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I wrote the poem Ruby Flo one summer during my undergraduate years. I was staying at my boyfriend’s family home because my mom and I were steady fighting. His...

I’ve been too cruel to Walt Whitman’s works. Perhaps because I relate too much to the criticisms I have that it strikes fear in me. His work seems to uncover...

I don't have time to read or write in the traditional sense anymore. I have two kids, family, a day job, problems, a car, etc. I don't really have time...

I haven't known Chris Chen for very long but something that I like to say about him is that he's a ringer. Well, ok. So I don't mean that Chris...

A little more than a year ago, my friend forever Amber Dermont issued a challenge. The author--of the New York Times best seller The Starboard Sea and of the brilliant...

“It became important for me to look at my mother as an artist. To recognize and honor her point of view,” says artist LaToya Ruby Frazier about her collaborations with...

John: can we talk a little about the section "Four Colors for the Based God?" these poems are all caps, and through that they seem to mirror your handwriting poems pretty...

Jason Morris of PUSH (& Big Bell) ushered out this lovely thin pamphlet a few weeks ago. He had come across recordings of two class talks given by poet Clark...

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qik45Tw2iI4     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWVLpOXSjLI     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkUk4as0lxc     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIemxg5thTo     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFxOcVooRKs     https://youtu.be/utG2EUuQiC8     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASMBR2YuTtg     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDsmVhRi07A     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ak_NxrwgoM     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFWkBgTZlYY     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX60uMEJi94     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLIHnMQFFM   The poem pictured in the header's center image is Keith S. Wilson's "Minotaur, 16, Enters a Convenience Store." Creatures that appear trapped were in fact reluctant but eventually exited. These videos were captured...

In 1953 the psychiatrist Jean Oury bought the castle Chateau La Borde, an hour from Paris. Oury bought the chateau in order to open an asylum that would, he hoped, be true...