Note: This is an rough, unedited version of an interview that was conducted over the winter of 1989/1990, and was printed in a different form in Disembodied Poetics (1995) and has recently been republished as the title piece of Anne Waldman’s Vow To Poetry (2001). Randy Roark: Can you remember deciding to be a poet?… Continue Reading »
Note: The first couple of minutes of this interview were lost due to engineer error (me). Randy Roark: There’s lullaby-ish qualities to the songs themselves as a whole, as a unit, as a CD. Jane Siberry: So there’s that too. That’s actually more of what I should probably say. You’re my first interview, Randy, so… Continue Reading »
Randy Roark’s Mona Lisa’s Veil: Selected Poems 1979-2001 will be released in December 2001 by Baksun Books. Tamra Spivey is lead singer of Lucid Nation, an ever-changing ensemble who most recently included drummer Patty Schemel of Hole and bassist Greta Brinkman of Moby’s band. Tamra: I learned from your note about Kerouac and Ginsberg’s “practiced”… Continue Reading »
An Interview for “Argotist” Literary Magazine, United Kingdom, December, 2006 Jeffrey Side has had poetry published in various magazines such as Poetry Salzburg Review, and on poetry web sites such as Poethia, nthposition, eratio, Ancient Heart, Blazevox, P.F.S. Post, hutt, ken*again, and CybpherAnthology. He has reviewed poetry for New Hope International, Stride, Acumen, and Shearsman…. Continue Reading »
I can identify Beethoven’s piano sonatas playing in the apartment three roofs distant. Her window is open and she is preparing dinner, slicing onion by the sink. The fat notes of the sonatas float through the open window and drift over the dusty rooftops to my porch, overlooking the Acropolis, just before sunset. If I… Continue Reading »
Randy Roark: Interview by Jim Cohn Randy Roark came to Boulder in November 1979 to apprentice with the poet Allen Ginsberg as he assembled his Collected Poems, and continued to work in various capacities with the poet until Ginsberg’s death in 1997. He has published over 40 volumes of original prose and poetry and art… Continue Reading »