Duende & Friends. A Poetry Reading at the Anasazi Fields Winery January 22, 2006 in Placitas, NM with Jim Fish, Marilyn Stablein, Bruce Holsapple, Lisa Gill, Larry Goodell, Gary Brower, Jeff Bryan and Cirrelda Snyder Bryan. Continue reading
Craig Dworkin and Mary Rising Higgins Reading in Albuquerque. Recorded at S. Weidburd’s home, Albuquerque, February 11, 2006. Continue reading
Todd Moore: “For your information gansta poetry in this country isn’t Bukowski’s invention, it’s mine. I’ve been making this kind of stuff since 1970 give or take. And, it has nothing to do with Bukowski’s style or subject matter. Bukowski was the pornagrapher of pussy and a damned good one at that. I’m the pornographer of violence.” Continue reading
William Sylvester has published some dozen collections of poetry, including Curses Omens Prayers and War and Lechery– The Poem (Ashland Poetry Press), and his poems have appeared in such magazines as Chelsea, Fragments, Poetry, Commonweal, and Western Humanities Review. He is a retired Professor of English and Comparative Literature at State University of New York in Buffalo, and has also published fiction, essays, and translations. Continue reading
Chico Martin has been active in the Burlington, Vermont Poets Mimeo Cooperative since its inception in the early 70’s. For 13 years he owned and operated the Alley Beat Bookstore, in Middlebury, Vermont, which specialized in contemporary poetry and small press publications. Chico Martin teaches poetry and writing at Burlington College. His poetry has appeared in a k a, OASii, Puerto del Sol, Sin Fronteras, and :that:. alleybeat.com is published in Bristol, Vermont and edited by Chico Martin. Continue reading
Larry Goodell, born in Roswell, NM, and a resident of Placitas since 1963, Larry Goodell’s two main worlds are performing his poetry and inspiring writers through residencies in poetry writing. He feels the most basic challenge for poets now is introducing this art form to a wide audience outside of the traditional academic world and encouraging emerging writers and poets. His work as editor and publisher of duende press helps him accomplish these goals. Through his residencies, Mr. Goodell demonstrates the miraculous diversity of origins and reveals the oral power of poetry. He works together with his students to write and read and enjoy this oldest and newest subject – poetry. In his own words, “it all boils down to my entertaining and educating other people with the song-chant-word-play-lyric-satire-love-music-sentence-sung-poem writing that is my active life.” He lives in Placitas with his wife Lenore. Continue reading
JIM BISHOP READS, by Jim Bishop; Vox Audio, Magdalena, N.M., 2007; “Jim Bishop Reads,” a recording of 23 poems made in 2006 by University of Maine English instructor Jim Bishop, revises a previous CD, “Jim Bishop Reads from Mother Tongue,” that was pieced together in 1994 from decades-old recordings and whose distribution was very limited, at the author’s insistence. Bishop’s concern over the quality, not only of the recordings but of the readings, is a key point. Most of the poems on this CD are from Bishop’s book “Mother Tongue,” published in Portland by Contraband Press in 1975. The poems on the earlier CD had been copied from aged cassette tapes; the sound quality was extremely uneven, and so were the performances. Continue reading
Mary Rising Higgins, George Kalamaras, and Mary Ann Cain. Reading at the Harwood Art Center in Albuquerque, NM July 19, 2006. Additional readings by Gene Frumkin recorded August 2006. Continue reading
Bobby Byrd and Joe Hayes at the Outpost in Albuquerque, NM, November 11, 2006. Note: This recording was taped from the audience, with a hand-held device, introducing imperfections in sound quality that were not possible to eliminate. Continue reading
A Tribute To Federico Garcia Lorca. The Duende Poetry Series at the Anasazi Fields Winery, Placitas, NM January 21, 2007, including Cirrelda, Jeff Bryan, Joan Logghe, Leo Romero, and Gary Brower. Continue reading