I was gliding on a silver monorail through some worn-out neighborhoods in the East Bay. It was like a monolithic form of surveillance. I was…
July Westhale speaks with Stephanie Glazier, acting-director of the Michigan State University’s Residential College in Arts and Humanities Center for Poetry. Transcribed from a live…
So, it’s been a while since I’ve written a Punk The Muse column. Easy, isn’t it, to slip away from regular work? You think you’re…
What do you know of “Chapel Perilous?” The story is this: in his quest for the Holy Grail, in a terrible storm, Gawain, Knight of…
Sunday, October 7th 2012 We arrived at Z Space a minute late (having been at the Lenore Kandel event) and were told to take any…
Take a look at this painting (below) by Todd Brown, one of San Francisco’s most interesting artists. Notice the text? Act One: Begin. Act Two: Keep…
As you go through your life, my darling broken monarch, you will fly from closets with less and less assurance. There will be times much…
‘How will you survive?’ (appalled parents ask). ‘Why would you choose to be poor? I just don’t agree with it. Don’t you want a normal future?’…
When I was 17, I spent a few months working the graveyard shift in a newspaper plant. The Miami News, to be precise. I was…
In a recent conversation, writer C.R. Stapor (author of the short story collection The Wraith Atlas, which I highly recommend), talked with me about developing a…