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New York Confessional

Unless you count the airports, I’ve never been to New York City.  I’ve spent a few nights in places like Buffalo and Niagara Falls and one week at a camp upstate, but I’ve never set foot in or near the city.  I don’t even really understand burroughs.  Is Brooklyn part of NYC?

Anyway, suddenly things are happening in and around the city — things connected to me.  I can tell you about two of them right now.  The other two things have to wait.  But I’ll give you a hint: sea creatures.

  1. I just talked to a fellow who’s publishing a book with HarperCollins about poetry.
  2. I’m about to give an interview to someone who left the city and moved upstate.  I suspect we’ll touch on poetry in that one . . .
  3. ?
  4. ?
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March 8th, 2010 | Category: clue, poetry
  • Yes, Alan, Brooklyn is most certainly part of New York City, but it was once a separate city and has always been somewhat of a second city. It has an exciting cultural life entirely its own. And so many of our upstate cities and towns. I'm loathe to cite a few for fear of offending those I omit. But the literary, performing and plastic arts are thriving all over the state. The lower and mid-Hudson Valley is intimately tied to New York City's life and economy. Walt Whitman worked for The Brooklyn Eagle and Hart Crane was as familiar with Brooklyn as he was lower Manhattan.
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