Gerry George: i knew kay johnson as swami-ji in berkeley in 1973 when we were very close friends for a time. she gave me the typewriter she had carried in greece, an orange portable with a large white "om" painted on it. i gave it to a friend from college with whom i just had my first conversation in 17 years and he mentioned using the typewriter and i looked for kay on … [Read more...]
Remembering poet Howard Hart
SOME LINES FOR YOUWRITTEN UNDER A REDWOOD IN THE CITY PARKNOT YET THREE MONTHS SINCE YOU DIED IN MY ARMSIN OUR HOME ON CHESTNUT STREET, SAN FRANCISCO Drawn to the Temple where you worshipped I slink along the edges of the city like a cat Hawk family nesting in our Autumn Garden Turning overhead like something out of Yeats's Second Coming Marble Angel still holding … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Coreley Coit, Kenya Rodriguez, Valery Oisteanu, Hidani Ditmars
Cordley Coit Ted Joans (unfinished documentary) Music: Ornette Coleman's Empty Foxhole Red beans and rice, wet pussy, nice. We know where the .38 lives where the rule of switchblades reign. We waited for Brother Malcolm, Orly: only for him he was diverted by death. Pause a full measure: Sax Solo From the last of Ted to Shakespeare & Co. Armed … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Michael Hayward, Jake Lamar, Bernie Mindich, and Guy Pierre Buchholtzer
Michael Hayward True story: yesterday afternoon, writing at the window table in my favorite café (Caffé Buongiorno in Vancouver) I looked up to see Ted Joans running across the street towards me, and then carrying on, heading west, his eyes alight. I wrote about this visitation: re: Birth Ted Joans just ran past the café window, where I wrestle with a piece on … [Read more...]
Ted Joans Lives! Tribute: Rik Lina, Hammond Guthrie, Richard Krech and more
Rik Lina This is one of the many cadavre-exquises Ted made people to do, must be more than thousand...note the small text he wrote in it: "cadavrexquis is not dead." Laura Corsiglia, Ted and I made it 19 June in Amsterdam 2001. Hammond Guthrie AlphaRhythmicAfterBeats At best, or at the very least, Be - Bop - Beatnik and Beatitude Concern subterranean … [Read more...]
