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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 … Read More

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January 2023 – New Publication: In Delacroix’s 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 … Read More

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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 … Read More

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Lunar Chandelier Press Presents a Virtual Reading: Basil King + Charles Borkhuis – Sunday, November 13 at 3:00 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 … Read More

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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 … Read More

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Basil King, Kimberly Lyons and Floy Krouchi at the Record Shop – Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 7:30pm

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 … Read More

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Basil King essay “The Past is as Present as I Want the Future to Be” (2022)

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 … Read More

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