Crossing. Ever been crossed by someone you thought could be trusted? Randomly crossed paths with an old lover while backpacking through Patagonia? Crossed a threshold, arriving at the other side with new insights? Crossed a metaphoric line that you never knew you had? Crossed over bodies of water or masses of land in unconventional...
The music of singer-songwriter Emily Jane White is the stuff to serenade souls of tortured mystics with. Smoky, dark, ethereal, this small town girl turned internationally acclaimed songstress grapples with pain, sorrow and the meaning of it all in her bluesy, folksy and deeply poetic melodies. With her first album– Dark Undercoat– recorded in...
Evan Karp is steeped so deeply in the Bay Area literary scene, that its nothing short of a miracle that he had time for this interview! Until two years ago, Evan called Savannah, Georgia home and had never experienced the glory that is a spoken word event. Since landing in San Francisco, he has...
Inga Muscio‘s words found permanent residency in the hearts and minds of feminists everywhere with her debut book, Cunt. Cunt did more for the feminist movement than shout out a call to reclaim the word itself. Muscio offered an invitation for women to engage in radical self-love and self-knowing. Through her fearless and unapologetic...
A traveling and writing machine, Melinda Misuraca ties together whip smart anecdotes and vividly detailed prose for stories that readers want to step inside of. With her words appearing in such publications as Natural Bridge, The Best Travel Writing 2006, The Portland Review, Salon.com , Misuraca taught creative writing at New College of California...
My (Dani’s) introduction to Mike Sacks consisted of cyber-exchanging one another’s disturbing Cuddle Party articles. From there, the glory of his writing filled many sleepless nights with muffled outbursts of laughter which coincided with frequent suppression of the gag reflex, most recently a result of tearing through the pages of Sex: Our Bodies, Our...
Trane DeVore eats, breathes and sleeps with his creative wheels churning. The author of two published books of poetry– series/mnemonic (1999) and Dust Habit (2005) – he is currently at work on his UC Berkeley dissertation on “sensation and perception in Thoreau’s writing”. His poetry appears in numerous international publications and his photography was...
I stumbled upon a blog post today where the writer asked, “What would you be willing to do with the rest of your life?” The question caught my attention because I had just asked the very same thing of a group of high school kids this past Wednesday. I was speaking to them about my...
I don’t know about everyone else, but for some reason, I always tend to notice animals more frequently in the fall time. Raccoons scurry through my back yard in the middle of the night, birds peck at shriveling berries and dying leaves in hopes of spiking big juicy worms that lie underneath, squirrels gathering...
Okay, so this post is going to really out me as a super nerd, but I’m going to make my confession anyway. The past week or so, I’ve been totally obsessed with this video game called “Plants Vs. Zombies.” What began as an innocent attempt to ‘bond’ with my husband, as turned into me...