Monday, October 23, 2023
Here are some of the people and subjects I have written about in this blog during the past few years, wit a few occasional contributions by guest writers. Reviewing this list takes my mind briefly off the fact that the Department of Motor Vehicles has outdone itself again in providing mediocre service to those whose taxes support its ineptitude. This time, a “major hardware catastrophe” has led to a complete and total shutdown of 100 offices across the state, including the one in Long Beach, where I have now twice gone to get my license renewed. No one at the DMV, of course, will accept any responsibility for this disaster, nor will anyone associated with this collapse pay any penalty to compensate those who face more than just “inconvenience,” but actual loss of money and professional reputation.
Hold-Outs: The Los Angeles Poetry Renaissance, 1948-1992 by Bill Mohr (University of Iowa Press, 2011)
Doug Knott — Poet, Actor, Producer — R.I.P.
Amy Uyematsu (1947-2023)
Sesshu Foster on Amy Uyematsu
Chatterton’s Bookstore: The Legendary Forerunner to Skylight Books
Papa Bach Bookstore – Los Angeles AND Jackson Hole, Wyoming
“Spin, Spider, Spin” – Patty Zeitlin’s Songs for Children
Brian Jones and the Fiftieth Anniversary of “The Last Time”
“He, Leo: The Life and Poetry of Lew Welch” by Ewan Clark
Murray Mednick’s THE COYOTE CYCLE — The Documentary Film
Paul Vangelisti Reviews “OUTLAW THEATRE”
Tim Reynolds, Poet and Translator (1936 – 2022)
Linda Albertano (1952-2022) and Jean-Luc Godard
Anacapa Review’s Third Issue
“The John Ford Chapel” — a poem by Harry Northup
The Garden City Horse Sculpture
Barbara Maloutas (1945-2023)
Homage to Tina Turner (1939-2023) (by David E. James)
Mark Weiss: “A Suite of Dances” (forthcoming from Shearsman)
Songwriter Poets in Search of Vinyl Classics
Kate Braverman (1949-2019): Poet and Novelist
Laurence Goldstein — Poet, Scholar, Professor, Editor (1943-2023)
Harry Northup’s POETRY HOUR (MPTF): LINKS TO SELECTED SHOWS
“A Day of Poetry at the Downtown Los Angeles Public Library”
“Why go on without such a family”: Poets Reading at Page Against the Machine
Audri Phillips and the “Ladies of Courage” Project in West Hollywood
“The Social Imaginary” and A.I. (aka “Airbrushed Intelligence”)
Tom Verlaine (1949-2023); Patrick McKinnon (1957-2021)
Poetry Project 2023 New Year’s Day Reading: Complete Schedule
“BEAT, NOT BEAT” Reading at Page Against the Machine Bookstore
“The Moon and the Night and the Men” — John Berryman
The Collected Poems of Eugene Ruggles
John Harris, In Memoriam
Epigrams: Post-Modern and Regressive
Beyond Baroque’s Tribute to Poet-Actor Harry Northup, 9/16/23; 2 pm (PST)
John Macrae III, NYC Publisher (1931-2023)
Bob Flanagan – On the 20th anniversary of his death
A tribute to Jay Hopler by one of his many readers (Alison Turner)
48 Hours: Northup, Voss, and Mohr
PINBALL WIZARD — a novella by Michael Meloan
“I Wanna Be Loved By You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe” (including “Labials” by Bill Mohr)
PLEASED TO MEET YOU, BEASTMASTER 666: Jack Skelley’s Hybrid Undercurrents of Sunset Blvd.
The “Beat, Not Beat” Anthology Reading at Beyond Baroque, May 20
BACKSTORY: “12 Angry Men” at the Victory Theater (featuring Bill Mohr’s monologue “Whose Gun”)
Five Poems by Mark Salerno
“Team Bukowski”: 1993 / 2022
Two Video Links: Oriana Ivy and Holly Prado
Clayton Eshleman — Poet; Editor; Translator (1935 – 2021)
Cornelia Street Cafe and Jackie Sheeler (1957-2018)
John Harris, In Memoriam
Peter Schjeldahl: Poet and Art Critic (1942-2022)
Jim Krusoe: a review of HOTEL DE DREAM
Happy 50th Anniversary, Chatterton’s and Skylight Bookstores
Pumping Thoughts during a Turn-Around Trip to San Diego
Mike Sonksen and Mike Davis
At 75, Backing Up a Quarter-Century
The UC Collision Course with Grad Students
TONIGHT: “Coalescence” Poetry Reading in Long Beach
From Columbine to Buffalo: How can we not live in fear …. and regret?
New National Poet Laureate — and the Overlooked….
“La mirada aguda y generosa”: Pruebas Ocultas (Hidden Proofs) by Bill Mohr
Poetry Project 2023 New Year’s Day Reading: Complete Schedule
Cecilia Woloch reports on the Ukraine from Poland
“Shadow Ball: New and Selected Poems” by Charles Harper Webb
Part Five of the Interlitq Anthology of California Poets
Peter Robinson and the “Inspector Banks” Novels
Happy Birthday, Ron Padgett!
Either/Or Bookstore and “Barbarian Days”
Five Editors Reading their Poetry at Papa Bach (1974)
Ennio Morricone and Steve Erickson’s “AMERICAN STUTTER”
Gerald Locklin (1941-2021)
“Metaphors Be with You” — Peter Shneidre’s Illuminati Press
Gail Wronsky: Interview in POETRY FLASH
Tim Reynolds, Paul Blackburn and the Archive for New Poetry
Lewis Warsh (1944-2020): “Leaning against a door frame”Greg Kosmicki: “Whenever I Peel an Orange”
Domenic Cretara — Masterful Artist and Extraordinary Teacher — R.I.P.
About Bill Mohr