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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 (1668)
- politics (1641)
- movies (910)
- poetry (766)
- PHOTOGRAPHS (754)
- history (641)
- 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 (217)
- 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)
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- HANK JONES R.I.P.
- GEOFFREY YOUNG'S RIM ROCK
- TWO POSTS FROM FAVORITE BLOGS
- THE OLD RIGHTWING HYPOCRISY AGAIN
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- 6 MONTHS SINCE BRAIN SURGERY
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- THE COUNTERFEITERS
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- THREE QUICK THOUGHTS
- PAUL KRUGMAN'S BLOG
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4 comments:
It's absurd, scary, depressing and more. Morehei Ueshiba, founder of Aikido, says "Your spirit is the true shield." And Maya Angelou once mused, "They say geniuses use ten percent of their brain, and normal people use five percent. Imagine if normal people used fifteen percent and geniuses used twenty percent. The very idea of war would be laughed out of the room." If we have any desire to evolve and make this world a better place for future generations, it is imperative that we learn to resolve conflicts with dialog, tolerance and understanding, rather than succumb to the fear based paranoic ignorance of thinking that guns are an absolute. At best, they are a necessary evil that we should be striving to do away with.
"Happiness Is a Warm Gun" - The Beatles - White Album, Disk 1.
~ Willy
dear robert,
i am reminded of an observation a friend of mine made about wil-e-coyote's obsessive persute of the roadunner. he inevitably wound up of a cliff suspended for a moment before he plummeted to the earth and he would whip out a sign pointing to himself that said 'GENIUS'
being that i've had some similar experiences myself and i too happen to be a cerified 'GENIUS' i have come to the conclusion that there is apparantly no corollary between intelligence and good judgment.
When in doubt, quote the Beatles! ;-) That's always been my fallback, although in this case, there no instance I can imagine where "happiness" and "gun" belong in the same sentence or thought.
As for intelligence and good jugdgement, in my view if there is not good judgement, then there is no intelligence. A facile brain that serves up bullshit, lies and hatefulness in a fast, wordy manner may to some appear as intelligent but really it's a wasted mind that is actually a fast operating bullshit machine!
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