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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 (1669)
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- movies (910)
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- PHOTOGRAPHS (756)
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- not to be forgotten or underrated (590)
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- music (496)
- TV (402)
- family history (229)
- fiction and other prose (224)
- lists (222)
- Art (218)
- economics (203)
- spirituality (201)
- internet (129)
- 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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- AS USUAL KRUGMAN SCORES AGAIN
- IT WAS A GREAT NIGHT (AND FOLLOWING MORNING)
- IF YOU'RE IN THE BERKSHIRES THIS WEEKEND
- 'NUFF SAID
- LAST NIGHT (HANGING LOOSE READING
- HANGING LOOSE READING TONIGHT @ BROOKLYN CENTRAL L...
- BUT I DON'T KNOW ABOUT GOOGLE
- GUESS FACEBOOK IS GOOD FOR SOME THINGS
- LEVON HELM R.I.P.
- IPHONE
- WORD VERIFICATION DEALIE (AND BRIEF POLITICAL OBSE...
- NYC PUBLIC ACCESS CABLE POETRY SHOW FROM AUGUST 1977
- JOE BRAINARD READING
- THE COLLECTED WRITINGS OF JOE BRAINARD (AND READING)
- UPDATE ON/FROM TOM CLARK
- KILL THE IRISHMAN
- JULIAN FELLOWES' TITANIC
- IT'S GETTING EVEN CURIOUSER
- A FOUND LIST
- FAT CITY/OUT OF SIGHT/ATTACK THE BLOCK
- GREAT READING/GREAT EVENING
- MORE RIGHTWING HYPOCRISY
- TERENCE WINCH READING THIS TUESDAY IN NYC
- JUST A QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU TECHIES
- HERE'S TO A QUICK RECOVERY FOR THE BRILLIANT POET ...
- SAG-AFTRA MERGER
- MAUREEN DOWD SCORES AGAIN
- THE DEEP BLUE SEA
- QUOTE FOR NOW
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27 comments:
In a world where we eat eggs, slaughtered beings (beef, poultry, fish and other) and promote murder through ready availability of guns in stores and their use in mass media, the hypocrisy, absurdity, idiocy and pure evil are beyond comprehension and I know Gd is weeping.
Hopefully Democrats somehow attack Ann Romney and declare a further war on women. If the recent head to head polls sre an indication, the war on women BS seems to have boomeranged.
http://my.earthlink.net/article/hea?guid=20120412/b8335d61-30f8-43f1-ab1b-c465f696770e
Brazil legalizes abortions on brainless fetuses. Careful reading of the Bible does not probibit elmination of suffering as a result of misfortune or rape, contrary to the dogma of the unlearned, indoctrinated lemming masses.
Robert, Liberals like you, Obama and Lally are anti-baby and life. Liberals claim empathy for victims and than advocate the murder of innocents including babies that have survived the abor1tion procedure. By the way the most aborted babies are blacks by something like 4 to 1. Sounds like racism to me. I suspect far more liberals are killing their babies than conservatives.Hmmm, maybe I should rethink the issue.
Jim, I am anti gun and therefore more more pro-life than you are. I do not condone abortion for convenience or casually, but when the pregnancy is the result of rape, or if it is clear that the fetus if born will soon die or live a life of great suffering, or if the mother's life is severely threatened, then I am in favor of the lesser of two worses, and therefore am in favor of the abortion in such times. As usual, you spout your pre-determined, agenda based conclusions without carefully reading what is written or said.
Yesterday, Loyeen and I took an NRA course on basic pistol. When she told some of her fellow teachers and NEA members, that she planned to take the course, they asked with a in a stunned manner; are you a Republican? And of course Loyeen is a life time Democrat. She said she does not like people putting labels on her. At the shooting range, not only did she out shoot all the students but she out shot the instructor. It has been 20 years since the last time she shot a firearm.The last time was off the back of a ship shooting clays with a shotgun,when we were on our honeymoon. She beat me then too.
Basic pistol can easily kill. Bow and arrow can give same or more target satisfaction without the attached misuse/kill potential.
Robert, Many liberals are attempting to limit Constitutional freedoms, including 2nd Amendment rights. I believe the tide is turning against them. We shall see in November.
Murdering people is not a Constitutional freedom. Owning a modern gun is NOT what the FOUNDERS had in mind. IF you can possibly believe this, you are insane.
