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<html> <head> <title>Robert Dunn NYC Poet Memorial</title> <meta name="KEYWORDS" content="Robert Dunn, Robert Dunn Memorial, Robert Dunn Memorial NYC Poet, Asbestos arts, back Fence, Medicinal Purposes, poets wear prada, soul fountain, Saturn Series poetry, NYC Poets, Robert_Dunn.html, Saturn_Series_Poetry.html, www.supolo.com, Leigh Harrison, Bobby Perfect, Gloria Hernish, ROBERT DUNN POET, DIES TWICE, NYC Robert Dunn"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffcc" text="#336699" link="#663366" alink="red" vlink="#ff00ff"> <table cool width="1383" height="6522" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" align="left" gridx="16" showgridx usegridx gridy="16" showgridy usegridy> <tr height="1" cntrlrow> <td width="1" height="1"></td> <td width="336" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="336" height="1"></td> <td width="256" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="256" height="1"></td> <td width="632" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="632" height="1"></td> <td width="156" height="1"><spacer type="block" width="156" height="1"></td> </tr> <tr height="16"> <td width="1" height="16"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="16"></td> <td width="592" height="195" colspan="2" rowspan="2" valign="top" align="left" xpos="0"><table border="14" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" width="575"> <tr> <td width="527"><font size="5" color="#336699">With utmost sorrow I write to tell you all of the passing into spirit the creative and lovely one known to us as </font><font size="6" color="#336699"><b>Robert Dunn</b></font><font size="5" color="#336699">, who gave so many years of his life in service to poets and poetry. Information and links will be posted here. </font> <p><font size="5" color="#336699">Scroll down to read an article about the 2 Robert Dunns and Poems in his memory. See the list on the right with info from Leigh Harrison.</font></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="632" height="16"></td> <td width="156" height="16"></td> </tr> <tr height="179"> <td width="1" height="179"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="179"></td> <td width="632" height="1136" colspan="1" rowspan="3" valign="top" align="left" xpos="592"><table border="14" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" width="327"> <tr> <td width="279" bgcolor="#dff7f7"><font size="4" color="#333399">From: [email protected] [email protected]<br> <br> Subject: <br> </font><font size="5" color="navy">Nov. 16th Memorial for Robert Dunn</font><font size="4" color="#333399"> </font> <p><font size="4" color="#333399">Hello friends, This is just a reminder that the memorial for Robert hosted by Stan Barkan,<br> <br> Hassanal Abdullah and myself is scheduled for this coming Sunday, November 16th at 4:30 p.m. ATM Bangla TV Studios 37-17 57th Street Woodside, NY, 11377 Info: 718 505.1100 Stanley H. Barkan<br> was Robert's long-time publisher and friend. He published (and still distributes) Robert's book, Guilty As Charged and his CD, Sickly Minutes. Hassanal Abdullah publishes Shabdagucha, for which Robert worked as a contributing editor, and I was on the staff of the Poet to Poet TV show with Robert, was chosen by him to be his Poetry Editor and Associate Editor at Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, and worked with him on Asbestos Arts Journal and at numerous readings and events. We welcome your presence at this event, honoring Robert's life and his work. Please come prepared to read from Robert's poetry, or your own work honoring Robert. We will share our memories, and musicians may perform a song in his honor. </font></p> <p><font size="4" color="#333399">Leigh Harrison</font></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="156" height="179"></td> </tr> <tr height="176"> <td width="1" height="176"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="176"></td> <td width="592" height="176" colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top" align="left" xpos="0"><table border="14" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" width="568"> <tr> <td width="520"><font size="4" color="#336699">Here are 2 wonderful links sent to us by Jackie Sheeler...