- Interview with Mohamed Mrabet
- Interview with Blanca Hamri
- Interview with Terry Wilson
- Interview with Florian Vetch
- Interview with Babeth Mondini-Vanloo
- Interview with Marco Bakker
- Interview with Hans Plomp
- Interview with Jordan Zinovich
- Interview with René van der Voort
Lionel Ziprin, The Poet-Magus of the Lower East Side
Lionel Ziprin was a prolific writer, a mystical poet who produced thousands of poems in his time, although you wouldn’t be able to tell that from his published output: In 1990 a small wooden box with ephemera and a flexi-disc was released and 2017 saw the publishing of his book Songs for Schizoid Siblings, there were a few contributions to magazines and that’s it. So it was high time to bring some more attention to Lionel Ziprin.
An Ode to Winnie
Deaths of tortoises do not always set things in motion. But obviously, Winnie, the tortoise of Vali Myers and Gianni Menichetti, had always been a little different.
Winnie was a confidant and a source of inspiration to Vali and Gianni and since Winnie had always been around, her death in February 2021 caused Gianni to realize that he was now the only living memory of Vali’s legacy. He had a sense that Winnie’s death symbolized the end of an era. In the period of reflection that followed, he wrote five poems.
On the passing of Winnie
Celebrated Dutch photographer Marco Bakker traveled to the Valley of Il Porto, in Positano, Italy, to deliver to his friend, Gianni Menichetti, a first copy of An Ode to Winnie, on which they collaborated. Winnie, who lived to the age of 120, was a magnificent tortoise, beloved of Vali Myers, and of Gianni. During his visit to the Valley, Marco took some beautiful photos of Gianni, featured here, using an old Speed Graphic camera.
For more information on An Ode to Winnie visit runningbeforethewind.com
