Podcasts
S02E09 – Emily Carter
Bernard Meisler
Author Emily Carter in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Emily Carter is the author of the classic GLORY GOES AND GETS SOME, as well as many, many short stories, published everywhere from Sensitive Skin to The New Yo...
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Review
COLLECTED POEMS OF BOB KAUFMAN – review
Marc Olmsted
COLLECTED POEMS OF BOB KAUFMAN
edited by Neeli Cherkovski, Raymond Foye and Tate Swindell
City Lights Books
$19.95
The surrealism of Bob Kaufman is a true American surrealism, because Kaufman brings the blues, jazz and being a black man in the United States to his subconscious visions. He still remains, in my estimation, America's unequaled surrealist. Just as Beat's other most famous black poet, Amiri Baraka, spawned the Last Poets and the eventual rise of rap, Kaufman's influence is not only present today in Will Alexander and transmale Blackfoot poet Max Wolf Valerio, but in Bob Dylan. It was Amiri Baraka himself who coined the term Afrosurreal Expressionism in 1974 to discussing the work of Henry Dumas, and was later expanded in the Afrosurreal Manifesto by D. Scott Miller. Afrosurrealism is now considered a very active movement, with a wide pantheon that now considers Ted Joans and Samuel R. Delany among its members. ...
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Story
AS HE TOLD IT (In Kitchens)
Bonny Finberg
Love, built on mutual fantasy in order to fortify against loneliness, eventually becomes a prison.
I approach the beginning of the end never really having had love that doesn't feel like a betrayal.
Anyone I have ever...
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Podcasts
S02E08 – Arthur Nersesian
Bernard Meisler
Novelist, playwright and poet Arthur Nersesian in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Arthur Nersesian, photograph by David Shankbone
Arthur Nersesian is the author of nine books, including the classic novels The Fuck-U...
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Podcasts
S02E07 – Vincent Zangrillo
Bernard Meisler
Author Vincent Zangrillo in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Vincent Zangrillo back in his salad days
Vincent (Vinnie) Zangrillo is the author of Dime Bag, a collection of short stories recounting his misadventures i...
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Story
Confessions of a Bad Boy: An Act in Fore Plays
J. K.
Play One
Hot car and hot girl after two hot nights. Pushing the pedal, I sped my new girlfriend’s blue Mustang down the Bay Area Autobahn. I could hurtle for miles at a buck twenty—if it wasn’t for the CHP. San Fran...
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Story
Two Micro Stories by Roberta Allen
Roberta Allen
THE DYING MAN
The dying man just told the barmaid and two customers that he is dying. The two men stare at their drinks. The barmaid washes glasses so she doesn’t have to look at the dying man. “I’m so sorry,”...
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Podcasts
S02E06 – Puma Perl
Bernard Meisler
NYC poet and impresario Puma Perla in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
photograph of Puma Perl by Len DeLessio
I've never met Puma Perl in real life. That is, I don't recall having done so. But it seems as if we must...
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Marcus Leatherdale: Photographs New York City 1980-1992
Franklin Mount
Out of the Shadows: Marcus Leatherdale: Photographs New York City 1980-1992
Exhibition: Throckmorton Fine Art, through January 25, 2020.
It’s terribly difficult to photograph a famous person and then actually produce a...
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Podcasts
S02E05 – David West
Bernard Meisler
Paris-based painter David West in conversation with Bernard Meisler.
Some new paintings by David West
I met David West at the Pink Pony in NYC, back in 1994 or thereabouts. David was the "bartender" and I used to go th...
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