Elinor Nauen

Man, it was great to hang out with some of my old friends/favorite people last night at Boris & Horton, the dog-friendly café on 12th & A, to celebrate the publication of Greggo's most recent book, The Complete Thoughts of Greg Masters. I totally admire that he is getting his work out, frequently & in very nice editions. And I loved seeing Anselm, Andrei, Mike & June, John G, Bob H. Bob R, Vincent, Annabel, Don Y, Peter B, & a couple of others I didn't get to talk to. I want to take for granted book parties & get-togethers again. It's inspiring to hear about all the projects & travels my poet friends are up to ~ still tireless after all these years.

I have been thinking about the Italian artist Carol Rama (1918-2015) since I first ran into her work at a big show at the New Museum. I joined the museum so I could look at her work again & again, & have been back 3 times now.

I still can't articulate what grips me so much.

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I've thrown out a lot of junk but found a lot of treasures. In particular, a box of magazines with poems of mine in them, many of which I didn't remember even writing (cf Ron Padgett, Poems I Guess I Wrote). I read a bunch this afternoon at a fun reading I did with Martha King,

Here's one, which was published in Mag City 8 (edited by Greg Masters, Michael Scholnick, & Gary Lenhart), in 1979:

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