(Evan Karp) In another recent example of the public library getting hip (see IMBIBE and One City, One Book), the Main hosted a program brainstormed…
(Evan Karp) “Art is anything that is pointless and intentional,” says Chicken John in The Book of the IS, vol 1: Fail… to Win: Essays in…
(Evan Karp) “If you’re going to write a book, you might as well swing for the fence; you might as well just go find something…
(Evan Karp) In the past, this story began a lot earlier, with a lover and a best friend. A sleepy old railroad town in the…
(Evan Karp) Because of a free, two-hour introductory sail, a woman quit her job, sold everything she owned, and put all her savings down to…
(Evan Karp) August. When the unaccountable rises up like a cobra and tortures you with stillness. Only the temperature is pleasant, the cobra a construct…
(Evan Karp) Don’t take it for granted. The Rumpus loves you from the start. It’s not just a theme. Monday, August 8 11 was an…
(Evan Karp) This article does not have a lead sentence. Within even new forms there are forms long-clichéd. How many people does it take to…
(Evan Karp) Sitting on the floor in a Chinatown hole underlining O Powerful Western Star with lead, Jack Hirschman beside me, Sarah Page smiling a…
(Evan Karp) “I literally went up to every person in the room and was like, “Have you ever worked in a restaurant? Have you ever…
(Evan Karp) A group of poets formed a constellation to benefit the poet with a new heart, who might, as one suggested, grow a new…
(Evan Karp) At first it was your turn. You were handed a book of poems by a local author you had never read. You read…
(Evan Karp) D. A. Powell, happy to be back in San Francisco after a stint on the East Coast, casually explained that he had “smoked The…
(Evan Karp) An old 16th& Mission regular moved to New Zealand 5 months ago, wrote new poems there and memorized them, came back last week…
(Evan Karp) We were trying on different hats and stealing glances at ourselves when the readings began at Goorin Bros. hat shop in North Beach,…
