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
Remembering Gene Frumkin. This reading occurred at the UNM Campus on March 30, 2007. Continue reading
Burton Norval Hatlen (April 9, 1936 – January 21, 2008) was an American literary scholar and professor at the University of Maine. Harlen worked closely with Carroll F. Terrell, an Ezra Pound scholar and co-founder of the National Poetry Foundation, to build the Foundation into an internationally known institution. Hatlen was seen as a mentor by several of his former students, most notably author Stephen King and his wife, Tabitha King. In a postscript included in his 2006 novel, Lisey’s Story, King said of Hatlen, “Burt was the greatest English teacher I ever had.” Continue reading
Jeffrey Lee and David Abel. This reading took place on June 3, 2007 at Acequia Booksellers, 4019 Fourth St. NW, Albuquerque, NM. As you can hear, Fourth Street is heavily trafficked even on a Sunday. Continue reading
Michael Rothenberg and David Meltzer at the Outpost, Albuquerque, NM, October 12, 2007 Continue reading
Gary L. Brower who holds a B.A. degree from Drury University in Spanish & History, M.A. & Ph.D. degrees in Romance Languages & Literatures from the University of Missouri at Columbia, has taught at Baker University (Ks.), Rogue Community College (Or.), University of Kansas, University of New Mexico, University of Southern California, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego (visiting), as well as directing academic programs in Barcelona & Madrid, Spain, and Guadalajara, Mexico. A specialist in Hispanic Literature, especially of Latin America, he has published numerous essays in Spanish and English on writers such as Angel Gonzalez, Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Carlos Fuentes, Juan Rulfo, Juan Carlos Onetti, Manoel Bandeira, Ernesto Sabato, Ezequiel Martinez Estrada & others, in various academic journals. He has also written two books on the impact of Japanese haiku on western poetry: The Haiku in Spanish American Poetry (Ann Arbor, University Micro) & An Annotated Bibliography of Haiku In Western Languages (with D. W. Foster), (Metuchen, NJ, Scarecrow Press). An associate editor of American Haiku magazine in its heydey, he also translated poems of Angel Gonzalez & Pablo Neruda. Continue reading
David Benedetti is the author of The Internal Weather (1971), Nictitating Membrane (1976), Social Climax Text (1981), and Defense Mechanism (1986). He currently lives in Albuquerque, NM. Continue reading
Albert Huffstickler (December 17, 1927 – February 25, 2002) was an American poet. Albert Huffstickler was born in Laredo, Texas, surviving a twin who died at birth. As the son of a teacher and soldier, he and his two siblings (a brother and a sister) moved often growing up. After graduating from high school, he worked in Charlotte prior to attending the University of North Carolina where he discovered poetry. Marriage and children followed as well as various jobs in Florida and Arizona, where he briefly studied Scientology. Drafted in 1954, he spent two years in the army. After completing armed service he returned to Texas where he attended Southwest Texas State University, majoring in English and developing an interest in Jungian psychology. During the 1960’s Huffstickler continued writing poetry as well as pulp fiction, publishing under a pseudonym. Continue reading