"For a species that has been around for less than 1% of 1% of the earth's 4.5 billion-year history, Homo sapiens has certainly put its stamp on the place."
"But it wasn't until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution around 1800 that human growth and its impact on the environment began to explode [...] Since then our ranks have ballooned from 1 billion to 7 billion, a rate of reproduction that biologist E. O. Wilson has characterized as 'more bacterial than primate.'" —Bryan Walsh "Nature Is Over" in TIME March 12, 2012
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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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- THE SAINTS, KEROUAC, FOOTBALL & ME
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- SOME MUCH NEEDED VERY "DRY" HUMOR
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- THE EVIDENCE IS IN (BUT WILL IT CHANGE ANY MINDS?)
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19 comments:
C'mon Michael, don't you know that the world was created four thousand years ago? Right around the time my grandma made her first pot of Motzah Ball soup and just before I got my first pair of dungarees.
http://news.yahoo.com/shots-fired-pittsburgh-hospital-injuries-reported-203245759.html
More tragic fallout from the bastardization of the second amendment.
y'all don't seem to be talking about anything important.
a "4.5 billion-year history" " ? that's really relevant !
It's amazing how Jim continues to re-prove time and again his complete ignorance and stupidity. "Subvert the second Amendment"? Give me a break...the second amendment is so "subverted" and otherwise misinterpreted and abused that it's a nightmare. Just look at the many instances of gun mayhem and murder I have cited in recent times, school murders, hospital murders. It's too damn easy for anyone to get guns in this country and there is not strong enough education and spiritual foundation for people to responsibly handle guns. The second amendment calls for single shot loaded muskets and a "well regulated militia." Get real for once in your life.
and "Anonymouse" please, enlighten us as to what is important and relevant, rather that simply taking potshots without identifying yourself.
Today's news featured a report that rightwing hate groups have increased over seven hundred percent since Obama's election. And it's been reported that threats to our president have equally grown exponentially. This is directly the result of hate speech from the rightwing that has from Obama's inauguration tried to paint him as illegitimate and worthy of scorn and hatred and contempt and even elimination. I grew up around guns with cops in my house and next door at my cousin's and at my sister's house etc. etc. etc. They are not to be taken lightly. has anyone seen the story on the policeman whose son was murdered by one of the rightwing militia groups? The worst terrorist action in this country before 9/11 was carried about by a rightwinger inflamed by rightwing propaganda and lies to disdain his democratically elected government. Most experienced police know that recently hate activity has increased even more so as many on the right anticipate a win for Obama in November. It's got nothing to do with the Second Amendment and everything to do with hatred for anyone whose ideology doesn't toe the rightwing line.
You do not uphold the fight for the founding documents, you uphold some twisted hurtful interpretation based on who knows what, but certainly not based in reality nor on goodness or so called Christian principles.
Gloria Allred has demonstrated liberals idea of free speech. Arrest Rush for his speech!! As most liberals, Gloria believes the 1st Amendment means; "Free speech for me but not for thee."
Gloria wants to bring a defamation suit against Rush, which is fully legitimate and warranted and which any of the subjects of Bill Maher's diatribes can do as well. Once again you distort the truth, which weakens your position.
So when a husband gives his wife household money and takes her shopping and then that night they get it on, is she a prostitute? By your definition she is.
Please cite your source(s).
Politico via Drudge is the source.
JIm said...
Obama owns 8.3% unemployment and a real unemployment rate of 15%, counting the the 5 mil fewer employess since Obama took over. The "recovery" is the worst since the 30s. Only an idiot would count Obama's ecomonomic policies as effective, unless that idiot wanted America to become a coummunist country.
March 11, 2012 8:43:00 PM EDT
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