Poets, Old
Friends & New
Tom Swartz and David Cope with Tom’s dog, Josh
atop
Allen, Anam Thubten, and Marc Olmsted, 1996.
Andy Clausen, photo by Eliot Katz
Chris Ide and Dave Cope, photo by Steve
Miles. Boulder, 4 July 86, idyllic summer in memory's glass.
We all stayed up at Allen's friend's house on Mapleton, kept house and watered
the garden, read Shakespeare's sonnets, Rimbaud, and Kerouac together while
Peter made soup--racing down to Naropa for readings
and big yakk, & I read in Andy's summer series,
hiked up Flagstaff Mountain predawn & watched the sunrise over the second
range. Chris was preternaturally gifted young poet, OD'd at
29—a Rimbaud in the making. I still miss him.
Carl Rakosi at the Marine St. Apartments,
Antler and David Cope,
Jack Collom in
background. Photo by Jeff Poniewaz.
Anne Waldman & Ken Mikolowski, Anne’s
first public reading of
Manatee, Humanity, @ the
Residential College,
Spring 2009. Photo by
David Cope.
Anne Waldman, cover of Big Scream
47. The 2009 issue featured Anne’s
extended polemic, “Matriot Acts.”
Janine Pommy Vega
Andy Clausen & Shiv Mirabito,
Photo by Chris Funkhouser.
Diane di Prima
with her granddaughter, Julia Chaka Marlow.
Photo by Tara Marlow.
Marc Olmsted. Cover
of Big Scream 43.
Together after so many years: poet David Montgomery (now deceased),
David Cope, poet-blues guitarist Frank Salamone, and
poet Gary Korreck, all old college friends who stayed
true to their dreams and never wavered.
David learning renaissance dance in class at
Andy Clausen at work, 2009.
Jim Cohn with daughter Isabella and goats
in front of the Flatirons,
Lesléa Newman
David Cope nod & wink
at 62, 2010.
Photo by Scott Baisden.