Press and Updates
Reading from The Book of Merlin
March 21, 2024: Annie Bloom's Books welcomes Portland poet Larry Beckett
Sonnet 61 - Newspaper’s still exist!
Sonnet 61 published in The Somerville Times
Kind Words
Larry Beckett on Marc Zegans’ Lyon Street: “True poetry: rooted in San Francisco streets and cafés, lovingly evoking the actual, flowering into the myth of California, this collection has the look of a classic.”
Interview - On Writing American Cycle
Simon Warner’s “Beat Soundtrack #20: Larry Beckett”: Larry Beckett is an American poet, playwright, novelist, songwriter and literary critic. He has had several books of poetry and prose published including Songs and Sonnets, Beat Poetry, and the book-length poems, Paul Bunyan, Wyatt Earp, and Amelia Earhart, which were collected with seven others as the epic American Cycle, a 47-year project, published in April 2021 by Running Wild Press in Los Angeles.
American Cycle Streaming
The Orchard has released Larry’s audio performances of the long poems that constitute American Cycle.
Mirabeau Bridge
Larry Beckett and Stuart Anthony’s new album ‘Mirabeau Bridge’ produced by Paul Walmsley has been released.
BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Larry Beckett
Larry will be featured on yet another @bbc 4 radio program.
Love & Trial
Stuart Anthony with Larry Beckett
Greek inspired - November 1st, 2018 release date.
Amelia Earhart
“above that ceiling of mist,
in this blue world, the sun is always out.”
Amelia Earhart Come meet the Poet
A ghost-woman’s ruminations on the joys & injustices of her life fly through her memory.
U. S. Rivers - A Choral Reading
U. S. Rivers - highways where a man in a Chevy Impala looks for love and witnesses where history, legend and song mysteriously cross, and all times coexist.
Histories for Taliesin
(Part 1 of 6)
I’ve lived long years, and seen
many battles, between our own,
and with barbarians, in chaos.
Jim Fielder, Jann Klose and Larry Beckett
from 2013