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How To Run A Poetry Workshop

Here is a general guideline to simply and easily running your own poetry workshop. All that means, is getting together with some writers you admire/respect and getting/giving constructive criticism on...

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Radio Show, Safari, Novel News, AWP

Last night, I did another episode of The Unknown Show the interview radio show that I do on Tuesday nights. I like to feature writers and musicians but am open to whoever has a story to tell: a strange...

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Tuesdays

Yep. It’s Tuesday night. That means, I’m sitting here getting ready to do my radio interview show at 7pm. I’m also drinking coffee and listening to a Bruce Springsteen record. The interview show is...

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New episode of the Unknown Show

So here we go, I’m gonna make a greater effort here on this site to keep things updated with the Unknown Show, providing links to the show every Wednesday after the show airs. A little bit about the...

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Tollbooth reading NYC/ “Chaz and Betty” published

Tonight at Revival bar (129 E. 15th street) on the lower east side, I’ll be reading from my new novel Tollbooth for 25 minutes or so as a featured reader for Su Polo’s Saturn Series. The party starts...

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Nuclear Construction

I suspect I’m not legally insane. I had to go through a full psychological evaluation in order to get through the gate at the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant in Forked River, NJ. They were hiring for...

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Tollbooth Serialized

So, I’ve been running my new novel, Tollbooth on this site, serialized, and I’ll continue it until the entire novel is posted. I love giving stuff away for free. Below, I will post chapters 5-7,...

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First Time: an anthology about lost virginity

Last week, the First Time anthology was released. It’s my first attempt at gathering together some of my favorite underground writers to weigh in on a collective topic. As it turns out, First Time,...

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Book Giveaway for Tollbooth

I set up a book giveaway for my novel Tollbooth, out from Piscataway House. The giveaway will last 30 days, enter to win with the click of a god dang button. We’re giving away 5 signed paperback...

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50 Steps To Writing a Poem

1. Get born 2. Breath some air 3. Once they give you a crayon, start drawing on everything 4. When they take your crayons away, make shapes with your peas and carrots or whatever 5. Laugh at everything...

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS, UNKNOWN PRESS ANTHOLOGY: ‘TOO MUCH’ about Excess

Unknown Press is putting together a new anthology, print and ebook. Send creative non-fiction, fiction, poetry, flash, interviews to: toomuchsubmissions@gmail.com We’re looking for writing that finds...

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BEWARE: Creative Writing Tips Ahead

I’m not much of a ‘taking advice’ guy (but I’m trying Ringo, I’m trying real hard.) And also: YOU SHOULDNT TAKE ADVICE FROM ME. I thought I’d write a little about some of things that I do with...

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Why I Like My Record Player

All morning I’ve been sitting here listening to the Rolling Stones album, Let it Bleed. I mean, I’ve been doing other things besides just sitting here. Mostly, writing stuff: an article a website...

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SPECIAL REPORT: How to Survive a Snowstorm

There are many ways a snowstorm can potentially kill a person (usually from boredom). I’ve composed a check list for the novice winter survivalist. Be sure to make sure you have all these ducks in a...

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The Dark Sunshine by Len Kuntz

#1, this was a great book. If this review was written in the style of the Dark Sunshine, it would be incredibly concise, dark (of course), expansive in use of both imagination and pulse. Instead, this...

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Poem Written While Searching

all this distance the girls disappear and out my window fruit trees bloom a TV through the wall murmurs, 300 vanished the first robin has its nest broken by random wind on buzzbox AM radio a man...

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Good Luck Poem

it just happened, a bird shit on me—so begins the good luck streak off in the distance the cowgirl sings her saddest song but I am payday invincible nothing will be wrong every beer bottle that falls...

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First Time: an anthology about lost virginity

Last week, the First Time anthology was released. It’s my first attempt at gathering together some of my favorite underground writers to weigh in on a collective topic. As it turns out, First Time,...

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Book Giveaway for Tollbooth

I set up a book giveaway for my novel Tollbooth, out from Piscataway House. The giveaway will last 30 days, enter to win with the click of a god dang button. We’re giving away 5 signed paperback...

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50 Steps To Writing a Poem

1. Get born 2. Breath some air 3. Once they give you a crayon, start drawing on everything 4. When they take your crayons away, make shapes with your peas and carrots or whatever 5. Laugh at everything...

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