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My children are musicians. In this I am living a desire vicariously through them. I have been scrupulous about avoiding that kind of thing. After all, while it seems quite...

At a conference last month, I conducted a writing workshop for foster kids. That’s not quite as simple as it sounds. Some had witnessed the murder of their parents. Others had...

We've just posted Jessica Fisher's Q&A with filmmaker Guy Maddin. His latest, Brand Upon the Brain! started a limited run in New York on Wednesday (John Ashbery performs live as...

Tonight, I spoke about the importance of the imagination at the commencement ceremonies at one of our larger technical colleges in South Carolina. Afterwards, the presidents shook my hand firmly...

I will refer to the kind of writing in which I am involved as conceptual writing. In conceptual writing the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the...

Here's an introduction I wrote about David Lerner for a new anthology called The Spoken Word Revolution Redux (edited by Mark Eleveld). Lerner is a poet few people have heard...

Wow Kenneth, you make your readings sound really unpleasant. I love readings. Although maybe I wouldn't love yours? But I think I would. Sometimes, during a reading, I just sit and...

George Lamming, a West Indian novelist, observed something interesting to me yesterday on the phone. He was speaking from Bathsheba, Barbados. He referred to a book that he thought I...

Kwame's (Dawes) recent blog about readings is a tad depressing. This is one instance when I know we must occupy different spaces in the world. As I said before, I...

Slips of the Tongue (MP3) Music by The Who Recorded at the WFMU studios, Jersey City, NJ, June 21, 2006 (MP3)