Don YortySep 15, 20205 minLearning English: Main VerbsTo the English Learner: If you want to learn English, begin with the verbs. That is where the action is. This is true with any language,...
Don YortySep 15, 20205 minYellow SpringAPRIL 29, 2003 Here I am, a rainy day in Pennsylvania where I’ve been for ten days visiting my folks. Tomorrow I go back to New York and...
Don YortySep 15, 20203 minSweet Little Angel: Wuhan, China: July 9 and 10, 2008July 9th I’m sitting in my hotel room in Wuhan; it’s about six-thirty in the morning. I got up at four, made some coffee and played...
Don YortySep 15, 202040 minGuatemala NotebooksGuatemala Notebooks or Trying to Understand Something for Pat who asked me when he left to keep this journal in his stead The same...
Don YortySep 15, 20203 minWriting Daddy Long Legs BluesWhen I was in my early twenties, I took a tent and camped out for a month along Walnut Run, a swift waterfall-filled stream, that...
Don YortySep 15, 202014 minThe Luck of Geographyfrom NY Chronicles 2001 September 11 Tuesday morning was sunny and fresh, a lovely autumn day that made me happy to be alive as I walked...
Don YortyAug 6, 20201 minSteve Dalachinsky reads poems for Artaud and KupferbergWhen Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo visited a few weeks back, we had a great time talking and recording their poetry too. Here is Steve...
Don YortyAug 6, 20201 minJudith Braun: Drawing While ListeningFrom the very first time I saw the art of Judith Braun, I’ve loved it. Though it changes, the remarkable meditative quality remains. Here...
Don YortyAug 6, 202022 minSeven BooksI … … I will only write about books that are on my bookshelves now; if the book is not here, then I won’t mention it, so I won’t be...
Don YortyAug 6, 20201 minJames Baldwin by Carl Van VechtenOn September 13, 1955, Carl Van Vechten photographed the fairly well unknown James Baldwin who had just published his first collection of...
Don YortyAug 6, 20205 minPatricia Spears Jones reads new poemsWhen I read the poems by Patricia Spears Jones in the latest issue of the Brooklyn Rail, I immediately got in touch with her and asked...
Don YortyAug 6, 20202 minTimothy Liu reads from Let It RideA year ago I got in touch with Timothy Liu and asked if I could record him reading from his new book, Let It Ride,which was coming out in...
Don YortyAug 6, 20201 minBamboo Pavilion: Chinese Poems and Paintings by Joanne Wang and Alfred CornBamboo Pavilion is a beautiful jewel of a book. Chinese poets like Du Fu and Li Bai are translated by Alfred Corn with paintings by the...