Linda King in Los Angeles, 2026

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The story

A twenty-one-year arc, back to Los Angeles

April 2005 · Phoenix
“Collateral Damage.” Theatre director Raymond Shurtz builds a Cheap Theatrix production at Metro Arts Institute around Matt Sesow’s 8 × 9 foot painting Collateral Damage (Living Hell): ten playwrights each write a ten-minute play in response to it. One of them is Raymond’s aunt, Linda King. Through Raymond, Linda and Matt meet. The production is named Best Experimental Theater of 2005 by the East Valley Tribune. Press release and review, full text ↓
April 19, 2008 · San Francisco
Bukowski Undigested. Linda King’s book of poems about Bukowski, illustrated with full-color paintings by Matt Sesow, is released at The Beat Museum. Linda reads; Sesow’s originals are on display with her busts of Bukowski, Norse, Winans and Ferlinghetti. The first printing sells out. Matt’s 2008 page, full text ↓
Date to be confirmed
City Lights. Matt Sesow and Linda King also showed together at “City Lights” — most likely City Lights in San Francisco, the Beat bookstore founded by Lawrence Ferlinghetti, whose bust Linda made. (Matt confirms the show; the date and room are still being traced.)
March 28, 2009 · Hollywood
The 1st Annual Bukowski Festival. Scott Dylyn Hall’s festival at The Elephant Theater, Santa Monica Boulevard: eight poets who knew Bukowski, the 1973 Hackford documentary, and “Bukowski inspired art” by Matt Sesow and Linda King — her original clay Bukowski bust beside his Bukowski Undigested paintings. Matt called it “the first annual Bukowski show.” Photographs, poster and forum threads ↓
June 20, 2026 · Beverly Hills
The return. Linda King’s exhibition at BLVK Book, Beverly Center. Her son Scott Dylyn Hall hosts and produces; her nephew Raymond King Shurtz — who introduced everyone in Phoenix — plays live; Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn are the guest artists. “I have shown with her three times before,” Sesow wrote on May 27.
August 8 – September 20, 2026 · Pasadena
Afterward. Linda King’s nude sculptures and racehorse paintings at Penthouse Art Gallery, Pasadena. More ↓

June 20, 2026 · 3–7 PM

Opening night

Family, friends, collectors and poets filled the 8th floor of the Beverly Center for a night of voices, music and 1970s fashion. Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn flew in from Washington and hung the show the day before. “Hung the show yesterday and looking forward to the show in Beverly Hills tonight with Linda King and family,” Sesow posted that afternoon; the next day: “Fun time last night in Los Angeles … thanks to Scott D Hall, Linda King and Raymond King Shurtz.”

Collector Jeff Brivic also showed part of his Sesow and Ellyn collection at the Beverly Center, on view through July 20 (brivic.sesow.com).

Host & producerScott Dylyn Hall Linda King’s son · King’s Dreams Productions
Live readingAngela Jones of Pulp Fiction — a Linda King poem, with Linda present
Live readingDave Cobert of Sweet Water — a never-before-publicly-heard Bukowski poem written to Linda King
Live musicRaymond King Shurtz Linda’s nephew
World premiereBruno Letort French composer (Radio France · France Musique): “Love for a Man in Pain,” a setting of Linda King’s poetry, voice of Annie Barbazza
FashionJesseJ Collections 1970s-inspired show, plus a Cowboy Bikini Fashion Show
Guest artistsMatt Sesow · Dana Ellyn Washington, DC
Red carpetMaurice Samuels Photography · Under the City Light
SponsorsThe Beat Museum · Yahaira Kolb Events · 77:77 Media

June 20: “Hung the show yesterday … looking forward to the show in Beverly Hills tonight with Linda King and family.” Matt Sesow / Facebook

June 21: “opening in Los Angeles last night with Dana Ellyn.” The red carpet. Matt Sesow / Facebook

June 21: collector Jeff Brivic with some of his Sesow and Dana Ellyn collection, on view at the Beverly Center through July 20. Matt Sesow / Facebook

June 16: the first-edition Bukowski Undigested — “bring your book! i’ll sign it!” Matt Sesow / Facebook

May 25: “BIG show in Los Angeles coming soon June 20th… I’ll be there.” Linda King and Charles Bukowski. Matt Sesow / Facebook

June 6, from Matt’s post announcing the trip. Matt Sesow / Facebook

June 6, from the same post. Matt Sesow / Facebook

May 25, from Matt’s first post about the show. Matt Sesow / Facebook

109 photographs

The opening, in pictures

Installation and opening-night photographs, June 19–22, 2026, from the exhibition archive at lindakingarts.com. Photographers include Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow and the Linda King family; if one of these is yours, tell Matt and it will be credited.

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Guest artist

Matt Sesow

Matt Sesow (born 1966, Omaha, Nebraska) is a self-taught painter who has lived and painted full time in Washington, DC since 2001. At eight he was struck by the propeller of a landing airplane and lost his dominant left hand; he taught himself to paint with his right. He has sold more than 17,000 original paintings directly to collectors in more than 40 countries, and the American Visionary Art Museum holds his work in its permanent collection.

In 2008 he illustrated Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested: more than 100 paintings made after reading the poems she wrote while she was with Bukowski and after. He brought surviving originals back to Los Angeles for this show, and in the weeks before it he made new Bukowski and Beat-poet paintings — “Great Poets,” “More Great Poets,” “Raw Talent,” “Raw,” “Mockingbird,” “Undefeated.” In September and October 2026 the thread continued in his “Game Changers (Poets)” grids honoring Bukowski, Linda King and the poets she sculpted.

The Bukowski Undigested paintings New paintings Full career history Instagram Facebook

Paintings Matt made for the show

Matt Sesow, “Great Poets”, 2026 — **“Great Poets”**
May 28, 2026 — grid of poets’ heads made for the Los Angeles show © Matt Sesow

Matt Sesow, “More Great Poets”, 2026 — **“More Great Poets”**
May 28, 2026 — “inspired by an upcoming show in Los Angeles celebrating the art and life of Linda King, June 20th in Beverly Hills” © Matt Sesow

Matt Sesow, “Bukowski”, 2026 — **“Bukowski”**
June 4, 2026 © Matt Sesow

Matt Sesow, “we are here to drink beer…” (Bukowski), 2026 — **“we are here to drink beer…” (Bukowski)**
June 6, 2026 — 12 × 18 in, acrylic & mixed media on watercolor paper © Matt Sesow

Matt Sesow, “Raw Talent”, 2026 — **“Raw Talent”**
June 9, 2026 — Linda King, Bukowski, Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Micheline, Norse, Winans, Cherkovski, Jeffers © Matt Sesow

Matt Sesow, “Raw”, 2026 — **“Raw”**
June 9, 2026 — the same nine names © Matt Sesow

Matt Sesow, “Mockingbird”, 2026 — **“Mockingbird”**
June 10, 2026 — after Mockingbird Wish Me Luck, dedicated to Linda King © Matt Sesow

Matt Sesow, “Undefeated”, 2026 — **“Undefeated”**
June 12, 2026 © Matt Sesow

Where the paintings first appeared: The Beat Museum, April 19, 2008

Photographs by Dana Ellyn at the Bukowski Undigested release, from Matt’s 2008 press page.

Bukowski Undigested release, The Beat Museum, San Francisco, April 19, 2008

Guest artist

Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, a Washington, DC painter (BFA, George Washington University), made a new body of work for the show from Linda King’s memoir, poetry and sculpture. Six were on view in Los Angeles; the rest were offered from her studio. In her words: “The Dancing — Linda dancing, the thing Bukowski couldn’t stand, and the spark of more than one breakup.” “The Bust — the bust Linda King sculpted of Bukowski, the one passed back and forth between them through years of breakups and reconciliations.” danaellyn.com/lindaking_bukowski

Dana Ellyn, Champion, 2026 — **Champion**
Acrylic on canvas board, 16 × 12 in © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Over His Head, 2026 — **Over His Head**
Acrylic on cardboard, 11 × 14 in © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, She Danced Anyway, 2026 — **She Danced Anyway**
Acrylic on cardboard, 10 × 10 in © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Kept Waiting, 2026 — **Kept Waiting**
Acrylic on cardboard, 11 × 11 in © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Ice Cream People, 2026 — **Ice Cream People**
Acrylic on mat board, 8 × 10 in · sold © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Beer and Ice Cream, 2026 — **Beer and Ice Cream**
Acrylic on mat board, 11 × 14 in · sold © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Healthy and Satisfied, 2026 — **Healthy and Satisfied**
Acrylic on mat board, 11 × 14 in · sold © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Sweet for Once, 2026 — **Sweet for Once**
Acrylic on mat board, 11 × 14 in · sold © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Keep Him, 2026 — **Keep Him**
Acrylic on canvas board, 10 × 10 in © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Take Him Back, 2026 — **Take Him Back**
Acrylic on canvas board, 10 × 10 in © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Mine Again, 2026 — **Mine Again**
Acrylic on canvas board, 10 × 10 in © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Yours, Then, 2026 — **Yours, Then**
Acrylic on canvas board, 10 × 10 in © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Love Seat, 2026 — **Love Seat**
Acrylic on mat board, 12 × 18 in · sold © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck, 2026 — **Mockingbird, Wish Me Luck**
Acrylic and pages from a Bukowski book on mat board, 12 × 18 in © Dana Ellyn

Dana Ellyn, Showgirl, 2026 — **Showgirl**
Acrylic on mat board, 12 × 18 in © Dana Ellyn

The artist being honored

Linda King

Linda King (born 1940) grew up in Boulder, Utah, one of the last towns in the United States to get a road. She is a sculptor, poet, playwright and former actress. Between 1970 and 1975 she was Charles Bukowski’s on-and-off partner; she is the model for Lydia Vance in his 1978 novel Women and the dedicatee of Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972). She lived in Phoenix from 1975 and later in San Francisco.

She told her side in Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski: A True Story (Wild Ocean Press, 2014) and in Bukowski Undigested (2008), the poems Matt Sesow illustrated. She edited the little magazine Purr and has read with Bukowski, Ferlinghetti and Ginsberg.

“After the reading I said to him, ‘You don’t seem to like women much.’ He said, ‘I love women.’ He announced the party was at his house. I hit the road for Utah.”
Linda King, on first meeting Bukowski — full account below

Book cover — *Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski* (2014)

In the room

Eight heads, one generation

The busts Linda King made of Bukowski and the poets around him, as presented at the exhibition (texts from lindakingarts.com).

Charles Bukowski 1920 – 1994

Born 1920, Andernach, Germany; died 1994, San Pedro, California. Post Office, factory floor, racetrack, rooming house, and finally, very late, the writing desk. By the time he died he had published forty-five books.

The Linda King connection. Linda King met Bukowski in 1970, already at work sculpting heads of California poets, and offered to do his. The relationship ran roughly five years and was the engine of Women (1978), where she appears as Lydia Vance; Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (1972) carries her name on its dedication page. The bust outlasted the relationship and outlasted him — and was the centerpiece of this exhibition.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, bust by Linda King

Lawrence Ferlinghetti 1919 – 2021

Co-founded City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco in 1953 — the press that published Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems in 1956. A Coney Island of the Mind (1958).

The Linda King connection. Linda’s bust of Ferlinghetti honors not only his poetry but his publishing — the work that made the Beats possible as a movement.

Jack Hirschman 1933 – 2021

San Francisco’s fourth Poet Laureate (2006–2009), and for half a century the conscience of North Beach.

The Linda King connection. On November 7, 2010, Linda unveiled her bust of Hirschman at The Beat Museum alongside her bust of Neeli Cherkovski.

Jack Micheline 1929 – 1998

Born Harvey Martin Silver in the Bronx; street poet, painter and performer. His first book, River of Red Wine (1958), carried an introduction by Jack Kerouac.

The Linda King connection. He showed up at Linda’s door in Phoenix asking for his head to be sculpted; she finished it in one day. (Her full account is transcribed below.)

Harold Norse 1916 – 2009

Friend and protégé of William Carlos Williams; correspondent of Ginsberg, Burroughs and Bukowski. Hotel Nirvana (1974); Memoirs of a Bastard Angel (1989).

The Linda King connection. Linda’s bust honors a poet often kept just outside the official Beat canon.

A. D. Winans b. 1936

Native San Franciscan; founded Second Coming Press in 1972 and published Bukowski, Micheline and dozens of others.

The Linda King connection. One of the last people alive who knew Bukowski as a working friendship. He blurbed Linda’s memoir.

Neeli Cherkovski 1945 – 2024

Met Bukowski in 1967; wrote Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski (1991), still the standard biography.

The Linda King connection. Linda unveiled her bust of Cherkovski alongside her Hirschman bust at The Beat Museum in November 2010.

Robinson Jeffers 1887 – 1962

Built Tor House and Hawk Tower on the Carmel coast by hand. Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems (1925).

The Linda King connection. The eldest figure in the room — the only one Linda did not personally meet — and his presence is intentional.

Linda King’s sculpture — 72 images

Photographs and film stills of her portrait heads and figure sculpture, from the lindakingarts.com archive. Sculpture © Linda King.

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March 28, 2009 · Hollywood

The first time: the 1st Annual Bukowski Festival

Seventeen years before BLVK Book, Linda King’s clay Bukowski bust and Matt Sesow’s Bukowski Undigested paintings shared a room in Los Angeles for the first time. The 1st Annual Bukowski Festival: Celebration of Literature, Poetry & Art — produced by Linda’s son, Scott Dylyn Hall — filled The Elephant Theater, 6324 W. Santa Monica Boulevard, one block west of Vine, on Saturday, March 28, 2009, from 8 PM. It was timed to the City of Los Angeles naming Bukowski’s De Longpre Avenue bungalow, “Bukowski’s Court,” Historic-Cultural Monument No. 912.

The featured poets had all known Bukowski: Neeli Cherkovski, Linda King, Gerald Locklin, Joan Jobe Smith, Fred Voss, Paul Vangelisti, S.A. Griffin and Raymond King Shurtz. The poster lists “Bukowski inspired art by” Matt Sesow, Linda King, Bill Dambrove, Mike Stilkey and Bruce Rubenstein. At 9:20 the room watched Taylor Hackford’s 1973 documentary Bukowski, and an open mic followed. Matt had announced it in December 2008: “‘Bukowski Undigested’ lives… looks like we (Linda/Scott King) will be part of a show around a Bukowski landmark dedication in March.” On his own site he called it the “1st Annual Bukowski show.”

