The Buffalo Readings: Poetry Art Music Gathering of The Tribes 285 East Third Street (Between Ave C & D) #2 New York, NY 10009 Every Third Friday (July 15) 8-10PM ### Dear New York City, You are cordially invited to a Buffalo Readings’ newest reading series to be held in this the year of our … Read more
Lesser Light: Maria Mitchell Like any distant lover Dr Mitchell perfected her love in pensive absence seated at a daylit table in an upstairs room (springtime is outside the open window and flows through the window, too) descended from the high copper dome that covers her and her telescope like a house, a bridal chamber … Read more
The Buffalo Readings: Poetry Art Music Gathering of The Tribes 285 East Third Street (Between Ave C & D) #2 New York, NY 10009 February 19, 2011 8-10PM ### Dear New York City, You are cordially invited to a Buffalo Readings to be held in this the year of our mind Two-thousand-eleven, … Read more
Book Party for Dick Lourie’s If the Delta Was the Sea at Tribes on Sunday, March 6, 5 to 7 pm If the Delta Was the Sea Dick Lourie Dick Lourie is both a poet and a blues saxophone player. In 1997, the chance to perform at a festival with internationally renowned blues musician Big … Read more
Ishmael Reed, The author of “Barack Obama and The Jim Crow Media “and the forthcoming,” “Juice!” a novel that Reed began in 1994 and his first since 1993, will be reading at the notorious Tribes Gallery,285 E.3rd from 5-7 on Monday, Feb.7,2011. Accompanying Reed will be his youngest daughter, Tennessee, a member of the writing Reeds … Read more
BIBLE’S FIRST ANARCHIST CHAMPIONS THE UNIQUE The Living Theater’s stage at 21 Clinton Street is ablaze again where a striking tableau of biblical characters are brought to life by Judith Malina in her new play “Korach”, which she wrote and co-directs, starring Tom Walker as Moses and Jerry Goralnick as Korach. The play opened December … Read more
Mario Vargas Llosa y Linda Morales Foto: Cortesía Elizabeth Matamoros El Nobel de Mario Vargas Llosa Por Linda Morales Caballero Mario Vargas Llosa gana el Nobel de Literatura 2010, es una de las grandes noticias de los últimos días, tan sólo rivalizada por el drama humano de los 33 mineros atrapados en la mina San … Read more
Dying Notes of an Ordinary Songbird? by Susan Scutti The most present character of Jonathan Franzen’s novel Freedom is not so much Patty Berglund as her generation and class. Franzen frames Patty in her choices and her choices are distinctly those that were made, as he would have it, by most everybody. In his first … Read more
A POET’S PROSE: Islanders by Ammiel Alcalay 132 Pages. City Lights Books, San Francisco 2010 Reviewed by David Henderson Ammiel Alcalay has been closer to war than most contemporary poets. His late father, a painter, spent time in an Italian concentration camp during World War Two. His son, Ammiel, having accrued fluency in several languages … Read more
Since I have like three venues to publish it in, and I told Tao I needed a galley, I feel obliged to write a review of Tao Lin’s novel, Richard Yates. I don’t think I will ever read anything by Richard Yates. Reading Tao Lin has a way of erasing any literary knowledge one had. … Read more