<br> dear sue -- please feel free to forward this to any who may be interested,<br> or to include these links on the memorial page that you have set up:<br> </font><a href="http://poetz.com/2001/dunn.htm"><font size="5" color="#336699">http://poetz.com/2001/dunn.htm</font></a><font size="5" color="#336699"> . <a href="http://poetz.com/2002/dunn2.htm">http://poetz.com/2002/dunn2.htm</a><br> </font><font size="4" color="#336699">both pages include some of robert's wonderfully fanciful sketches.<br> (Submitted by Jackie Sheeler: </font><font size="5" color="#336699">jaxx)</font></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="156" height="176"></td> </tr> <tr height="781"> <td width="1" height="781"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="781"></td> <td width="592" height="799" colspan="2" rowspan="2" valign="top" align="left" xpos="0"><table border="14" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" width="570"> <tr> <td width="522"><font size="4" color="#336699">(Submitted by Tone Bellizzi)</font><font size="5" color="#336699"> </font> <p><font size="5" color="#336699">Subject: Important news- Robert Dunn<br> Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 08:23:18 -0400<br> From: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a><br> <br> THE VAULT ZERO GRAVITY PRODUCTIONS<br> 90-21 SPRINGFIELD BLVD.<br> QUEENS VILLAGE, NY 11428<br> 718-479-2594</font> </p> <p><font size="5" color="#336699">FEAR NO ART<br> [email protected] tone bellizzi-director, </font><a href="http://thevault.org"><font size="5" color="#663366"><b>theVault.org</b></font></a><font size="5" color="#336699">_</font></p> <p><font size="5" color="#336699">Dear Friends,<br> I am shocked and saddened to inform you that Robert Dunn passed away suddenly of a heart attack.<br> <br> He was an amazingly talented poet and promoter of poets and poetry in New York City and the depth of our loss of him is beyond words.<br> <br> Robert was an active member of the Vault family and was scheduled to perform tonight at Vaultstock -our Hope for the Children<br> Benefit. We will use his time slot to share memories in his honor.<br> <br> We will also have a moment of silence for him at the World premier of the Vault documentary film on Saturday October 4.<br> <br> Most importantly we will host a Memorial Tribute evening in honor of Robert<br> on Saturday October 11 @ 9pm @ the Vault.<br> All friends of Robert are invited, even if you have never been to the Vault.<br> <br> Leigh Harrison is working on putting together an additional tribute to Robert in Manhattan at the Back Fence.<br> <br> Sincerely yours,<br> <br> Tone Bellizzi</font></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="156" height="781"></td> </tr> <tr height="18"> <td width="1" height="18"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="18"></td> <td width="632" height="2416" colspan="1" rowspan="3" valign="top" align="left" xpos="592" content bgcolor="#d5e0ff" csheight="2416"><font size="5" color="#336699">From: <br> Leigh Harrison</font> <p><font size="5" color="#336699">Subject: <br> Robert Dunn funeral memorials websites birthdate requests<br> Date: <br> Wed, 1 Oct 2008 12:13:12 EDT<br> <br> Dear Friends, <br> Here is an enlarged list of memorials for Robert, info on three web sites devoted to him which were recently created, two requests from me, as well as Robert's birth date, which many of you asked for, and some news about his funeral. <br> <br> First, the requests. Robert's mother, Marcia, has been residing at a rehabilitation and recuperation hospice for quite some time. As many of you already know, Robert -- one of the most devoted sons -- visited his mother almost daily and prior to that, had became too heavy for him to lift or move. She is receiving excellent care at Parker; I know, because I often visited her with Robert over the years, and I myself had gone alone to visit her on the Monday before Robert's death. I know that while you have sent me so many kind emails and calls of condolence, that it is also Marcia who needs to receive your messages. I am going to try to print some of the emails for her, but I would be very grateful if you would please take a few minutes to write her a card and send it to her via SNAIL MAIL. She desperately