Sunday, February 28, 2010

Poetry in Albany



Here's me reading as an open miker at the Third Thursday Poetry Night at Albany's Social Justice Center. The star of the evening was Victoria Rivas, and Dan Wilcox describes her work well:

sad, funny, even angry at times & raise broad issues about poverty & the role of teachers in the education system. She touched on ignorance & lack of manners, teen pregnancy, & the innate creative sense children have in spite of the conditions they are raised in.

Thursday, February 25, 2010

New York Music

All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77 All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927-77 by Tony Fletcher



The whole range of New York music, lovingly rendered. How could I have been so shortsighted, back in the 50s, not to go to the Palladium to hear the likes of Machito and Tito Puente?

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