There are so many ways to punk the muse. Last week, I talked about visiting specialty bookstores. Visiting places of all sorts—bookstores, museums, caverns, mountains, river rapids, foreign…
Traci Brimhall is the author of Our Lady of the Ruins (forthcoming from W.W. Norton), selected by Carolyn Forché for the 2011 Barnard Women Poets…
Recently, I caught the initial explanation of ITCH: Investing in the Creative Hunch. Founder Todd Brown calls it “a pilot initiative of a new form…
On Mon Dec 12 at 9am a group of people from the Revolutionary Poets Brigade are meeting at the Civic Center BART station entrance (above…
I spent some hours this week browsing Fields Book Store on Polk. Founded in 1932 by George Fields, a devotee of Gurdjieff, the store for many…
(Evan Karp) I made it to City Arts & Lectures for the first time this past week to see Miranda July in conversation with her longtime friend…