needs your words of kindness in a card she can read and hold -- and, after all, (as I have repeated to some of you in your own times of sorrow over the years -- "A joy shared is doubled, a sorrow shared is halved".) Please mail your cards to: <br> <br> Mrs. Marcia Dunn / Room 513 <br> Parker Jewish Institute for Health Care <br> & Rehabilitation <br> 271-11 76th Avenue <br> New Hyde Park, NY, 11040-1433 <br> <br> Be sure to include the room number with her name, so she receives it without difficulty. And thank you in advance, all who take the trouble to do this. <br> <br> Secondly, I have decided, as many of you know, to compile a book of poetry <br> about Robert. This is not a new idea. It has been done in collections of <br> poets on Shakespeare, and in a wonderful memorial to Dylan Thomas, and I know <br> that many of us in the poetry circle, whom Robert considered his spiritual <br> family, will probably -- sooner or later -- be pulling our thoughts together to <br> say something about him. I have decided to make the deadline for <br> contributions to the anthology September 25, 2009, a year from the date of his death <br> and I will accept contributions from now until then by either email or snail <br> mail. (If you send it by email, please paste it in the body of the text -- <br> I'm not terribly good with attachments). I believe that a number of people <br> might be willing to publish it in his honor once I finish collating it. I <br> already have been offered a wonderful poem about him by Patricia Carragon that <br> she read at the impromptu tribute Eugenia hosted last Sunday at the Back Fence. <br> <br> Next, here are the three websites that have been set up in Robert's honor: <br> _http://www.supolo.com/Robert_Dunn.html_ <br> (http://www.supolo.com/Robert_Dunn.html) <br> _http://members.aol.com/shabdaweb_ (http://members.aol.com/shabdaweb) <br> _<a href="http://www.myspace.com/RobertDunnMemorial">www.myspace.com/RobertDunnMemorial</a>_ <br> (http://www.myspace.com/RobertDunnMemorial) <br> <br> Again, here follows the extended list of upcoming live memorials: <br> (if you know of others, please let me know) <br> <br> Saturday, October 4 <br> Farmingdale Library <br> Event starts 1:30 <br> Open mic portion will include tributes to Robert <br> Hosted by Yolanda Coulaz <br> _www.myspace.com/yolandacoulaz_ (http://www.myspace.com/yolandacoulaz) <br> _www.poetryvlog.com/ycoulaz.html_ (http://www.poetryvlog.com/ycoulaz.html) <br> <br> <br> <br> Saturday, October 11, 2008 <br> Da Vault <br> 90-21 Springfield Blvd. <br> Springfield Gardens, Queens <br> Hosted by Tone Bellizi <br> 9pm till ? <br> 718.479.2594 <br> <br> <br> Sunday, October 12, 2008 <br> Kairos Poetry Cafe / 2 p.m. <br> Church of the Village <br> see myspace.com/kairospoets <br> <br> In November, there will be a <br> event jointly sponsored by Cross-Cultural Publications & Shabdagucha <br> to be hosted by Stan Barkan, and Hassanal Abdullah of Shabdagucha (more news <br> when they finalize exact date/time/location). Stan published some of <br> Robert's books, and was the distributor for his CD, Sickly Minutes. Hassanal has <br> published work by Robert and me, and recently invited us to perform at the <br> 10th Anniversary event for his bi-lingual magazine, Shabdagucha; Robert found <br> it charming that our performances were videotaped and seen by about 40 million <br> people -- overseas.... <br> <br> <br> Regarding Robert's funeral, you all know that his family requested a private <br> service, held this past Sunday, Sept. 28th. They did not choose to invite <br> anyone else to participate at first, but later decided to invite both Babette <br> and myself. When they invited me late on Saturday, they swore me to secrecy, <br> and I planned to attend at first with a ride from Babette in her car, but <br> during a sleepless night Saturday, I felt that Robert's spirit was urging me to <br> stay with his mother at the nursing home, where she would have been alone, <br> while her son was buried. Thus I went to the hospice, where I remained with <br> Marcia during the time of the funeral. I later heard from Babette after she <br> had gone to the cemetery that she had told someone from his office <br> (there were a dozen of his co-workers from his office