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Michael

About Me

HOST & COORDINATOR--The PHOENIX READING SERIESPUBLISHER & EDITOR--PHOENIXPERSONA--BLATNOY--RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT SATIRIST, ICONOCLASTIC, PROVOCATIVELEADER--ULYSSES READING GROUPRECOVERY--LENGTHY, ONGOING, SUBSTANTIALEXERCISE--LONG WALKS, DANCINGCREATIVE WORK--POETRY MOSTLY, INCREASINGLY RECOGNIZED

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I. I'M BOOKISH & QUIET, THOUGH I CAN BE VERY OUTGOING. I GUESS I'D LIKE TO MEETPEOPLE WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS WHO ARE NOT COMPULSIVE TALKERS AND NOT INTOSTATUS AND ACQUISITION, ESPECIALLY RAT-RACE STATUS AND ACQUISITION.II. FRIENDS I DON'T SEE OFTEN ENOUGH BECAUSE OF TRAVEL, DISTANCE OR SCHEDULE.III. PEOPLE I'VE CARED ABOUT AND LOST.

My Blog

Stephen Dedalus as Fool.

As Stephen Dedalus presents his Shakespeare theory in the library episode of Ulysses, he thinks "Folly. Persist." Earlier, he has thought of Blake’s dictum that "If the fool would persist in his...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:33:00 GMT

LAST BEAR MCCAIN & I HEAR THE COYOTE

I want to recommend two books by Bill Hotchkiss-- a great novel, Last Bear McCain and a powerful collection of poems I HEAR THE COYOTE. Both books are soaked in an eloquent love of nature and the myth...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:39:00 GMT

PHOENIX/Phoenix/Aeschylus/Joyce

Today is the Launch Reading for PHOENIX, the literary magazine I’m publishing. It is beautiful and full of really good poetry and prose poems.Here’s the info: (I apologize ahead of time fo...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:08:00 GMT

PHOENIX READING SERIES

The next Phoenix Reading--Group Reading--newcomers welcomeBangal Curry65 West Broadway,NYC, NY1 1/2 blocks south of Chambers StreetSunday, August 26, 20076 pm to Whenever
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 22:16:00 GMT