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UP AND AUTUMN

Monday, September 20th, 2010
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Escalator Palm, 16th & Mission BART Station, San Francisco

September in Moscow 2010

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Photo: Gloria Vando

Following his Sunday afternoon benefit reading for Beyond Baroque, Al Young poses beside an intriguing Thugs Against Drugs jalopy that has long been parked across the street from the beloved literary arts center in the heart of Venice, CA. | October 16, 2010

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A California/Oregon autumn medley

Photos: Al Young & PC Mack

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Courtesy Albany, CA Public Library

[L-R] Poets Camille Dungy, Cynthia Parker-Ohene (holding Camille’s baby Callie), Catherine Taylor and Al Young



Photo: Camille T. Dungy

Grand Uncle Al holding four-month-old Callie, daughter of Camille Dungy and Ray Black, at the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley | October 2, 2010


Al Young sings some blues and reads his poem “Ars Poetica” with Barry Finnerty’s Jazz Roots Trio at the 2010 Watershed Festival


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Bathing bluebirds, North Carolina


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Full fall moon


Photo: Jason Moran

Saxophonist-composer Charles Lloyd, artist-photographer Dorothy Darr (Lloyd’s life-partner and guardian angel), and Al Young reunite backstage between sets at Yoshi’s in Oakland, CA, where the New Charles Lloyd Quartet performed to a packed house for two nights during the autumnal equinox | September 2010

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The New Charles Lloyd Quartet in action at Yoshi’s, Oakland | Charles Lloyd, tenor saxophone; Jason Moran, piano; Reuben Rogers, bass; Eric Harland, drums

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To and From Russia with Love

September 2010

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Photos: WebEx

Photo- and screen-captures of video-conference moments as Al Young and Diem Jones in California sign on with Stanford’s Darlene Reddaway in St. Petersburg and Moscow for the Parshchikov Readings that she and poet Vadim Mesyats co-produced. Because greater Moscow and Silicon Valley’s Santa Clara County enjoy Sister Counties status, the conference featured Russian and Northern California-based American poets, including Michael Palmer, Nils Peterson, and Diem Jones.

Alexei Maximovich Parshchikov
(25 May 1954 – 3 April 2009)

To view a cluster of photo highlights from the St. Petersburg/Mosow Parshchikov Readings (with text in Russian), click here.
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Sunnyboy (age 16) with cherry tomatoes and Asian pears


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Tomatoes still dreaming of heat

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Window wishing


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Al with his writer buddies Floyd Salas and Claire Ortalda at Enkutatash (Ethiopian New Year’s Festival), Berkeley | September 2010

Scenes at the 2010 Enkutatashi Festival, which Al co-emceed, at Martin Luther King, Jr. Civic Plaza, Berkeley

Photos: Al Young

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©  Alonzo Young

To view all 260 Enkutatash Berkeley 2010 photographs at Flickr, click here

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SUMMER SEASONS

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
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Late Summer Night Dreams



Photos: Al Young |
Squaw Valley, Berkeley, Palo Alto, California


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Al Young and Amy Tan at the annual Community of Writers at Squaw Valley mid-week picnic.



Photos courtesy Peet’s Midtown Café, Palo Alto, CA

above | Al Young and poet-translator Darlene Reddaway of Stanford’s Slavic Studies meet to go over Russian versions of Al’s poems that Moscow poet Vadim Mesyats is translating for a three-city conference. Invited by the Moscow Academy of Sciences to tour Helsinki, St. Petersburg and Moscow in mid-September with Russian and other American poets (Michael Palmer among them), Al has opted to video-confer from California. below | Darlene patiently teaches Al the WebEx moves.

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Official invitation/travel visa issued to Al Young after the Moscow Academy of Sciences invited him to attend a September 2010 poetry and literature conference in the Russian Federation.

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“The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people.”
César Chávez (1927-1993)

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left | Screen actor Ian Holm as Greenwich Village poet-bohemian Joe Gould in Stanley Tucci’s Joe Gould’s Secret (2000); right | Joe Gould himself

“In winter I’m a Buddhist;
In summer I’m a nudist.”

— Little Joe Gould (1891-1957)

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Sweet Basil and beyond


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Summerless young tomatoes


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Ed and Helen’s “orchid time”

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Michael Young and Dad | Palo Alto, July 2010

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above | Poet Joseph Lease photographed by Al Young
below | Al Young and Joseph Lease — who both teach at California College of the Arts’ MFA Writing Program, San Francisco — meet over coffee at Farley’s East near Lake Merritt, Oakland, August 2010
photographed by Solomon Pope

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Legendary Sons of Champlin guitarist Terry Haggerty and vocalist Danielle Thys perform “Ten Cents a Dance” with the Randy Craig Trio + One at Caffè Trieste, Berkeley, CA

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Facebook pals Danielle Thys and Al meet face to face in real-time for the first time at Caffè Trieste.

