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"Things turn out best for people who make the best of how things turn out." —Art Linkletter
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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
- 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.
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14 comments:
Art Linkletter invented the hula hoop and made a zillion dollars of of it...
it was a plastic version of a barrel hoop
he also stole many other ideas and made them his own...
Geez anon, you see the worst in things, like the diametric opposite of this invaluable quote. Nothing's really new under the sun - history has always been about repackaging and improving. FYI, I got this quote from a little inspirational flip calendar that we keep on the dining table for my younger sister Patti, a former teacher's aide in day care centers who in now quadriplegic, twenty two years into an unknown degenerative condition. She can't speak or scratch her head, but she has the courage to wake up and smile every day. You take cheap armchair pot shots and don't have the cajones to identify yourself. At least Jim stands behind it when he called Michael what in fact you are here: chickenshit.
Reminds me of something I read on the train this morning by ee cummings (especially the last stanza):
rain or hail
sam done
the best he kin
till they digged his hole
:sam was a man
stout as a bridge
rugged as a bear
slickern a weazel
how be you
(sun or snow)
gone into what
like all them kings
you read about
and on him sings
a whippoorwill;
heart was big
as the world aint square
with room for the devil
and his angels too
yes,sir
what may be better
or what may be worse
and what may be clover
clover clover
(nobody'll know)
sam was a man
grinned his grin
done his chores
laid him down.
Sleep well
it is
E.E.Cummings
not
e.e.cummings
you've been duped! by the Norm Mafia
and
I bet you $19 that you REALLY believe that Jesus is GOD
and that he died for your sins... that's a very sad crock of crap!
Actually Anon, Cummings used both upper case and lower at different times. He certainly used lower in most of his books. But what's with the cranky meanness? You seem terribly insecure about your own beliefs to have to ridicule those of others to make your point, which is what exactly? The only "sad crock of crap" I see on this blog, except for my own misfires, come from commenters like you, I'm sorry to say.
well
the editor/publisher of the harvard university press who published
in 1953
E.E. Cummings'
i six nonlectures
is who first did the lower case spelling
Cummings held the copyright as
E. E. Cumings!
Cummings dedicated the book/nonlectures:
"for John Finley"
Cummings opens with:
"Let me tell cordially warn you, at the opening of these socalled lectures, that I haven't the remotest intention of posing as a lecturer. [etc]."
OH WAKE UP!
life is fleeting....
you've merely become what you've pretended to be
so much for show biz, eh?
I see you've read Sawyer-Lacanno's bio of Cummings, but in fact as I stated above, Cummings used, or allowed to be used, both lower and upper case in different situations, despite that bio's justification for the upper as the poet's preference. Beyond that quibble, I still don't get your point.
But Tim, I appreciate yours.
"...the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns,puzzles the will and makes us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of." in other words, swine are more comfortable wallowing in their own sh*t that exploring greener pastures.
But there is a part of me that can relate to Anon's Scroogism, for there are many days when I feel like I've transitioned seamlessly from being an angry young man to being a grumpy old man. Fortunately, I am blessed with Rilke's observation that "the God wants to know himself in you." and the higher self manages to win the day. However, attacking Art Linkletter's quote I take personally for reasons that should be apparent above, so Anon, tread lightly and if you want to put your money where your mouth is you just let me know and we'll meet out back, bare knuckles only and, even though I'm disabled, I'll give you a valuable lessson in life.
Jesus told me to respond with more ee cummings:
may my mind stroll about hungry
and fearless and thirsty and supple
and even if it's sunday may i be wrong
for whenever men are right they are not young
Art Linkletter said the darndest things.
TPW
not to change the subject, but in related news, here's a piece on "lie of the year." Watch and listen till the end.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/us-15749625/political-lie-of-the-year-23541124
Thanks for that Robert, great piece.
It points up the need for vigilant, unending, 24/7 b.s. busting, on all fronts, left, right, center, up, down on all fronts. But mostly on things like Obama spending 200 million a day on his trip or the "Government is taking over health insurance."
Robert,
Bush's deficit was 400 billion, Obama's 1.6 trillion in his first year. US total debt has grown to 14 trillion. Not good. Early indications on Obamacare are it's main revenue generating item, the individual mandate is unconstitutional. Cost overruns were scary before the individual possible disallowance by the courts.
Coupled with his war on business, domestic
energy, Obama has been an economic disaster.
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