This reading took place at Acequia Booksellers, 4019 Fourth St. NW, Albuquerque, NM on March 14, 2010. V. B. Price’s books include Broken and Reset, Selected Poems 1966 to 2006 (UNM Press 2007) and Albuquerque: A City at the End of the World (UNM Press 1992). Edited by Bruce Holsapple. Copyright 2010 V. B. Price and Vox Audio PO Box 594 Magdalena NM 87825 Continue reading
John (Jack) Clarke (1933 – 1991) and Charles (Charlie) Keil were recorded at least three times performing as “Skald/Song” in the mid 1980s, and we have located two of the tapes. Paul Kluger recorded the performance at Nietzsche’s in May 1984. It’s not known who recorded the performance at TheatreLoft in 1985, nor the additional musicians involved. We have not been able to locate a third recording, made at Central Park Grill on May 23, 1986. These recordings have imperfections, such as bleed-through and tape hiss, which couldn’t be eliminated. On the recordings, Charlie plays beaten string bass, hi hat cymbals, barrel drum, finger piano, oriental gongs, rattles, and piri. He’s the author of Urban Blues (U Chicago 1968) and Music Grooves (with S. Feldman, University of Chicago 1994) as well as other books. Jack’s books include The End of This Side (Black Book 1979), From Feathers to Iron (Tomboucto 1987),and In the Analogy (Shuffaloff 1997). Thanks, Charlie, Cass Clarke, Mike Boughn, Mike Basinski, Jim Maynard, the Poetry Collection/Rare Book Room at SUNY Buffalo, Jeff Davis, Paul Kuglar and the Analytical Psychology Society of Western New York for help locating tapes and seeing us through this.
Edited by Bruce Holsapple. Photo of Jack by Paula Satow. Copyright 2009 Charles Keil, the Estate of John Clarke and Vox Audio PO Box 594, Magdalena, NM 87825. Note that on Cut 40 Jack identifies a poem as “American Syntax Without A Sentence.” He later corrects himself. The poem is “At The Edge Of Night.” Continue reading
Keith recorded these poems in Santa Fe in 1990 for a cassette to accompany Lion’s Gate, Selected Poems 1963-1986. When Alien Kruse converted that cassette to compact disk from the cassette, he noticed two poems, “Teofilo Orozco” and “Snakeskin”, had beed dropped from the cassette, and had Keith rerecord them. Maria Kruse designed a CD insert, label and cover graphics. This 2CD edition was made available to family and friends. Vox is making both available to the public. Continue reading
Mary McGinnis is the author of Listening For Cactus (Sherman Asher 1996) and October Again. She’s reading her poems from a text in Braille. Anne MacNaughton has published her work in several anthologies and is a founding member Lucid Performance. Peter Rabbit (Douthit) has performed poetry “for more than SO years literally all over the high end of the western hemisphere,” published several chapbooks (Drop City 1971) and is a founding member of the jazz-poetry ensemble Luminous Animal. This reading was part of the 2009 Duende Reading Series.
Recorded in Placitas, NM March IS, 2009. Edited by Bruce Holsapple. Copyright 2009 Mary McGinnis, Anne MacNaughton, Peter Douthit and Vox Audio, P.O. Box 594 Magdalena, NM 8782S Continue reading
Timothy Wright Reads. The Dust Of Europe. January 1980. Recorded in East Machias, ME Continue reading
David Empfield Reads from The Horse Opera and other Work. Recorded January 2002, Magdalena, New Mexico. Continue reading
Bruce Holsapple Reads from Skull of Caves. Recorded January 2005 in Magdalena, NM 878925. Photo by Michael Alpert. Continue reading
Gene Frumkin (1928-2007) was an American poet and teacher. Born and raised in New York City and educated at the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A. in English, 1950), Eugene Frumkin worked as a bank teller before beginning his writing career as a journalist. He first took up poetry seriously while enrolled in an adult education class taught by the poet Thomas McGrath. Frumkin was an editor at the Daily Bruin while at UCLA. During the 1950s he was Poetry Editor of the literary journal Coastlines, which he co-founded with Mel Weisburd in 195. In 1966, Frumkin moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to take a teaching position at the University of New Mexico, where he remained until his retirement in 1994. At the University Frumkin edited the Blue Mesa Review and taught a number of students who would go on to distinguished careers, including Joy Harjo, Simon Ortiz, and Leslie Marmon Silko. Frumkin’s poetry has appeared in Evergreen Review, Kayak, The Paris Review, Poetry Magazine, and many other literary magazines. His work is noted for its meditative character, its wit, and its unexpected turns and surprises, which show the influence of Surrealism. Continue reading
Mary Rising Higgins is the author of : red table(S (La Alameda Press, 1999), oclock (Potes and Poets, 2000), )locus TIDES(( (Potes and Poets, 2002), and)cliff TIDES(( (Singing Horse Press, 2005), Greatest Hits, 1990-2001 (Pudding House 2002), )joule TIDES(( (Singing Horse 2007) and Borderlining: Pieces from R and B (Small Chapbook Project 2007) Her poems, published in oversize formats, are carefully patterned and “shaped” on the page both to produce a striking visual component and to invite alternative soundings. Lyn Hejinian says of Higgins’ poetry,“it is work of précise inventions, work of imaginings that are carefully fantastical, compassionately observed.” Her poems have appeared in such magazines and journals as Blue Mesa Review, Cafe Solo, Big Allis, ecopoetics and Central Park, and she recorded poems for Vox Audio. She lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Mary Rising Higgins, innovative poet, friend and colleague of many years, died in Albuquerque on August 26, 2007. Her poetry was startling and radiant, and it had gained well-deserved recognition in recent years. Continue reading
Bruce Holsapple is currently working in central New Mexico as a speech-language pathologist. He taught briefly and has a scholarly essay on Phil Whalen’s poetry forthcoming in Paideuma. His poems have appeared in The Poker, House Organ, First Intensity and Blue Mesa. Bruce Holsapple is one of the creators of Contraband, the first persistently serious and successful little magazine in Maine, running from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s. Holsapple grew up in Dexter, tended trap lines as a teenager, attended the University of Maine in the late 1960s and hooked up there with mentors and partners like Burt Hatlen and Jim Bishop. After preliminary excursions out of state, he returned to Portland in about 1969, and then with Bishop, Michael Barriault, Peter Kilgore and others, started publishing saddle-stitched collections of poetry, Contraband. Some early issues are worth money on the Stephen and Tabitha King collectors market. Continue reading