Jack Foley is an innovative, widely-published
poet and critic who, with his wife, Adelle, performs his work frequently
in the San Francisco Bay Area. For the past several years he has hosted a
show of interviews and poetry presentations on Berkeley radio station KPFA.
His current show , " Cover to Cover," which can be heard by streaming
audio at www.kpfa.org, is on every Wednesday
at 3:00 p.m. Pacific time. His poetry books include Letters/Lights--Words
for Adelle (1987), Gershwin (1991), Adrift (1993, nominated
for a Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award), Exiles (1996), and (with Ivan
Arguelles) New Poetry from California: Dead / Requiem (1998). A contributing
editor to Poetry Flash, he has published three chapbooks: Advice
to the Lovelorn (1998), (with Ivan Arguelles), Saint James (1998
) --an homage to James Joyce-- and Some Songs by Georges Brassens, translations
of work by the late French singer. Foley has also edited Fallen Western
Star Wars, a collection of essays dealing with the controversy caused
by Dana Gioia's essay, "Fallen Western Star." O Powerful Western
Star and Foley's Books, companion volumes of Foley's essays, reviews
and interviews, appeared from Pantograph Press. In a review, San Francisco
Chronicle Book Editor David Kipen describes the books as "galvanizing:
an unparalleled cultural history of the past half century from Bodega Bay
to the Pacheco Pass." O Powerful Western Star is the recipient
of the Artists Embassy Literary/Cultural Award 1998-2000. Email:
Jack Foley
Current Articles
- Jane Hirshfield, After: Poems 02/12/06
- McClure with Manzarek/Kassin at Noe Valley: A Review 01/19/06
- Michael Feinstein Presents B.J. Ward Sings Marshall Barer
01/08/06
- Jake Berry's cd, Strange Parlors
12/2/05
- Neeli Cherkovski, Leaning Against Time (R.L. Crow Publications)
12/2/05
- Some Notes on Marshall Barer, Lyricist 11/9/05
- Finding Sincerity: An Evening at the Custom Made Theater 9/29/05
- Gal*in_dog's Night To Howl 8/23/05
- Six Passages from a Notebook plus a Poem 8/3/05
- California's Poet Laureate Steps Out 7/16/05
- Adrienne Rich, The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 7/4/05
- The Multi Ethnic Theater's Production of
When You Comin Back Red Ryder 11/24/04
- My Friend Dylan Thomas 11/05/04
- Spritual Necessity: Selected Poems of Frank
Samperi 10/06/04
- Some Tentative Notes on
Kim Addonizio 08/29/04
- Richard Wilbur Translates
Mallarmé 08/19/04
- Delovely 07/26/04
- The Achievement of Dana Gioia
06/23/04
- Yvonne Seng, Ph.D., *Men
in Black Dresses: A Quest for the Future Among Wisdom Makers of the Middle
East* 5/20/04
- The Tether and the Scale
4/24/04
- Simon Louvish, Keystone:
The Life and Clowns of Mack Sennet, (FABER AND FABER, INC.)
4/12/04
- Dana Gioia, August
Kleinzahler, and Garrison Keillor's Good Poems 3/31/04
- A Radio Letter to Cid
Corman 3/17/04
- Andrew Sean Greer,
The Confessions of Max Tivoli 3/4/04
- Father O'Fondle and Catholicism
2/19/04
- A Pompous, Ignorant Windbag
2/19/04
- Introduction to Adelle
Foley, Along the Bloodline 2/12/04
- Keats' Great Ode
2/05/04
- An Interview with
the Bay Area's Jack Foley 1/29/04
- An Interesting Weekend:
Adi Da Samraj’s The Mummery Book as Theater 1/20/04
- William Butler Yeats,The
Tower: A Facsimile Edition 1/14/04
- Dana Gioia Birthday
Broadcast 1/06/04
- Daria 12/25/03
- More on "Beat Haiku"
12/18/03
- Beat Haiku 12/5/03
- Sylvia 11/28/03
- The Origins of Poetry
11/21/03
- American Literature
11/13/03
- Syria,Syria 11/05/03
- The Natsoulas Gallery
Does It Again 10/10/03
- Mario Mazziotti Gillan,
Italian Women in Black Dresses 10/03/03
- Questions from a Chinese
Scholar (Part 2) 9/26/03
- Questions from a Chinese
Scholar (Part 1) 9/20/03
- George M.Cohan's Forty-five
Minutes from Broadway 9/12/03
- The Priest and the Song
and Dance Man 9/05/03
- Walter J. Ong, S.J. (1912-2003):
In Memoriam 8/15/03
- Jack Foley: Archives
