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Books
Walking Woodstock
Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town
by Michael Perkins
and Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom #1 Paperback Bestseller of 2009, Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NY
The Pocket Guide to Woodstock
An Insiders' Guide with Suggested Hikes, a Walking Tour of the Historic Village, Maps, Photographs, and the Best Tips for a Memorable Visit
by Michael Perkins
and Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom #1 Paperback Bestseller of 2012, Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NYBooks
Walking Woodstock
Journeys into the Wild Heart of America’s Most Famous Small Town
by Michael Perkins
and Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom #1 Paperback Bestseller of 2009, Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NYBooks
The Pocket Guide to Woodstock
An Insiders' Guide with Suggested Hikes, a Walking Tour of the Historic Village, Maps, Photographs, and the Best Tips for a Memorable Visit
by Michael Perkins
and Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom #1 Paperback Bestseller of 2012, Golden Notebook, Woodstock, NYPoetry
Love in the City of Grudges
Poems by Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom
My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse
Poems by Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol ZaloomPoetry
Love in the City of Grudges
Poems by Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol ZaloomPoetry
My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse
Poems by Will Nixon
Illustrated by Carol Zaloom
Monthly Archives: February 2012
Hart Crane Hears the River
For years, I’ve been mesmerized by Hart Crane’s poetry as dazzling verbal displays that suggest stories lurking within their densities but always favor ecstatic language over explaining what’s going on. To read his poems aloud is to hear jazz pouring … Continue reading
Voices in the Ice
For several years each February close to Valentine’s Day, our traveling poetry salon wrapped itself up in scarves and pulled on our boots for the sandy half mile trek out the Saugerties Lighthouse, where Patrick Landewe, the keeper, greeted us … Continue reading
Five Occupy Poems by Mike Jurkovic
Hudson Valley poet Mike Jurkovic made repeated trips down to Occupy last autumn. Here’s his report in poems. Zuccotti Following the dispossessed, I never looked up at what blocked the sun from warming the rebel camp, The shadow of a … Continue reading
“Liberty’s Vigil, The Occupy Anthology”
The call for submissions arrived in my e-mails. In a whimsical mood, I wrote a quatrain and wound up with the shortest poem in the book, surely a first and a last for me. Occupy a word spreading like an … Continue reading
The Return of J.J. Clarke, by Leslie Gerber
On December 9, J.J. Clarke was the featured reader at Mezzaluna’s monthly poetry series in Saugerties. As nearly as any of us can figure, it was his first public reading in eight years. When I became a part of the … Continue reading
“Buy This” by Michael Perkins
(First published in the March 30, 2000 Woodstock Times.) The poet Howard Nemerov asserts that “Poetry is a spiritual exercise having for its chief object the discovery or invention of one’s character.” Extend “poetry” in this quotation to represent all … Continue reading
William Bronk, a Neglected Master, by Michael Perkins
(In 1981, Michael Perkins wrote the following appreciation of William Bronk’s Life Supports: New and Collected Poems, which would win the 1982 American Book Award, later to become the National Book Award. In 1991 Bronk also won a Lannan Literary … Continue reading
Beat Reunion, By Michael Perkins
(A reminiscence written in 1996.) The life of Herbert Huncke, who died this year at the age of 81, was celebrated by his friends and admirers on a gray day in late November at the Friends Meeting House in Manhattan. … Continue reading
Too Many Poets?
(From “An Interview with Rita Dove” in The Writer’s Chronicle, December 2011 issue. Rita Dove is a former Poet Laureate of the United States and the editor of The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry, the first such book … Continue reading →