Nancy Ruhling profiles poet and editor Ron Kolm in the Huffington Post…

Incident in a NYC Bookstore

for Anne Waldman

I’m sitting behind the cash register
In an East Village bookstore
On St. Mark’s Place
Near Second Avenue
Looking at a postcard
That’s taped to the wall
Of Anne Waldman, topless-
It’s been there a long time
But I’ve never actually read
The message she wrote on it.

So I’m kind of distracted ( Read more... )

The writer and critic Jim Feast dissects Ron Kolm's Divine Comedy in a review on Tribes.

As we wind down these last few hours of 2013 there’s something I’d like to get off my chest, especially in light of the endless encomia to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s tenure, and the relentless anointment of him as perhaps the greatest mayor in the history of New York City. Well, I sure don’t see it that way. To my mind, Mayor Bloomberg’s reign has ( Read more... )