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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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- A LITTLE DIVERSION
- A BIG HOUSE AND JOB AND...
- THERE IS NO REASONABLENESS FOR FANATICS
- THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE
- THOSE "BUTTONS"
- OLBERMAN ON THE SHERROD AFFAIR
- FIGHTING AN UPHILL BATTLE...
- RACHEL MADDOW SAYS IT BEST
- RJ ESKOW'S LATEST & REASON VS. THE NEW DARK AGES
- SLAMMING OPEN THE DOOR
- IGNORANCE
- TRAILER FOR DO NOT DISTURB
- SUMMER FUN
- DESPICABLE ME and KNIGHT AND DAY
- ANOTHER HEAT WAVE
- A SLIGHT (COMIC? OR TRAGIC?) DIVERSION
- THE IRISH AND HOW THEY GOT THAT WAY
- TULI KUPFERBERG R.I.P.
- HARVEY PEKAR R.I.P.
- A FAVORITE QUOTE
- DUMPSTAPHUNK
- THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
- THE KARATE KID
- WHY KEROUAC MATTERS
- HAPPY FOURTH
- LUCKY DAY
- IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY
- THE TRIUMPH OF HYPOCRISY AND/OR MASS HYPNOSIS
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6 comments:
Yeah, I just happened to watch that entire show. It was terrific, but I fear that all the progressive MSNBC pundits are preaching to the choir. I am discouraged at the thought that they are not changing anyone's mind. One of the big lessons I got in therapy long ago was: "What you say is true for you." The point in that milieu being the people you disagree with sincerely believe their view is true and correct. Thus it is very hard to change their views, and constant attempts to do so can literally make you crazy.
~ Willy
Yes, but I remember long ago on a morning show this late middle aged woman who was once a "blue blood WASP old money" person who all her life had looked down on anyone who wasn't in her set - i.e. the non-rich, Jews, Gays, etc etc In the '80s she'd gone in the hospital for a blood transfusion and from it became HIV positive. Now, she was a different person, an activist, with friends of all stripes and colors and orientations. The moral of the story, is that maybe, when one comes face to face with their own mortality, then maybe they can/will see the light.
The ACORN Community Organizer and Chief, the Chicago style administration, Democrats in Democrat controlled congress have protected the electoral violators, ACORN. The Obama also dropped the charges against poll intimidators the Black Panthers. Even a Liberal might discern a pattern here.
As to Sponge Bob’s ratings being higher than Fox’s opinion shows, I suspect there is not a huge voting audience for Spongie.
ever notice how similar in both looks AND presentation/acting
that Rachel Maddow
looks just like Ron Reagan, Junior?
I guess that the media just didn't "dig" Ron's attitude/point of view.
I think that he is yet broadcasting via radio.
even Maddow's slight-smile/grin MIMMICKS Ron Reagan!
I like both of them but much prefer Reagan... he can reply without a script! Maddow needs to read the monitor...
she as are most of these talking heads are ENTERTAINERS and at best
C-Grade actors!
what "we" need right now is an actor like John Wayne... a "real-stupid 'merican Patriot Actor!
Sherrod made the statement in her speech and admitted that she was overpowered by racism at one point in her life.
Anti-white racism has placed this nation on a foundation constantly being undermined.
The NAACP and many of its members, like Ms. Sherrod, do not hesitate to remind us that our Founding Fathers were all white of one group or another.
They try to paint the Tea Party activists as whites who wish for those thrilling days of yesteryear. By that they infer the days of slavery, share cropping and segregation.
Why is it that nobody wants to talk about the African tribes who sold black Africans into slavery in the past and continue to do so to this very day?
Why is it that the pseudo-enlightened like Madcow have had their programs enacted since the 60's only to see race relations heightened, education sufferring, drugs becoming neighborhood empowerment projects?
There may have been some good in LBJ's Great Society or Carter's Dept of Education, but overall we as a nation are sufferring as the result of them.
Bill Cosby laid it right out there. Do not look for aid from your tormentor but look to aid yourself.
if i was a black person growing up in the 50's i think i might have a justifiable resentment against white's since they denied blacks their civil rights, and even lynched blacks with impunity, and even denied them access to a freakin rest room.
maddow is one of the only people with a microphone in the 4th estate that actually does the job of providing her viewers information and not a bunch of horseshit.
that glen beck actually says that thomas paine is his hero only confirms that he has never read a word of thomas paine.
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