Wednesday, February 26, 2022
LINKS to Harry Northup’s POETRY HOUR
Harry Northup had an exceptionally fine career as an actor with memorable roles in some of the best-known and widely respected films of the past half-century. Now living at the Motion Picture Television Fund residence in Woodland Hills, Harry has been the producer and host of a series of poetry readings broadcast out of the MPTF studios. Harry Northup’s POETRY HOUR is not his first time heading up a reading series. He was the founder of the Gasoline Alley poetry series in the mid-1980s, which eventually was turned over to Phoebe MacAdams and me. I do have one quibble about Harry’s show: WHEN IS HE GOING TO READ HIS POEMS? Harry is giving so many poets a chance to reach a wider audience, and we in turn would love to hear his recent work as well as some of his own favorites.
I will update this list as more videos become available. Yesterday, for instance, Jim Moore read for the second time. If you don’t know this poet, I urge you to start with his most recent book, PROGNOSIS, which was published three months ago by Graywolf Press. UNDERGROUND: New and Selected Poems was also published by Graywolf. His first book, THE NEW BODY, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1976. Jim first came to Los Angeles to give a reading at Beyond Baroque back when I published WHAT THE BIRD SEES in 1978.
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Harry’s Poetry Hour Youtube:
THE POETRY OF HOLLY PRADO (featuring Alison Townsend, Phoebe MacAdams, and James Cushing)
JIM MOORE and JAMES CUSHING (July 20, 2020)
PAM WARD and MICHAEL LALLY
TRIBUTE TO GERALD LOCKLIN (Featuring Ron Koertge, Ray Zepada, and Bill Mohr)
LYNNE THOMPSON and MICHAEL LALLY
PAUL VANGELISTI and BILL MOHR
MARSHA DE LA O and JEANETTE CLOUGH
MAUREEN OWEN and ED FRIEDMAN
SARAH MACLAY and GAIL WRONSKY
Laurel Ann Bogen and Mark Edward Rhodes
BETH RUSCIO and Hélène Cardona
ON THE MESA: An Anthology of Bolinas Writing (featuring Phoebe MacAdams and Aram Saroyan
RICHARD HELLER and DOREN ROBBINS
JERRY GARCIA and DOUG KNOTT
JIM DANIELS and JOHN FEINS (April 16, 2021)
MIKE SONKSEN and STEVE ABEE
MICHAEL C. FORD and JACK HIRSCHMAN (1933-2021)
JAMES CUSHING and the Poetry of JOHN ASHBERY
VETERANS DAY TRIBUTE
SUSAN HAYDEN and S.A. GRIFFIN and PHOBE MacADAMS
CAROL MUSKE-DUKES and CECILIA WOLOCH
ARAM SAROYAN and RICHARD MODIANO
THE POETRY OF JOY HARJO
THE POETRY OF ANN STANFORD
THE POETRY OF RICHARD WILBUR & FRANK O’HARA
THE POETRY OF MARINA TSVETAEVA