And you can continue to delude yourself about November...
The Founders only knew and conceived of single loading muskets, bayonets (yes, this is part of their notion of "arms"), not department store buyable pistols and school/hospital/church/gated community murders. Had they envisioned this, the language of the Constitution would be much different than it is. Only a complete moron would dispute this.
Robert,
I own a 1911 45 caliber semi automatic pistol that was carried by US military in WWI, WWII, Korea and part of Vietnam. It makes big holes. I carry it when longbow hunting in the fall. I have had mountain lions by my cabin at 10,500 ft. Bears are active in the area however, I have not seen any. I would just as soon not be eaten or mauled. Liberals like you have no respect for the Constituion, but the Supreme Court has consistently ruled in favor of second amendment rights. I would rather have the Supreme Court on my side than a liberal.
Second Amendment ratifie in 1791.
Guns in 1791 WOULD
...be made by a gunsmith.
...have rudimentary rifling.
...be single-shot weapons.
...be loaded through the muzzle.
...fire by means of a flintlock.
Guns in 1791 WOULD NOT
...have interchangeable parts.
...be revolvers. (Invented in 1835)
...be breachloaded. (Popularized in 1810)
...use smokeless powder. (Invented in 1885)
...use a percussion cap, necessary for modern cartridged bullets. (Invented in 1842)
...load bullets from a clip. (Invented in 1890)
You completely ignore data and facts that are immutable. One who so ignores is an ignoramus. Too bad. case closed
Again, I would rather have the Supreme Court agree with me than Mordecai's son.
Most of the liberals I know around here - hunt. (or there husbands, wives, or parents do and many of them have taught their children to hunt) As Robert points out there is a difference between what the Founding Fathers were talking about when it came to Second Amendment rights than the conditions we have now. But.
back to the original topic - Jim do you believe that a woman can be pregnant two weeks before she has sex? That is what the law in Arizona implies.
Tom, I have no idea what you are talking about. Maybe you can present the actual language. I do not believe there is a dispute as to when life begins. It begins at conception. The dispute is to when that life should be protected by law.
I let you guys play since you seem to want to. But almost every comment by the usually deleted one contained at least one lie, and the last one showed that he hasn't even read the article the post is about! Don't know why you guys waste your time on him.
Jim is like a kid who will take negative attention if he can't get it in a positive way. He is very immature, and very dumb and spiteful, and I feel very sorry for him...I also wish he would crawl back into his hole.
Facts for rightwingers in the bubble mean anything their media and political leaders say, whether true or not, and lies are anything anyone else says, wether false or not. The deleted one has been consistently refuted in his facts over the years he's been stalking this blog and his technique is always predictable. When his facts are refuted he changes the subject. When they are refuted repeatedly, he gets angry and calls names. When I begin deleting him because it becomes too tiresome and I don't like being any kind of conduit for the relentless rightwing barrage of propaganda based on misinformation misdirection and lies, he then starts threatening me, either in comments I delete or in emails to me. Too too tedious and time wasting, as well as robotically repetitive in ways that have unfortunately taken over large swaths of ill-informed citizens who get all their "news" and "information" from rightwing sources like Faux News and Rush et. al.
By the way, when I fixed the comments deal so you don't have to copy letters etc. to leave one, I got some spam on various topics and when I went back to correct one on a post from when Bush/Cheney were still reigning, there was you know who supporting them! (of course after they left office his comment switched and he began to claim, like many Republicans that Bush/Cheney messed up and we should all put that behind us and how he never supported many of their policies that put us in the mess we were in when Obama took office etc. and on day one of Obama his attacks began. What amazingly arrogant hypocrisy!
It was and has been so blatantly obvious, the agenda driven opposition to our legally elected Prsident since on or before day one of his term. It is a clear indication of the true colors of the Teapocrits and Repubes.
Predictable or what? But I had to delete. Too many lies (that I and Robert and liberals in general have no regard for The Constitution? A tiresome rightwing nut refrain and as I've pointed out I gave over four years of my life to military service and fought many political battle to gain rights The Constitution guarantees but the right had been suppressing etc. And if you didn't see it before I deleted it, besides resorting to calling me names again he actuallly said "Bush was right on defense"—can you believe it? I've always believed in the human capacity for redemption, but the right has been eroding that belief for a while now.
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