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Writers Marvin X, Tennessee Reed, Conyus, and Al Young | Koret Auditorium, San Francisco, July 2010

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Following an onstage conversation with producer Justin Desmangles at the San Francisco Library’s Koret Auditorium, the tireless Ishmael Reed signs copies of Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media; just published in Montréal, Québec by Baraka Books.

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(L-R) Painters Dewey Crumpler and Arthur Monroe; writers Ishmael Reed, Conyus, Marvin X, Al Young

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Poet Conyus and broadcast journalist, producer and visual artist Safi wa Nairobi

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Safi wa Nairobi and master painter Arthur Monroe at El Zócalo, Mission District, San Francisco

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For their annual get-together, Al poses again with two luminous former students he taught at UC Santa Cruz and San José State University respectively: Persis Karim (left) and Kate Evans (right), the both of them now prolific writers and treasured professors at San José State.

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Al Young delivers Kenneth Rexroth’s “Time Spirals” and his own “For Kenneth and Miriam Patchen” at Diesel Books, Oakland, to celebrate publication of The Place That Inhabits Us: Poems of the San Francisco Bay Watershed (Sixteen Rivers Press) | July 2010

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Writers Ellen Weiss and Jackie Huss Hallerberg suspend their bookstore conversation with Al to huddle for a shot.

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Host Richard Silberg of Poetry Flash and editor-writing teacher Sharon Coleman stare into Al’s friendly lens while poet Jackie Huss Hallerberg politely steps aside.

Richard Silberg reads his poem “Sunset” at Diesel Books, 11 July 2010


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Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute 2010

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Sun rising over Lake Altus-Lugert at Quartz Mountain, Oklahoma

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OSAI [Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute] Creative Writing Class 2010

Front row, L-R ~ Alison Liu, Kathy Zhou, Katie Duncan, Brooke Bolding, Erin Miller

Second row ~

Mary Alexa Woodard (bending), Renae Perry, Hannah Erb, Kailee Bird West

Back row ~

Al Young, Arthur Dixon, Elizabeth Sholar, Olivia Leigh Branscum, Claire Winfrey, Ross Haley, Margaux Griffith


Oklahoma Workdshop in Action 2010

The 2010 OSAI writing workshop in action at Beverly Badger Memorial Library, where poems and prose-poems were composed on the spot. Student laptops were rigged to block internet access.


Workshop photos © Brooke Bolding

OSAI summer workshop student Elizabeth Sholar test-reads one poem out loud.


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Photos: Connor Choates

Two versions of how to look preternaturally cool (or altogether vanish) in 100°F heat on a typical June afternoon at Oklahoma’s Quartz Mountain.

Front row, L-R ~ Alison Liu, Erin Miller, Kathy Zhou, Katie Duncan, Renae Perry

Second row ~ Kailee Bird West, Hannah Erb (leaning), Al Young, Olivia Branscum

Far back row ~ Ross Haley, Claire Winfrey, Mary Alexa Woodard, Elizabeth Sholar, Arthur Dixon


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Al & Margaux at Mangnum

Photo: PC Mack

During a much-needed workshop excursion by bus to nearby Mangum, Oklahoma, Al Young and Creative Writing liaison Margaux Griffith relax outside the Old Greer County Museum & Hall of Fame.

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Coming across a stash of American flags as the class explores Mangum’s long abandoned Franklin Hotel, Hannah Erb, Kailee Bird West and Margaux Griffith note Oklahoma’s devoted patriotism.

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Kathy Zhou and Katie Duncan (below) are off to look at Mangum while Hannah Erb, Olivia Branscum, and the rest of us look around the ruined hotel.

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(top) Trombone instructor Wesley Broadnax, PR assistant Joy Kotey, Al
(bottom) Acting instructor Vincent Dowling, Ballet instructor Giana Jigarhan, Al

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Al Young in after-hours party mode

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Violin instructor Misha Galagnov, French horn instructor Charles Gavin, trombonist Wesley Broadnax, Orchestra instructor Chrisian Knapp, Choral liaison Christine Hrubik, Modern Dance liaison Kristie Schaffner, Creative Writing liaison Margaux Griffith — snapped at the close of a morning staff meeting at Sunset Café.

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THE SPRING THING

Sunday, March 21st, 2010

“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” Mark Twain

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Of this shot with a resplendent Northern Cascades defining all else, Susan Slapin of Orcas Island, WA writes: “I love photography, in case you haven’t noticed. This morning — lots o’ birds here! Seagulls walking on North Beach, on Crescent Beach — herons and Canadian geese.”

