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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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- QUOTE FOR OUR TIMES
- CLARENCE BURKE JR.
- A HEADS UP
- KIM MERKER R.I.P.
- MEMORIAL DAY
- PERFECT BIRTHDAY
- MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO (MAY 25TH)
- ANOTHER OLD FAVORITE QUOTE
- F. SCOTT'S REVENGE
- RAY MANZARAK R.I.P.
- OH OKLAHOMA
- GATSBY
- ROBERT REICH NAILS IT AGAIN
- PPS TO LAST POST
- PS TO LAST POST ON ONE CURRENT PHONY CRISIS
- MAKING SOME SPAGHETTI STICK TO THE WALL
- ANOTHER GOOD QUOTE
- CHECK THIS OUT (TO THE END)
- HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY FOR THOSE LONG GONE
- PS TO LAST POST
- A LITTLE DIVERSION
- TAYLOR MEAD R.I.P.
- BOMB GIRLS
- AN OLD FAVORITE QUOTE
- CORPORATE FEUDALISM
- COUNT ON ANDY BOROWITZ TO NAIL IT.
- DUEL IN THE SUN
- POST BRAIN OP CLUB
- THE COMPANY YOU KEEP
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11 comments:
The tax system is subject to abuse by powerful forces that buy influence like corporations and unions. The best fix is flat or flatter rates with zero deductions. All should pay something (maybe five percent), even those fifty percent of the people with low incomes. If they have no skin in the game they do not care what the politicians are doing.
PS IRS people and politicians who broke the law should go to jail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jxpNx6XNbc
Morehouse commencement address by President Obama. Must see and hear till the end.
Thanks for the link Robert, what a magnificent speech, and what comic timing.
In his deleted comment, Jim refers to President Obama as "an American." Can we consider this some kind of progress?
That was indeed a terrific speech. Thanks for sharing and posting Robert and Michael. What an inspiration for young graduates and all people. I especially admired his words on being a good father/parent, and his message to live with compassion and connection to one another, reaching out and helping those who need it most. We've got a fine President!( In addition to his "Presidential duties" he has to deal with constant opposition and ignorance in Washington- a tough, f'""ing job...) ps- In answer to your above question Robert: doubt it.
Me too Jen. He also calls Obama "Black". Yet his Mom is Anglo Saxon. In Judaism, the Mother is the dominant parent in terms of heredity. So it could just as well be said that Obama is "white" although, as a man I met in the streets of Philly a decade ago observed in indicating his skin and mine: "I'm not black, I'm brown! And you're not white, you're pink!" Which goes to the point that we are not labels, we are flesh and blood and breathing and thinking and feeling. Except for Jim, as much as I try to give him the benefit of the doubt, he is really just a label, and a labeler at that (I'm sure he's in the union too, reaping the benefits while speaking out against them).
I believe he's a broker, Robert.
When the cat is away, the rat will play!!! What a complete fool, and what an irony to have such a fool stalking you!
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