen Myles, along with Robert Dewhurst and the people at Leo Koenig Gallery, presented “A Recognition" for David Rattray at the Koenig Gallery and the Poetry Project. On the 20th anniversary of David’s death (at age 57). An occasion to dig David’s work and influence. Of course the books he left behind and a few - [A Book Cover Brag](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-book-cover-art/) - On behalf of the Friends of Basil King I’ve been researching the covers Basil King has done for poetry books, since 1959. Here is 2013. Burt Kimmelman’s book, Gradually the World, is not yet officially released – there will be a book launch at Poets House in the fall of 2013. I think there are 47 examples. - [Old Fence, New Fence](https://blog.basilking.net/brooklyn-garden/) - The old fence was OLD. At least 35 years old…put up by Bob Wulbricht, a student of Baz’s from Thomas Jefferson College back in the late 1970s. Lanky, thoughtful, introverted Bob…printmaker, painter. Bob most of all loved his dog. But he must have loved Baz too because he worked gratis as I remember. I’m sure - [NEWS: “Basil King: MIRAGE” to play in New Haven](https://blog.basilking.net/news-basil-king-mirage-film/) - NEWS: June 19, 2013. Mark Lamoureux and Rachel Chatalbash are hosting a screening of the film, “Basil King: MIRAGE” and the video of the conversation between Basil and George Quasha, “Art is Not Natural,” at 7:30 PM in their loft in New Haven. The film, created by Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, is a - [Trove in the studio](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-works-on-paper/) - In the studio: canvases await sizing…coat after coat. The way work is done. And on a work table, these: I wouldn’t call it “cleaning up” the studio…Baz would never. But he was rearranging things with an eye to reviewing his use of ink without brushes over the past some years. These works are - ["Gilles" surrounded by Lust, Intrigue, and Mockery](https://blog.basilking.net/watteau-and-basil-king/) - 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 ahead of time. The lines, even in early November, were staggering. Second, Baz walks slowly - [Japanese Sex Art](https://blog.basilking.net/japanese-sex-art/) - “Shhh Shunga: Sex and pleasure in Japanese Art" is on view at the British Museum, London, until Jauary 5, 2014. Shunga actually means “spring pictures.” Many pictures from the floating world, another lovely meaning we all recognize…floating. According to the catalog, shunga was never censored formally but was suppressed from 1870 on as Japan sought - [The Pigeons of Winter 2013](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-art-pigeons/) - 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 mixed media on paper, 26” x 40,” November and December 2013. (The media are ink, - [Comments on Amiri Baraka](https://blog.basilking.net/amiri-baraka/) - 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 knew Leroi Jones, Gil Sorrentino and Basil King. From one of the tables racial slurs - [Old Man Mad about Paint](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-new-work/) - Look out whippersnappers. An old man is coming, his brushes are loaded, and he’s got birds on the brain! There are many birds on view in his studio in Brooklyn, by invitation, this year. Use this link for samples on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/67642740@N08/sets/72157639449256424/ Two responses to Basil King’s work Poets Tim Keane and Madeline Tiger - [Wall of Birds](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-art-pigeons-2/) - Pushing spring, despite all! There are now twenty-one views of pigeons in Delacroix’s Garden in Basil King’s studio. Winter-spring 2013-2014. Visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/67642740@N08/sets/72157639449256424/ He’s now moving on to a new series “Visiting Delacroix’s Garden” with…images to come. Enjoy! - [Jasper Johns at MOMA](https://blog.basilking.net/jasper-johns-at-moma/) - First, take your time. A large painting hangs dead center in the first room of this exhibit. Dimensions aren’t given on the wall sign, but the press kit lists 67” x 96”. This painting is central and all the other works dance in variating attendance on it, playing off and playing with it. It’s - [Basil's Brain](https://blog.basilking.net/brain-anomaly-basil-king/) - Because Basil's right-side weakness is getting worse, I persuaded him to see a neurologist. His first neurology visit since teenage episodes of seizures that stopped well before he went to Black Mountain in the 50s. And well before there even were MRIs. He had an MRI a few weeks ago and my jaw dropped when - [Old files! Fielding Dawson on Basil King](https://blog.basilking.net/fielding-dawson-on-basil-king/) - 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 City shop, Granary Books, 636 Broadway—September 21-October 20, 1989. There were eleven paintings in the - [More new art from Baz](https://blog.basilking.net/art-basil-king/) - The Birds Arrive, which started November/December 2013 and is continuing…There are now 24 images. All © Basil King, 2013-14. Pigeons in Delacroix’s Garden! Nine of ten new works on paper, from this spring. All © Basil King, 2014. A new series, Windows, containing two new paintings (both diptychs) and eight works on paper. All © Basil King, - [A New York Birthday--with Cops and Hot Dogs](https://blog.basilking.net/hetty-king-birthday-story/) - Hetty arrived in mid-summer. Basil’s parents had taken our daughter Mallory out to Long Island where Esther (her grandmother) and some of her relatives could dote on