When he got home, Linda King sent him back the original paintings and signed poems from the book. On April 15, 2009 he posted them in an album: “after i returned from my show in LA for the Bukowski festival, Linda King sent me back the paintings and signed poems from her ‘bukowski undigested’ book… i illustrated the book.” Those are the paintings that went back to Los Angeles in 2026.

The night — 15 photographs from Matt’s album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — The festival poster (text version), posted March 5, 2009: "matt sesow will show matt sesow paintings at this show in LA" — The festival poster (text version), posted March 5, 2009: "matt sesow will show matt sesow paintings at this show in LA" Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — Poster, combined picture and text version — Poster, combined picture and text version Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — Poster: "1st Annual Bukowski Festival," Scott Dylyn Hall Productions — Poster: "1st Annual Bukowski Festival," Scott Dylyn Hall Productions Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — Sesow's Bukowski Undigested paintings on the wall, Elephant Theatre, March 28, 2009 — Sesow's Bukowski Undigested paintings on the wall, Elephant Theatre, March 28, 2009 Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — The paintings, close — The paintings, close Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — Linda King's original clay Bukowski bust beside Sesow's paintings — Linda King's original clay Bukowski bust beside Sesow's paintings Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — The Elephant Stageworks Theatre, Santa Monica Boulevard — The Elephant Stageworks Theatre, Santa Monica Boulevard Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — The audience — The audience Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — Screening of Taylor Hackford's 1973 documentary "Bukowski" — Screening of Taylor Hackford's 1973 documentary "Bukowski" Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — The documentary — The documentary Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — Backstage — Backstage Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — After the readings — Linda King's busts on the table — After the readings — Linda King's busts on the table Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — After the readings — After the readings Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

1st Annual Bukowski Festival, Elephant Theater, Hollywood, March 28, 2009 — "Outsider art collectors," added to the album October 27, 2009 — "Outsider art collectors," added to the album October 27, 2009 Matt Sesow’s Facebook album

The paintings Linda King sent back — 41 originals from Bukowski Undigested

From Matt’s Facebook album “paintings from ‘Bukowski Undigested’,” posted April 15, 2009. Most were sold with a poem signed by Linda King. Paintings © Matt Sesow.

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 1 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 2 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 3 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 4 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 5 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 6 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 7 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 8 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 9 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 10 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 11 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 12 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 13 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 14 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 15 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 16 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 17 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 18 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 19 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 20 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 21 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 22 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 23 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 24 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 25 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 26 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 27 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 28 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 29 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 30 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 31 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 32 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 33 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 34 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 35 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 36 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 37 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 38 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 39 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 40 of 41

Original painting for Linda King’s Bukowski Undigested (2008), by Matt Sesow — 41 of 41

The record, word for word

The poster and three Bukowski Forum threads are copied in full in Documents & full text:

1st Annual Bukowski Festival — poster
“poetry reading in santa monica 28 march 2009” — Joan Jobe Smith’s announcement
“Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th” — including Matt Sesow’s email about the show
“1st Annual Bukowski show in L.A.”

2009 timeline entry The 2010 forum thread

Watch

Video

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**A son’s tribute to his mother** — Posted by Scott Dylyn Hall, Linda King’s son · YouTube

**The Matt Sesow story** — Short film on his life and art · YouTube

**Linda King reads her poem about Charles Bukowski** · YouTube

**Twisted Sisters & Warrior of Women’s Rights** — Linda King reads · YouTube

**Bukowski reads a poem about Linda King** · YouTube

**Linda King reads Bukowski Undigested, part 1** — The Beat Museum, San Francisco, April 2008 · YouTube

**Linda King reads Bukowski Undigested, part 2** — The Beat Museum, San Francisco, April 2008 · YouTube

Archive copies · every word searchable

Documents & full text

Every article, flier and web page about this show is copied here as page images you can zoom, with its complete text typed out below the pages — so nothing depends on a link that may go dark, and every word can be found with the search box above or by search engines. Copyright stays with each publisher and author; copies are kept for the historical record. To ask about any of them, write to sesow@sesow.com.

“Linda King — Bukowski’s Wildest Love” Magazine · press coverage · July 8, 2026
“Linda King’s Art, Books & Poetry Exhibition — with Special Guests” Exhibition flier · May–June 2026
“Beverly Hills, California — Linda King: Art, Books & Poetry” Exhibition flier · June 2026
“Linda King’s Art, Books and Poetry” exhibit — Dana Ellyn: Exhibits & Press Artist’s exhibition record · 2026
Dana Ellyn — Linda King & Charles Bukowski Paintings Artist’s catalogue page · June–July 2026
lindakingarts.com — Linda King’s Art, Books & Poetry Exhibition Exhibition website · June 2026 – (permanent)
Linda King’s own accounts of her sculptures (Facebook posts) Linda King, in her own words · 2010 – 2022
“Sesow Illustrates poetry book by Linda King — Bukowski Undigested” Matt Sesow’s press page · April 2008 (updated Nov 11, 2009)
“Collateral Damage” — 10 plays about a Sesow painting (Phoenix, 2005) Press release + review · March–June 2005
“Linda King Talks about Bukowski” Online forum thread · April 10–16, 2009
1st Annual Bukowski Festival — poster Event poster · March 2009
“poetry reading in santa monica 28 march 2009” — Joan Jobe Smith’s announcement Bukowski Forum thread · March 9, 2009
“Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th” — including Matt Sesow’s email about the show Bukowski Forum thread · December 2008
“1st Annual Bukowski show in L.A.” Bukowski Forum thread · January 28, 2010
Linda King: Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski Museum event page · June 20, 2014
Linda King Encyclopedia article · as of October 12, 2026

Magazine · press coverage · July 8, 2026

“Linda King — Bukowski’s Wildest Love”

La Rouge Magazine (larougemagazine.com), July 8, 2026 issue · “The Academy”

The only magazine coverage of the opening found so far: a three-page spread on Linda King’s son Scott Hall hosting the June 20 exhibition at BLVKBOOK in the Beverly Center.

“Linda King — Bukowski’s Wildest Love”: Cover — Cover

“Linda King — Bukowski’s Wildest Love”: Page: Breaking News — Page: Breaking News

“Linda King — Bukowski’s Wildest Love”: Page: the feature — Page: the feature

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COVER
La Rouge Magazine · Fashion · Personal Development · Entertainment
The Art of Entreprenuership [sic]
Entrepreneurship is the dynamic process of identifying market opportunities, taking on financial risk, and mobilizing resources to launch, organize, and manage a new business
New old business Idea
Nostalgia and why it works
July 08 2026

PAGE: BREAKING NEWS
BREAKING NEWS
Vol. 33:3, No. Romans 3:23 · larougemagazine.com · 08 July 2026
LINDA KING
BUKOWSKI’S WILDEST LOVE
SCOTT HALL ARRIVES IN STYLE TO HONOR HIS MOTHER’S LEGACY

There are moments in art and fashion when elegance transcends appearance and becomes an expression of devotion. Such was the case when Scott Hall @scott_dylyn_hall arrived at the iconic BLVKBOOK Art Gallery inside the famed Beverly Center in Los Angeles to celebrate the remarkable life and artistic legacy of his mother, the acclaimed artist Linda King.

[Photograph: Linda King and Charles Bukowski, black and white]
larougemagazine.com · The Academy

PAGE: THE FEATURE
La Rouge Magazine

Hall’s presence embodied a refined sophistication that felt both contemporary and timeless. With effortless confidence, he moved through the gallery’s luminous halls, carrying himself with the quiet grace of a man deeply connected to the significance of the evening. His polished style reflected an appreciation for creativity and culture, perfectly complementing the atmosphere of one of Los Angeles’ most celebrated artistic destinations.

Yet it was not fashion alone that made his arrival memorable. There was an unmistakable sense of pride and reverence in the way Hall engaged with guests, collectors, and admirers who gathered to honor Linda King’s extraordinary body of work.

His presence served as a living tribute to the woman whose artistic vision inspired generations and whose influence continues to resonate throughout the contemporary art world.

Set against the sophisticated backdrop of BLVKBOOK Art Gallery, the Linda King Art Exhibition became more than an exhibition. It transformed into a celebration of family, artistic heritage, and enduring creative excellence. As guests explored the collection and witnessed the powerful bond between mother and son, honoring not only Linda King’s achievements as an artist but also the lasting legacy she leaves behind.

On an evening dedicated to art, memory, and inspiration, Scott Hall’s elegant arrival reminded everyone in attendance that true style is ultimately rooted in love, respect, and the preservation of a remarkable legacy.

Editorial: angelmanaiza_angel
Location beverly center
Sponsored by La Rouge Magazine

[Photographs on the page: Linda King and Scott Hall seated in the gallery, with Matt Sesow’s and Dana Ellyn’s paintings on the wall behind them; Linda King and Charles Bukowski; a young Linda King; the cover of “Loving & Hating Charles Bukowski: A True Story” by Linda King]

Exhibition flier · May–June 2026

“Linda King’s Art, Books & Poetry Exhibition — with Special Guests”

Flier issued by the Linda King family / King’s Dreams Productions

The first announcement of the show. It names Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn as the two guest artists and shows one painting by each. (An early version: the time was later changed to 3–7 PM and several names were corrected on the next flier.)

“Linda King’s Art, Books & Poetry Exhibition — with Special Guests”: Flier — Flier

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LINDA KING’S
ART, BOOKS & POETRY
EXHIBITION
with Special Guests

JUNE 20TH
BLVK BOOK
BEVERLY CENTER 8TH FLOOR
1–7 PM

ORIGINAL BUKOWSKI SCULPTURE ON DISPLAY.

LINDA KING SCULPTURES:
Charles Bukowski
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Jack Hirschman
Jack Micheline
Harold Norris [sic — Harold Norse]
A.D. Winans
Neeli Cherkovski
Robinson Jefferson [sic — Robinson Jeffers]

GUEST ARTISTS:
MATT SESOW [painting shown: a Sesow figure inscribed “big fuck”]
DANA ELLYN [painting shown: a boy standing on a typewriter, paper airplanes and doves, signed “d. ellyn ’21”]

NUDE SCULPTURES BY LINDA KINGS [sic — Linda King]

RED CARPET PHOTOS BY: MAURICE SAMUELS PHOTOGRAPHY · UNDER THE CITY LIGHT

SPONSORED BY: THE BEAT MUSEUM · www.americanfilm.org [sic — the Beat Museum is kerouac.com / thebeatmuseum.org]

FOR MORE INFO WWW.LINDAKINGARTS.COM

Exhibition flier · June 2026

“Beverly Hills, California — Linda King: Art, Books & Poetry”

Linda King Arts (lindakingarts.com) · designed with Matt Sesow

The corrected, final flier: reception 3–7 PM, $20, the full opening-night program, and Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn “returning to LA — 17 years later.”

“Beverly Hills, California — Linda King: Art, Books & Poetry”: Flier (long format) — Flier (long format)

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LINDA KING ARTS PRESENTS
BEVERLY HILLS
CALIFORNIA
LINDA KING — ART, BOOKS & POETRY
A CELEBRATION OF THE BEAT GENERATION & RAW CREATIVE EXPRESSION
THE WOMAN & THE MUSE

LINDA KING — SCULPTOR · POET · LIVING MUSE
CHARLES BUKOWSKI — & LINDA’S ORIGINAL BUST — ON VIEW

HER SCULPTURES IN THE ROOM
Linda’s original Bukowski sculpture — the totem photographed for half a century — shown with the busts she made of the poets & Beat writers who inspired her:
Charles Bukowski · Lawrence Ferlinghetti · Jack Hirschman · Jack Micheline · Harold Norse · A. D. Winans · Neeli Cherkovski · Robinson Jeffers
See how she knew each of them — and what they meant to her — at lindakingarts.com

OPENING RECEPTION
SAT · JUNE 20
3 – 7 PM
OPEN TO ALL · ON VIEW ABOUT A MONTH AFTERWARD
★ 1970S ATTIRE ENCOURAGED ★

BLVK BOOK
BEVERLY CENTER · 8TH FLOOR
8500 BEVERLY BLVD · LOS ANGELES, CA

$20 · TICKETS AT THE DOOR OR IN ADVANCE
FOR TICKETS & FULL EVENT INFORMATION
LINDAKINGARTS.COM

AT THE OPENING
HOSTED LIVE · A NIGHT OF VOICES, MUSIC & 1970S FASHION
★ Your host ★ SCOTT DYLYN HALL — Linda King’s Son
Live reading — ANGELA JONES — of Pulp Fiction
Live reading — DAVE COBERT — of Sweet Water
Live music — RAYMOND KING SHURTZ — Musical performance
★ 1970S-INSPIRED FASHION SHOW BY JESSEJ COLLECTIONS ★
★ PLUS A COWBOY BIKINI FASHION SHOW ★

GUEST ARTISTS
RETURNING TO LA — 17 YEARS LATER
MATT SESOW — WASHINGTON, DC
DANA ELLYN — WASHINGTON, DC

$20 · DOOR OR IN ADVANCE · DRESS IN 1970S STYLE
SPONSORED BY THE BEAT MUSEUM & YAHAIRA KOLB EVENTS
RSVP / PRESS · SCOTT HALL · SCOTTHALLPRODUCTIONS@GMAIL.COM

Artist’s exhibition record · 2026

“Linda King’s Art, Books and Poetry” exhibit — Dana Ellyn: Exhibits & Press

press.danaellyn.com · original address · Wayback Machine

Dana Ellyn’s own record of the show, with the run dates (June 20 – July 20, 2026) and her installation and opening-night photographs.

“Linda King’s Art, Books and Poetry” exhibit — Dana Ellyn: Exhibits & Press: Page 1 — Page 1

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“Linda King’s Art, Books and Poetry” exhibit — Dana Ellyn: Exhibits & Press: Page 3 — Page 3

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"Linda King's Art, Books and Poetry" exhibit

venue: Blvkbook Art

where: Beverly Hills CA

when: June 2026

The exhibition celebrated the life and work of sculptor, poet, and author Linda King, whose decades-long creative career has often been viewed through the lens of her relationship with writer Charles Bukowski.

For the exhibition, Dana Ellyn created a new body of work inspired by Linda King's memoirs, poetry, sculpture, and remarkable life.

Bringing together King's sculpture, poetry, books, and archival materials, the exhibition sought to highlight her own artistic legacy while acknowledging the literary and cultural history that connected the two artists.

