I am pasting, UNEDITED, a Clayton email he sent today to friends, acquaintances and not. I love this neighborhood. Yesterday Clayton wrote to me: "...your tone, syntax, and writing style is one that that they [SoHo people] would flow with- my point is your writing is not for the average person- it is too stiff and academic."

Clayton is a TREASURE, the subject of CAPTURED, and then....
"Placing a creative work out there has none of the protection of the business world, or the academic world.  There is a place where education, money, power, the penthouse all stop being assets to the creative process."   

and today....
"I am looking for people interested in literature to make a comment on a couple of people's writing- in most ways these two people are completely opposite- both are about the same age- around 60-  both are people I have spent a reasonable amount of time documenting- (much of which is not public at this time- maybe after we are all dead)  both people I try and support-  both have equal status in my world- both are friends of mine- and naturally both are people I have had fights with- but that is another story- I love and respect them both.  They are both just entering the water of discovery-  I am looking for comments on their writing.  

Michael Rosen you can read his bio on his blog- he has just had a book published- Michael without question is a successful person- highly educated.  Michael and I started off on completely different sides of the political spectrum- meaning completely different sides of the spectrum- opposite positions- if anyone knows anything about my TSP Police Riot Tape- Michael lives in the penthouse of the Christodora- the ending of the tape-   however intelligence- creativity- a warm and open heart- becoming a part of the community- love and understanding- eventually washed away ill will- and to my good fortune we became friends- friendship, understanding, and reasonable debate is bigger and more important than political differences- besides Michael came to the point of  joining in helping to save our devolving community- Michael will make it with or without us- but since we are community we should give our impute- I would like to have peoples comments. 

The other is a poet and an old friend of mine- limited education- a part of her history:  we have had our wars- but in the end I always love and support her-- as she was bitching something about me I took her to the hospital when she was deathly ill- kicked some things up to Code Orange to get her a bed- she got a bed-  she survived and rather than to die she got off drugs- after years of searching she has just recently discovered:  it seems that her mother was a criminal and when Anne was born her mother was in jail- she was given up for adoption.  Anne for many years was a street prostitute on some of the most dangerous L.E.S. strolls- and contrary to most public perceptions- she did not hate men or her job- she saw what she was doing as a needed public health service- Anne was a junkie- she shot both coke and dope for most of her adult life- for all the bravado and glamorous bullshit attached to the male Beats and their scoring stories- truth be told- there were a number of times that Anne- is the one-- at 4 AM who would ride her bike down to Ave D and score dope for Marty Metz (not a Beat but an interesting poet from this period- early on he went to Mexico and ended up in jail as all his poet friends became the Beats), Gregory Corso, Herbert Huncke, Roger Richards (rare book dealer of Beats) and others- Anne has always been a poet- her poetry may not in the same vein as a Robert Frost- but she speaks from the heart for the people- she speaks from the guts for the people- I am a people- she speaks to me- it is my life and my space and Anne means much more to me than most recognized poets- she has been given a chance to have a Chapbook published.  She needs some writers to give her some comments- she wants to be published before she dies- this is not a public service this is for the dignity and respect of a creative person who has struggle her whole life putting words together- one of my favorites Suck Death the Chapbook person will not publish- anyway whatever- she is about words- you are word people=

both have been in the NY Times

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B01EEDE1430F936A1575AC0A9639C8B63

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/23/nyregion/23york.html?_r=3

both have websites dedicated to their work-

http://www.michaelrosenwords.com/blog/
http://www.eastvillagepoetry.com/OldPages/Anne.htm