I knew Michael Lally was an award-winning poet, a screenwriter, playwright, TV and movie actor, an author of now 30 books ~ his latest, Another Way to Pay, a collection of his poems from 1960-2017 (with a cover photo shot by Gus Van Sant), and, a documentary, Michael Lally: I Want To Call It Poems, currently being shot, including during tonight's show. I knew Michael was a hipster when it was cool to bel, knew he knew the coolest of the cool and was counted amongst them, knew that pretty much all of the artists I know regard him as the greatest living American poet... that he's sober, and created a space for writers which I've been a direct beneficiary of. What I didn't know is that upon our first meeting (earlier tonight) it would feel, seem as if, we'd known each other forever. Michael's ease with himself and others, his self-effacing self-awareness, his life, his stories... would transfix throughout the broadcast, and through a Part 2 due to a freakish tech glitch. He talked about love... two out of three of his wives. An hour plus wasn't time enough time to get that present. The man has lived! He talked about his anger, his cockiness, how it served and how it didn't. He talked about Alec Baldwin, Al Pacino, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Michael O'Keefe, one-time love and lifelong friend, Karen Allen, his love affair with Academy Award Winner, Penelope Milford. Michael talked about his first love and how intolerance of bi-racial couples thwarted them, he sexual fluidity, his commitment to raising his children as a single father. His tenure in the Air Force, blackout drinking, starting out playing in jazz clubs, working as a fix-it guy... all the while writing every day and producing an insanely fantastical enormous body of work. He treated us to a taste. I want more.

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Worthy!

Michael Lally on The Road Taken, Celebrity Maps to Success, Wed, 8/29/18, 7 pm PT/ 10 pm ET

With Samantha Rae

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