Washington, DC artists Dana Ellyn and Matt Sesow were invited as guest artists to create new paintings inspired by King, Bukowski, and the stories surrounding their remarkable partnership. Their work offered contemporary interpretations of the people, objects, and moments that shaped King's life and career, creating a visual dialogue between past and present while honoring an artist whose influence continues to resonate with new generations.

June 20 - July 20, 2026

Opening reception: June 20

The exhibition was presented at BLVK Book on the eighth floor of the Beverly Center in Los Angeles.

Exhibiting artists: Linda King, Dana Ellyn, Matt Sesow

Dana Ellyn — Linda King & Charles Bukowski Paintings

danaellyn.com · original address · Wayback Machine

Lists all sixteen paintings Dana Ellyn made for the exhibition, with titles, media and sizes.

Dana Ellyn — Linda King & Charles Bukowski Paintings: Page 1 — Page 1

Dana Ellyn — Linda King & Charles Bukowski Paintings: Page 2 — Page 2

Dana Ellyn — Linda King & Charles Bukowski Paintings: Page 3 — Page 3

Dana Ellyn — Linda King & Charles Bukowski Paintings: Page 4 — Page 4

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DANA ELLYN · GUEST ARTIST · BEVERLY HILLS

LINDA KING

ART · BOOKS · POETRY · EXHIBIT · JUNE/JULY 2026 · LOS ANGELES, CA

A lifetime of work — sculptor, poet, and on-and-off partner and muse of Charles Bukowski.

GUEST ARTISTS DANA ELLYN & MATT SESOW

The paintings here are Dana Ellyn's, made for the show — inspired by Linda King and Bukowski's writings. Six of the paintings are on view at the gallery in Los Angeles through the end of July; the rest are available now, directly from the artist.

SEE THE WORK
SHOW DETAILS
DANA ELLYN: THE PAINTINGS

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JOCKEYING FOR POSITION

The race to be seen — and the particular feeling of running it beside someone who already is.

JOCKEYING FOR POSITION

Acrylic on canvas board
16 × 12 in

SOLD

CHAMPION

Acrylic on canvas board
16 × 12 in

THE DANCING

Linda dancing — the thing Bukowski couldn't stand, and the spark of more than one breakup.

OVER HIS HEAD

Acrylic on cardboard
11 × 14 in

SHE DANCED ANYWAY

Acrylic on cardboard
10 × 10 in

KEPT WAITING

Acrylic on cardboard
11 × 11 in

THE ICE CREAM PEOPLE

After Bukowski's poem "the icecream people" — love turning the hard man soft, for once.

ICE CREAM PEOPLE

Acrylic on mat board
8 × 10 in

SOLD

On view in LA through July

BEER AND ICE CREAM

Acrylic on mat board
11 × 14 in

SOLD

HEALTHY AND SATISFIED

Acrylic on mat board
11 × 14 in

SOLD

SWEET FOR ONCE

Acrylic on mat board
11 × 14 in

SOLD

THE BUST

The bust Linda King sculpted of Bukowski — the one passed back and forth between them through years of breakups and reconciliations.

KEEP HIM

Acrylic on canvas board
10 × 10 in

TAKE HIM BACK

Acrylic on canvas board
10 × 10 in

MINE AGAIN

Acrylic on canvas board
10 × 10 in

YOURS, THEN

Acrylic on canvas board
10 × 10 in

ALSO ON VIEW

Three standalone paintings — each connected to Linda King's story in its own way.

LOVE SEAT

Acrylic on mat board
12 × 18 in

SOLD

MOCKINGBIRD, WISH ME LUCK

Acrylic and pages from Bukowski book on mat board
12 × 18 in

SHOWGIRL

Acrylic on mat board
12 × 18 in

Six paintings are on view at the gallery in Los Angeles through the end of July; the rest are available now, directly from the artist.

To ask about any piece, tap Inquire on it (or email dana@danaellyn.com with its title). You'll get a quick acknowledgment, and for anything still on view in LA, a follow-up once it's back and ready to ship.

THE SHOW

LINDA KING ARTS PRESENTS · BEVERLY HILLS

SHOW
The exhibition of Linda King — her art, books & poetry, a lifetime of work. Sculptor, poet, and on-and-off partner and muse of Charles Bukowski. Her original sculpted bust of Bukowski is on view.
ON VIEW
Through the end of July 2026. The exhibition opened Saturday, June 20, 2026.
PLACE
BLVK Book · Beverly Center, 8th Floor · 8500 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
OPENING
The June 20 reception was a night of voices, music & 1970s fashion — hosted by Scott Dylyn Hall, with readings by Angela Jones and Dave Cobert, music by Raymond King Shurtz, and fashion by JesseJ Collections.
GUESTS
Guest artists from Washington, DC: Dana Ellyn & Matt Sesow.
FULL INFO AT LINDAKINGARTS.COM
© 2026 Dana Ellyn
danaellyn.com
@danaellyn
dana@danaellyn.com

Exhibition website · June 2026 – (permanent)

lindakingarts.com — Linda King’s Art, Books & Poetry Exhibition

lindakingarts.com (served from sesow.com/bukweb/) · site by Matt Sesow & Dana Ellyn · original address · Wayback Machine

The show’s own website, built by Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn; after June 20 it became the permanent tribute page. Copied here as it stood on October 12, 2026 (the 109-photo gallery is reproduced in full further up this page instead of in these screenshots).

lindakingarts.com — Linda King’s Art, Books & Poetry Exhibition: Page 1 — Page 1

lindakingarts.com — Linda King’s Art, Books & Poetry Exhibition: Page 2 — Page 2

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❀ LINDA KING ARTS ❀
Exhibition
Linda King
Press
Her Art & Readings
Books
Guest Artists
Sculptures
At the Opening
Photos
❀ LINDA KING ARTS ❀
LINDA KING'S
ART, BOOKS & POETRY
EXHIBITION
A ONE-NIGHT EXHIBITION · JUNE 20, 2026 · BEVERLY HILLS
BLVK BOOK
BEVERLY CENTER • 8TH FLOOR • LOS ANGELES, CA

A LASTING TRIBUTE TO THE ART & LIFE OF LINDA KING — SCULPTOR, POET, AND CHARLES BUKOWSKI'S GREAT LOVE

★
ABOUT LINDA
★
PHOTOS FROM JUNE 20
★
HER ART & READINGS
ORIGINAL BUKOWSKI SCULPTURE
sculpted from life by Linda King
ART. POETRY. SCULPTURE.

AN EXHIBITION HONORING LINDA KING'S LEGACY AND THE BEAT GENERATION SPIRIT

Linda King

SCULPTOR • POET • LIVING MUSE

▶
★ A SON'S TRIBUTE TO HIS MOTHER ★
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A young Linda King — sculptor and poet — in 1970s Los Angeles at the beginning of the women's liberation movement. She meets Charles Bukowski, underground writer of Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and offers to sculpt his head. During the sculpting of his acne-scarred face, he seduces her with his writing and wit. As they fall in love, the literary world falls in love with his terse, brutal style. The uncensored true story of their love affair, amidst the chaos of his new-found fame.

POSTED BY SCOTT DYLYN HALL · LINDA'S SON · 13 YEARS AGO ON YOUTUBE

LINDA KING is a sculptor, poet, playwright and former actress whose life was woven into the heart of the late twentieth-century Beat scene. Between 1970 and 1975 she was the on-and-off partner of Charles Bukowski, the model for Lydia Vance in his 1978 novel Women, and the dedicatee of his 1972 poetry collection Mockingbird Wish Me Luck. Bukowski named her, in letters and interviews, as one of the great loves of his life.

Linda met Bukowski when she was already at work on a series of sculpted busts of poets and offered to sculpt his head. That piece became a Bukowski totem — photographed for half a century, and now traveling to BLVK Book for this exhibition.

She wrote her own corrective. Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski, her memoir, and the poetry collection Bukowski Undigested — the book Matt Sesow illustrated in 2008 — are not nostalgia. They are first-person testimony from inside the storm.
— from the curator's notes

Her sculptural work extends well beyond Bukowski. The Beat constellation — Ferlinghetti, Hirschman, Micheline, Norse, Winans, Cherkovski, Locklin — sat for her, as did the long shadow of Robinson Jeffers. The figure work that runs alongside the portraits is unsparing: bronze nudes that prize weight and honesty over flattery.

★ SEE HER ART
★ WATCH HER READ
★ READ MORE ABOUT LINDA
★ HER BOOKS
In Linda's Own Words
ON FIRST MEETING CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I first met Charles Bukowski when Peter told me not to miss his first poetry reading at The Bridge. My husband had gone ahead with the divorce and it had become final. I went to the reading early and put pink stick-on dots on my maroon car. I was celebrating my divorce with a pink polka dot car that I was driving to Utah for the 4th of July. I was anxious to leave, but didn't want to miss Charles Bukowski's first reading.

After the reading I said to him, “You don't seem to like women much.” He said, “I love women.” He announced the party was at his house. I hit the road for Utah.

My dreams came into play with Bukowski telling me he needed help to get over a small hill to the grocery store. In the heavens I saw many things waiting for him — fame, fortune, readings, people. When I told him this dream he said he hadn't eaten for five days. Another dream showed him hanging off the edge of a cliff with no one around to help him but me. I protested telling my instructors — no, not him. I knew his reputation.

He left me for a younger woman with nice ankles. He always was a leg man.

— LINDA KING • EXCERPTED FROM HER OWN ACCOUNT, FROM LOVING AND HATING CHARLES BUKOWSKI (WILD OCEAN PRESS, SAN FRANCISCO)
In the Press

LA ROUGE MAGAZINE · JULY 8, 2026 ISSUE · COVERAGE OF THE JUNE 20 OPENING

★ "BUKOWSKI'S WILDEST LOVE" ★
★ THE FEATURE ★
★ THE ISSUE ★
★ Read: "Linda King — Bukowski's Wildest Love" (Breaking News page)

BREAKING NEWS · Vol. 33:3, No. Romans 3:23 · larougemagazine.com · 08 July 2026

LINDA KING — BUKOWSKI'S WILDEST LOVE

Scott Hall arrives in style to honor his mother's legacy.

"There are moments in art and fashion when elegance transcends appearance and becomes an expression of devotion. Such was the case when Scott Hall (@scott_dylyn_hall) arrived at the iconic BLVKBOOK Art Gallery inside the famed Beverly Center in Los Angeles to celebrate the remarkable life and artistic legacy of his mother, the acclaimed artist Linda King."

— La Rouge Magazine · larougemagazine.com · The Academy · July 8, 2026

★ Read: the feature — "A celebration of family, artistic heritage, and enduring creative excellence" — the full article

"Hall's presence embodied a refined sophistication that felt both contemporary and timeless. With effortless confidence, he moved through the gallery's luminous halls, carrying himself with the quiet grace of a man deeply connected to the significance of the evening. His polished style reflected an appreciation for creativity and culture, perfectly complementing the atmosphere of one of Los Angeles' most celebrated artistic destinations."

"Yet it was not fashion alone that made his arrival memorable. There was an unmistakable sense of pride and reverence in the way Hall engaged with guests, collectors, and admirers who gathered to honor Linda King's extraordinary body of work."

"His presence served as a living tribute to the woman whose artistic vision inspired generations and whose influence continues to resonate throughout the contemporary art world."

"Set against the sophisticated backdrop of BLVKBOOK Art Gallery, the Linda King Art Exhibition became more than an exhibition. It transformed into a celebration of family, artistic heritage, and enduring creative excellence. As guests explored the collection and witnessed the powerful bond between mother and son, honoring not only Linda King's achievements as an artist but also the lasting legacy she leaves behind."

"On an evening dedicated to art, memory, and inspiration, Scott Hall's elegant arrival reminded everyone in attendance that true style is ultimately rooted in love, respect, and the preservation of a remarkable legacy."

— La Rouge Magazine · Editorial: angelmanaiza_angel · Location: Beverly Center · Sponsored by La Rouge Magazine

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The Books

PUBLISHED BY LINDA KING — AVAILABLE THROUGH ABEBOOKS

Bukowski Undigested
POEMS BY LINDA KING • 2008 • ILLUSTRATED BY MATT SESOW

Linda's poems about Bukowski — written, in many cases, while they were still together. The first printing released at The Beat Museum in San Francisco on April 19, 2008, with full-color paintings by Matt Sesow for each poem. Sold out. Available on the secondary market.

★ FIND ON ABEBOOKS
Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski
MEMOIR BY LINDA KING • 2014 • ISBN 9781941137017

Her own first-person account of the relationship that produced Women and dozens of Bukowski poems. Pulls no punches. The book Linda wrote because the story had been told everywhere except from her side.

★ FIND ON ABEBOOKS
Praise for Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski
FROM POETS & PUBLISHERS WHO KNEW BUKOWSKI

"intimate look into the heart and soul of one of America's most important poets"

— A. D. Winans
The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski & the Second Coming Revolution

"a cauldron of sex, heavy drinking and mercurial love"

— John Bennett
creator of Vagabond Press

"a lively and animated memoir... a 'must read' for every fan"

— Neeli Cherkovski
author of Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski

"Here's what Buk looked like when he fell in love!"

— Sharon Doubiago
My Father's Love
Special Guests

FEATURED ARTISTS APPEARING AT THE EXHIBITION

MATT SESOW
SELF-TAUGHT PAINTER • DISABLED ARTIST • WASHINGTON, DC

At eight years old, Matt Sesow was struck by the propeller of a landing airplane; his dominant left hand was amputated. Self-taught, he turned that trauma into one of the most prolific careers in American art — more than 17,000 original paintings sold directly to collectors in 40+ countries, no galleries, no art school. A disabled artist whose raw, expressionist work lives in the permanent collection of the American Visionary Art Museum. Illustrator of Linda King's 2008 Bukowski Undigested.

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★ FULL HISTORY
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★ BUKOWSKI WORK
DANA ELLYN
PAINTER • WASHINGTON, DC

Figurative painter whose narrative work spans politics, social commentary, and the everyday surreal. Exhibited internationally; longtime collaborator with Matt Sesow. Her work in this show explores themes from Linda King's life and writing, and the world she shared with Bukowski.

