(Evan Karp) Dear Reader, What can we expect […?] Everything, but we won’t get it. — Frank O’Hara, “Personism: A Manifesto” We almost always leave…
(Evan Karp) As I set out to write about this past week something unexpected happened: my conscious mind admitted that no matter how loud it…
(Charles Kruger) My beloved and much-admired writing teacher, the great Jack Grapes, often tells his students, “Talent is the enemy of genius.” He is making…
(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) If you haven’t seen Joe Klocek invite some poor heckler onstage, now’s your chance (try not to get sucked in to the plethora…
(Charles Kruger) On Sat Jul 30, I attended the Bay Area Poetry Marathon, hosted by Donna de la Perriere, a poet of distinguished pedigree herself…
(Charles Kruger) Jul 28 2011: Viracocha, heart of the mission, San Francisco, California, early in the 21st century. It’s happening. New shit. Good shit. It’s…
(Evan Karp) If you weren’t at Quiet Lightning‘s recent show at the San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers, and you haven’t seen the photos yet, do…
(Evan Karp) Emma Straub was recently at The Booksmith to read from her just-out first collection of stories, Other People We Married. She read the…