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ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
2000 American Book Award winner
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
just another ex-jazz-musician/proto-rapper/Jersey-Irish-poet-actor/print-junkie/film-raptor/beat-hipster-"white Negro"-rhapsodizer/ex-hippie-punk-'60s-radical-organizer's take on all things cultural, political, spiritual & aggrandizing
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UPCOMING EVENTS
TBA
SAY IT AGAIN: An Autobiography In Sonnets
CLICK ON IMAGES BELOW FOR LINKS TO ORDER (OR EMAIL ME FOR A SIGNED COPY OF ANY TITLES BELOW)
ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
THE VILLAGE SONNETS
SWING THEORY
LOST ANGELS
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
IT'S NOT NOSTALGIA
2000 American Book Award winner
MARCH 18, 2003
WHAT YOU FIND THERE
CANT BE WRONG
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
OF
ROCKY DIES YELLOW
HOLLYWOOD MAGIC
CATCH MY BREATH
ATTITUDE
some recordings of my reading from some of the books above
- PUMA PERL AND ME READING 2022
- interviewed by Grace Cavalieri for The Poet and The Poem Series
- interviewed by E. Ethelbert Miller on DC's WPFW, scroll down to On The Margins April26th 9AM
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Sports Heroes, Cops and Lace" in my pad 2015
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Love Never Dies" at KGB Bar 2015
- 8/11/2014 INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART ONE)
- INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART TWO)
- 1997 NPR ("BOOKWORM") INTERVIEW (by Michael Silverblatt)/READING
- 1990 "Poetry in Motion" reading of "The Healing"
- VARIOUS READINGS ON AUDIO AND VIDEO FROM 1977 TO RECENT AS ARCHIVED ON PENNSOUND
- 2008 LOCAL JERSEY TV READING/INTERVIEW WITH ME & POET JOSE FUNES
- TOM WILSON'S LALLY/OBAMA MASHUP
other sites where my work is discussed
- I Might Die Of Love For You/Burt Kimmelman reviews Another Way To Play
- JERSEY INDIE on my Leap Day 2016 reading
- Times Times 3/Swing Theory review
- Countdown To Main Street "Swing Theory"
- Best American Poetry Blog/David Lehman reviews Swing Theory
- Times Times 3
- Countdown To Main Street
- Jacket/Burt Kimmelman interviews me
- the parent du jour
- L.A. Examiner/Yvonne de la Vega interviews me
- Espresso Bongo/Jerome Sala on my writing
- fait accompli (scroll down)/Nick Piambino on my writing
- The Best Am. Poetry Blog/Brain Surgery T.Winch
- The Best American Poetry Blog
- doug lang's lally post
- doug lang's dc poetry history
- dc poetry history
- Vanitas/Libellum site reviews
- Last Night at the KGB Bar
- wikipedia as "Michael Lally (poet)"
- poem on The Best American Poetry Blog
- The Innisfree Poetry Journal
- AS AN ACTOR: YouTube
- IMDb (as Michael David Lally actor/with some incorrect info)
About Me
- Lally
MY LIFE 2
When I was 10,
I thought I was "Irish,"
even though I was
born in the USA.
When I was 20,
I thought I was "Black,"
even though my skin
is pink & freckled,
my hair is straight,
and I have no
African ancestry.
When I was 30,
I thought I was "queer,"
even though I was
married and had
two children, and
most of my fantasies
& obsessions & com-
pulsions & attractions
were and had always
been (up until then)
about women.
When I was 40,
I thought I was a
"movie star," even
though the movies
were terrible, and
I was terrible in
them, and almost
no one knew them,
or who I might
have been in them.
When I was 50,
I thought I was
"enlightened," even
though I wasn't.
But of course I was
and am—enlightened,
as I was and still am
—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.
CHECK OUT THESE BLOGS/SITES
- Rachel E. Diken
- @haikuavenue
- Don Yorty
- NauenThen
- BIRTH OF THE COOL
- EAST OF WEST L.A.