★ ABOUT DANA ELLYN
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Linda King Sculptures

EIGHT HEADS • ONE GENERATION • HOVER FOR THE FACE • CLICK FOR THE STORY

CHARLES BUKOWSKI
1920 – 1994

Linda's lover, sparring partner, and lifelong subject. The bust she made of him is the centerpiece of this exhibition.

READ THE CONNECTION
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
1919 – 2021

Co-founder of City Lights, publisher of Howl, and the press that gave the Beats a permanent address in San Francisco.

READ THE CONNECTION
JACK HIRSCHMAN
1933 – 2021

San Francisco Poet Laureate, communist troubadour, translator of Mayakovsky and Hikmet. North Beach's conscience. Linda unveiled his bust at The Beat Museum in 2010.

READ THE CONNECTION
JACK MICHELINE
1929 – 1998

Original Beat street poet, debut book introduced by Kerouac. He showed up at Linda's door in Phoenix asking for his head to be sculpted. Linda has a story about him she still tells.

READ THE CONNECTION
HAROLD NORSE
1916 – 2009

Friend of William Carlos Williams, openly gay Beat-era poet. Hotel Nirvana stands as one of the underground's enduring documents.

READ THE CONNECTION
A. D. WINANS
b. 1936

San Francisco poet, founder of Second Coming Press, chronicler of the Bukowski-Micheline connection. Knew everyone in this room.

READ THE CONNECTION
NEELI CHERKOVSKI
1945 – 2024

Bukowski's first biographer, lifelong friend, San Francisco poet. Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski (1991) remains a primary source.

READ THE CONNECTION
ROBINSON JEFFERS
1887 – 1962

Big Sur's prophet. Built Tor House by hand. The long shadow of California poetry behind the entire Beat generation.

READ THE CONNECTION
At the Opening

JUNE 20, 2026 · A NIGHT OF VOICES, MUSIC & 1970S FASHION — THE PEOPLE WHO BROUGHT IT TO LIFE

★ YOUR HOST ★
SCOTT DYLYN HALL
LINDA KING'S SON

Host of the evening and producer of the exhibition through King's Dreams Productions. Linda's son brings the show to life.

★ LIVE READING ★
ANGELA JONES
OF Pulp Fiction

Reading a Linda King poem at the opening — performed live with Linda present.

★ LIVE READING ★
DAVE COBERT
OF Sweet Water

Reading a never-before-publicly-heard Bukowski poem written to Linda King — a debut performance, more than fifty years after it was first put on the page.

★ LIVE MUSIC ★
RAYMOND KING SHURTZ
LINDA'S NEPHEW · MUSICAL PERFORMANCE

Linda's nephew, and the man who first introduced Matt Sesow to Linda in Phoenix in 2005 during the Cheap Theatrix production of Matt's Collateral Damage painting and play. Twenty-one years later, the work returns to LA — and Raymond takes the stage.

★ WORLD PREMIERE · AT THE OPENING ★
BRUNO LETORT
FRENCH COMPOSER · FRANCE MUSIQUE

“Love for a Man in Pain”

A new musical setting of Linda King's poetry by French composer Bruno Letort — a producer at Radio France's France Musique and founder of its Signature label, whose work spans orchestral music, string quartets and interactive opera, and who has collaborated with Pierre Henry, Fred Frith, Hector Zazou and Jean-Luc Godard. Featuring the voice of Annie Barbazza.

June 20, 2026 — The Opening

ONE NIGHT IN BEVERLY HILLS · A CELEBRATION OF LINDA KING

On Saturday, June 20, 2026, family, friends, collectors and poets gathered at BLVK Book in the Beverly Center to celebrate the art and life of Linda King. Her original Charles Bukowski sculpture stood in the room beside the original Bukowski Undigested paintings — together again after seventeen years — alongside live readings, live music from her nephew Raymond King Shurtz, and new work by guest artists Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn. This page now stands as a record of that evening, and a lasting home for Linda's work.

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KING × BUKOWSKI × SESOW

A TWENTY-ONE-YEAR ARC, RETURNING TO LOS ANGELES

2005. Phoenix, Arizona. Painter Matt Sesow makes Collateral Damage (Living Hell), an eight-by-nine-foot canvas. Theatre director Raymond Shurtz builds a Cheap Theatrix production around it — ten playwrights writing short pieces inspired by the painting. One of the playwrights is Raymond's aunt: Linda King. Through Raymond, Matt and Linda meet.

April 19, 2008. The Beat Museum in San Francisco. Linda reads from her new poetry collection, Bukowski Undigested. On the table beside her are the original color paintings by Sesow — illustrations for every poem. The first printing sells out.

2009. Sesow opens a solo Bukowski show in Los Angeles. Then the work sleeps.

June 20, 2026. Sesow and his wife, painter Dana Ellyn, return to LA as Linda's guest artists. The original Bukowski bust will be in the room. Some of the surviving Bukowski Undigested originals travel with Sesow. Linda's son, Scott Dylyn Hall, hosts and produces. Raymond — the man who introduced them all in Phoenix twenty-one years ago — takes the stage with live music.

This is what the exhibition is for.

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LINDA KING ARTS

A celebration of the art and life of Linda King. The opening was held June 20, 2026, in Beverly Hills. This page remains a lasting home for her work. Tell a poet.

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THE ARTISTS & FAMILY BEHIND THE SHOW
Linda King
THE ARTIST
Scott Dylyn Hall
HOST · LINDA'S SON
Raymond King Shurtz
LIVE MUSIC · LINDA'S NEPHEW
Matt Sesow
GUEST ARTIST
Dana Ellyn
GUEST ARTIST

Linda King, in her own words · 2010 – 2022

Linda King’s own accounts of her sculptures (Facebook posts)

Facebook: Linda King; Gerry King Hitt (Linda’s sister); Ronda Seifert (Linda’s niece)

Linda King tells, in her own words, how she met and sculpted Charles Bukowski and Jack Micheline — the stories used on the exhibition website and in the room.

Linda King’s own accounts of her sculptures (Facebook posts): Linda King: Charles Bukowski — Linda King: Charles Bukowski

Linda King’s own accounts of her sculptures (Facebook posts): Linda King: Jack Micheline (July 31, 2016) — Linda King: Jack Micheline (July 31, 2016)

Linda King’s own accounts of her sculptures (Facebook posts): Ronda Seifert, Dec 9, 2022 — Linda’s Bukowski card — Ronda Seifert, Dec 9, 2022 — Linda’s Bukowski card

Linda King’s own accounts of her sculptures (Facebook posts): Ferlinghetti, 1919–2021 — Ferlinghetti, 1919–2021

Linda King’s own accounts of her sculptures (Facebook posts): Gerry King Hitt, Jan 14, 2010 — Gerry King Hitt, Jan 14, 2010

Linda King’s own accounts of her sculptures (Facebook posts): Busts on Ginsberg’s organ, Beat Museum — Busts on Ginsberg’s organ, Beat Museum

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LINDA KING — “CHARLES BUKOWSKI”
I first met Charles Bukowski when Peter told me not to miss his first poetry reading at The Bridge. My husband had gone ahead with the divorce and it had become final. I went to the reading early and put pink stick-on dots on my maroon car. I was celebrating my divorce with a pink polka dot car that I was driving to Utah for the 4th of July. I was anxious to leave, but didn’t want to miss Charles Bukowski’s first reading.
I told about my five years with Bukowski in my book, LOVING AND HATING CHARLES BUKOWSKI (Wild Ocean Press, San Francisco.) It can also be bought from Amazon.
After the reading I said to him, “You don’t seem to like women much.” He said, “I love women.” He announced the party was at his house. I hit the road for Utah.
My dreams came into play with Bukowski telling me he needed help to get over a small hill to the grocery store. In the heavens I saw many thing waiting for him, fame, fortune, readings, people, etc. When I told him this dream he said he hadn’t eaten for five days. Another dream showed him hanging off the edge of a cliff with no one around to help him but me. I protested telling my instructors—no…not him. I knew his reputation.
He left me for a younger woman with nice ankles. He always was a leg man.

LINDA KING — “JACK MICHELINE” (July 31, 2016)
I met Jack Micheline a couple of times at Bukowski’s place on DeLongpre when he was down from San Francisco. He had the reputation of being one of the best street poets ever. He had a very flamboyant way of reading and was very entraining as he seemed to be always on stage. I loved his images of life on the street and people he met, lived with or loved. When I was sculpturing Bukowski’s head, word got out that I sculptured writers, poets and artists. Years later when I left Bukowski and moved to Phoenix, Jack showed up at my door saying he wanted his head sculptured. The woman he was with dropped him off and I proceed to sculpture him. He only had one day so I put together the clay and worked almost without breaks all the next day until she picked him up to proceed on their travels. During breaks Jack painted a picture of me using paint straight from the tube. He painted one for my daughter as well.
His son, Vince Silvaer, contacted me not long after Jack died on the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) and wondered it I could come to San Francisco with Jack’s head when they named an Alley after him. I made fast arrangement for my daughter to pick me up and after about killing myself getting that head through the airport carried in a backpack. I made it…just barely. This is one of the poems I read at the dedication along with many other friends and poets.

RONDA SEIFERT (Linda’s niece) — December 9, 2022
Wow. I’m so glad my Aunt Linda King has shared some of her sculptures along with pictures of the subjects and stories about each one. She is such a talented sculptress and painter as well. The posts are public, so scan her page for her series of sculptures. So many that are just unbelievably like the subject. Sometimes I visit museums and see work displayed and I don’t understand why hers isn’t there instead. Check her work out.

[The card in the photograph, by Linda King:]
CHARLES BUKOWSKI — Burbank, Calif.
BUKOWSKI was sculpted at my place in Burbank, Calif. He came around the hill from Hollywood for his sittings. We had about a five year relationship. I was writing on my book, MAD OUIJA when I met him. His book POST OFFICE was just published. I asked if he wanted to be sculpted, urged by my sister, Gerry, who wanted to meet a writer. Peter, at The Bridge, a poetry hole, told me he was the best poet in Los Angeles. My book LOVING AND HATING CHARLES BUKOWSKI is about our years together. His book WOMEN includes me as one of his women, Lydia. I have sold several of his sculptures in bronze. Bukowski seduced me with many love letters over the hill from Hollywood to Burbank after sittings. He also inspired a chapbook ME AND YOUR SOMETIMES LOVE POEMS and BUKOWSKI UNDIGESTED a collection of my poem about him.

POST ON LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI (2021)
The great Lawrence Ferlinghetti passed away at 101. 1919-2021. Sculpture by Linda King. She and Bukowski destroyed his apartment after one of Bukowski’s poetry readings.

GERRY KING HITT (Linda’s sister) — January 14, 2010
Linda and me at the famous Beat Museum in San Francisco on our trip there. She now lives in SF and is going to sculpture poet laureate Jack Hirshman in the Beat Museum where she has other poets’ busts on display she has sculptured— with Linda King.
[The photograph is date-stamped 04/19/2008 — the day of the Bukowski Undigested release at the Beat Museum.]

POST — BEAT MUSEUM
Linda King sculptures at the Beat Museum, San Francisco. sitting on Ginsberg piano.
[The label on the instrument reads “Allen Ginsberg’s Organ.”]

Matt Sesow’s press page · April 2008 (updated Nov 11, 2009)

“Sesow Illustrates poetry book by Linda King — Bukowski Undigested”

sesow.com/press/2k8/buk.htm · original address · Wayback Machine

Matt’s own record of the April 19, 2008 release of Bukowski Undigested at the Beat Museum in San Francisco — the book his original paintings illustrate, and the paintings that came back to Los Angeles in 2026.

“Sesow Illustrates poetry book by Linda King — Bukowski Undigested”: Page 1 — Page 1

“Sesow Illustrates poetry book by Linda King — Bukowski Undigested”: Page 2 — Page 2

“Sesow Illustrates poetry book by Linda King — Bukowski Undigested”: Page 3 — Page 3

“Sesow Illustrates poetry book by Linda King — Bukowski Undigested”: Page 4 — Page 4

“Sesow Illustrates poetry book by Linda King — Bukowski Undigested”: Page 5 — Page 5

“Sesow Illustrates poetry book by Linda King — Bukowski Undigested”: Page 6 — Page 6

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Sesow Illustrates poetry book by Linda King
"Bukowski Undigested"

the first printing is SOLD OUT

cover of the book:

the first printing is SOLD OUT
updated november 11,2009

Release party on April 19, 2008
at the Beat Museum in San Francisco
released: April 2008

from the Beat Museum april 19 opening
(more coming, including video)... photos by dana ellyn:

at the Beat Museum... opening April 19th, 2008 in San Francisco:

CLICK HERE FOR MORE PAINTINGS...

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Linda King’s Biography
Linda King was raised in the wild back country of Boulder, Utah known to be one of the last towns in United States to get a road. She has been sculpturing over twenty-five years doing many portraits, including poets and writers, Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Farlinghetti, A.D. Wianns, Jack Mich- eline. Geraldine King and Harold Nors Linda is the first women in Bukowski’s book called Women about her 5 years relationship with him, Her unpublished book about him is LOVING AND HATING CHARLES BUKOWSKI. Chapters of this book have appeared in books and magazines, Drinking with Bukowski, Beat Scene out of London, and Bukowski Anthology from Germany
Linda is a much published poet in her own right, published in many small press magazines, Wormwood Review, New York Quarterly, Pearl, Vagabond and Vagabond Anthology, City Light Anthology, Second Coming, Shamel Purr, Rattle and many, many more. Her Chap books are Sweet and Dirty (Vagabond Press), The Savageness of My Discontent, I Danced with a Man Last Night, Exposed, The Elephant Chronicles (Purring Press) and more recent, Curled in the Curve of His Body and The World Is Not what I Thought (Sore Dove Press)
Linda read poetry with Charles Bukowski, Lawrence Fer- linghetti, Allen Ginsberg. Jack Micheline and others in Santa Cruz for political prisoners and has many solo readings at Universities and galleries. Her book I Danced with a Man Last night was converted into an evening of theatre at ASU. She is has had her one act plays performed at Metro Arts in Phoenix, Az., where she now lives.