Mallory while we waited on Second Avenue to deliver her sib. We two had gone up the street for Chinese food to celebrate and late that night it - [Baz does "Windows"](https://blog.basilking.net/new-graphics-basil-king/) - Baz does Windows! This new series, called Windows, of mixed media on Stonehenge paper (all 40 inches x 26 inches ) and two diptych paintings (mixed media on canvas, combined dimensions 56 inches x 42 inches) testify to some variation of that old song: “Don’t cry for me dear Abstraction…the truth is I never left - [Earrings by Kirin!](https://blog.basilking.net/earrings-by-kirin/) - SUNDAY – July 6 - Unique Earrings 326A 4th Street, Brooklyn Between 6th and 5th Avenues (on your way to the Farmers Market on 5th) A collection of handmade individually designed Swarkovski crystal earrings One-of-a-kind designs by Kirin and Sansana Sawasdiskosol* $20/pair * Yes, this is my grandson Kirin, with some designs by his - [Perils of Archiving...part 1](https://blog.basilking.net/perils-of-archiving-part-1/) - Odd things do surface when one embarks on archiving (and cleaning out) files that have been sitting in untouched splendor. This is an orphaned unnumbered page from my never finished detective novel, Max Sees Red, circa 1978. Max, my protagonist, is driving upstate to rescue his friend Robby .... Robby that son of a bitch, he’s too nervous - [Perils of Archiving, Part 2](https://blog.basilking.net/martha-king-on-gentility/) - 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. A dab. A fingernail. Powder over the nose. I don’t use makeup; I suppose I - [Perils of Archiving, Part 3: Two dreams](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-and-robert-creeley/) - In a folder marked Basil’s dream Baz and Robert Creeley were together, he visiting Creeley’s house, and Creeley had taken him out onto a large veranda or open porch where they stood together looking down into the yard as a bear, a male bear (I questioned Baz about that), wearing a white apron, but not - [Black Mountain Songs Round-UP](https://blog.basilking.net/black-mountain-songs-2/) - 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, Bryce Dessner, Tim Hecker, John King, Nico Muhly, Richard Reed Parry, Caroline Shaw, and Alexsandra - [NEWS: Basil King reading at Dia Chelsea on February 10](https://blog.basilking.net/news-basil-king-reading-at-dia-chelsea-on-february-10/) - Baz will read from his new book, The Spoken Word/ The Painted Hand –and continuing his quest, he’ll feature the section called, “Looking for the Green Man.” As Kevin Killian just wrote: “A new installment from Learning to Draw is always a welcome treat, and this one pleases on all levels. Basil’s … mashups of - [April 10 readings at AWP off-site](https://blog.basilking.net/awp-off-site-poetry-readings/) - The James and Mary Laurie Booksellers, 250 Third Avenue North, Minneapolis, MN, couldn’t have been a more hospitable place for poets to read. On April 10, Lunar Chandelier (Kimberly Lyons) and Unarmed magazine (Michael Mann) presented: C. S. Giscombe and Basil King at 5:00 p.m. Lee Ann Brown, Pierre Joris, Vincent Katz, Burt Kimmelman, Martha King, - [What's old is new](https://blog.basilking.net/poetry-martha-king/) - Ever since going through all drawers and files (as we moved out of the top two floors of our Brooklyn house and consolidated ourselves in the bottom two)…I’ve been going through files of unpublished poetry, or poetry published in long gone ephemeral small press publications. Some I’ve gleefully tossed! Some I’m revising. And once in ## Pages - [](https://blog.basilking.net/) - The past is as present as I want the future to be. It is on behalf of this that I contribute my painting and my poetry. -- Basil King Basil King artist - [Contact](https://blog.basilking.net/contact/) - Write to us with inquiries about King art and books! Email for studio visits (by appointment only). mallorylking (@) gmail (dot) com - [Bio](https://blog.basilking.net/about/) - Born in the UK in 1935, immigrated to the USA at age twelve, King began studies at Black Mountain College in 1951. After college studies and time in San Francisco, New York City, and Montana, where he worked under Peter Voulkos, he ultimately settled in New York City’s Lower East Side–and then Brooklyn. In 1985, - [Personal History](https://blog.basilking.net/personal-history/) - Basil King, born in London, England before World War 2, has been painting for over seven decades and writing since 1985. He does both in Brooklyn, New York, where he has lived since 1969. As the details in this personal history will show, he has been a participant in American aesthetic life from 1951 when he - [CV](https://blog.basilking.net/cv/) - BASIL KING - Visual Artist and Poet (b. 1935, London, England) bazink3@gmail.com| www.basilking.net | 718-788-7927 Education 1949-51 Cass Technical High School, Detroit, Michigan 1951-56 Black Mountain College, North Carolina. Studies with Esteban Vicente, Joseph Fiore, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, Stefan Wolpe, Peter Voulkos 1960-64 Part-time studio assistant for Adolph Gottlieb, Mark - [Film](https://blog.basilking.net/film/) - Included here are several selections of Basil King reading his own writing. Below is a 22-minute short film Mirage based on Basil King's book of the same title produced by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and Nicole Peyrafitte. The Brooklyn Rail presents: THE-NEW-SOCIAL-ENVIRONMENT#757 March 1, 2023 6 Rue de Fürstemberg: A Rail Reading curated by Yuko Otomo & - [Books](https://blog.basilking.net/books/) - Basil King's latest