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  • On the Road with Bloof Books’ Shanna Compton, Peter Davis, and Jennifer Knox

    September 14, 2010

    Follow along here as bloof books Shanna Compton, Peter Davis, and Jennifer Knox burn up the blacktop on their historic book tour.  First stop, tonight, in Muncie, Indiana.  Be there!  But if you can't,…

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  • Why We Read Mysteries (by Larry Epstein)

    September 13, 2010

    What's interesting about a killer orangutan and a purloined letter? Or about the endlessly fascinating literature that grew from Edgar Allan Poe's valiant effort to push back against the madness trying to create an…

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  • “Rotten Luck” [by John Tranter]

    September 13, 2010

    (After Baudelaire) To put up with a career as pointless as this,it takes the courage of a gambler.Okay, someone has to do it, butlike they say: vita brevis, ars longa.The grave I look for…

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  • Sound Poems for Monday — Jason Schneiderman– (Ciccone-scapes I-IV)

    September 13, 2010

    Welcome back from the weekend! In honor of John Giorno, I'm starting the week with my sound poetry experiments. His signature recording style was his work being read by a male voice, followed by…

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  • Monday @ KGB: Rita Ann Higgins & Philip Fried

    September 12, 2010

    The KGB Bar Monday Night Poetry Reading Series kicks off its new fall season this Monday, September 13, with a trip across the pond. "Untameable and anarchic" Irish poet Rita Ann Higgins will be joined…

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  • Reb Livingston Presents a Poem by Alice B. Fogel

    September 12, 2010

    Variation 1:  Yhwh Explode from the cauldron dark, that’s what I’d do for them:  That in mind into self and other I divided.  In and in I overlapped in density and where I was…

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