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Bukowski Undigested by Linda King ~ Artwork by Matt Sesow Linda King’s now bens iso callecion of poems about Bulow fam the 1970's unt peset. Book signing/reading with Linda King
Paintings in the book on display with artist Matt Sesow
also, on display sculptures by Linda King of: Charles Bukowski, Harold Norse, AD Winans, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and others.
Sat. - Apri 19th, 2008 @The Beat Museum at 7:30pm
Bukowski Undigested by Linda King
Beat Museum @ 7:30pm
540 Broadway (at Columbus) i SF, CA 94133 Artwork by Matt Sesow’
For more info: www.thebeatmuseum.org 1800-KER-OUAC www.sesow.com - www.lindakingart.com - www.purringpress.com

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April
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Linda King: Bukowski Undigested
Linda King was the gifriend of Charles Bukowski in the early 1970's, of whom he spoke lovingly and often. Linda is a poet and sculptor (see photo of Bukowski sitting with a bust of himself, created by Linda King). Her busts of Harold Norse, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Gregory Corso are on display at the Museum, and additional works will be displayed while she's here. Linda will be reading from her new book, Bukowski Undigested, which will be available for purchase and signing.

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Bukowski Undigested by Linda King
Artwork by Matt Seso
In 2008, Matt Sesow collaborated with poet and girlfriend of Charles Bukowski, Linda King, for a book entitled “Bukowski Undigested”. Matt credits much of his early decision to become a painter from reading Bukows! Matt created over 100 paintings after reading the poetry
of Bukowski’s muse, Linda King.
“Bukowski Undigested” is available by visiting the website
bukowski.sesow.com
‘Some of the paintings on this wall are either collaborations with Linda King (paintings by Sesow, poetry by King) or are inspired by the poetry of Linda King that appear in the book “Bukowski Undigested”.
Paintings and poetry by Sesow/King are currently available and on display at the Beat Museum in San Francisco, CA.

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I filmed Linda reading her poetry about Bukowski against the fence in her back yard where birds were singing in the tree. Next to her is the famous Bukowski sculpture she started when she first met the great poet.
Matt Sesow painting with a poem called Undigested Bukowski by Linda

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I filmed Linda reading her poetry about Bukowski against the fence in her back yard where tree. Next to her is the famous Bukowski sculpture she started when she first met the greé
Matt Sesow painting with a poem called Undigested Bukowski by Linda
Side view of Sister Margie, latest sculpture by Linda. Do you like, Margie?

Press release + review · March–June 2005

“Collateral Damage” — 10 plays about a Sesow painting (Phoenix, 2005)

sesow.com/cdpressrelease.htm · Cheap Theatrix at Metro Arts Institute, Phoenix · original address · Wayback Machine

Where it began: Linda King was one of the ten playwrights who wrote a play in response to Matt Sesow’s 8 × 9 foot painting “Collateral Damage (Living Hell).” Her nephew Raymond Shurtz directed — and introduced them.

“Collateral Damage” — 10 plays about a Sesow painting (Phoenix, 2005): Page 1 — Page 1

“Collateral Damage” — 10 plays about a Sesow painting (Phoenix, 2005): Page 2 — Page 2

“Collateral Damage” — 10 plays about a Sesow painting (Phoenix, 2005): Page 3 — Page 3

“Collateral Damage” — 10 plays about a Sesow painting (Phoenix, 2005): Page 4 — Page 4

“Collateral Damage” — 10 plays about a Sesow painting (Phoenix, 2005): Page 5 — Page 5

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"Collateral Damage" 10 plays about a Sesow painting
(Phoenix, 2005)

"Collateral Damage" named best experimental theater production in phoenix/tucson for 2005 (East Valley Tribune, Chris Page/critic)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL THEATER

"Collateral Damage," Cheap Theatrix: Raymond Shurtz collected a handful of antiwar plays and strung them together against a painting by Washington, D.C., artist Matt Sesow. Somewhat thoughtprovoking, occasionally brilliant, entirely fresh."

"Collateral Damage (Living Hell)"
8 feet x 9 feet
acrylic/mixed on canvas
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Press Release
cheap theatrix @Metro Arts announces
"Collateral Damage"

Raymond Shurtz, Artistic Director of cheap theatrix, has assembled plays from ten of Phoenix's finest playwrights to create "Collateral Damage". The show will consist of ten-minute plays by these playwrights in reaction to the painting 'Collateral Damage' (a living hell) by internationally known painter, Matt Sesow. This collaboration began several months ago after Mr. Shurtz contacted Mr. Sesow at his home in Washington D.C. in response to his stunning paintings involving the war in Iraq. Mr. Sesow agreed to paint a large 8'X 9' canvas which will serve as the center piece of the ten minute plays.

The playwrights, Brenda Edwards, Nick Newberry, Susan Simpson LaFave, Judith Eisenberg, Tom Wooler, Chuck Hinckley, Renee Simms, Gerry King, Linda King, and Raymond Shurtz, were selected during a two-month 'call to playwrights' period. The ten plays range from the very serious issues facing our soldiers in combat, to biting satire, from the left to the right, from the fallen to the risen. Seventeen actors will perform the over fifty roles required for this full-length production.

In addition, cheap theatrix and Metro Arts, will be exhibiting Matt Sesow's emotionally riveting work in the gallery adjacent to the main theatre before, after, and during intermission of all the performances. Mr. Sesow will be attending the opening along with the playwrights and performers. Music will be provided by 'Drawbridge', with the theatre performance of 'Collateral Damage' to follow.

Dates: April 1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th 9th, 15th , and16th.

Times: The April 1st opening will begin at 6:30pm for Mr. Sesow's exhibit, and 8:00pm for the theatrical performance of 'Collateral Damage' . All other shows will consist of a 7:00pm exhibit and the 8:00pm performance.

Location: Metro Arts Institute, 1700 N. 7th Avenue. (Just North of McDowell Rd. on the West side of 7th Avenue.

Tickets: $10 adults $8 students

Reservations or more information: (602) 258-4798

Reservations can also be made by e-mailing cheaptheatrix@earthlink.net.

Matt Sesow's paintings can be viewed on line at www.sesow.com

click image above to visit new paintings by Matt Sesow

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Cheap theatrix @Metro Arts Presents
‘Collateral Damage’
A theatrical response to a painting by Matt Sesow
‘Ten of Phoenin's finest playwrights wit in response to the
emotionally charged war painting, Collateral Damage, (a living hel) ,
by Washington D.C. painter Matt Sesow. In addlion, Matt Sesow's
‘work wll bein exhibit the theatre gallary before and during all of performances
The Playwrights The Directors Gordon Giles Brenda Edwards Dan R. Hitt Frank Gonzalez Judith Eisenberg Raymond shurtz Jeffrey Holden Chuck Hinckley FemandoTeson Laird Palmer Gerry King Karie Rae Pesserillo Linda King Tne actors Michael McGregor Nick Newberry Danielle Addison Cale Richarson ‘Susan Simpson Lafave Sue Baker ‘Tracee Rohde Renee Simms Selina Cupell Cur Stetter Raymond Shurtz, Maggie Donnelly Femando Teson Tom Wooler Jessica Forrister
April 1st, 2nd, 7th, 8th, 9th, 15th and 16th Where: Metro Arts Institute 1700 N. 7th Ave. (Just North of McDowell)
Time: April 1st - 6:30pm for opening exhibit of Matt Sesow’s paintings
8:00pm - theatrical performance of ‘Collateral Damage’. All other dates — 7:00pm exhibit
8:00pm theatrical performance of ‘Collateral Damage’ Tickets: $10 for adults $8 for students Reservations: (602) 258-4798 or cheaptheatrix@earthlink.net

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Art of war
Playwrights explore politics through painting, acting
PLAY.
‘Collateral
Damage’ Where: Metro Arts Institdte, 1700 N. ‘Seventh Ave., Phoenix When: Opens Friday, runs 8 p.m. ‘Thursday- ‘Saturday through Apri 16 How much: $10, ‘$8 for students Pa
By CHRIS PAGE Get Out e
¢ interrupt the regularly
scheduled coverage of the
Michael Jackson trial to bring you the following reminder:
‘There's still a war going on.
Nearly two years after President Bush. declared major combat operations over in Iraq, Valley playwright and director ‘Raymond Shurtz is contributing a wartime wake-up call with “Collateral Damage,” a theater production staging 10 plays, each 10 minutes long, written in response to a painting by Washington, D.C., artist Matt Sesow, exploring the ancillary effects of war.
“We've started to let our guard down a bit,” Shurtz says. “I want to keep the dialogue going.”
For the show, Shurtz, penned “American Eagle,” a piece of magical realism in which a mother prepares an eagle for family dinner.
Brenda Edwards’ “Wifedom” interweaves stories of wives from Iraq and Middle America with military spouses.
‘And Tom Wooler contributed a piece that finds television family the Cleavers (Leave It to Beaver") debating the war in Iraq,
“Ldidn't want it to be an antiwar
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Photo Cris Page Selina Cupell plays a dog hovering over an tragi corpse (played hy Femando Teson) in rehearsals for a short play by Renee Simms, 2s part of “Collateral Damage.”

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show,” Shurtz says, “but I'm sure it has Its artistic protest.”
Shurtz— who co-founded Playwrights Workshop Theatre and, besides teaching drama at Metro Arts charter school, runs his own Cheap ‘Theatrix company — has a history of creating conceptual collective theater Pieces like this one, In 2002, he enlarged an artwork by French painter Balthus and invited five playwrights to write around it
This time, he scoured historical war Paintings before stumbling onto a Web site of Sesow’s war-themed paintings, “As soon as I saw them,” Shurtz says, “T immediately responded.”
Sesow, 38, 1s a former software ‘engineer for IBM who has established himself as a self-taught painter, He's known both for a childhood accident ‘with a landing airplane that resulted in the amputation of an arm and for Colorful, powerful abstract paintings that channel the artist’ inner demons and anger.
‘Sesow says he created “Collateral Damage (Living Helly" to shine a light on the grief and pain of war,
“The idea,” he says, "was a family caught in some bombing campaign.”
Coflins are lined up in a corner, and severed arms holding scimitars —a nod to Baghdad's “Hands of Victory” arches —lloat above. The artist's emotions, he says, are on full display in his exploration of death and suffering.
“Iwas traveling back from a solo show in Atlanta, and some guy stopped me and asked if was in the military, fT had just gotten back from Iraq, because Tm missing an arm and my hair Is cut short,” he says. “As a soclety, we have a {ot of feeling for those who are suffering,
—TheArs
Twant to give a tribute to the troops,"
‘The painter says he spent a week working on the large-format “Collateral Damage,” and that the 8-by-9-foot painting filed the floor of his cramped studio apartment. Sesow says he ‘accepted the alrhast pro bono Commission (Shurtz paid the cost of materials and for Sesow’s flight to come ‘0 opening night of the show; the piece will go on sale for $2,000 after the show Closes) because he's impressed by the artistic boldness of Shurtz and the Participating playwrights,
“The historical significance of taking a chance on something like this during a Nar is pretty ballsy,” Sesow says, “Sometimes we like to wait to see how Uuings shake out before we form our opinions on them.”
Shurtz expects audiences anticipating an evening of screaming, “Embedded"-style agitprop will be surprised by the varied tone of the plays resented in “Collateral Damage."
One poignant piece comes from Metro Arts humanities teacher Renee Simms, 38, who juxtaposes a news conference asking Americans to stop donating food {o military bomb-snifing dogs with a ‘Scene in which an Iraqi family dog, loose in the city after her home was desiroyed, contemplates eating a human corpse,
Other plays explore wartime Journalists, soldiers assigned to identify bodies and, in Chuck Hinckley’s “Chili Cheese Fries,” a soldier dealing with his frst kill — his interpreter and guide,
‘Shurtz says bringing the show together has sparked lively debate among cast members, and he hopes discussion continues with audiences. A self-described pacifist, Shurtz says the show has helped him further formulate hhis own opinions.
“Usually, when I don't know,” he says, “Tll do theater to find out.”

Online forum thread · April 10–16, 2009

“Linda King Talks about Bukowski”

Bukowski Forum (bukowskiforum.com) · original address · Wayback Machine

Contemporary confirmation that Linda King’s original clay Bukowski bust was displayed at the Elephant Theatre in Hollywood in 2009, at the inaugural Bukowski festival — the same event as Matt Sesow’s 2009 “Bukowski” solo show.

“Linda King Talks about Bukowski”: Page 1 — Page 1

“Linda King Talks about Bukowski”: Page 2 — Page 2

“Linda King Talks about Bukowski”: Page 3 — Page 3

“Linda King Talks about Bukowski”: Page 4 — Page 4

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Apr 10, 2009
#1
Hi Friends;
This came to me from my friend, Soheyl Dahi. He shot the video.

Also, here are some stills from that same time...

Best,
Bill

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mjp
Founding member
Apr 10, 2009
#2
If there's one thing I would trade all my books for, it's more Bukowski art.

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Apr 10, 2009
#3
Wow, original Buk paintings on the wall! Lucky Linda King...

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ESO9
Apr 10, 2009
#4
Too bad it's such a short clip. Does anyone know if the entire interview will come out? 25 seconds of Linda King is a tease. I enjoy listening to her stories.

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Ambreen
Sordide Sentimental
Apr 13, 2009
#5
Wow ! I didn't even know she was still alive ! But it's because I didn't have in mind the big age difference between Buk and his girlfriends. Indeed, I'm now remembering that his former babes were 20 to 30 years younger than him, a lot of them must be still living then !

She's not as cute as the good old days, but she's still recognizable.

Does someone know what has become of the Bukowski bust ?

Concerning his paintings...I definitely prefer Buk as a writer.

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Apr 13, 2009
#6
Ambreen said:
Does someone know what has become of the Bukowski bust ?

The original clay bust was recently displayed at the Elephant Theatre in Hollywood, as part of the inaugural Bukowski 'festival'. And bronze versions are still available, for around $6,000 USD. Linda King has a website, here: http://www.lindakingarts.com/

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Ambreen
Sordide Sentimental
Apr 14, 2009
#7
Thanks Hanky !

I will never be interested by bying a bronze version of the bust, all this merchandising around poor Bukowski makes me ill-at-ease.

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Apr 14, 2009
#8
It did not seem to bother Buk...

Bill

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Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
Apr 14, 2009
#9
I met a collector in Montreal last summer who was offered to buy the bonze bust for 2500. and had declined. I bet he regrets it now.

He also wanted to buy the painting of Buk and Georgia but I decided to keep it a little longer.

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Ambreen
Sordide Sentimental
Apr 15, 2009
#10
bospress.net said:
It did not seem to bother Buk...
Perhaps I'm mistaken but I tend to believe that by-products really developed after his death. I can't imagine such products massively existing while he was alive, no ? Did Linda already sell her replica at that time ?

