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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
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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
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- 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
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- 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.
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16 comments:
This is fantastic!!!
High-Larry-Us
~ Willy
Hi Mike,
Your buddy Krugman of course thinks Obama should have spent more money. Thought you might appreciate thoughts from across the pond on Nobel Paul. It seems that he is not universially hailed for his insight. I must admit I do not agree with the shut up sentiments, just his assesment of Krugman.
Jeremy Warner, assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph, is one of Britain's leading business and economics commentators. Will someone please shut Krugman up
By Jeremy Warner Economics Last updated: October 23rd, 2010
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He's at it again: US economist Paul Krugman (Photo: EPA)
Sorry, a bit late on this one, but I see old Kruggers, Nobel prize winner and New York Times columnist, is at it again. Not content to lecture his own country’s administration about how they are not spending enough, Professor Krugman lambasts Britain’s coalition government in his latest column for its deficit reduction plan, which he reckons will condemn the UK to a depression
Oh jeez, what was I thinking believing a Nobel Laureate who has been proven right more than any other economist in recent years except for those other Nobel laureates who agree with him (including the latest) when all along I should have been only listening to "commentators" who criticize him and are favored by other rightwing commentators who have proven themselves so correct about war and economics and all the great things they created when they were in charge of our country for eight years!
Mike,
I can not think of one thing that he has been right about since his Nobel thesis. Certainly, the last two years have been a disater for Obamanomics, America and Krugman's credibility. Maybe you can enlighten us on some of Krugman's recent successes.
Like evidence ever convinced a rightwinger of anything. It's all in the public record, as are the failures of the rightwing in this country to produce anything that benefits anyone other than the wealthiest few. The rest of us only lose while the right shifts the focus from their failures to lies about the failures of others. The only failure for the rest of us was in not overwhelmingly rejecting Bush/Cheney at the voting booth when we had the chance(s). I will now go back to putting my time and energy into things and people worth the effort.
Mike,
Your response on recent examples of Krugman's brilliance met my expectations. I will leave the harsh tone to liberals.
Enough of us voted against Bush/Cheney in 2000 that they never should have assumed office. Unfortunately, the Supreme Court decided against us. By the time the 2004 election rolled around, the professional propagandists hired by the Republican Party, along with allies in the Murdoch press, were able to hoodwink the electorate into giving the Busheviks a second term despite a two-front war no citizen voted for and a tanked economy that still isn't fixed, whether you're a Keynesian/Kugmanite or a Milton Friedman/IMF/World Bank shock therapist. The last reality is that "austerity" always means working people will be forced to make do with less, while fat cats continue to drive their Rovers in Malibu, where the snow's always waist-deep from November to April, eh?
Shem The Penman
In answer to Jim's commentary on Krugman, I suggest he look at "The Class War At Home" by Bill Quigley, a professor of law at Loyola University, New Orleans. This essay has lots of statistics from the US Census Bureau, the Labor Department, and other reliable sources, all of which point to the undeniable disparity of wealth and means in this country between the Dives of Wall St. and K St. and the Lazaruses of Main St. Quigley's essay can be found at CounterPunch.org for 10-25-10.
Shem The Penman
Shem, Maybe you can summarize Mr. Quigley's thoughts.
I could "summarize Mr. Quigley's thoughts," but I won't do it for the simple reason that you could then claim I misquoted him or diddled his numbers or made-up the whole thing. I won't let you wriggle out of it that way. Y O U have to go to CounterPunch and read Quigley's essay. If you don't, what can we conclude but that you are not interested in the truth?
Shem The Penman
Quigley described a condition of unequal outcomes. The US Constitution guarantees equal opportunity before the law. It does not guarantee equal outcomes. Attempts to guarantee equal outcomes have been spectacuarlly unsuccessful starting in America with the Mayflower Compact and in Europe with the French Revolution.
Later attempts in Europe and Asia resulted in massive oppression and disastorous economic outcomes. China is transitioning from Communism to their own form of free enterprise. Obama and the Democrats seem to want to take us to European socialism and Chinese communism at precisely the time that Europe/China are transitioning awary from it since it failed. Mr. Quigley does not seem to be concerned with the historical failure of socialism.
Quigley:
"The rich talk about the rise of socialism to divert attention from the fact that they are devouring the basics of the poor and everyone else. Many of those crying socialism the loudest are doing it to enrich or empower themselves. They are right about one thing – there is a class war going on in the US. The rich are winning their class war, and it is time for everyone else to fight back for economic justice."
Equal opportunity does not exist in reality. Period.
Jim's posting ends by quoting the last paragraph of Quigley's article, but he ignores the statistics Quigley cites. And Jim begins with a conclusion about what, as he sees it, Quigley's article does, then proceeds to quote two paragraphs of twaddle from one of his own previous postings.The "equal opportunity" Jim is so fond of prating about is a chimera, a fiction dangling like the proverbial carrot in front of the shiftless masses. If the lazy bums don't grab the carrot of opportunity, they have no one to blame but themselves, of course. But then,we still have to ask, "How long is the string? And who is holding the stick?"
Quigley's article answers both those questions.
Shem The Penman
The Tea Party and the whole lot are blaming our current state of affairs on the disaster that President Obama inherited from the previous administration. Had that continued, we'd be so worse off in so many ways. It was necessary for Obama to do what he's done in order to avert complete ruin of our society and nation. It takes time to turn things around. And, as Michael has oft pointed out with specific, irrefutable examples, things have turned or have started turning around. Unfortunately, too many don't like that Obama is of mixed lineage racially. They won't admit it, but it's the truth. Or that he has a name that isn't WASPish. If his name was Bernard Oberon Jr., if he had thin lips, straight hair, lighter skin and spoke with a Texas drawl and was inarticulate, he could have done exactly the same things he's done and all the current detractors would be standing behind him. It's hard for folks to really man up and admit the truth, but deep inside, we all know it.
Robert,
How does the high number of black Republican Tea Partier candidates comport with your thesis?
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