News of the Day

"At the 50th Anniversary Beat Conference at NYU in 1994, Gregory Corso lead off his part of the Town Hall Concert with the statement that poets should bring the News of the Day to the community; with that he read a piece he had written only hours before the concert with his poet's comments on the day's goings on. Since then I've taken it upon myself, prior to a reading or concert, to find that poem that is the News of the Day, reading it to start off the event." (from the Acknowlegements) These poems are of this sort. John - 2007