Friday, October 9, 2020 - Postcards from New York - Walking the West Village with Arthur Russel.

Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve written but here’s this: earlier this evening I spent an hour and a half walking around the West Village with Arthur Russell. We’ll publish two of his poems, along with an interview in Issue No. 8 - 2020, which is due out this December.

With Arthur, early on during our walk we stood outside HB Studio on Bank Street and he told me about his acting days. An hour later he described commuting into Manhattan from Sheepshead Bay to watch the Knicks play at the Garden in the 1970’s. One night, during a playoff game, a guy named Lew Alcindor, who was playing for the Bucks, sat down on the side of the court, and away from his team, during a timeout. There was something about the way Lew was sitting –––– away and disinterested, despite the gravity of the moment, that Arthur said he’d always remember.