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Green Moss Buddha

The Buddhist Channel

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The 2010 PEN-Faulkner Awards
May 6-7, Washington, DC
The Folger Shakespeare Library

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Photos by Claire Duggan

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From left to right: emcee Gwen Ifill, finalist Lorrie Moore, finalist Lorraine López, finalist Colson Whitehead, judge Kyoko Mori, winner Sherman Alexie, judge Rilla Askew, finalist Barbara Kingsolver, and judge Al Young.  |  Photo courtesy of Claire Duggan

Read the story behind the shot at PEN/Faulkner Foundation.org
View the Folger Shakespeare Library’s photostream at Flickr

Previous announcement of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Awards for Fiction at AlYoung.org
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Sherman Alexie: Winner of the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Fiction Award for War Dances.


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Before the awards ceremony begins at Washington, DC’s Folger Shakespeare Library, PEN-Faulkner judge Al Young signs citations he has composed for honored writers Colson Whitehead and Sherman Alexie.
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Alexie‘s “rollicking, bittersweet gem of a book.”


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Popular DC dance therapist Kris O’Shea pins the corsage to Al’s lapel while her out-of-frame spouse — novelist Alan Cheuse of NPR book review fame — looks on.


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Diane Alexie and authors Sherman Alexie and Lorrie Moore captured in timeless black & white at the 2010 PEN-Faulkner Awards reception.


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Renowned broadcast journalist Gwen Ifill and PEN-Faulkner judge and author Rilla Askew meet and greet.


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Kyoko Mori & GuestsNovelist and judge Kyoko Mori and newly elected PEN-Faulkner president Lisa Page swap pleasantries with two excited guests.


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PEN-Faulkner Award judges Kyoko Mori and Al Young who, up until Awards weekend, had only known each other through writings, books, emails and telephone conferences.


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The Folger Shakespeare Library dining room.


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Novelist-biographer-memoirist Beverly Lowry and daughter Melissa with Al Young at the 2010 PEN-Faulkner Awards.

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ENTER WINTER

Friday, January 8th, 2010
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L-R: Poets Camille Dungy, Robert Chrisman, Jayne Cortez, Al Young, Melba Joyce Boyd, Conyus, Arthur Sheridan, and (seated) Adam David Miller — following the 40th anniversary celebration reading for The Black Scholar Journal at the University of California, Berkeley ~ November 2009


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On a 13-degree Fahrenheit night, poet-playwright Bill Harris and popular poet and arts activist Terry Blackhawk talk weather and shop while the audience gathers at Detroit’s restful, beautiful Virgil H. Carr Cultural Arts Center in December, 2009.


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Meanwhile, Al Young and a jetlagged Melba Boyd — just back from a teaching stay in Shanghai and visit to San Francisco — complete some unfinished business before the show (A Night of Poetry, Jazz and Blues in Detroit’s Historic Paradise Valley) begins.


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The gig begins with Melba Boyd — Detroit born and bred — reading and reciting a suite of exciting home-triggered poems layered with blues-tinged helpings of master bassist Marion Hayden‘s joy.


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Populist poet and master of ceremonies M.L. Liebler greets renowned guitarist-poet Ron English who, with Marion Hayden, will collaborate with Al Young, now poised to kick off his set.


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Nata Morozova, the videographer focusing here on saxophonist Faruq Z. Bey, journeyed to Detroit all the way from Siberia, where Bey — as a member of M.L. Liebler’s Magic Poetry Band — has often performed.


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After Al Young opens with “The Art of Benny Carter,” his brief poetic tribute to the humanizing majesty of jazz, Ron and Marion slip eloquently into Carter’s classic ballad, “When Lights Are Low.”

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Like all true artists who work with sound and song, Bill Harris listens as thoughtfully as he speaks or sets pen to paper — or fingers to keyboard.


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Bill Harris reads from Birth of a Notion; Or, The Half Ain’t Never Been Told, forthcoming from Wayne State University Press.

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Melba Boyd and Faruq Z. Bey in rapt response to the poetry Bill Harris is voicing.


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December paints North Carolina

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HOMELESS BLANKETS | A Photo Essay by Stephen Vincent

Thursday, November 26th, 2009

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Homeless Blankets

In and Around Dolores Park, San Francisco —
A Photo Essay

“A photo essay on homeless blankets in and around Dolores Park, San Francisco. A project I have been with a few years. Photos, my way of exploring human imprint when the language comes up way short. A poetry without words but a poetry, nevertheless.”
— Stephen Vincent

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All photographs © 2009 by Stephen Vincent and subject to copyright restrictions. Reproduced with the permission of Stephen Vincent.

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StephenVincent

Stephen Vincent — walker, blogger, poet & artist — lives in San Francisco. He is the author of Walking Theory, a book of poems

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Other recent works by Stephen Vincent include the ebooks Sleeping With Sappho (faux press) and Triggers (Shearsman).

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