Thursday, May 8, 2014

MORE OF THE LITERARY LIFE

Me looking at camera, poet/writer/songwriter Terence Winch on my left and poet/writer Doug Lang sitting smiling with mustache at Folio Books in DC c. 1976. [Thanks to Terence (see comments) now realize that's Bob Rosen kneeling with cigarette in mouth and Joe Stork standing at the mic, Joe wrote poetry too but was best known as an expert/scholar on the Mideast (and oil) if I remember correctly, and sitting almost right in front of Joe, turning his head to the left with long curly hair and beard is the great Baltimore poet and songwriter Chris Mason. I also realized on my own that sitting to Doug's left and half hidden behind him is the writer/poet and true original Lynne Dreyer. Wow, a lot of my favorite poet/writers in one shot]
The late great poet Scott Wannberg in a coffee house in "The Valley" (L.A.) c. 1995.
The late great writer and mentor Hubert Selby Jr. at the same reading as above.
Can't recall the man on the left but that's writer/raconteur Malachy McCourt to his left, then me, and the late writer/scholar Dan Cassidy (see his book on how Irish slang influenced the "English" we speak in "America").

7 comments:

AlamedaTom said...

Sorry to see so many "lates" in your post.

~ Willy

Lally said...

Me too Willy. More and more each year.

tpw said...

Dear M: In the first photo, that's Joe Stork at the mike and, sitting on the floor with curly hair and glasses is the great Baltimore poet Chris Mason. (I believe the guy with the cigarette, between Doug and Joe, is Bob Rosen, a great fan of the Fast Flying Vestibule.)

tpw said...

Oh, and that's poet Lynne Dreyer in profile, next to Doug.

Lally said...

tpw thanks, of course that's Joe Stork but I can't believe that's Chris Mason and I missed him...old eyes...

Lally said...

oh wait, I thought you meant the guy kneeling with curly hair and glasses but that's the guy with the cigarette you say is Bob Rosen and yes, I now see Chris Mason clearly, turning his head to his left with beard and longer curly hair...

Lally said...

I also just realized that's Lynne Dreyer to Doug's left sitting beside him...