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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.
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- John Clarke
- Times Times 3
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- EGYPT AND US
- A NECESSARY CORRECTIVE
- THE ASPHALT JUNGLE, BEING THERE & THE YOUNG VICTORIA
- THIS IS THE PROBLEM (OR PART OF IT)
- WINTER WONDERLAND (CONT'D)
- THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH
- THE OSCAR NOMINATIONS
- A BRILLIANT AND TIMELY ARTICLE
- GREEN ZONE
- THIS SAYS IT ALL
- THE KING'S SPEECH
- TOM TOMORROW STRIKES AGAIN
- SOME FAVORITE "POLITICAL" QUOTES
- BILL SULLIVAN R.I.P.
- A QUICK COMMENT ON THE GLOBES
- RELENTLESS
- HERE'S A GOOD TAKE ON RECENT EVENTS
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- MEMORIAL IN TUCSON
- SAY IT AIN'T SO JOE (TWICE)
- BARNEY'S VERSION
- ONE SMALL EXAMPLE
- A REASONABLE PROPOSAL FROM GAIL COLLINS
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- NOT SO LONE STAR
- THE COMPANY MEN
- HERE'S A WELL MADE POINT
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- THIS ABOUT SUMS IT UP
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17 comments:
A terrific article, Michael. We too have these 'dumb' talk show hosts who make the same 'dumb' statements about reform, based on narrow prejudices - political, racial etc - as if they are statements of fact.
He forgot to mention Keith, Rachel, Big Ed and Scarborough.
I forgot Krugman and Chris.
"Dumb" is a good word to describe the Republican and Conservative opposition as a whole these days. I was appalled to hear on the radio an interview with a moderate Republican who was leaving Congress who mentioned that he was one of only two Republicans in the house that admitted believing in the existence of Global Warming. It is a far cry from the 60's when the right was represented on t.v. by William F. Buckley, annoying yes but never dumb.
well
Republican OR Democrat
here is another Dumb-F&*ks' move done before the Republicans "took" the Hoiuse
our "leaders" ALLOWED and sanctified COMCAST taking over NBC SO
DIG IT... today MSNBC/NBC/COMCAST FIRED
Keith Olberman!
and
Billions of dollars are now pouring in to support them Monnied Conservatives!
just go to the grocery store and see where "we're" heading... a UNION Grocery store where a pond of hamburger is now over $5.00! a dozen eggs $2.40!
and
watch your COMCAST bill now double...365 channels of garbage 24/7 for $125 per month for basic!
Chris Mason,
How's that man caused global warming theory working for you. Snow and cold is way up on the East Coast and in the upper mid west. If the Climategate fraud did not impress you, maybe the cold is numbing your brain.
Chris, I hear you. And talk about "dumb and dumber"—2010 was the warmest year on record, but because the warming causes extreme weather pretty much everywhere, the winter weather we're having now (in winter I might add) confuses them into thinking "It's really cold some places now, therefore global warming must not exist"! And as for "Climategate"—three independent scientific reviews have been done of the science involved and it is all verified. The only issue were some e mails in which someone wanted to change wording to bolster the argument, as opposed to the wording that was changed in the science commissioned by our government under Bush/Cheney, that was an attempt to totally alter the facts or ignore them. But all this takes investigation, reason and logic based on facts, something anathema too much of the time to those on the right.
The beauty of "Man Caused Global Warming" theory, is that weather conditions that are cold, warm, wet, dry or anywhere in between confirm the theory for true believers. Flawed science and dishonest scholorship confirms that skeptics are ignorant or nefarious. You talk of dumb, that is real dumb.
I guess the undeniable, confirmed shrinking of the polar icecaps and glaciers isn't really happening.
The lefties are standing there with zippos.
Robert,
I am not a scientist nor are you. I went to my site you go to yours. One thing is sure the debate goes on.
"Here are two statements that are completely agreed on by the IPCC. It is crucial to be aware of their implications.
1. A doubling of CO2, by itself, contributes only about 1C to greenhouse warming. All models project more warming, because, within models, there are positive feedbacks from water vapor and clouds, and these feedbacks are considered by the IPCC to be uncertain.
2. If one assumes all warming over the past century is due to anthropogenic greenhouse forcing, then the derived sensitivity of the climate to a doubling of CO2is less than 1C. The higher sensitivity of existing models is made consistent with observed warming by invoking unknown additional negative forcings from aerosols and solar variability as arbitrary adjustments.
Given the above, the notion that alarmingwarming is ‘settled science’ should be offensive to any sentient individual, though to be sure, the above is hardly emphasized by the IPCC."
http://www.climate-skeptic.com/
provide a direct link to the IPCC's findings, which I could not find on their website, only a bunch of prefatory and to me, irrelevant drivel. And your referenced site, "climate-skeptic" kind of says it all as far as non-objectivity. It's narrow minded and short sighted to tie the concept of global warming or not to one cold winter or warmer summers. More concerning and indicative of mindfulness and need for change in long-term, big picture thinking (for fifty plus years from now) is shrinking of polar ice caps, diminishment of species, the massive worldwide flooding that's occuring RIGHT NOW (u.s., south american, europe, australia), cancer of all forms, 270 million guns in the US alone and 24/7 gun violence depicted on tv/movies/video games - emphasis on war over education, education system largely archaic that doesn't emphasize problem solving and multi-culturalism. Getting caught up in the small picture, narrow scope, tit for tat, need to be right is, what does AC/DC call it - the highway to hell.
Robert,
Whateverrr, as my 16 soon to be 17 year old daughter would say.
An appropriate response to you by her, you're her Dad so she has to listen, but no doubt sees through and beyond you, thankfully, hopefully.
Robert,
Thank you for your kind thoughts on my relationship with my daughter, Shannon. If you were back East or in the Mid West I would caution you to bundle up when outside. I understand news folks were issuing cautionary warnings on frost bite.
Robert,
Here is a weather update for you. I know that weather does not influence the belief of Man Caused Global Warming adherants, but I thougt it might be interesting anyway.
1 hr 16 mins ago
"NEW YORK – Bone-chilling cold has prompted schools around the Northeast to delay openings and some canceled classes altogether on Monday. The cold snap was linked to at least two weekend deaths, including that of a woman whose frozen body was found in a driveway.
Schools in western and northeastern Pennsylvania, across upstate New York and parts of Vermont and New Hampshire closed their doors or delayed openings to protect students from temperatures that dropped in some locations as low as 25 degrees below zero or even colder.
The wind chill in some areas of New England was expected to make it feel as cold as 50 degrees below zero"
Jim,
As I've said repeatedly before, to me the issue is not simply about temperature. The earth spins around in vast space and weather is affected from beyond our biosphere and awareness. Here on earth, we tend to package issues in simplified terms, warm-cold, left-right etc. etc. The true issue is about man's relationship to the planet and the overall long term big picture effects of our practices today, the overall warming of polar regions being part of a larger picture of toxicity in our world resulting from unchecked short term profit driven living. Cancer, hate, starvation, pestilence, genocide of culture and species, it goes on and on. I feel when speaking with you, like I'm speaking to the Lost in Space robot when you are challenged to think beyond your programming, you spin around, flail your arms, sparks fly out your ears and you recite "does not compute" while spouting quotes and evading what's in front of you.
Robert,
I am determined to be better and straighten my mind, so that I too can accept the belief, if not the science of "Man Caused Global Warming". I will repeat the following mantra,
- warm, cold and in between weather is proof of M.C.G.W.
- flawed science just means I must be more resolute in the belief of M.C.G.W.
I will attempt to recite my mantra to the tune, "Follow the Yellow Brick Road".
I already feel better.
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