var options = { attributes: { rel: 'nofollow', title: 'click to open', }, className: '', format: { url: function (value) { return value } }, ignoreTags: ['a'], validate: { url: function (value) { return value; } } }; var str = `Catherine (Murphy) was invited to read t a tribute to John Yau at Poets House in NYC by Paulo Xavier. She accepted and decided to read from John Yau's Monograph on Thomas Nozkowski. She conferred with Thomas about which section to read and asked him which paintings he would like her to show while she was reading. He sent us reproductions of four paintings. It turned out that I had met Paulo at the Queens Museum a few years ago when I showed photographs in a talk about Joseph Cornell. Tammy Nguyen had visited Didier William's printmaking class at Vassar, but we hadn't met at that time. We dropped Catherine's new drawing ("Night Watch") off at the Peter Freeman Gallery before heading to Poets House. Saturday this close to Christmas meant particularly heavy traffic in Manhattan. I had only been to Battery Park City driving through it once. Poetry House was in a building right across from the river. After all the traffic and so many people in the street (including many people dressed as Santa Claus), Battery Park City was so quiet. And at night by the river was very beautiful and felt like a different city in a different place. Poetry House was quite elegant. We got there early so I could set up the thumb drive with Thomas' paintings on it. I had set up both a keynote and a PowerPoint presentation. I was told they had both, but it turned out they could only accommodate PowerPoint. See the previous seven entries and the following nine entries.`; document.write(linkifyHtml(str, options)); ]]>