Fifty years
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 … Read More
Prose Pros celebrates “Ver Gangen Bangen Heit”
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 … Read More
“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 … Read More
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 … Read More
MOMA’s 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 … Read More
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 … Read More
I’m 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 … Read More
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 … Read More