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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)
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- THE AFTERMATH
- THE NIGHT AFTER
- THE DAY AFTER
- THE WORST IS OVER
- SO FAR SO GOOD
- PS TO LAST POST [+THE COMMITMENTS]
- SANDY'S & SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS
- ARGO
- ETHEL
- PS TO LAST POST
- OK, THIS IS REALLY WEIRD
- QUOTES FROM THE DEBATE LAST NIGHT [NUFF SAID]
- RUSSELL MEANS R.I.P.
- GEORGE MCGOVERN R.I.P.
- LAURA NYRO R.I.P. [STILL]
- QUOTE FOR THESE, OR ANY, TIMES
- CARTOON BREAK
- PS TO LAST POST
- BING BANG BOOM
- ROSIE NAILS IT
- VANITY FAIR
- THAT GUY...WHO WAS IN THAT THING
- MATT TAIBBI NAILS IT AGAIN
- GOOD TO REMEMBER NOT ALWAYS SO EASY TO DO
- POW
- ATTRIBUTION
- FOUND PHOTOS FROM THE ONLY WESTERNS I WAS EVER IN
- QUOTES (ON POVERTY)
- LOVE THIS
- THE DAY BEFORE
- APOLOGIZE AND EMPHASIZE
- SON OF FURY & THUNDER BIRDS
- WRONG STRATEGY
- FAVORITE NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO
- THE INTEGRATION OF OL' MISS
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13 comments:
My favorite in Brian McFadden in the Sunday NY Times.
I like him too. Never tried to download it so I could share any of his.
This is no cartoon:
http://news.yahoo.com/gunman-kills-3-self-florida-salon-shooting-193421468.html
It is the continued BASTARDIZATION, illegal, sinful misuse (for profit) of the Second Amendment, which immediately needs to be revised, as it in no way applies to today's reality.
I pray that in his second term, President Obama addresses the dire, out of control, tragic gun crisis in this country.
Lal--Like Robert G., I'd hope the second Obama administration does soemthing about guns, but I'm not holding my nreath. Remember, he promised to close Guantanamo.
Love that Maxine. But in another revoltin' development, as Chester A. Riley used to say, Maxine cards have disappeared. Earlier this month I searched both my neighborhood CVS and Walgreens stores for a Maxine birthday card to send to a friend, but Maxine was totally absent from both stores. Bummer. Is she still available in New Jersey?
Bob B.
Well the Guantanamo thing seems frustrating to Obama too as I suspect the assault weapon ban is. Hopefully if he wins a second term and doesn't have to worry about being reelected he can get those two things and others we'd like to see done. Certainly if Romney gets elected there won't even be a chance. Romney's response to the assault weapons ban question was to talk about how important it is that kids have two parents, implying that gun violence is all the result of single mothers raising violent boys, which further implies Romney hears "gun violence" and equates it with African-American young men rather than with the biggest mass murders by gun all so far committed by white males or the major source of gun deaths: murders and accidents committed in the home (most often also by "white" "Americans") etc. (a lot of my African-American friends were very upset by the racism they saw in Romney's response in that question, which none of the white pundits seemed to even notice).
Guns are the problem, not the solution. Or I should say guns in a culture in which the media promotes their use. Is the problem. If guns were not available, then the people in the tragic shootings that take place now almost daily would have to resolve their issues in way without guns that do not result in needless, tragic death.
Just read about another family, at home, killed by a disgruntled neighborh in Southern California a four year old being one of the victims. The Second Amendment needs to be overhauled and rewritten and all guns - handguns, aSsault weaponS and all, need to be outlaweD and banoished$ it's our only hope for advancement and survival. Also, media violence needs to be regulated as well.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/21/14596819-multiple-people-shot-near-milwaukee-area-mall-authorities-check-for-possible-bomb?lite
It is literally daily now. GUNS MUST BE BANISED. Government and private sector to subsidize and assist re-incomization of gun shops. Hollywood and video game industry must come under FCC regulation of violence content. Freedom to live supersedes 'freedom of expression' and 'right to bear arms'.
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