(Charles Kruger) Poetry Center San Jose is one of those organizations that transcends the hip, quietly toiling away in the background to nurture the poetry…
(Nicole McFeely) City Lights was filling up fast, but there was still one seat available, and it was sandwiched between me and a nice-enough-looking gentleman…
On Thursday, Jun 23 ZYZZYVA and the Squaw Valley Community of Writers organized a Bay Area benefit to help Dean Young absorb the staggering costs of his recent heart transplant. An exceptional roster of poets each read one of Dean’s poems and one of their own.
At the end of the night, Sat Jun 18 11, when the raffle and auction were over, I saw one poet hand another poet a stack of bills so big that I swear, for a moment, I thought we could do anything.
(Rick Kleffel) “I’m interested in any kind of numinosity at all, but i don’t know that i’m actually a believer.” —Charles Kruger Coming from the man…
(Evan Karp) I lived in Fruitvale for 11 of last year’s months and worked in Berkeley for most of that time, and had a pretty…
(Charles Kruger) Here’s a little secret: Rumpus founder Stephen Elliott, perennially childlike Peter Pan, outre sexual adventurer and provocateur, former sex worker, serial confessionalist, one…
(Evan Karp) I contract. I dilate. “Push! Push!” I wax. I wane. “Push! You can do it!” … “Congratulations! It’s a nonprofit organization.” At some…
(Evan Karp) Unlike most of the reading series I’ve been to, Babylon Salon is not usually filled with people I know. That’s not to say…
(Charles Kruger) This past Friday night (6/10/11), I attended the now bi-monthly Literary Death Match, at the Elbo Room. I have a love-hate relationship with…