(Maureen Blennerhassett) I didn’t know what the term “sex-positive” meant before Bawdy Storytelling. I heard it mentioned by a few of the storytellers (Shar Rednour…
(Nicole McFeely) It only 6:15, and there’s already a line stretching down the block toward Mission Street. A guy walking by stops and looks up…
(Charles Kruger) One of the treasures of the South Bay poetry scene is Poetry Santa Cruz, a non profit corporation devoted to nurturing the poetry…
(Evan Karp) Sherril Jaffe is a tenured professor of creative writing at Sonoma State University and the author of 9 books, the latest of which…
(Evan Karp) After a long year of books, book tours, new adventures in social media prostitution (whatever that means), and a surge in series and…
(Nicole McFeely) We’ve all heard them: melo-dramatic poems written in the style of famous authors, exaggerated in-class essays, transparently autobiographical “short stories,” overly confident job…
(Evan Karp) “Satire, like all good literature, has always been about creating a safe, neutral space for mediocre, uncontroversial ideas to be met with constant…
(Evan Karp) I met Lindy Hough almost immediately after moving to the Bay Area, in July of 2009. She was co-founder, with her husband Richard Grossinger, of North…
(Maureen Blennerhassett) Have you seen the Bay Citizen app that mystically predicts which of the many Bay Area reading series’ could be right for you?…
(Evan Karp) As you probably know, Quiet Lightning recently filed its articles of incorporation as a non-profit organization (status: pending). This month’s show, Apr 4…