“Lives of the Poets II” is a story from William Taylor Jr.‘s collection An Age of Monsters (Epic Rites Press, 2011). Each of the 15…
The reason we have that sweet spot is that we want our students to be connected to and engaged with writers who are just at…
The avant-garde is the people of the world. Never more in my adult life have I realized that the avant-garde is the people of the…
(Steven Gray) I arrived at City Lights with a full moon overhead. All the chairs were taken and people were standing in the back, but…
(Evan Karp) It was 2pm on the sunny day of the opening night of Litquake XII and instead of working ahead to meet deadlines I…
(Evan Karp) Litquake has become such a large and sprawling production it is impossible to talk about with any totality. Co-founders Jane Ganahl and Jack…
(Nicole McFeely) There is a science to Jim Nelson’s writing, and I’m not just talking about the way he structures his sentences, paces his dialogue. I’m…
(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…
(Charles Kruger) Bird & Beckett Books is one of those magical bookstores that make it into people’s memoirs. Something much more than a retail shop,…