present along with <br> Babette and the family.) Later, I <br> asked about the service, and both Cindy (Robert's cousin) and Babette <br> separately told me that it was a lovely service, with a few people speaking about <br> their memories of Robert. For anyone who wishes to visit his gravesite (at <br> Wellwood Cemetery in Farmingdale) at a future time, we will plan small <br> excursions among ourselves, but please keep in mind that after a funeral, there is <br> generally no visiting again until one year after the burial, when a gravestone <br> is placed there during a memorial ceremony. <br> <br> Lastly, for those of you who asked, Robert's dates were February 16, 1959 -- <br> September 25, 2008 <br> He lived for 49 years and seven-plus months, but he will live in the memory <br> of those who knew him, and who loved him, always. <br> <br> With warmest regards to you all, from <br> Leigh </font></td> <td width="156" height="18"></td> </tr> <tr height="1566"> <td width="1" height="1566"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="1566"></td> <td width="592" height="1566" colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top" align="left" xpos="0"><table border="14" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" width="572"> <tr> <td width="524"><font size="5" color="#336699">ROBERT DUNN POET, DIES TWICE (?) <br> <br> by Gloria Hernish <br> <br> (Queens, NY / October 3, 2008) In a bizarre—and potentially confusing coincidence, two poets, both named Robert Dunn, died in the last several weeks. <br> One was Robert Dunn, of Bayside, Queens, a noted and well-published star of the New York literary scene; the other Robert Dunn, a local light of Portsmouth, (New Hampshire). <br> In a quirky coincidence, both men passed away in the last few weeks, one in late August, and the other in late September. The Portsmouth Robert Dunn was noted for passing out his work in the streets of his town. He died in August of a lung disease. The New York City Robert Dunn was the author of numerous books, chapbooks, the former host of a noted cable television show (Poet to Poet), the emcee of many poetry events in and around the New York area, and had been widely published internationally. He passed away on Wednesday, September 25th, after a massive heart attack. <br> The fact that there were two Robert Dunn’s emerged yesterday, when the NYC Robert Dunn, who was renowned as a Robert Benchley-styled humorist and raconteur, was being memorialized by friends and family, when someone looked him up on the internet and found strange pictures of a thin man from Portsmouth being mentioned. It became apparent that their Dunn (in NYC), who was a man of large proportions, suddenly seemed to be very thin and from the wrong town. It soon became obvious that there were two Robert Dunn’s, who had died within weeks of each other. <br> The Portsmouth, NH, Robert Dunn was noted for being the “Penny Poet” for selling his work on the streets of Portsmouth, and had been the Poet laureate of Portsmouth. He was a beloved character, tall, thin, and was devoted to the cause of poetry. <br> For the record, the NYC Dunn was the author of numerous books, including Baffled in Baloneyville, Cannon Fodder, Horse Latitudes, Sunspot Boulevard, Playing in Traffic, and Zen Yentas in Bondage. His many chapbooks included Scowl, Love Bonkers All, Hurricane Norm, Nightmare Abbey Road, Trick Photography, Not a Happy Camper, and One hand Squashes the <br> Other. His longtime publisher, Stanley Barkan, of Cross-Cultural Communications, <br> in Merrick, L.I., said of Robert, “He was truly one of those rarities—a poet who was not just for himself. We will miss his fine wit, his high level of integrity, and his genuine friendship.” <br> Robert Dunn of NYC had also been the Editor-in-Chief of Asbestos Poetry Journal, the Managing Editor of Medicinal Purposes Literary Review, and the long-time host of the popular cable TV show, Poet to Poet, which aired from the early 1990’s until 2001 on Manhattan Neighborhood Network, and at a slew of cable affiliates around the United States, including Continental Cablevision (Ossining, NY), Community Voice Channel (Bolton, CT), and a station in Rockford, Illinois. <br> The NYC Dunn was also the host of events for both Poet to Poet, and