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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)
- politics (1641)
- movies (910)
- poetry (767)
- PHOTOGRAPHS (755)
- history (642)
- not to be forgotten or underrated (590)
- quotes (576)
- not to be missed or overlooked (557)
- music (496)
- TV (402)
- family history (228)
- 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)
Blog Archive
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September
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- A FEW COMPARISONS TO SET THE RECORD(S) STRAIGHT
- ARBITRAGE
- QUOTE OF THE DAY
- HERE'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WRITING FOR AWHILE (BUT SHE ...
- BEFORE THE FALL
- BEST TV POLITICAL AD EVER? (OR ONE OF THE)
- PS TO LAST POST
- 'NUFF SAID
- QUOTE FOR OUR TIMES (FROM AN OLD OLD FRIEND)
- GILDA & CRAZY HORSE & ME
- THIS ABOUT SUMS IT UP
- ONCE AGAIN KRUGMAN NAILS IT
- PS TO LAST POST [BOMB GIRLS]
- FOLLOWING TV SERIES
- PS TO LAST POST
- BACK TO THE FRAY
- PATTI SMITH'S WOOLGATHERING
- SOME POSSIBLY OFFENSIVE (TO SOME) BUT MUCH NEEDED ...
- ANOTHER DIVERSION
- CHRIS STEVENS R.I.P.
- JUST A QUICK DIVERSION FROM MY WEEK OFF FROM POLIT...
- QUOTE OF A LIFETIME
- TWO POSTERS FOUND ON FACEBOOK WORTH CONTEMPLATING
- COPPER
- BOBBIE ANN MASON'S SPENCE + LILA
- MORE RIGHTWING HYPOCRISY
- THE CHOICE IS CLEAR
- MORE GREAT QUOTES FROM LAST NIGHT: THIS TIME FROM ...
- ONE OF THE MANY GREAT QUOTES FROM LAST NIGHT'S SPE...
- THE BIG DOG LAYS IT DOWN
- MICHELLE KICKS BUTT
- REMEMBERING WHAT LABOR DAY IS ABOUT
- HAS ANYONE EVER SAID THIS BETTER?
- HOPE SPRINGS
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9 comments:
A father shot his own teenage son today, thinking he was a robber. So tragic. If the gun wasn't there, he might have had to use other means, like using dialog to determine his son's identity.
Terrible.
You're too modest. (I never thought I'd say that.) She does it long but not better. The comments on her piece are interesting too, and often depressing. We all know there are things--like signing off on killings by drones or otherwise--Obama does that are morally offensive. We do, however, live in the real world where morally indefensible actions happen all the time, which is not to excuse the inexcusable. War is inexcusable, but it happens and Obama inherited two of them. And let us not excuse the American people, the majority of whom support torture and capital punishment, which is just a "nicer" way of saying state-sanctioned murder.
Let's not forget, as many of the commenters seem to, that Obama does not act alone. He has Congress to deal with and the Republican Party whose main goal is to deny him reelection. That he managed to get a health care bill through Congress is a major achievement as well as the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. These achievements take guile and cunning . That's how our system works. Obama cannot do what Congress doesn't want him to do, but he doesn't have to do what the Republican Congress often wants him to do. And he doesn't. It's not a simple world.
Well said Bill. Very funny parenthetical comment at the beginning there.
That comment about illegal immigrants recognizing that the Democrat party is not for them but is someone they can negotiate with a bit of a stretch. That illegal thing is a hang up but Reagan got past it. Unfortuately it did not work well. Liberals seem to have a blockage in their minds about civil rights and the Democratic Southern opposition of moderate and converatives. Nothing would have passed without mainstream Republican support. Imagine a Democrat party who empowered student and
parents to pursue excellent opportunities, as existed in DC before Obama killed it.
"Democrat" party? Hmmm.
Yes Bill, that's the red flag. I usually delete this guy, someone I've known since grammar school but has drunk the koolaid and is incapable of any rational discussion (though pretends to be, capable, in some comments after being deleted continuously for awhile because of all the rightwing lies he parrots and I don't want to abide since there's enough out there anyway etc. But you nailed the giveaway, as can be found in all the books and articles and internet blogs and posts that adhere to the deliberate rightwing misinformation and misinterpretation and misdirection. He either buys it whole or is as cynical as his rightwing media masters.
I guess the Kool-Aid makes him not entirely comprehensible to me. Pray that the polls hold and the margins keep increasing. The House and Senate races are looking better, too. I wonder what these guys will do if they get totally overthrown in a landslide.
Jim fails at his own mandate that immigrants (of which he is one) have a command of the American/English language..Agree or not agree with him, his language is non-sensical.
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