Harry E. Northup
| Harry E. Northup has made a living as an actor for thirty years, acting in thirty-seven films, including Mean Streets, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Taxi Driver (1976 Palme d’Or winner at Cannes), Fighting Mad (starring role), Citizens Band, Blue Collar, Over the Edge (starring role), Tom Horn, Used Cars, Kansas, The Silence of the Lambs (1991 Oscar winner for “Best Picture”), Philadelphia, Bad Girls, Beloved, and a remake of The Manchurian Candidate.Harry has acted in forty-three television shows, including E.R. (guest star), The Court (recurring role), In Cold Blood (CBS mini-series), The Deliberate Stranger, The Day the Bubble Burst, and Knots Landing (recurring role).Harry has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1976.
Harry is that rare American actor who is also an accomplished poet. He has had nine books of poetry published: Amarillo Born (Victor Jiminez Press, 1966); the jon voight poems (Mt. Alverno Press, 1973); Eros Assh (Momentum Press, 1976); Enough The Great Running Chapel (Momentum Press, 1982); the images we possess kill the capturing (the jesse press, 1988); The Ragged Vertical (Cahuenga Press, 1996); Reunions (Cahuenga Press, 2001); Greatest Hits, 1966-2001 (Pudding House Press, 2002); and Red Snow Fence (Cahuenga Press, 2006). Harry received his B.A. in English from California State University, Northridge, where he studied verse with Ann Stanford. Harry Northup’s professional and private papers, manuscripts, journals, scripts, correspondence, ephemera, etc., were purchased by UCSD, La Jolla, on Nov. 18, 2002, and are housed in the Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD, 0175-S, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0175, for instruction, research and preservation. His son Dylan lives in Wisconsin. Harry lives in East Hollywood with his wife Holly Prado Northup, a writer and teacher. |
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“Los Angeles Bards - Live In Pasadena” (CD) - This anthology continues the long and distinguished relationship between poetry and baseball. Michael C Ford has scoured the sandlots of Southern California to compile a stellar lineup of heavy-hitting and rubber-armed literary figures, eager to take their swings and toss some metaphors for the newest team on the sporting scene, the Los Angeles Bards. (Read more at the bottom of this page) |
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| Harry E. Northup |  “Birth Movies Child Rest Glow Learn Church Steal” |
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| Joel Lipman | “Passing Through The Big Leagues” |
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| Philomene Long | “Marcus Aurelius at a Dodger Game: Kirk Gibson At Bat” |
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| Fred Voss | “Still In The Game” |
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| Chef Guillaume | “How Does God Fit Into Baseball” |
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| Joan Jobe Smith | “Ted Williams’ Tongue As Recalled By A Former Co” |
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| Joan Jobe Smith | “Steve Bilko Taught Me How To Spit” |
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| Eloise Klein Healy | “Asking About You” |
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| Eloise Klein Healy | “Double Play” |
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| Gerald Locklin | “Opening Day” |
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| “Los Angeles Bards - Live In Pasadena” - It has been said that poetry captures and expresses the true essence of a people, and if this is so, it must be asked whether American poets have responded to the national pastime. The answer is a resounding YES, for poetry is a thing of images, and the images baseball creates are unmatched in the sporting realm.The roster of poets who have gone to bat for the national pastime is a virtual Murderer’s Row, including the likes of Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, Robert Creeley, Kenneth Patchen, Donald Hall, Tom Clark, and Quincy Troupe, among others. In fact, Robert Frost summed up his passion for the game in a letter, written early in his literary career, in which he said, “Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose — unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.”This audio anthology “The Los Angeles Bards - Live In Pasadena” (CD) continues the long and distinguished relationship between poetry and baseball. Michael C Ford, a Pulitzer Prize nominee for his Emergency Exits: Selected Poems 1970-1995, scoured the sandlots of Southern California to compile a stellar lineup of heavy-hitting and rubber-armed literary figures, eager to take their swings and toss some metaphors for the newest team on the sporting scene, the Los Angeles Bards. The CD includes approximately 45 minutes of material from the Bards’ inaugural game, sponsored by the Baseball Reliquary and played on August 25, 2002 at the Donald R. Wright Auditorium of the Pasadena Central Library, Pasadena, California. Featured poets include Harry E. Northup, Joel Lipman, Philomene Long, Fred Voss, Chef Guillaume, Joan Jobe Smith, Eloise Klein Healy, Gerald Locklin, and Michael C Ford.
Armed with his official lineup card and being careful not to bat anyone out of order, player-manager Michael C. Ford, the Lou Boudreau of the Los Angeles poetry scene, introduces each of the wordsmiths as they step to the plate. Their poems cover a panoramic view of the baseball landscape, from pickup softball and semi-pro to the major leagues, exploring the game’s inner magic and meaning and recalling its cult heroes and icons such as Ted Williams, Steve Bilko, Kirk Gibson, Joe Pepitone, Andy Pafko, and Chico Carrasquel. Along the way, even Marcus Aurelius, Gertrude Stein, and God appear as role players inside the poets’ “interior diamonds. |
