“For Openers (Lost Jazz Bars in Four-Time)”, a music video from Grammy Award, Pulitzer Prize-nominated audio journalist MICHAEL C FORD from the album “Look Each Other In The Ears” (Hen House Studios).
Don’t know Ford? Then Ford Word March! Legendary voice on the LA poetry scene, MICHAEL C FORD has produced a steady stream of print and recorded product since 1970.
His debut spoken word vinyl {on SST} LANGUAGE COMMANDO earned a Grammy nomination in 1986.
His book of Selected Poems entitled EMERGENCY EXITS was honored by a 1998 Pulitzer Prize nomination.
Michael’s New record: MICHAEL C FORD – LOOK EACH OTHER IN THE EARS, featuring The Doors members Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore can be found at Amazon.com
Books:
Stuttering in the Starlight (1970)
There’s a Beast in My Garden (1971)
The Mt. Alverno Review editor: West Coast anthology in tribute to Kenneth Patchen
Sheet Music chapbook-length poem
Lacerations in a Broom Closet prose
Lawn Swing Poems (1975)
Rounding Third (1976)
West Point chapbook-length poem
Sleepless Night in a Soundproof Motel (1978)
Prologue to an Interview with Leonard Cohen replicated broadside
Foreign Exchange editor: National Anthology
Two American Plays (1980)
Sloe Speed chapbook-length poem
Prior Convictions (1985)
Ladies Above Suspicion (1987)
Twice a sheath of broadsides
Tourguide Machinegun (1992)
Cottonwood Tractchapbook-length poem
Emergency Exits [ Selected Poems: 1970-1995] 1998 Pulitzer nomination – REVIEW – Michael C Ford immortalizes and, in many instances, resurrects not only past popular iconic figure, but those neglected regions and landmarks from the Pacific Northwest to the shores of Lake Michigan, marking passages of time in America. – Los Angeles Times
Nursery Rhyme Assassin (2000)
Jedediah Smith 