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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 (1671)
- politics (1642)
- movies (911)
- poetry (767)
- PHOTOGRAPHS (759)
- history (642)
- not to be forgotten or underrated (590)
- quotes (576)
- not to be missed or overlooked (557)
- music (497)
- TV (402)
- family history (231)
- fiction and other prose (224)
- lists (222)
- Art (218)
- economics (204)
- spirituality (202)
- internet (130)
- 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)
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- EASY A
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- JANE GREER & CYD CHARRISE
- CLARENCE CLEMONS & PETER FALK R.I.P. (A LITTLE LATE)
- EVERYBODY'S MAD AT OBAMA
- THE TREE OF LIFE
- AI WEIWEI OUT OF JAIL BUT NOT FREE YET
- HOW COOL IS YO YO MA?
- QUOTE FOR TODAY
- SUPER 8
- FATHER'S DAY
- LENNY & WIENER
- FREE AI WEI WEI
- THE TRUTH "CORPORATE AMERICA" NEEDS TO HEAR AND HEED
- QUOTE FOR ROBERT Z. AND THE REST OF US FOR TODAY
- GHOST DOG (AND "THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI"
- THE 'MEDIA' "TASTE" AND CORPORATE AMERICA [PS: AND...
- HUBRIS AND BAD ANGLES (I.E. THE NBA FINALS & THE T...
- BRIDESMAIDS
- ANOTHER MUCH NEEDED LAUGH
- DAVE BRUBECK: IN HIS OWN SWEET WAY & THELONIOUS MO...
- THE REPUBLICAN RECESSION AND DOUBLE DIPPING
- TASTE
- FRUSTRATIONS WITH GOOGLE, APPLE, NORTON, FACEBOOK,...
- MORE THAN A DIME'S WORTH
- "GERONIMO" PRATT R.I.P.
- "CORPORATE AMERICA" GOING MEDIEVAL
- MADDOW ON WEINER (OR VICE VERSA)
- MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
- QUOTE FOR THE DAY
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15 comments:
Lal--Your readers might also want to take a look on the Mother Jones website at Andy Kroll's article on the role of right-wing think-tanks in the anti-union/anti-workers'rights
campaign so clearly exemplified by the attacks on teachers and teachers'
unions all over the country and the
assault on public employee unions in Wisconsin.
Bob B.
Thanks Bob.
Kroll's Mother Jones article
Above is a link to the article Bob B. mentioned. Yikes.
Lally,
Have you noticed how comments have dropped off as your "Conmnent Deleted" have increased. Why is that so? Do you think cencorship, even on a small scale is boring? Do you think that previous supporters, like Wawaukee Something, John Lally and a couple or other liberal supporters find you inadequate?
Are you used too and comfortable with your economic inadequacies(sp). How does it feel to be a second class economic theoritition who has been proven wrong many times over the last 300 years.
Haiti, Japan and Africa have all but disappeared from the "news" - instead we are fed what Kim Kardashian is wearing.
Jim, you'd like to think that your being deleted has a bearing on readership. That's a laugh.
I'll leave the rightwinger's last comment in since you responded to it Robert. But as for readership, I've never had a counter on this blog because I write it for myself and anyone else who might be interested so I don't care how many people read it or don't. It's all ultimately just recycled energy anyway, but it gives me an outlet for my thoughts and opinions and to share them and my experience(s) with anyone who might be interested. And anyone who uses the comments section to spread the same rightwing lies you can find on any rightwing radio or TV show or blog or whatever, will be deleted. Which I would have done but I don't want to leave Robert's comment with no context for it. Though the second paragraph in the rightwinger's comment is so scrambled and illogical it's not that easy even to see the obvious lie in it. But in fact, despite the incredible variety and sheer volume of experiences I've had in my lifetime so far, I am not 300 years old...yet.
PS: Don't misunderstand my last comment about not caring how many people read this blog. I certainly care deeply and am moved and humbled by those who have let me know they read it either through comments or e mails or telephone messages etc. Many are people whom I love and admire, including those whose lives and accomplishments are certainly greater than mine. I appreciate every one of them. But in the end, I write it for myself, to ease the plethora of ideas and perspectives that constantly crowd my mind, even in its post brain surgery mode. And for anyone reasonable enough to get whatever it is I'm sharing, whether they agree with it or not.
Michael, your deletions are an exercise of your Constitutional right that Jim so vigorously puports to espouse. He erroneously refers to your deletions as "censorship"
"Jim" ought to be bright enough to figure out that if he doesn't want to be deleted he should only write to right-wing blogs. Surely they'd agree with him and not delete his comments.
Bob B.
Or, Bob, he could write something that didn't parrot rightwing falsehoods (i.e. if tax rates for the wealthiest return to what they were before Bush/Cheney, i.e. under Clinton or Reagan, the economy will be ruined when all the statistics show the opposite and just plain common sense will tell you that under Bush/Cheney the so-called "middle class" suffered, losing their share of the wealth and working more for less, while the wealthiest among us only got richer and jobs not only weren't created they were lost by the millions).
anything is possible, Michael (i.e. Dennis Miller's putzhood), but don't hold your breath.
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