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 … Read More
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the top two floors of our Brooklyn house and consolidated ourselves in the bottom two)…I’ve been going through files of unpublished poetry, or poetry published in long … Read More
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 … 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
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
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 … 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
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 … Read More