Modern Americans

I’ll be reading/performing in the events below in San Francisco over Halloween weekend. Friday gets you a vampire afterparty; Saturday, sup...

I’ll be reading with fictioneers Tom Spanbauer and Lidia Yuknavitch this Wednesday for Loggernaut . The theme is “Scary,” and I'm stic...

Names of the Hits of Diane Warren I Am I Belong To Me I Bow Out I Can’t Change The Way You Don’t Feel I Could Be Good For You I Could Not As...

1997 OSCAR NOMINEES BEST ORIGINAL SONG Hercules , “Go the Distance”: Alan Menken & David Zippel Con Air , “How Do I Live”: Diane Warre...

Elliott Smith died five years ago yesterday, according to the local NPR affiliate, which devoted an hour-long program to his life and its ...

We’ve been working to wean the housemate from torpedoes and death at sea with Jacques Cousteau . I remembered his show as gentle and slightl...

“Keep reminding yourself that literature is one of the saddest roads that leads to everything.”

“ GOD IS LIKE BONO - SOME DICKWAD NO ONE WILL EVER MEET OR LIKE .” — Daniel Bailey

Waiter, there's a urinal in my museum .

I keep thinking of Jeanne Heuving and Chris Vitiello’s reading in Portland on Saturday in terms of Kasey’s recent post on poetry and stu...

“With Lane H discussed the things that were on his mind, such as the news that Iseult had written him about W.B. Yeats being awarded the No...

This was the first literary hoax I followed in real-time. It unfolded in online journals, emails, and on the then red-hot Buffalo Poetics l...

One remarkable feature of the Internet prank that is Issue 1 is the effort among poets I’ve talked with or read on the blogs this weekend ...

For Del’s Tangent reading in Portland on Saturday: I am slowly learning there are persons for whom poetry has no glamour. One reason the ne...

photo: Stephanie Young

The Tangent Reading Series is proud to present SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4 at 7 PM DEL RAY CROSS, BETHANY IDES & C.E. PUTNAM Clinton Corner Caf...