The independent bookstore was packed, standing room only, with people standing outside the doors and watching from behind glass walls. Another glass wall overlooked the…
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…
Reading Alice Notley‘s poetry is like reading a new language for the first time and immediately understanding it. She’ll be giving rare U.S. readings in Sonoma…
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…
Edward Smallfield’s Equinox (Apogee, 89 pages) is a truly fascinating collection of poems that weaves together a traditional form with a highly conceptual process. That…
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…