This weekend, Gretchen had a big damn day. She turned 60 years old (!!!!!) this weekend, which though factually accurate, seems so surreal and bizarre that it's hard to accept as real. I mean look at her! She's still just as smoking hot as when I met her! Heh. Forgive me if it seems like …
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Story from the New York Times: Neeli Cherkovski, Poet Who Chronicled the Beat Generation, Dies at 78. Hank: The Life of Charles Bukowski by Neeli Cherkovski Cherkovski was well-liked by many people, unless one included many mainstream press book reviewers. (I write that last comment more as a reflection of my memories some 25-30 years …
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Does anyone remember the high quality, short lived Heat City Literary Review? It was a really nice literary journal, based if I recall correctly in Boston. It seemed very promising. Their first couple of issues were very high quality using professional materials, excellent professional perfect bound glossy covers, about 90 pages. I loved their covers …
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I have two poems titled "now" and "the groupie" that appear in the new Misfit Magazine No. 37, Winter 2024 edition just published. With the litmag scene dying more by the day, melding and merging to become general generic porridge, thank god there is still a mag like Misfit! If you're old school (I guess …
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This book is an excellent collection of essays on four important twentieth-century poets and writers stemming from the longtime relationships AD Winans enjoyed with them. The writers are Alvah Bessie, Bob Kaufman, Jack Micheline and Charles Bukowski.It's a must-read for anyone interested in Bukowski and the Beats, the Hollywood 10 and more.
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