BOMB at the BOWERY

Events,

Poetry,

Me and Ed at the Bowery Poetry Club last Thursday night. Here's Richard Grayson's report, Caryn's pix. Thanks to George Wallace for arranging the event, and to everybody who came out to enjoy the show!

2 Responses to "BOMB at the BOWERY"

Missed Opportunity...This was the week that I could've made it out and of course, had other plans. Ugh!Anyhow, I hope it went well and I hope you pop up again to Bowery Club on another date so I can meet and greet the Litkicks clan!JC is really vibing on the poets and it's always cool to see new stuff from the online folks.Poets Unite! ROCK ON!

Thanks for the pics....I love it when LitKicks is alive and on stage....ROCK-ON Levi!!!!

An Interview with Danny Simmons

by Levi Asher Monday, February 26, 2007 05:40 pm

I'm in the Brooklyn home of Danny Simmons, artist, novelist, poet and creator of HBO's groundbreaking Def Poetry. Danny's living room is like an art gallery -- no, it's like three art galleries all packed together in one room.

John Updike at the New York Public Library

by Levi Asher Friday, June 16, 2006 11:51 am

I don't usually feel awestruck when I hear a famous writer speak. But I'll make an exception for John Updike, who faced a packed house at the Celeste Bartos Forum in the New York Public Library on Thursday night ...

Mark Vonnegut in Tribeca

by Levi Asher Wednesday, April 2, 2008 02:26 am

Mark Vonnegut talks about his father Kurt Vonnegut in a New York City bookstore

Mark Vonnegut talks about the first posthumous collection of his father Kurt Vonnegut's writings in a bookstore in New York City.

The Alzheimer's Poetry Slam

by Levi Asher Tuesday, August 12, 2008 07:53 am

Gary Mex Glazner conducts a poetry session with Alzheimer's patients in New York City

The best poetry slam I've been to this year was in a room full of Alzheimer's patients at the East 80th Street Residence in New York City.

One Writer's Life (or, Call Me, Andy)

by Eleanor Lerman Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:34 pm

Eleanor Lerman in the New York Times Book Review

Let’s fast-forward a little to when 'Armed Love' was reviewed in The New York Times Book Review. I remember sitting at my table and reading the review, which said, in part, that if books of poetry were given ratings, "Ms. Lerman’s book would deserve a double X." I think what riled the reviewer was that ...

Enter Sandman: Neil Gaiman at PEN World Voices

by Dedi Felman Monday, May 4, 2009 04:08 pm

"... a boyish, flop-haired moppet strides well-booted onto the stage of Cooper Union’s Great Hall."

Adaptations: A PEN World Voices 2010 Conversation About Literature and Film

by Dedi Felman Monday, May 3, 2010 06:18 pm

Philippe Djian, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Richard Price, Barry Gifford, and Francine Prose discuss the art and agony of screenplay adaptation at a PEN event.

Beloved and Unknown: Adventures in Marketing an International Masterpiece

by Dedi Felman Wednesday, May 5, 2010 03:40 pm

Toni Morrison, Marlene van Niekerk, Anthony Appiah at PEN World Voices

What sells a book?

Picture an editor desperately scribbling at her desk. She’s drafting a “sell sheet” for a book for which she hopes to gain her publishing colleagues’ support. The author has indie appeal but virtually no mainstream recognition. Said author is also very dark, feminist, brilliant, and experimental. She’s perhaps just a bit too lucid about sexual power games to be a male critic’s darling (and most mainstream media critics remain male.) The zeitgeist also feels ever so slightly off. In her book, the author goes for the throat of an issue -- Race -- that most Americans, loudly proclaiming their liberalism in having elected their first black president, increasingly prefer to avoid. Evidence of the new postracial America is spotty but debate has, at least for the moment, been somewhat silenced. Finally said author, who is NOT Toni Morrison, is a foreigner. Even worse, the language in which she writes, Afrikaans, has associations that make people scratchy. The book is a masterpiece. Our poor editor is in a muddle:

Bob Holman's 15 Rules For Hecklers

by Levi Asher Monday, August 2, 2010 09:16 am

Bob Holman, creator of New York City's Bowery Poetry Club and one of the early innovators of spoken word/slam poetry, has published a useful list: 15 Rules for Hecklers.

Don't Worry Kyoko: Yoko's Primal Scream for Japan

by Levi Asher Monday, March 28, 2011 08:16 pm

Yoko Ono's long, brutally simple song 'Don't Worry Kyoko' is a masterpiece of primal scream rock.

The Clock Exploded: A Taste of Richard Hell

by Levi Asher Monday, April 8, 2013 11:14 pm

I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp by Richard Hell

Levi Asher reviews Richard Hell's new memoir, "I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp".

The Vortex: Beats and Rock and Punk

by Levi Asher Tuesday, April 30, 2013 08:14 pm

Text and Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll by Simon Warner, the Best of Punk Magazine by John Holmstrom

Two books explore the intersection of literary, musical and artistic underground scenes: 'Text and Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll' by Simon Warner and 'The Best of Punk Magazine' by John Holmstrom.

Gary Snyder

by Levi Asher Monday, July 25, 1994 02:03 pm

You have to be careful writing about Gary Snyder, because he's such a Zen guy you get the feeling anything you write will be vastly inferior to silence.

... Read more and add your thoughts