Medicinal Purposes throughout the years, at such popular venues as the Back Fence, and at a performance space in Queens, NY called The Vault (which is itself sometimes confused with the sex-shop of the same name in Manhattan). His work appeared in poetry journals around the world, including magazines as far away as Wales, Australia, and in translation in Bengali in the magazine Shabdagucha, a bi-lingual poetry magazine published in NY for distribution in both New York City and overseas. <br> Immediately upon Mr. Dunn’s (NYC) death, several web sites and blogs have appeared about him. An anthology of poems written about him is being collected and collated by his long-time colleague and friend, Leigh Harrison, who is a poet and teacher of poetry by day and a musician and singer-songwriter at night. <br> She said, when interviewed for this article, “I worked with Robert on the TV show for eight years, and as assistant editor of the magazine for several, as well—and we spent so many hours traveling to perform our poetry or music at readings and radio shows together. I feel as if I’ve lost my best friend, and my brother. Robert was brilliantly witty, and generous to a fault. I’ll probably be writing both poems and songs eventually, but I can’t put it all into the right words yet.” <br> Both Robert Dunn’s would appreciate the words of one wag, who offered the following clerihew (a 4-line poem using a name as the first line) in response to the coincidental deaths: <br> Robert Dunn and Robert Dunn <br> Wrote some verse and had some fun <br> Not sure when they both begun <br> But one thing’s sure—they’re both now Done.<br> </font></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="156" height="1566"></td> </tr> <tr height="832"> <td width="1" height="832"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="832"></td> <td width="336" height="832" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top" align="left" xpos="0"><table border="14" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" width="327"> <tr> <td width="279" bgcolor="#dff7f7"><font size="4" color="#333399">In Memory of Robert Dunn<br> (Pen Master in Charge)<br> <br> He was the king of the pun,<br> He held your head to the gun,<br> Everything he wrote he wrote for fun.<br> His name was Robert Dunn.<br> <br> Never mind his name is common,<br> That “imposters” took his name for theirs.<br> This is not about splitting hairs!<br> It’s about poetry as come-on.<br> <br> Never mind Zen Yentas in Bondage,<br> Or Vanished into the Slammer,<br> Those medicinal porpoises, boy,<br> They can’t live beyond the clamor<br> <br> Of a cartoon character on the cover<br> Of Baffled in Baloneyville<br> Or hoot and holler at the thrill!<br> The sky’s the limit when you have a minute<br> <br> To spread your word and make a spat<br> Of poetry in simplest punning form, Donning<br> Oops I mean Dunning, a large brimmed hat <br> While peddling stand-up comedic versions<br> Of Ogden Nash reduced to a minor brat<br> <br> In comparison to His great pen and pun<br> Now at once and, shall we say, forever, <br> UnDunn?<br> <br> (His sightings will occur to loyal fans<br> For many years to come,<br> Or will they?)<br> <br> Thomas Jones <[email protected]><br> <br> </font></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="256" height="832" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top" align="left" xpos="336"><table border="14" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="2" width="202"> <tr> <td width="154" bgcolor="#dff7f7"><font size="4" color="#333399">White Balloons<br> (for Robert Dunn)<br> </font> <p><font size="4" color="#333399">when laughter died<br> the poets cried<br> <br> when death appeared<br> words disappeared<br> <br> from white balloons<br> seen in cartoons<br> <br> and poets cried<br> when laughter died<br> <br> </font></p> <p> </p> <p><font size="4" color="#333399">Patricia Carragon September 2008<br> </font></td> </tr> </table></td> <td width="156" height="832"></td> </tr> <tr height="2951"> <td width="1" height="2951"><spacer type="block" width="1" height="2951"></td> <td width="336" height="2951"></td> <td width="256" height="2951"></td> <td width="632" height="2951"></td> <td width="156" height="2951"></td> </tr> </table> </body> </html>