- COUNTDOWN TO MAIN STREET
- John Clarke
- Times Times 3
- TOM CLARK Beyond The Pale
- Leslie Greene
- The Best American Poetry (blog)
- Silliman's Blog
- Ken McCollough poet
- NOTES
- espresso bongo
- IFSF publishing
- E-NOTES
- bobby miller photos
- The Allen Ginsberg Project
- If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
- Hullabaloo
- DANGEROUS MINDS
- Friggin Fabulous Radio
- the year of yellow butterflies (the blog)
- A LONGHOUSE BIRDHOUSE
- BELGIAN WAFFLE
- Really Bad Movies
- Vanitas Magazine blog site
- MY EYE AND I
- KINDSIGHT
- PAUL'S ART
- THE TEACHER'S VIEW
- fait accompli
- Trying To Be Cool
- McPherson's Lament
- Zuckerman's Journal
- Cord Keller's Albums
- Bill DeNoyelles: Ports of Entry
- douglangsfilmblog
- douglang'sdcpoetryblog
- MY ALASKAN ADVENTURES
- TERENCE WINCH
- Rain Worthington, Composer
- MAUREEN OWEN HOME PAGE
- Nikki Nash
- erictrules.com
- JOE BRAINARD
- MIND HONEY
- PENNSOUND
posts by rough categories (and some in more than one)
- personal history (1669)
- politics (1641)
- movies (910)
- poetry (767)
- PHOTOGRAPHS (755)
- history (642)
- not to be forgotten or underrated (590)
- quotes (576)
- not to be missed or overlooked (557)
- music (496)
- TV (402)
- family history (228)
- fiction and other prose (224)
- lists (222)
- Art (218)
- economics (203)
- spirituality (201)
- internet (129)
- humor (120)
- stage (101)
- science (72)
- media (67)
- education (66)
- non fiction (64)
- overrated (53)
- dance (44)
- "fashion" (22)
- fate (16)
- greetings (3)
- personalhistory (3)
- m (2)
Blog Archive
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- JOHN ASHBERY/TREVOR WINKFIELD SHOW
- QUOTE FOR THE TIMES
- QUOTE FOR THE DAY
- TELL IT LIKE IT IS JACK
- PAUL NEWMAN R.I.P.
- NEXT MORNING REACTION
- FIRST REACTION
- QUOTE OF THE DAY AND A LITTLE COMIC RELIEF
- OKAY, HERE'S MY SOLUTION
- RACIAL PERCEPTIONS
- THE BAILOUT: WHOA!
- PORTRAIT OF JENNY & STARS IN MY CROWN
- BERKSHIRES PS
- BECK, SUNSET RUBDOWN, & BELLA’S BARTOK
- YOU KILL ME
- AS CLEARLY AS I CAN
- THREE QUOTES
- HOW DO YOU SOLVE A PROBLEM LIKE MCPALIN
- FROZEN RIVER
- ANOTHER RELEVANT QUOTE
- "COLLECTED" COUPLETS
- REGINALD SHEPHERD AND DAVID FOSTER WALLACE R.I.P.
- ABOUT NOW—JOANNE KYGER’S COLLECTED POEMS
- VANITAS READING
- 9/11 MEMORIAL
- LIPSTICK AND PIGS AND POLITICAL STRATEGY
- SOME QUESTIONS I DOUBT GIBSON WILL ASK
- “THE POEM I TURN TO” READING
- TODAY'S QUOTE
- BANGKOK DANGEROUS
- THERE THEY GO AGAIN
- NO QUESTIONS ALLOWED
- VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA
- QUOTE FOR THESE TIMES
- HUH?
- TOP REPUBLICAN LIES
- SHORT(?) NOTE ON TONIGHT
- SLICK MOVE
- PALIN AS V.P.?
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7 comments:
Bravo.
Tom King
love it!
thank you!
While it would be wonderful to know who 'Jesus' actually was and what he was about, we only have biographies of him written 70 years or more after his death.
'Jesus' was actually promoting disorganization which is why he was killed. The already well organized Jews wanted a messiah who would defeat the Romans. When he wasn't that messiah, he was as good as dead.
Pilate was a 'governor', but not as we know governors. He was appointed by a conquering nation.
The Jesus story points out that there was no conflict between Pilate and Jesus.
"The already well organized Jews wanted a messiah who would defeat the Romans. When he wasn't that messiah, he was as good as dead."
Nice little piece of anti-semitism, that.
Earlier accounts of Jesus' life don't include the "blood libel" blaming the Jews. John, proselytizing among Romans, suddenly had the 'insight' seven decades later that the Jews - a subjugated people - forced those innocent Romans to drive all those nails and conduct all that torture.
That started a centuries-long orgy of hate against the Jewish people - one that lives on in these words.
Don't try to engage in a battle of words, my friend. I won't respond. I don't deal with anti-semites, except to make clear to others who they are and what they are doing.
Truly something to be proud of ...
Anti-semite?
Must be that the New Testament is anti-semitic.
The Romans were bound to crucify anyone condemned to death by the religious leaders in order to maintain the peace.
History tells us that the Jews gained a slight respite from Roman rule with the rebellion led by Simon bar Kokhba. After that the Romans were said to have completely destroyed the temple and dispersed the people.
i think part of the message here was - as lennon said: "power to the people ..."
see what happens when we go all political ...
In escaping the excessive taxation of Great Britain, Lennon bargained for residency in the country that he deemed gave the people the most power.
We have the power, but it seems we are beset with indifference in choosing our local representatives and higher in the chain.
Due to that indifference, we elect 'do nothings' or self-interested individuals rather than service-minded individuals.
We may not get the government we want, but we always get the government we deserve, as George Carlin stated.
Remember, when given the 'choice', the people said, "Give us Barabas."
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