Showing posts with label random photos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label random photos. Show all posts

Monday, July 30, 2018

Random Photos

Following up on my post of 2018 photos from mid-June, here are few more recent photos from the last few months. Enjoy!

14th Street & 8th Avenue, Manhattan
The view from New Directions's offices,
late spring, Manhattan
At the New Directions Book Expo
American annual party, Manhattan
At a neighborhood association meeting, to stop
a monstrosity from going up on our street
One of the endlessly rising towers,
downtown Jersey City
Waiting for a ride, Jersey City
Filming an ad, Jersey City
Outside Berl's Poetry Store, DUMBO, Brooklyn
Amid the prosperity, Jersey City
Empire State Building, Manhattan
Another closed store I used
to pop by, Manhattan
Praying, on busy 8th Avenue, Manhattan
Repairs, Exchange Place Station, Jersey City
Waiting for the 6, Upper East Side, Manhattan
Street poet, near Astor Place, West Village, Manhattan
Crossing 5th Avenue, West Village, Manhattan
Cyclists, 5th Avenue, West Village, Manhattan
A new high(er) end business,
8th Street (formerly "Shoe Row"),
West Village, Manhattan
8th Street, with empty storefronts, West Village
Another empty storefront, 8th Street, West Village
Bleecker & Christopher Sts., West Village
A can collector, in front of another empty
storefront, Christopher Street, West Village
Rows of empty storefronts, Christopher Street,
West Village
The beautiful letter press edition of my
poem "all music," by Daniela Del Mar
and letterpress-printed at her shop,
Letra Chueca Press in Portland,
as part of my visit to Reed College
and presentation to Samiya Bashir
and her students

Construction on what was formerly
NYU's Coles Athletic Center,
with the Silver Towers in the rear,
West Village, Manhattan
Mercer Street, with one of my favorite
used bookstores in Manhattan,
Mercer Street Books, which has managed
to hang on (please visit them if you're in town)

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Random Photos

It has been a long while since I've posted random photos. Here's a small sampling, from this past spring.

The Commons at the Atlantic Center for the Arts,
Stetson University MFA of the Americas 
Kameelah Janan Rasheed reading
at home field school day 2018,
MoMA PS1
The audience at the home field
school day reading 2018,
MoMA PS1 
home field school day 2018,
MoMA PS1 
home field school day 2018,
MoMA PS1
Poet Mai Der Vang, Rutgers-Newark
MFA Reading Series, February 2018
Marcus Samuelsson's B&P
Restaurant, Newark  
Portland, during my visit to Reed
College and Portland State University 
At Portland State
Near Portland State University
Spring in downtown Jersey City 
Irène Mathieu and Desiree Cooper at
the Jack Jones gathering, AWP
Fence-stallation, Jersey City 
Modeling, Warehouse Cafe,
Jersey City
Robert E. Lee's (yes, that one!) former bedroom,
where I participated in an interview with students
at Washington & Lee University; the aura
was almost unearthly, but the visit
was a wonderful one
The chapel housing Robert E. Lee's tomb,
Washington & Lee University (a site
of pilgrimage, as you can imagine, for
pro-Confederates); it was closed when I was there 
Washington state, Washington & Lee University
At South Station, Boston
On the street, Newark
Birds gathering, Penn Station, Newark 
Emerson Hall, Harvard Yard
Tercentary Theater, Harvard Yard 
Before the reading with Fanny Howe &
Eden McCutcheon Tirl, at Harvard 
Before the reading with Fanny Howe &
Eden McCutcheon Tirl, at the Woodberry
Poetry Room, Harvard University
(the great Jamaica Kincaid is in the far back, at right)
Fanny Howe, Vocarium Reading Series
at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard 
Eden McCutcheon Tirl, Vocarium Reading
Series at the Woodberry Poetry Room, Harvard 
Fanny Howe (at right), with her grandson
Tree-cutting, Jersey City
Tribeca Film Festival, New York 
At the Tribeca Film Festival, New York
Heading towards the George Washington Bridge
At Arthur Jafa's show opening,
Gavin Brown's experience, Harlem
At Arthur Jafa's show opening,
Gavin Brown's experience, Harlem
Swizz Beatz, outside Arthur Jafa's
opening, Gavin Brown's experience, Harlem
Irises in bloom, Jersey City
Waiting for the PATH train, Newark
Changing the announcement chalk
board, Jersey City