Poetry reading at Troy Kitchen, 9/8/19

The Spring 2019 Community Writers Workshop participants. Back row from left, Eliana Rowe, Jeffrey Aaron Stubits, Melissa Hurt, instructor and UAlbany alum D. Colin, Amy Nedeau, Stephanie Nolan, Karin Lin-Greenberg and Phyllis Hillinger. Front row, Linda Berkery, Michael Janairo, Patti Croop and Lynn Trudeau. Missing from the photo are Matresa Flowers, Daniel Gorman, Kendall Hoeft and Annika Nerf.

Check it out: I’m one of fifteen people who recently took part in the New York State Writers Institute Community Writers Workshop and will complete the poetry course with a public reading at 7 p.m. on Monday, July 8, at Troy Kitchen, 77 Congress St.

The event is free and open to the public, and marks the first time that NYS Writers Institute workshop participants will give a public reading.

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Happy Fourth!

A friendly holiday reminder from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District from the 1970s.

World Cup fever

Streb Extreme Action in action

Happy Mother’s Day

Mom and me. Best mom ever.

Book review: “Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale” by Chuck Kinder

Michael Janairo

book-7121This review first appeared in the Albany Times Union (August 11, 2001)

Hilarious, loving characters in ‘Honeymooners’

Chuck Kinder’s first novel since “The Silver Ghost,” in 1978, “Honeymooners: A Cautionary Tale” ($24; Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 358 pages), is a hilarious, yet unflinching, eyes-against-the-windshield journey through years of booze, drugs, sex, friendships, lies and betrayals in the lives of a pair of promising young writers.

The freewheeling 1970s that Kinder recreates, mostly in the San Francisco Bay area, belong within the literary tradition of the moveable feast Hemingway created out of Paris in the ’20s. Kinder’s writers, Ralph Crawford and Jim Stark, live “like bold outlaw authors on the lam from that gloomy tedium called ordinary life.” Kinder both celebrates and sends up their bravura and recklessness.

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Publication: ‘The Tahamaling’ in Mirror Dance

My poem “The Tahamaling” has just been published in Mirror Dance, edited by Megan Arkenberg.

Check it out here.

Friday Photo: 飴細工 (amezaiku)

飴細工 (amezaiku) goldfish in the Like Sugar exhibition Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, April 4, 2019.

Publication: ‘Inside Infinity’ in Thimble Literary Magazine

My poem Inside Infinity: Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Dots Mirrored Room, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh has just been published in Thimble Literary Magazine, edited by Nadia Wolnisty.

Check it out here.