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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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- GOTTA LOVE PHELPS AND THE USA WOMENS GYMNASTIC TEAM
- THE OLYMPICS 2012 (SO FAR)
- THIS ISSUE ALONE SHOULD GET YOU TO VOTE FOR OBAMA ...
- THE COLORADO BATMAN MOVIE MASSACRE
- MAYBE THE BIGGEST LIE
- GREGORY PECK VS. JOHN WAYNE
- QUOTE OF THE WEEK [FROM ME THIS TIME]
- "Corporation That Paid Nothing In Taxes For Four Y...
- AS ALWAYS, FOR ME, CREATIVITY TRANSCENDS OUR TROUB...
- PS TO YESTERDAY'S POST: BILL MOYERS' TAKE
- THE ABSURDITY OF THE RIGHT'S POSITION ON GUNS
- PS TO "WARM ENOUGHT YET?"
- TIME FOR SOME HUMOR
- WARM ENOUGH YET?
- MAINSTREAM MEDIA MYSTIFIED BY FACTS ONCE AGAIN
- ORHAN PAMUK'S ISTANBUL
- I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I LOVE BILL MOYERS AND...
- THE GUARD
- WILDFIRE FIGHTERS & HEALTH CARE
- ANOTHER CORPORATE CUSTOMER SERVICE FIASCO (THIS TI...
- YOU'VE PROBABLY ALREADY SEEN THIS BUT...
- THIS ABOUT SUMS IT UP
- SOME QUICK THOUGHTS ABOUT...
- JOHNNY STANTON HIT BY CAR
- QUOTE FOR OUR TIMES
- JIM HAINING AND ME
- HAPPY FOURTH TO ALL OF US (AND THANKS WOODY)
- A DIFFERENT TAKE ON THE ROBERTS DECISION TO SUPPOR...
- VAN'S ASTRAL WEEKS REVISTED
- PS TO A FEW POSTS AGO
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12 comments:
Lal--For corroboration of Einstein's point, simply look at any statement from Eric Cantor, John Boehner, Paul Ryan, or Mitt Romney.
Bob. B.
Einstein's comment seems to pertain well to liberals, especially when they wax on about man caused climate change, forgetting about warm years and periods before the industrial revolution.
Jim is loose again, get the hook!!!
Yes there have been periods of hot and cold over long periods of time, as Earth moves in vast space in relation to the sun, other planets and stars. But within our own planetary biospheric system, there is absolutely zero dispute that the activities of humanity, including industrialization, pollution, overpopulation, waste, deforestation, radiatiation and more are having a very real, dangerous effect on our ecosystem, on the world we live in, on our health and well being--and this damage can be reduced and reversed by changing how we do things. Jim's reference to this as "liberal" propaganda etc is infantile and ignorant.
Robert,
Actually there is quite a bit of debate as to whether man caused activities is heating up the climate. While the US cooks this summer, Europe and Britain is concerned that the the cold and rain is liable to impact the Olympics. While the US had a mild winter, Europe and Alaska had record cold and snows this year. In the time of the vikings grapes were produced in Greenland and in England. The mild climate helped them to reach America. The Romans prospered for a 1000 years in warm weather.
You are not a conservative. A conservative is one who conserves. Your utterances and denial of reality show that you are clearly a squanderer. You wish to squander this world we live in.
Better label for him would be "parrot" Robert. This is the standard rightwing line now about global warming. As I mentioned in another recent post, there is no evidence of any historical warming period accelerating as fast as the one we're in, and that includes ice core analyses that go back long before the Romans and Greenlanders et. al. But there is tons of evidence that the climate is warming (and of course that means the average temp worldwide continues to increase at an accelerating rate) and that one of the major factors is carbon in the atmosphere coming from human activity like burning coal etc. Ordinarily I would just delete the comments from the stalker because they are mostly lies with some misdirection thrown in to distract the reader from the facts. I'll let them stand for now as emblematic of how the right works (see pie chart in post above).
There are significant scientific groups and scientifically qualified experts that disagree with the liberal funded global warming community that would like to take over decisions from the private community and impose an international standard that only the US would be required to comply with. In fact according to recent data the earth has been cooling for the last 10 years. The US heat this year has been off set by Alaska, Europe and other parts of the world. Do any global warming liberals remember the winter of 2011???
Global warming is part of a broader issue of damage to the planetary ecosystem and consequent imapact on the well being of all species resulting from human endeavors and behaviours. There are too many warning signs to deny, and doing so (denying)endangers us further by forestalling remedial change.
Robert, I am a bowhunter. My license fees go to improve and manage the wildernest enviroment. What do you do for the enviroment?
recycle, don't litter, buy natural/organic/non-toxic products whenever possible, don't drive when I can get it done by phone/email/fax...
Mr. Lally,
I was going through some old letters today and happened upon a stack of letters from Jim Haining between 1972 and 1980. After I moved to CO we exchanged letters for awhile. I was an avid supporter of Salt Lick Press. Jim was a classmate at Quincy. I have a copy of your "Catch my Breath"
Jim was an interesting and unique
person. sorry to hear of his passing Bill Harris - trlgpa@skybeam.com
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