Allen Ginsberg and Michael Andre, Halloween 1982, by Anne Turyn

Anne took another photo of Allen wearing the lone ranger mask and reading. Then Allen gave me the mask. That night Allen and I read our poetry in Washington Square at the end of the Village Halloween Parade in support of Daniel Berrigan and the Plowshares 8.

HEAT WAVE by WILLIAM LUVASS

Some blame the greenhouse effect, others say it’s the hole in the ozone layer spreading across the continent, and some believe we’re sinking toward the molten core of the earth, having pumped all the oil and water out of the ground.  The weatherman doesn’t give his opinion, just warns us...
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THE FEMALE GAZE

Diane Edison

Alice Neel

Reviewing The Female Gaze is too difficult. I have only my male gaze. And so I gaze mutely at self-portraits, some fierce as Diane Edison.  Other painters, such as Alice Neel, gaze at women pregnant with the eyes of the future.

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ELEGY FOR A CENTURY OF AIDS

Although the Germans in their wars

shot my uncle and grandfather

and the Holocaust and Vietnam perturb,
AIDS kills my friends:

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After 9/11 Pataki and Bloomberg walked around Lower Manhattan like they mattered or, in any case, like Mutt and Jeff.  Pataki seemed a foot taller than Bloomberg.
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GEORGE BOWERING on JACK SPICER

He turned to me in the bar at the bar he turned to me & said he asked me do they he said take a lot of drugs in Vancouver or was it do you.

It threw me like they say off but boy did I know who he was.
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CORSO and CAROLEE

Having met Gregory Corso at Max’s, Carolee foolishly invited him back to her apartment. Aggressively kissed her &c. She ran from her apartment & got a big neighbor to throw him out. But while she was getting the neighbor Gregory stole her credit cards and a ring. A  few days later she took Kelsey Grammar the actor to lunch with Allen Ginsberg. Allen laughed at Gregory’s behavior. Me too, when Carolee told me the story.