Random Photos

This is an incredibly busy time, and I'm just trying to keep it together. April proved not to be the cruelest month this year, but Inter/National Poetry Month went by like a bullet train and my postings were admittedly spotty. There are still a few more weeks in the semester, and then I hope to post a bit more consistently and frequently. Until then, a few photos of recent events.

A still from Shirley Clark's remarkable 1964 film
The Cool World, which Tracie Morris and colleagues
curated as part of Pratt Institute's Manhattan film series

Various organizers and participants in The Cool World
screening, including actor Rony Clanton (far left), co-organizer
Tracie Morris (second fr left), and critic Amy Taubin (fifth
from left, exact center)

Music box, 34th Street
(you pass your hand in front of the hole
and it issues a lovely tone)

Hilton Als (l) and Junot Díaz in conversation,
the Strand Bookstore

Ari Banias and Pamela Sneed, after the Gregg
Bordowitz Blues for Smoke reading at the Whitney Museum

Engelhard Court, Newark Museum of Art

Kazim Ali, Jayne Anne Phillips, Nathalie Handal
(and Brenda Shaughnessy, at bottom right), final reading
of the 2012-13 Rutgers-Newark Writers @ Newark
reading series

Two award-winners: Rigoberto González and Dee Rees
at Rigoberto's book launch, Casa Azul Bookstore, East Harlem

At Casa Azul Bookstore (poet Sheila Maldonado in the red jacket)

The paparazzi at the red carpet, Tribeca
International Film Festival

One of the celebrities speaking (I asked around but
no one could tell me who he is!)--Do any J's Theater
readers know?

Staceyanne Chin, performing at Rutgers-Newark

A subway drummer, making
and breaking beats

The keynote panel at the CUNY "Renaissance of Roland Barthes"
conference (l-r Diana Knight, D A Miller, Lucy O'Meara,
and Giancarlo Lombardi)

At Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, Barclays
Center and full moon in the background