The older I get the more I look like the poet Robert Lowell. If I could write poetry like Lowell, I’d be set.
Year: 2020
Karl Shapiro
This is the only filmed interview I’ve been able to find of the great poet Karl Shapiro. It’s sourced from a 16mm film by Karl Shapiro and Arthur Hoyle, Santa Monica, CA: Pyramid Films, 1976.
The Cabbie’s Tale
Tim Fasano, who died last November of cardiac arrest, penned a memoir of life at the margins of society. Before becoming a YouTube sensation with over 1,300 videos of his search for Bigfoot, he wrote a popular blog called Tampa Taxi Shots. The blogging craze was at its height in 2006, and Mr. Fasano began documenting his view of life on the streets from behind the wheel of a United Cab.