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“The creative impulse, Eros breathing and dreaming within us, is radical to the core.”

Happy birthday, Rikki Ducornet! 76, today! Addressing “our culture’s disdain for the artist,” Rikki Ducornet, in my podcast with her…

Happy birthday, Bob Kaufman! Here are some of his poems. Walking Parker Home Sweet beats of jazz impaled on…

Juxtaposition and parataxis are key techniques of composition across the traditional genres of fiction, drama, and poetry. The former refers…

Voiceover conversant with Before During After as much a screwdriver that made impersonating Red Yellow Blue auteur the glorifying test…

The Contraries Circle’s motion goes / against all endpoints. Rare area / roar. Space, a massless rigidity / /…

Happy birthday, Henry James! Here are some quotes from his writing. “We work in the dark—we do what we can—we…

R.I.P., Gene Wolfe. Here are some quotes from his writing. “No man has a home unless he is master of…

“Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out…

Happy birthday, Samuel Beckett! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Birth was the death of him.” “Words are the…

No surprise Trina had spent half her inheritance on something abandoned. Years before, she’d exchanged chains of emails with…