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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

Tuesday, June 6, 2017

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UPCOMING EVENTS

TBA

SAY IT AGAIN: An Autobiography In Sonnets

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)

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ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY

THE VILLAGE SONNETS

THE VILLAGE SONNETS

SWING THEORY

SWING THEORY

LOST ANGELS

LOST ANGELS

IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE

IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE

IT'S NOT NOSTALGIA

IT'S NOT NOSTALGIA
2000 American Book Award winner

MARCH 18, 2003

MARCH 18, 2003

WHAT YOU FIND THERE

WHAT YOU FIND THERE

CANT BE WRONG

CANT BE WRONG
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"

OF

OF

ROCKY DIES YELLOW

ROCKY DIES YELLOW

HOLLYWOOD MAGIC

HOLLYWOOD MAGIC

CATCH MY BREATH

CATCH MY BREATH

ATTITUDE

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

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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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