book. - [Writing](https://blog.basilking.net/writing/) - Martha knows I am one of seven She knows every one of us asks Which one is going to do the division Prime the canvas take out the garbage Answer the people who say they don’t know Where the paintings come from They come from dark spots External haunts Icons When I put my head - [Visual Art](https://blog.basilking.net/visual-art/) - I think of series in my paintings like a series of poems. I don't think one thing alone ever defines a motif. Many of my series remain open so I can come back to them. I know "The Cards" isn't finished even though I began painting playing card iconography in the 1980s. I'm not finished - [Critiques](https://blog.basilking.net/critiques-2/) - On Basil King's Art “His work is meant to be seen before it is judged, just like Van Gogh’s. Or Soutine. Look at it, see what you see. This work speaks its own story because it’s involved with style… Basil’s figures are painted on, they do not emerge through. He’s an illustrator after appearances, illustrating - [About](https://blog.basilking.net/about-2/) - I began to draw when I was 5 or 6 years old. I remember copying cartoons by David Low when I was in England. Black and white. Black and white has always been very important to me. Ink. Charcoal. Print. By the time I was 14, I was in the USA and painting every - [Recent Work](https://blog.basilking.net/visual-art/recent-work/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [In and Out](https://blog.basilking.net/in-and-out/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Basil's Arc](https://blog.basilking.net/basils-arc/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Baseball](https://blog.basilking.net/baseball/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Stravinsky Nijinsky](https://blog.basilking.net/stravinsky-nijinsky/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Playing Cards](https://blog.basilking.net/playing-cards/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [My Brooklyn](https://blog.basilking.net/my-brooklyn/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Mirage Europa](https://blog.basilking.net/mirage-europa/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Homage](https://blog.basilking.net/homage/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Highway Obstacles](https://blog.basilking.net/highway-obstacles/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Family Photos](https://blog.basilking.net/family-photos/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Blacks to Triangles](https://blog.basilking.net/1464-2/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Birds](https://blog.basilking.net/birds/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Basil King Friends](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-friends/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [The Green Man](https://blog.basilking.net/the-green-man/) - Please enable JavaScript to view the artwork. - [Critiques](https://blog.basilking.net/critiques/) - [That Other Basil King (1859-1928)](https://blog.basilking.net/that-other-basil-king-1859-1928/) - My old edition looks nothing like this!People used give us books found in garage sales, thrift shops, giveaway bins at public libraries. Author: Basil King. Author name plus the titles were a hoot: “The Street Called Straight,” “The Side of the Angels,” “Pluck!” and so on. The texts were mostly unreadable, lurid plots, thickly sentimental, - [Agnes Martin: Empty of everything except everything](https://blog.basilking.net/agnes-martin-empty-of-everything-except-everything/) - Walked into Pace Chelsea on a Tuesday, quiet early afternoon, turned left toward the first work, a large gray canvas. (I later discovered it was Untitled -hardly surprising- #5, (for some cataloging convenience?)) Nothing. Agnes Martin makes one work. Empty mind. Settle. Take in a little air. The canvas is pebbly gray and divided into - [On Basil’s Arc – as begun in 2006](https://blog.basilking.net/on-basils-arc-as-begun-in-2006/) - Initially Kim Lyons came up with the name “Basil’s Arc.” It was 2006; Baz had written most of the poems on other painters that would be published the next year in 77 Beasts: Basil King’s Beastiary from Marsh Hawk Press. And he had begun to make these paintings. "Arc" is what she named them. “After” - [Scenes from Basil's Arc - An Event and a Film](https://blog.basilking.net/basils-arc-event/) - The Paintings and Poetics of Basil King September 22, 2012 - Anthology Film Archives The House was Packed The event opened at noon with about 65 people -- and filled in all afternoon, until the premiere of the film, Basil King: MIRAGE when people were standing in the back and sitting - [Martha's prose: Names of Dead Cats and more](https://blog.basilking.net/prose-martha-king/) - "The Names of Dead Cats" was originally published in Local Knowledge, edited by Sanjay Agnihotri, in April, 2008. The website will be relaunched some time in 2013. Other hard to find web stories by Martha King: “WAR” in Construction magazine, 2011. See http://www.constructionlitmag.com/author/martha-king/ “Three Months in 1955” in Jacket 40, 2010. See http://jacketmagazine.com/40/king-martha-black-mountain.shtml The - [A Predella for the Green Man](https://blog.basilking.net/basil-king-green-man-art/) - Detail, right-hand panel of Predella for the Green Man,© Basil King, 2013 Basil King says he has been painting and looking for the Green Man for most of his working career. He writes: “…. Is he creating or is he eating? Will he eat everything? …. 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