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Apr 15, 2009
#11
yes, I believe that she did...

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Rekrab
Usually wrong.
Apr 16, 2009
#12
Ambreen said:
Perhaps I'm mistaken but I tend to believe that by-products really developed after his death. I can't imagine such products massively existing while he was alive, no ? Did Linda already sell her replica at that time ?

You're right; all the merchandizing started after he died. While Buk was alive there was only his own work and a limited amount of writing about him, some photographs available, but no refrigerator magnets or bobbleheads, nothing mass produced and marketed.

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roni
Apr 16, 2009
#13
if I do have to have refrigerator magnets, I'd rather have some with Buk on them than, say, little kitten.

if I do have to have bookends or T-shirts with people on them or mugs with a witty quotation - I'd prefer Bukowski over Kermit the frog anytime.

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Ponder
"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Apr 16, 2009
#14
And there was `Sure`, a nice magazine devoted to Buk.
http://www.realbeer.com/buk/sure.html

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james
Apr 16, 2009
#15
but he did wear a shirt with his larger than life face on it in several pictures in the 70's. so he was indeed into it. bukowski loved bukowski, right?

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Ambreen
Sordide Sentimental
Apr 16, 2009
#16
Rekrab said:
You're right; all the merchandizing started after he died. While Buk was alive there was only his own work and a limited amount of writing about him, some photographs available, but no refrigerator magnets or bobbleheads, nothing mass produced and marketed.
What I find disturbing are not the writings, photos or postcards but the gadgets such as the magnets or bubbleheads you're quoting. Bukowski is Bukowski. He's not Britney Spears.

Concerning Linda's bust, I find it quite disconcerting that she turned an object symbolizing her relationship with Hank into a mere product.

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conl
Apr 16, 2009
#17
She probably felt the same way about him turning their relationship into the stories/poems/novels he sold.
(And, as she has pointed out, he usually left her side of the story out.)

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Rekrab
Usually wrong.
Apr 17, 2009
#18
Back in the day (late 60s, early 70s) it was inconceivable that anyone would make, or buy, a refrigerator magnet with Bukowski's face on it. I remember telling another poet that I thought someday Buk would be "big time," meaning commercial publication by the big New York houses, as opposed to small press, and he said no way. We both idolized Buk but my friend couldn't imagine the mainstream would ever embrace Bukowski. I saw the potential, but never imagined films based on his work, let alone mousepads and bobbleheads. And that the Huntington Library would feature his work was also inconceiveable. What next, action figures? The funny thing is, when he finally went big time, I imagined not hardcovers and trade paperbacks but those old Bantam mass market paperbacks, the kind that cost 95 cents. I envisoned "Post Office" as one of those.

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roni
Apr 17, 2009
#19
Rekrab said:
... What next, action figures?

you know the answer ...

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Ambreen
Sordide Sentimental
Apr 17, 2009
#20
He looks pregnant.

conl said:
She probably felt the same way about him turning their relationship into the stories/poems/novels he sold.
(And, as she has pointed out, he usually left her side of the story out.)
I don't think that their respective processes can be compared.

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james
Sep 12, 2009
#21
here's linda reviewing Barfly...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/culture/detail?blogid=3&entry_id=47318

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Smearski
Sep 12, 2009
#22
Man, I want those paintings that she has up on her wall.

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Sep 12, 2009
#23
Thanks, James! - I see it was just uploaded to Youtube on 9-11 (!)...

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Rekrab
Usually wrong.
Sep 13, 2009
#24
She's right about Rourke not capturing Bukowski's intelligence. BARFLY has it's moments, and I like Rourke, but at times he seems like a drunken apeman in BARFLY.

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james
Sep 17, 2009
#25
here's another linda king article. so, she's 69, and sold her buk love letters for $69,000...how erotic!
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/17/DDGF19N3S8.DTL

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Sep 18, 2009
#26
... from the article... King's cut from the sale - she said she received $25,000 - wasn't enough to last long with moving costs and mounting medical bills, she said.

What? They sold for $69,000 and she only got $25,000? Who took the rest? I thought that the sellers paid a 10% premium and so did the buyers and that was the auction house cut. Something is either wrong or something is very wrong...

Bill

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Black Swan
Abord the Yorikke!
Sep 18, 2009
#27
Maybe she sold them to the auctioneer for 25,000. and he put them up for auction for himself. Usually, the auction house takes 20%.

If a gallerist sells your art for instance, he or she takes 50-60 even 70%, which sucks big time but it is the market.

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mjp
Founding member
Sep 18, 2009
#28
'I had a dream once that I had a Bukowski rug on the floor, and each time I got broke, all I had to do was reach into the mouth and some money would come out of the rug - the Bukowski rug."

Ugh.

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roni
Sep 18, 2009
#29
as far as I remember that auction, they took 15% from the buyers and the same from the sellers.

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Smearski
Sep 18, 2009
#30
Black Swan said:
If a gallerist sells your art for instance, he or she takes 50-60 even 70%
70%!? What kinda galleries are you messing with?

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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Sep 18, 2009
#31
The kind of galleries those of us with no talent have to deal with. Why do you ask?

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1fsh2fsh
I think that I think too much
Founding member
Sep 18, 2009
#32
yep. 70% is about right. I had some work in a couple of gallerys a few years ago. tough times. since then I only sell outright or through freinds.

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Amber
Sep 20, 2009
#33
It makes me sad that Linda King only got $25,000 out the $69,000. My logic is not the best, but I see her as an important part of his life and his work, whereas the auction house is nothing. It reminds me somehow of a divorce, with all of it's passion and emotion, which gets converted, so often, to big money for the lawyers.

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Event poster · March 2009

1st Annual Bukowski Festival — poster

Scott Dylyn Hall Productions; posted by Matt Sesow on Facebook, March 5, 2009

The festival’s own poster: Saturday, March 28, 2009, The Elephant Theater, Hollywood — featured poets, and “Bukowski inspired art by” Matt Sesow, Linda King, Bill Dambrove, Mike Stilkey and Bruce Rubenstein.

1st Annual Bukowski Festival — poster: Poster — text version — Poster — text version

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Transcribed by hand from the poster images, October 12, 2026. Spellings kept as printed.

1st Annual
Bukowski Festival [printed "Fesitval" on the text version]
Celebration of Literature, Poetry & Art
Sat. March 28th 2009 @ 8pm
The Elephant Theater at:
6324 W. Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
1 Bk W. of Vine

Featured Poets:
Neeli Cherkovski
Linda King
Gerald Locklin
Joan Smith
Fred Voss
Paul Vangelisti
SA Griffin
Raymond King Shurtz

Bukowski inpired [sic] art by:
Matt Sesow
Linda King
Bill Dambrove
Mike Stilkey
Bruce Rubenstein

8PM - Opening
9:20pm - Bukowski by: Taylor Hackford (1973 - Award Winning Documentry [sic] - 40 Mins)
All the poets were Bukowski friends and knew him personality [sic].
All the Art is inpired [sic] by Bukowski.
Open mic after featured poets.
"To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call ART." - Bukowski
"Lets All Get Drunker Than Shit..." - Bukowski
$10 Donation · Special Thanks: David Fofi
More Info: midasman88@yahoo.com

[Picture version:] 1st Annual Bukowski Festival · Celebration of Literature, Poetry & Art · Saturday, March 28th 2009 @ 9:00pm · Scott Dylyn Hall Productions

Bukowski Forum thread · March 9, 2009

“poetry reading in santa monica 28 march 2009” — Joan Jobe Smith’s announcement

bukowskiforum.com · original address · Wayback Machine

Poet Joan Jobe Smith’s announcement of the festival, posted for her on the 15th anniversary of Bukowski’s death.

“poetry reading in santa monica 28 march 2009” — Joan Jobe Smith’s announcement: Page 1 — Page 1

“poetry reading in santa monica 28 march 2009” — Joan Jobe Smith’s announcement: Page 2 — Page 2

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justine
stop the penistry
Mar 9, 2009
#1
joan jobe smith asked me to post this on her behalf:

hello you guys... hoping this is the right email address to tell you abt the 1st Annual Bukowski Festival celebration of literature, poetry & art to be held Sat., Mar 28, 2009 @ 8pm at The Elephant Theatre, 6324 W. Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca (1 blk west of Vine)... more info: midasman88@yahoo.com.. along with Neeli Cherkovski, Linda King (Buk's First Linda, not Widow Bukowski), Fred Voss, Gerald Locklin, i will be a featured poet reading some of my Bukowski poetry; will hype chance press upcoming issue... love, joan jobe smith.. p.s. my computer won't let me access internet anymore; cd you pls post the above info on Buk.net?... today is 15th anniersary of Buk's death; this afternoon am visiting his grave to place some pink camellias and a bird of paradise and pour some cognac across his topper grass...

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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Mar 9, 2009
#2
Thank you Justine;
Was planning on going out there.

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Mar 9, 2009
#3
Also the topic here.

Bukowski Forum thread · December 2008

“Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th” — including Matt Sesow’s email about the show

bukowskiforum.com · original address · Wayback Machine

The first public word of the show: Matt Sesow’s December 2008 email (“‘Bukowski Undigested’ lives…”), quoted on the forum, tying the show to the city’s landmark dedication of Bukowski’s De Longpre Avenue bungalow.

“Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th” — including Matt Sesow’s email about the show: Page 1 — Page 1

“Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th” — including Matt Sesow’s email about the show: Page 2 — Page 2

“Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th” — including Matt Sesow’s email about the show: Page 3 — Page 3

“Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th” — including Matt Sesow’s email about the show: Page 4 — Page 4

“Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th” — including Matt Sesow’s email about the show: Page 5 — Page 5

“Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th” — including Matt Sesow’s email about the show: Page 6 — Page 6

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 11, 2008
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Bukowski landmark dedication / Bukowski Festival - 28 March

This was part of an email from painter Matt Sesow:

BUKOWSKI/LA: "Bukowski Undigested" lives... looks like we (Linda/Scott King) will be part of a show around a Bukowski landmark dedication in March. stay tuned... get the book by clicking HERE.

So apparently they (the self-congratulatory city hall types) will be breaking a bottle of champagne across the bow of 5124 DeLongpre some time in March.

I wonder if Linda will show, knowing her general distaste for the landmark status...

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Father Luke
Founding member
Dec 11, 2008
#2
mjp said:
I wonder if Linda will show, knowing her general distaste for the landmark status...

I wonder if they both will show.

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 11, 2008
#3
If my busy schedule as Barack Obama's new barbeque czar permits, I will attend the solemn ceremony and report my findings to the scientific community here.

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Dec 11, 2008
#4
So City Hall is gonna celebrate "The Laureate Poet Of Skid Row", together with Linda King, outside his DeLongpre bungalow. Buk would've gotten a big laugh out of it...:D

Next, they'll erect a statue of him outside City Hall - made by Linda King! :rolleyes:

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Pessimist
Dec 11, 2008
#5
Bukfan said:
Next, they'll erect a statue of him outside City Hall - made by Linda King! :rolleyes:

They've already put up a statue of his buddy Al Purdy here in Hogtown.

Write good poetry, get shit on by people, live in poverty, die, get shit on by birds.

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Dec 11, 2008
#6
Well, it's the shit that brings us food on the table...;)

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roni
Dec 12, 2008
#7
mjp said:
...I will attend the solemn ceremony...

pleeze tell me about the exact date asap.

could be, I'll be in LA next spring.

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 12, 2008
#8
As soon as I hear anything I'll post it here. Or if someone else gets the info first, let us know.

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chronic
old and in the way
Dec 12, 2008
#9
Bukfan said:
Next, they'll erect a statue of him outside City Hall - made by Linda King! :rolleyes:

You know, a life-sized statue of Bukowski sitting on a park bench with a bottle and a cigarette, in the right location... maybe Pershing Square(?), would not be a bad thing.

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Dec 12, 2008
#10
Or in MacArthur Perk where he used to hang out with Jane.
I think he would've had one already if he had been Canadian, just like Purdy have one.

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chronic
old and in the way
Dec 12, 2008
#11
It would probably just get destroyed or stolen from MacArthur Park. Unless things have changed recently, that area is gangland.

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 13, 2008
#12
MacArthur Park? Yeah, those fuckers would haul it away on the first night and a scrap metal dealer would have it cut into a hundred pieces before the sun came up. They will steal the wiring out of your car for a few cents worth of copper. Things are getting a little crazy in some parts of town.

If you think a bronze statue would be too heavy to steal, think again. You'd see them rolling it out of there balanced on top of a dozen rusty bikes, and you'd wonder, "How the fuck?..." Ha ha.

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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Dec 13, 2008
#13
Think about it, if they have a dedication ceremony at Delongpre where will anyone park?
I'll go but I'll need a ride home.

Didn't someone write a song about MacArtur Park? Many years ago.

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CRBSMILE
Dec 13, 2008
#14
Richard Harris(yes, the actor). It's the "Someone left the cake out in the rain..." song.
Now I don't know if he wrote it, but he sang it and it was quite popular way back in the day. CRB:)

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slimedog
Dec 14, 2008
#15
The song MacCarthers Park, I like the song when I was a wee lad and my mom could not get the idea about the cake in the rain though I understood, I guess it was my first experience with "metaphor."

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Digney in Burnaby
donkeys live a long time
Dec 14, 2008
#16
Gerard K H Love said:
Didn't someone write a song about MacArtur Park? Many years ago.

Jimmy Webb wrote the song, Richard Harris had the hit. Webb wrote "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and "Galveston" amongst other songs.

More than you'll ever need to know on the song. The immortal cake out in the rain line coming from Auden? Why not?

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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Dec 14, 2008
#17
Thank you D in B now someone needs to show up to the dedication with a sound system to play that song MacArthur Park. I'm sure it will be easy to convince the city council weasels that it was Bukowski's favorite song while he lived at DeLongpre.

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Father Luke
Founding member
Dec 15, 2008
#18
mjp said:
As soon as I hear anything I'll post it here. Or if someone else gets the info first, let us know.

I wrote to Matt and asked him.
Just got this letter from him:

howdy...

i am not for sure about much of anything with the march show
yet.. but i had been emailing scott king back and forth about it
earlier in the year. here's the info i have:

Charles Bukowski's house on 5124 De Longpre is now a City of
Los Angeles Historic Cultural. Landmark #912 named
Bukowski's Court.

