Jarnot mentioned Duncan and Smith's autodidact-status, and noted that Ginsberg and Smith shared an indefatigable urge to archive and to make opportunities for other poets. He then dedicated the reading to his son, Joshua, who was killed in a car crash earlier this year. Edwin Torres read second. By comparison with his reading last year at the Ear Inn, the work he read Wednesday night had less to do with the Khlebnikov in him than with Tristram Shandy or the Himalayas. OK, it's not a truism, it's a categorization.
Torres has no truck with the category, though.
Torres' next publication is a cd from Kill Rock Stars, the alternative label that carries the work of Bikini Kill and Sleater-Kinney. Torres will be reading at Poetry City on December 18.