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“Australian Tourists” by Peter Murphy [Introduced by Thomas Moody]
Peter Murphy (1945 – 2024) was a playwright, author, librettist, photographer and poet recognized for his accomplishments in various forms of the genre, including concrete poetry and sound poetry. His visual and written works…
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Elegy for the Matador
For theToreador . . . this is your reward The Matador of Metaphor The grapefruit in the tropical orchardhas ripened into a globe in Hartfordfor him to look at, not to eat.If he had…
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The New York School Diaspora (Part Eighty-One): Paul Violi [by Angela Ball]
EXTENDED SHORTAGES I must remind you how serious I’ve become,Almost grave (though still immensely likeable). Love threatens to carry me offLike a dancer in a trash heap storm. Counterweight! I need a counterweight.I read…
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On The New York School [by Michael Tyrell]
<<<O’Hara’s famous poem "Why I Am Not a Painter" begins with the poet yearning to be a painter. O’Hara reports the process of Mike Goldberg applying the word "sardines" to a canvas as O’Hara…
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“Love Me or Leave Me” with Doris Day (1955) plus Jack Sheldon (“How About You?”) & special guest Judy Garland
l Ralph Freed's lyric for Burton Lane's tune as sung by Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney in Babes on Broadway When a girl meets boyLife can be a joyBut the note they end onWill…
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John Koethe: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
_______________________________________________________ The Divinity WithinPrevious Post Sometimes I write to try to figure something out I hadn't understood before, that somebody else has said. I've no idea what "the divinity within" might mean, And yet…