This is where Charles Bukowski lived when his publisher John
Martin of Black Sparrow Press put him on a $100 monthly
stipend for life. This offer was his impetus to quit the Post
Office, where he had worked for almost 12 years straight, and
devote himself to writing. With a many beers and a fear of
writing, he produced Post Office in a few weeks. Experiences
with women on De Longpre would also inspire his watershed
novel, Women.

i'll email scott in the beginning of the year to figure out if it' a
go...

my best,
matt

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Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
Dec 16, 2008
#19
Bukfan said:
So City Hall is gonna celebrate "The Laureate Poet Of Skid Row", together with Linda King, outside his DeLongpre bungalow. Buk would've gotten a big laugh out of it...:D

Next, they'll erect a statue of him outside City Hall - made by Linda King! :rolleyes:

Hey, if they can erect a statue of a fictional boxer in Philly, they can erect one of an erect old man outside city hall.

______

A/N: Re: "Poet Laureate of Skid Row"

Q: Does no one find it odd that in Ham on Rye, Buk notes that he thought skid row and the people on it were disgusting???

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Dec 16, 2008
#20
Lolita Ginsoski said:
Hey, if they can erect a statue of a fictional boxer in Philly, they can erect one of an erect old man outside city hall.

I know. Isn't that embarassing? For those of you that do not know what we are talking about, they actually put up a life size statue of Rocky Balboa at the bottom of those stairs to the Philadelphia Museum of Art (These were the stairs that he ran up in the movie).

I cannot imagine a sillier idea. This really is a sad embarrassment to a really great town.

Bill

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Dec 16, 2008
#21
Jezuz! What's next - a statue of Rambo outside West Point? :rolleyes:

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Lolita Twist
Rose-hustler
Dec 16, 2008
#22
Y'know, I liked the Rocky movies just as much as the next sap... infact, my grandfather reminds me of Mick. But a statue? C'moooooonnnnnn nowwwwww...

And yeah, Philly holds some good memories for me. Went down there in like, 2006 or something with a few friends and just walked around and stuff. Like the town. But don't turn the wrong corner ha.

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bogthing
Dec 18, 2008
#23
mjp said:
If my busy schedule as Barack Obama's new barbeque czar permits, I will attend the solemn ceremony and report my findings to the scientific community here.

Barbeque Czar, man that's a sweet deal. How'd you fall into that bed?

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mjp
Founding member
Dec 18, 2008
#24
B.O. owed me a favor, if you know what I mean.

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Father Luke
Founding member
Mar 3, 2009
#25
Got an email from Matt Sesow. Here is a glimpse of his excitement:

good news... very good news.
the buk show is a go... march 28th...
more info coming... but for right now, march 28th, 9-12am... the elephant theater... 6324 santa monica blvd...i'll be there.
hope to seeya,
matt

March 28th, 9-12am... The Elephant Theater,
I'll bring more news when I have more.

- -
Okay,
Father Luke

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roni
Mar 4, 2009
#26
thanks for the info Father and welcome back home.

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Mar 4, 2009
#27
This appeared a little while ago - but I haven't seen it posted on the boards, so can't be 100% sure that the details are set in stone...
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EDIT: See Father Luke's post below for the UP TO DATE and CORRECTED details.

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roni
Mar 4, 2009
#28
Who is Gerald Lockland?

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Mar 4, 2009
#29
I guess he's the author of 'Charles Buckaroo: A small pet' and 'The Case of the Missing Blue Wienerschnitzel' :D

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Mar 5, 2009
#30
Yeah, I know that Soheyl Dahi (misspelled Sohey) will not be there. I doubt that A.D. or Neeli will be there. Is this a confirmed list or a wish list?

Also, what about the poets mjp and S.A. Griffin, who are both in LA?

Bill

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mjp
Founding member
Mar 5, 2009
#31
Bill, your elevation of me to the status of a poet anyone would want at a public gathering is flattering. But I wouldn't attend that little fiesta for all the bourbon in Kentucky.

Okay, that's not true. For all the bourbon in Kentucky I would certainly go stand there and watch people do whatever the hell people do at those things. But I wouldn't go for one drop less.

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Father Luke
Founding member
Mar 5, 2009
#32
For all the bourbon in Kentucky, I'd join ya.
I'd join anyone.

Here is the latest from Matt:

hi Father Luke...
it's big Go!!!!
the show is on... please tell everybody and please come...
promote the dickens out of it if you can.
your pal,matt

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Ponder
"So fuck Doubleday Doran"
RIP
Mar 6, 2009
#33
Thank you for posting the announcement, FL!

Hey... the Taylor Hackford documentary lasts now 40
minutes instead of the original 60 or
the shorten version of 30 minutes.

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chronic
old and in the way
Mar 6, 2009
#34
Don't mean to nitpick, but whoever is writing/setting the copy needs to learn to proofread. "All the poets were Bukowski friends and knew him personality?" Also, Paul Vangelisti's name is mis-spelled.

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roni
Mar 6, 2009
#35
I've noticed that too.
They seem to read here, since the only name I mocked about (Gerry) has been corrected by now.

Anyway, I wish I could be there. Seeing the event, meeting all these people, just inhaling the athmosphere...

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bospress.net
www.bospress.net
Mar 6, 2009
#36
chronic said:
Don't mean to nitpick, but whoever is writing/setting the copy needs to learn to proofread. "All the poets were Bukowski friends and knew him personality?" Also, Paul Vangelisti's name is mis-spelled.

S.A. Griffin did not know Buk personally.

Bill

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chronic
old and in the way
Mar 6, 2009
#37
Ah, but did he know him personality?

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BukHead
Mar 21, 2009
#38
Bukowski Celebration - Sat. March 28th on Flavorpill.com

http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2009/3/28/bukowski-festival

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Mar 29, 2009
#39
Okay, did anyone go to this shindig?

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Gerard K H Love
Appreciate your friends
Mar 29, 2009
#40
I would think it's a little too early here to ask that question. I was diverted from going by a spousal veto and the trump card. I wanted very much to attend but I had a wonderful time at home.

Bukowski Forum thread · January 28, 2010

“1st Annual Bukowski show in L.A.”

bukowskiforum.com · original address · Wayback Machine

Ten months later a reader found the show on sesow.com — “MARCH 28th 2009 … 1st Annual Bukowski show” — and asked about it. This 2010 thread is why the show is sometimes remembered as 2010; the event itself was March 28, 2009.

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nervas
more crickets than friends
Jan 28, 2010
#1
I found this on artist Matt Sesow's website:MARCH 28th 2009: LOS ANGLES, CA
1st Annual Bukowski show
sesow will be there. paintings and poetry group show... more info coming
Was that already mentioned on here?
Does anyone know anything, or have any info on this?

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hank solo
Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
Reaper Crew
Moderator
Founding member
Jan 28, 2010
#2
Here
https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=5378

and here
https://bukowskiforum.com/showthread.php?t=5373

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nervas
more crickets than friends
Jan 28, 2010
#3
ahhh, I missed that. So did those shows take place? Why does this one, on Sesow's website say 1st annual?

Thanks, as always hank solo.

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mjp
Founding member
Jan 28, 2010
#4
nervas said:
Why does this one, on Sesow's website say 1st annual?
"First annual" often means "only."

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Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
Jan 28, 2010
#5
Why does this one, on Sesow's website say 1st annual?

Because it sounds much better than just "Bukowski Show". ;)
They couldn't possibly have known back then if it would turn out to be an annual event.
I guess we'll find out for sure in March.

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Museum event page · June 20, 2014

Linda King: Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski

The Beat Museum, 540 Broadway, San Francisco (kerouac.com) · original address · Wayback Machine

The Beat Museum — sponsor of the 2026 show — launched Linda King’s memoir on June 20, 2014, exactly twelve years before the Beverly Hills opening.

Linda King: Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski: Page 1 — Page 1

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LINDA KING: LOVING AND HATING CHARLES BUKOWSKI

FRI. JUNE 20, 7PM, 2014

There are many books about Charles Bukowski, but none like this one. Linda King’s Loving and Hating Charles Bukowski looks at Bukowski from the other side of the mirror. It is raw, it is raucous, it is a no-holds-barred account of their five-year on-again off-again relationship, a relationship so intense and passionate, so deep and so tender, that it makes your heart ache to watch it flame up and then flame out. This is not a scholarly examination of Bukowski but it deepens and enriches our understanding of the man and his world, written from the heart with love. It is funny, it is tragic, it is exuberant, it is heartbreaking, it is an important addition to our knowledge not only of the poet laureate of the underclass, but of the whole underground literary scene in LA and elsewhere in the 1970s, told from the perspective of a strong, liberated woman, an artist in her own right, who gave as good as she got.

Reviled by feminists and fanatically defended and mimicked by his cult-like followers, King shows Bukowski as both human, tender, loving, sensitive, abusive, mean-spirited and egotistical, a mass of contradictions and a hero or a devil, depending on which side of the mirror you see him from. As award-winning poet, writer and feminist, Sharon Doubiago writes of this book:

When Charles Bukowski met Linda King he met his match. Bukowski and his literary lovers have been prime examples of the misogynist, criminally sick and insane world. His inexplicable appeal to women has been part of the madness. King’s memoir “explains,” taking us deeper into our tragic human situation toward understanding, thus healing and transformation. Here’s what Buk looked like when he fell in love! Los Angeles and Utah are here too beyond the ignorant and damning stereotypes. And the sexually active mother: her portrayal of her children through the 5 year affair is delightful. “Liberated Linda” is right! Loving and hating Charles Bukowski will never be the same.

Wild Ocean Press, in collaboration with KissKill Press, is pleased to publish a second edition of Loving & Hating Charles Bukowski, completely edited and revised from an earlier version published in 2012.

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Encyclopedia article · as of October 12, 2026

Linda King

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Background on Linda King: born 1940, raised in Boulder, Utah; Bukowski’s partner in the early 1970s; sculptor, playwright and poet.

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For the Hong Kong bowls player, see Linda King (bowls). For the professor of virology, see Linda King (virologist).

Linda King (born 1940) is an American sculptor, playwright and poet.[1] She is best known for having been the girlfriend of American writer Charles Bukowski for several years in the early 1970s.[2]

Personal life

Born in 1940, King grew up in Boulder, Utah.[3] She first married early in life, divorcing after 10 years.[4] During the 1970s, King edited the literary magazine, Purr.[5] King was an actress before she became a sculptor and poet.[4] King has two children.[3]

Relationship With Charles Bukowski

In 1970, shortly after the end of her marriage, King met Charles Bukowski and offered to make a sculpture of his head.[4] He accepted her offer, and they soon became romantically involved. King was 30 years old and Bukowski was about 20 years her senior when they started their relationship.[1] The relationship has been documented as volatile, turbulent and even physically abusive. On one occasion in 1971, Bukowski broke her nose during an argument.[4] On another occasion, King and Bukowski were accommodated at the City Lights apartment in San Francisco, after a reading at the City Lights Poets Theater.[6] By the following morning there was a broken window and a panel smashed in the door, and King had disappeared. Bukowski blamed her for the damage.[6]

Bukowski's stage debut was as an actor in King’s play Only a Tenant in which she and Bukowski stage-read the first act at the Pasadena Museum of the Artist.[7]

Bukowski and King finally split up for good in 1975, when one night an intoxicated King threw Bukowski's typewriter and books onto the street, angry at his infidelities.[1] The incident is detailed in Bukowski's novel Women, whose leading character, Lydia Vance, is based on King.[1] The same year, King left Los Angeles for Phoenix, because of what she described as "one extended nervous breakdown".[2]

She said of their relationship:

It wasn't that he had other women. It's that he always wanted me to know about them, always wanted to tell me all the details about what they did together. Who does that unless they really want to make you mad?[1]

After Bukowski

King remarried and had a third child. The marriage also ended in divorce.[3] She worked as a bartender, waitress, and a part-time care-giver for the elderly.[2] She sold her own traditional portrait busts in clay, and published poems. One in particular, printed in 1997, references Bukowski: "I am the woman who knows for sure that Bukowski's balls were bigger I am the woman who knows that he liked hot chilies in his stew".[2]

In 2004, Phoenix's Paper Heart Gallery featured her paintings, busts and poems, along with documentary films about Bukowski, in a show entitled Friends and Foes of Charles Bukowski.[2]

In 2009, she sold 60 love letters written to her by Bukowski at auction in San Francisco's PBA Galleries.[1] The same year, in order to be nearer to her grandchildren, King moved from Phoenix into an apartment in the Sunset District of San Francisco.[1] In September 2009, she was one of the three poets in the presentation Tales of Bukowski & the Late 1960s LA Poetry Scene: A Reading & Report by Key Poet/Participants at Bird & Beckett Books & Records in San Francisco.[5]

In addition to her bust of Bukowski, King also sculpted busts of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Jack Micheline, Harold Norse, and A. D. Winans. Her play Singing Bullets was staged as part of a showcase by Phoenix's Metro Arts Institute.

King has also sold an edition of at least 15 bronzes of Bukowski.[1]

Bibliography

King wrote a book Loving and Hating Bukowski.[1] She also has written seven collections of poetry:

Curled Inside the Curve of His Body…
I Danced With a Man Last Night
The Elephant Chronicles
Exposed
The Savageness of My Discontent
Sweet and Dirty
The World is Not What I Thought

Her poetry has been published in a wide variety of magazines, including The Bukowski Review and Wormwood Review.

References
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Berton, Justin. "Charles Bukowski love letters sold, maybe more"[dead link], San Francisco Chronicle, September 8, 2009. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
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Watson, Joe. "Studio Visit", Phoenix New Times, October 14, 2004. Retrieved May 7, 2010. Archived, May 6, 2010.
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"Linda King" Archived 2018-06-12 at the Wayback Machine, Linda King Arts. Retrieved May 7, 2010;
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Malone, Aubrey (2003). The Hunchback of East Hollywood: a Biography of Charles Bukowski, p.85, Critical Vision. ISBN 1-900486-28-8, ISBN 978-1-900486-28-6
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"Tales of Bukowski & the Late 1960s LA Poetry Scene" Archived 2012-03-14 at the Wayback Machine, Sfstation. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
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Morgan, Bill (2003). The Beat Generation in San Francisco: a Literary Tour, p.63, City Lights Books. ISBN 0-87286-417-0, ISBN 978-0-87286-417-7
Bookrags. "Gab Poetry, or Duck vs. Nightingale Music: Charles Bukowski". Asylum Arts. Robert Peters. 1994.
External links
Linda King Arts Web Site
King reviews Barfly[link removed] (video)
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Matt’s posts about Linda King, 2009 – 2026

The full text of every post by Matt Sesow on Facebook that mentions Linda King, Bukowski or the Los Angeles show, from his own Facebook archive (duplicates across his two accounts removed).

