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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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- OBVIOUS DIFFERENCE
- ANOTHER FAVORITE QUOTE
- A(NOTHER) LIST AT LAST!
- GENE TIERNEY
- FOLLOW THE MONEY
- ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
- DESPERATION BREEDS EXTREMISM
- SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD
- MANNY MANIA MANIA
- JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK
- RIGHTWING LIES PART DEUX
- RIGHTWING LIES AND HOW THE MASS MEDIA BUYS INTO THEM
- THE BIG C
- THE MORTAL STORM
- ABBEY LINCOLN R.I.P.
- NINE MONTHS SINCE BRAIN SURGERY (AND IRONY)
- INCEPTION
- ANOTHER PASSING
- MAMA PIZZLEY
- SOME INTERESTING QUOTES
- PATRICIA NEAL R.I.P.
- MULTIPLE CHOICE—NOT
- FRIM FRAM SAUCE
- ENCOUNTER IN PITTSFIELD
- "THE HEALING"
- LUGHNASA IN THE SHIRE
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11 comments:
I love the fact that the wacko left is obsessed with Sarah. They proclaim her stupidity and revile her unique vocabulary and syntax, but her score card in the primaries, of candidates that she has backed, did very well. I suspect she can draw more of a crowd these days than that man in the White House. It will be interesting to watch her over the next couple of years. She may or may not be nominated and win, but she will never be dull or anti American, anti US Constitution or anti free enterprize.
The fact that Sarah Palin draws a crowd and isn't "dull" means nothing. People watch "Keeping up with the Kardashians" and "Jersey SHore" too, and I'm sure that Kim K and The Situation draw a big crowd too--that doesn't mean I'm interested in their picks for who should be running our government. That anyone would pay any heed at all to Sarah Palin and her political recommendations is absolutely terrifying.
Great post Lals. Thanks for sharing it.
Jamie
Jim where do you come off claiming to know or uphold what it is to be "American?" Who died and left you in charge of that department? To be American means so much more that your smug, skewed, narrow-minded, bigoted, ignorant definition. If you don't like what's going on here, leave!
Wow,
I love it. Sarah just drives liberals wacko. Imagine the future liberal reactions if she actually runs. America seems to be learning a lesson about socialist big government policies if Obama/Pelosi/Reid's poll numbers are an indication. Maybe it is only Obama's "Summer of Recovery", but we could have a Madam President Palin in two years. "Hail to the Chief".
"Sad how the Obama and Bush regimes had/have the same totalitarian/capitalist mindsets. Let's find a threat so we can clamp down AND make a fortune off it!
Fuckers."
Whoever wins, it ain’t me .
It is amazing how much energy someone can put into wanting our country to fail. And yes, I do not live for Sarah or what she stands for no matter how she says it. Really, how much hate can one party have. I for one, only want good things for us, not just to dwell on the negative (quote after quote after quote.) Unfortunately, my twins do not want to hear about anything political and I do not blame them. Lally, thanks again for your posts.
Loyeen
(Jim's wife)
Hi Loyeen,
Have a lovely day Dear.
Another comic: They strike us where we're weakest — our constitution.
This forum is what our country is about. Jim, your wife sounds lovely, and your twins sound cool. But you can't say that Michael or me or anyone else on this soil is any less "American" than you are. Including our President, a man of great intelligence and vision who is trying to correct a horrible world mess he inherited. Thanks to Michael Lally for creating this forum for dialog and exchange of ideas.
Robert,
I question Obama's prime loyalty to America. He is the first President, that I am of aware of, that is not in awe of the most successful representative Republic in history. He sang the praizes of Islam and talked less than glowingly of America. Now he has reported supposed American human rights violation to the UN rights commission. His wife was not proud of America until he was elected. Give me a break. Now, at least for one day, he came out in favor of a shariah compliant Victory Mosque at Ground Zero. I have said it before and I say it again. Obama is the first anti-American president in history.
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