Tag Archives: WILLEM DAFOE

THE RULES OF KLAUS

July 7, 2020 – 7:49 pm

In 1978 Anthony Scibelli shot a roman-photo based on my detective poem featuring Klaus Nomi, Cookie Mueller, Clover Nolan, Andy Reese and several other friends from the downtown scene. MoMA celebrated Club 57 in 2017. When I arrived at the opening, a friend said, “You’re famous.” Tony’s photos were featured at the front entrance. No […]

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LOVE YOU LONG TIME – CHAPTER 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

May 11, 2020 – 11:20 am

In the summer of 1986 I shared my bed with a raven-haired flamenco dancer from Madrid. In late August Elana’s boyfriend called from New England in late August. She left for Gloucester the next day. My elderly Puerto Rican neighbor cursed me in Spanish. The Honduran super translated Mrs. Adorno’s words to inform me that […]

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Peter Nolan Smith – CLUB 57 Reading @ MoMA 2/8/2018

January 31, 2018 – 7:44 pm

Peter Nolan Smith Reading – CLUB 57 READING AT MoMA February 8, 2018 4PM at the CLUB 57 Exhibition at MoMA 11 W 53rd St, New York, NY 10019 Readings by Peter Nolan Smith with friends; Ann Magnuson, Willem Dafoe, and Larry Fleischman Fotos by Anthony Scibelli, Peter Nolan Smith, and Kim Davis Video by […]

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THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN NORTHERN MAINE by Peter Nolan Smith

February 6, 2017 – 2:34 pm

Scientists first warned the world about global warming with an 1975 article published in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. ‘Inadvertent climate modification’ sounded like gobbledygook to the common man, who was more terrified by the possibility of a ‘nuclear winter’ produced by an atomic bomb exchange between the USA and USSR and American oil producers pooh-bayed the National […]

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Robert Wilson’s THE OLD WOMAN at BAM

June 29, 2014 – 3:14 pm

THE OLD WOMAN was loosely based on the absurdist stories of Danil Kharms, an avant grade Bolshevik writer who survived a Soviet purge to retreat into safety of children literature. His adult stories were short. FALLING OLD LADIES is the basis of THE OLD WOMAN Because of her excessive curiosity, an old lady fell out […]

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