Richard Leck Memorial Reading, Part 12/13 (Bob Holman reads)

Poet Bob Holman sums up the day's readings and reads some poems.//// Bowery Poetry Club, May 9, 2009: Several writers joined Words Like Kudzu Press to read from Richard Leck's poetry and his stories as we remembered Richard's humor and his writing. This video, Part 12, features poet Bob Holman talking about Richard Leck, the readings we've heard so far, oral history, and the fight to save Richard's manuscripts from the trash bin. He also reads several of Richard's poems from "Memory Hair." Don't miss Bob Holman Part 2 (Part 13 in this video series) where Bob reads a comic excerpt from the memoir:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30M2lBx3Cvc

Words Like Kudzu poet, Richard Leck, died on December 19, 2008, at age 75. At the time of his death he was co-authoring his autobiography, "Jumped, Fell, or Was Pushed," with Karen Lillis. The autobiography is still in progress; Lillis has plans to complete it.

At this reading we said goodbye to Richard Leck, the person, and hello to Richard Leck, the writer--he died at the beginning of his publishing career.

More about WLK Press: http://www.myspace.com/wordslikekudzu

Audio engineering by Nick at Bowery Poetry Club, reader photo and video by Karen Lillis at WLK Press.

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