ANOTHER GOOD QUOTE

 

TBT

 
Today is the birthday of one of my favorite writers, Nadia Owusu (with me in photo after we read at Pace in 2019). If you haven't read her memoir AFTERSHOCKS, do.

TBF

 
this photo of me and beloved friend, Katy Sagal, popped up on my screen-saver slide show and swept me back to LA in the 1980s and '90s when we we're hanging out 

HAPPY V DAY

 

SOME 2022 MOVIE FAVES

MOST SATISFYING MOVIE OF 2022:

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME

RUNNERS UP:

GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE

THE WOMAN KING

MOST IMPRESSIVE LEAD PERFORMANCE:

MICHELLE YEOH (EVERYTHING etc.)

RUNNERS UP:

EMMA THOMPSON (GOOD LUCK TO YOU etc.)

VIOLA DAVIS (WOMAN KING)

MOST IMPRESSIVE SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE:

KE HUY QUAN (EVERYTHING etc.)

RUNNERS UP:

DARYL MCCORMACK (GOOD LUCK TO YOU etc.)

THUSO MBEDU (WOMAN KING)

HONORABLE MENTION:

COLIN FARRELL (BANSHEES OF INISHERIN)

41 YEARS AGO

 

Front and back covers of HOLLYWOOD MAGIC, a collection of my poetry from the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s, published by Little Caesar Press in 1982, photo of me by Lynn Goldsmith of me.

DAN SIMON AND ME

 
Me (so white I glow) and Dan Simon who runs Seven Stories Press, publisher of my last book ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY: Poems 1960-2017. A joy to work with, considerate and supportive. Photos taken by my longtime friend Nana-Ama Danquah, another of his authors, 2019.