Mar 6, 2009
is thrilled the bukowski show in LA is GO!
Mar 14, 2009
is catching up on emails, researching bukowski, playing peggle, and having a good day.
Mar 23, 2009
if you are in the LA area, i hope to see you saturday! http://flavorpill.com/losangeles/events/2009/3/28/bukowski-festival
Apr 16, 2009
just made a page of 'available paintings' from "Bukowski Undigested" by Linda King. some paintings include a signed poem (that inspired the painting) by Linda King. Paintings that are in the book are denoted. These are the originals. http://www.sesow.com/bukbook.htm
Apr 18, 2009
is getting close to finishing a sketchbook from the LA/Bukowski festival show in March.
Dec 6, 2012
much love: http://www.amazon.com/Bukowski-Undigested-Linda-King/dp/1479141712/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1354763465&sr=8-4&keywords=sesow
Feb 10, 2016
a pleasant surprise to stumble across this interview (from 2009). so many Ian MacKaye and Charles Bukowski references http://www.thefifteenbeforefifteen.com/content/2009-02-22_01.asp
Mar 29, 2016
on this day 2009. my paintings at the bukowski festival
Mar 25, 2017
Fondly remembering an incredibly inspirational project I did with Linda King... "Bukowski Undigested". poems she wrote while with Charles Bukowski Author. Read more about it here: http://www.sesow.com/press/2k8/buk.htm
Mar 29, 2018
on this day from 2009 in LA. a Charles Bukowski show i did...
Aug 8, 2019
Just updated my inventory and am making available a few of the paintings from the Linda King, Charles Bukowski inspired book "Bukowski Undigested". see more and get them at bukowski.sesow.com
Mar 29, 2020
On this day ELEVEN years ago in LA. a Charles Bukowski inspired show.
Mar 23, 2021
"Bukowski" oil/mix on canvasboard available at http://new.sesow.com
May 3, 2021
Some new Bukowski and Poe portraits. available at new.sesow.com
Jul 7, 2021
"Bukowski" new.sesow.com
Sep 17, 2021
a NEW "Bukowski" painting. available at http://new.sesow.com
Oct 26, 2021
"Bukowski (on drinking)" available at http://new.sesow.com
Aug 31, 2022
Thankfully, I've had some outstanding opportunities during my painting career. One of my favorite and most amazing opportunities was being asked by Linda King to create some artwork inspired by her poems in a book "Bukowski Undigested". Linda was Charles Bukowski's girlfriend in the early 1970's. She has some of my paintings hanging next to some of Bukowski's work in Utah. Here is a pic she just sent me:
Jan 6, 2023
"Bukowski (beer drunk)" available at http://new.sesow.com
Jan 6, 2023
"Bukowski (walk through the fire)" available at http://new.sesow.com
Jan 30, 2023
A collection with a HUGE variety of my art and Dana Ellyn is holding a winter sale at https://www.jskwrd.com/matt-sesow They also have a facebook presence at Jskwrd I don't receive any funds from the sales of these paintings, I am just letting people know that might want some of my older and more significant pieces that "jskwrd" is making available. The collection includes some art that I did in the Solomon Islands while working as a Peace Corps volunteer, some from my stint with GeekCorps in Bulgaria, paintings from my wedding show, several works I created in the early 90's, work from a poetry book created with Bukowski muse Linda King, and a ton of other great paintings covering the last 30 years!
Jan 30, 2023
A collection with a HUGE variety of my art and Dana Ellyn's is holding a winter sale at https://www.jskwrd.com/matt-sesow They also have a facebook presence at Jskwrd I don't receive any funds from the sales of these paintings, I am just letting people know that might want some of my older and more significant pieces that "jskwrd" is making available. The collection includes some art that I did in the Solomon Islands while working as a Peace Corps volunteer, some from my stint with GeekCorps in Bulgaria, paintings from my wedding show, several works I created in the early 90's, work from a poetry book created with Bukowski muse Linda King, and a ton of other great paintings covering the last 30 years!
Dec 25, 2024
I am working on some new websites this week. documenting my work with Linda King currently. Seems you can still get the Bukowski Undigested on Amazon. i HIGHLY recommend it!. thanks! Matt Sesow. https://www.amazon.com/Bukowski-Undigested-Linda-King/dp/1479141712
Mar 22, 2025
"Poets" available at https://new.sesow.com A painting by Matt Sesow titled “Poets.” It features nine individual portraits arranged in a 3x3 grid. Each square contains the expressive, raw face of a poet drawn in bold black lines with aggressive brushstrokes. The background has tones of pale yellow, pink, and red, giving each frame a distinct but unified feeling. The portraits are emotional, with distorted features and visible tension. The nine poets featured in the piece are: 1. Emily Dickinson 2. Charles Bukowski 3. Hunter S. Thompson 4. John Berryman 5. Dylan Thomas 6. Paul Verlaine 7. Sergei Yesenin 8. Sylvia Plath 9. Edgar Allan Poe Some have tightly closed or barred mouths. All have intense, expressive eyes. The mood is haunting, honoring the weight of their voices and the struggles they carried.
Jul 27, 2025
This has been one of the (thankfully many) highlights of my life/art career. THANK YOU Linda King! #bukowski #lindaking #sesow #mattsesow #charlesbukowski
May 25, 2026
BIG show in Los Angeles coming soon June 20th... I'll be there... stay tuned for details!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_King
May 26, 2026
coming to Los Angeles... June 20. see you there!!!
May 27, 2026
I am fortunate to be doing some work again next month with artist and poet Linda King in Los Angeles. I have shown with her three times before... here is the book i illustrated for her: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/bukowski-undigested/author/king-linda/
May 27, 2026
Looks like you can get a signed copy of the book I illustrated with Linda King... there will be an exhibition in Beverly Hills (LA) honoring Linda June 20th! more details soon.... the book below sold, but you can get some here: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/bukowski-undigested/author/king-linda/
May 28, 2026
"More Great Poets" inspired by an upcoming show in Los Angeles celebrating the art and life of Linda King, June 20th in Beverly Hills https://new.sesow.com #bukowski #lindaking #sesow #painting
Jun 4, 2026
"Bukowski" available at https://new.sesow.com #bukowski #sesow
Jun 5, 2026
Some new paintings. June 2026. From Washington DC. Original on paper. #mattsesow #billy #bukowski #drunk #poet
Jun 6, 2026
I'll be in LA with Dana Ellyn to help celebrate artist and poet Linda King on June 20th in Beverly Hills... I illustrated a book with her back in 2012... If you are there, bring your copy. :). more info at https://www.lindakingarts.com
Jun 6, 2026
we are here to drink beer, We are here to Kill War, We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us. —Bukowski New one. 12" x 18" acrylic & mixed media on watercolor paper. 2026. Available now at https://new.sesow.com #buk #beer #bukowski
Jun 8, 2026
JUNE 20. LOS ANGELES see you there!!! https://www.lindakingarts.com
Jun 9, 2026
"Raw Talent" available at https://new.sesow.com featuring the talent on display at https://www.lindakingarts.com Linda King Charles Bukowski Lawrence Ferlinghetti Jack Hirschman Jack Micheline Harold Norse A. D. Winans Neeli Cherkovski Robinson Jeffers
Jun 9, 2026
"Raw" available at https://new.sesow.com featuring the talent on display at https://www.lindakingarts.com Linda King Charles Bukowski Lawrence Ferlinghetti Jack Hirschman Jack Micheline Harold Norse A. D. Winans Neeli Cherkovski Robinson Jeffers
Jun 12, 2026
"Undefeated" available at https://new.sesow.com #bukowski #sesow #drink
Jun 14, 2026
I'll be in LA next week! come see me saturday and say hello, it will be excellent... https://lindakingarts.com
Jun 15, 2026
see you in LA on saturday. tickets at https://www.lindakingarts.com
Jun 16, 2026
Dana Ellyn and I will be in LA this saturday at a show honoring the poet, artist, and muse Linda King. https://www.lindakingarts.com I had the privilege of illustrating a book of her poetry which were written over the several years with and after living with Charles Bukowski Quotes. Bukowski wrote about Linda in his book "Women" and dedicated "Mockingbird wish me luck" to her. At this website you can pickup copies of the out of print first edition book that i illustrated "Bukowski Undigested". see you saturday in Los Angeles and bring your book! i'll sign it! my best, Matt Sesow abe books link to get the book: https://www.abebooks.com/book-search/title/bukowski-undigested/author/king-linda/
Jun 17, 2026
for the show on Saturday in Los Angeles:
Jun 18, 2026
LOS ANGELES. this Saturday 3-7PM at the Beverly center. come meet Linda King, the living muse of Charles Bukowski. Poetry and Art and entertainment, more info at https://www.lindakingarts.com
Jun 20, 2026
Having fun in Los Angeles with Dana Ellyn Hung the show yesterday and.looking forward to the show in Beverly Hills tonight with Linda King and Family. details in comments.
Jun 20, 2026
Here's info on the Linda King Bukowski show today. 8th floor. 3 to 7pm Https://www.lindakingarts.com
Jun 20, 2026
LOS ANGELES: saturday/Today at the Beverly center 8th floor. From 3 to 7pm. Meet Charles bukowski living muse Linda king and others that lived with him! Her art and poetry featured. With other artists! Https://www.lindakingarts.com
Jun 20, 2026
Today. See you on the 8th floor The Beverly Center 3 to 7pm. With Linda King , Raymond King Shurtz , Scott Hall and family. Celebrating the art and poetry of Charles Bukowski muse Linda King. See you there. Some of my paintings and Dana Ellyn as well. More info https://www.lindakingarts.com
Jun 21, 2026
Fun time last night in Los Angeles with Dana Ellyn. more pics later after red eye home to DC and back to PAINTING! stay tuned. thanks to Scott D Hall Linda King and Raymond King Shurtz
Jun 21, 2026
Jeff Brivic with some of his Sesow and Dana Ellyn collection. More at https://brivic.sesow.com and at the Beverly Center thru July 20 8th floor
Jun 21, 2026
Los Angeles opening last night with our art in Beverly Hills (with Dana Ellyn )
Jun 21, 2026
in los Angeles for a few more hours. #sesow #mattsesow #losangeles #danaellyn
Jun 21, 2026
opening in Los Angeles last night with Dana Ellyn. and dcartists.org
Jun 22, 2026
Back from Los Angeles... Back to PAINT tomorrow. stay tuned!
Jun 22, 2026
Back from Los Angeles....
Jun 22, 2026
My first day back in DC after an amazing and educational trip to LA with Dana Ellyn. I'll spend the next few days writting down my 'plans', finishing up linda king's werbsite, shipping recent sales, and getting out the monthly patreon art to my supporters... and then, BIG CHANGES coming to my studio here in DC... including live webcam, A NEW STUDIO GOLEM, large canvas, and so much more!!! stay tuned, and in the meantime, "trust the science"... know i sure am. wink. your pal, Matt Sesow
Jun 22, 2026
My first day back in DC after an amazing trip to LA with Dana Ellyn. I'll spend the next few days writting down my 'plans', finishing up linda king's werbsite, shipping recent sales, and getting out the monthly patreon art to my supporters... and then, BIG CHANGES coming to my studio here in DC... including live webcam, A NEW STUDIO GOLEM, large canvas, and so much more!!! stay tuned, and in the meantime, "trust the science"... know i sure am. wink. your pal, Matt Sesow

August 8 – September 20, 2026

Afterward: Pasadena

Seven weeks after the Beverly Hills opening, King’s Dreams Productions presented a second Linda King show: “Nudes & Racehorses” at Penthouse Art Gallery, 620 Lincoln Ave, Pasadena — mostly her nude figure sculpture, with a few of her racehorse paintings (one signed “Linda King 04-22-04”). Opening reception Saturday, August 8, 2026, 4–9 PM; on view through September 20; free admission. Matt Sesow designed three fliers for it. The Bukowski bust was not in this show.

For researchers

Notes and open questions

Name of the show. The fliers and the exhibition website call it “Linda King’s Art, Books & Poetry Exhibition.” Early planning used the title éclat d’âme (“burst of soul”), which is how it is listed on the history.sesow.com timeline.
Dates. Opening reception June 20, 2026, 3–7 PM (the first flier said 1–7 PM). Dana Ellyn’s record and Matt’s June 21 post give the run as through July 20; Ellyn’s catalogue page says “through the end of July.”
Bukowski Undigested is a 2008 book. Matt confirmed it (October 12, 2026): the first printing was released April 19, 2008 at The Beat Museum and sold out. The “2012” in his June 6, 2026 post is a slip; the later paperback on Amazon (ISBN 1479141712) is a reprint.
“Three times before.” Matt wrote on May 27, 2026 that he had shown with Linda King three times before. On the record: Phoenix 2005 (Collateral Damage), the Beat Museum, San Francisco 2008 (the book release), City Lights (Matt confirms; most likely San Francisco, date to be traced) and Hollywood 2009 (the 1st Annual Bukowski Festival).
2009, not 2010. Matt remembers the first annual Bukowski show as 2010. The poster, Joan Jobe Smith’s announcement and Matt’s own site all give Saturday, March 28, 2009; the forum thread that asked about it was posted January 28, 2010, which is likely where the later year comes from.
Accident year. Some show texts say 1974; Matt’s accident was June 1975 (Lincoln Evening Journal, June 9, 1975).
Still wanted: photographer credits for the opening photographs; the list of Sesow paintings in the room and any sales; the Penthouse Art Gallery’s own flier and photographs; any video of the June 20 readings and the Bruno Letort premiere. Send to sesow@sesow.com.

Related on history.sesow.com

2026 timeline entry 2008 Bukowski Undigested 2009 “Bukowski,” Hollywood Press Room: 2008 Press Room: 2005 Collateral Damage CHANISKI — the Bukowski sculpture saved by Linda King

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“Linda King: Art, Books & Poetry — Los Angeles, 2026, with guest artists Matt Sesow and Dana Ellyn.” Matt Sesow Career Chronicle, history.sesow.com. https://history.sesow.com/event-2026-linda-king-los-angeles.html (updated October 12, 2026).