Poet Ed Galing: A Poet of the Greatest Generation

This is the website of the poet Ed Galing. Galing, who was born in 1917, and spent his early years in the Lower East Side of New York City, has been widely published in the small press. In his 90's, he still writes everyday and he was recently featured in "Rattle" magazine as a poet of the "Greatest Generation." This blog created by his friend and fellow poet Doug Holder is a tribute to this small press legend. *For the introduction to ED Galing go to Dec. 2006 in the archives.

Pushcarts and Peddlars by Ed Galing

(To order click on picture) "Ed Galing is a poet and writer who remains alarmingly prolific well into his 90's. Like Charles Reznikoff, Alfred Kazin, and Henry Roth he writes about the streets of New York, what it is to be a Jew and a man, and he does it without affectation. His poetry is stripped down to its essence, and it speaks loudly of the Greatest Generation that graced our country and inevitably left us. Read Galing for his history, his artistry, his humanity." Doug Holder, Ibbetson Street Press