Californie, Here I Come Hype |
Poetry Reading-MVCCategory: LecturesMVC - Rm. 927Tuesday, February 24, 2009 to Tuesday, February 24, 2009 12:30 PM-1:45 PMPoet Steve Davenport will read and engage in a discussion about the craft of w...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:17:00 GMT |
Shreveport Reading at Centenary College Last Week |
Jeff Hendricks, Professor of English at Centenary and old pal, first takes me to the campus-owned house where I'll spend three nights, a two-bedroom home where a lot of famous writers have stayed (gue...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:08:00 GMT |
Upcoming Stuff |
Better than Upchucking Guff, which, now that I think about it, was probably the name of David Bowen's first band. Or last.
I believe Okla played bass and timpani.
I'll start with recent s...
Posted by on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:39:00 GMT |
Davenport Summer 2008 Film Festival |
This summer Lynn and I asked the girls (ages 10, 8, 6, 2) to watch some movies with us, roughly a couple a week. We warned them: old movies, silent films, foreign films, black and whit...
Posted by on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 09:25:00 GMT |
Verse Daily |
I'm Queen for a Day. http://www.versedaily.org/
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 13:00:00 GMT |
Six Dickels Past Midnight |
1. As in fifths. George Dickel. Old No. 8, black label. Twelve left. Okay, twelve minus a few shots. I feel a whiskey villanelle coming on.
2. I tip my g...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:52:00 GMT |
New American Press Churm-Style |
He's smart and funny, he's building an empire, and four of his songs are perched in my iPod. No, I'm not talking about Churm, although one of the four songs, "Creepy Old Dude," ought to be Churm...
Posted by on Thu, 22 May 2008 06:23:00 GMT |
Moliere to What? |
Late last year I got a call from a writer friend who decided he wanted to teach Uncontainable Noise in his Intro to Lit class this semester. (You know, the one's that's almost over. Have a...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:45:00 GMT |
Meet Oronte Churm and His Little Truths Writing Contest |
By now you may already know the identity of the popular blogger Oronte Churm. (You can find him on MySpace. Look among the list of my top friends.) He came out of the writers' closet not so long ago a...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:27:00 GMT |
Black Warrior Review, Mackey Rottler, Sex, and a Bomb called Bomb |
Maybe five years ago I sent Black Warrior Review a chunk of the novel I was working on, a ten-part section I'd shaped into a story featuring the novel's main character, Mackey Rottler. Though B...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:55:00 GMT |
