new Air in the Paragraph Line out today

You’ve been waiting like what, two freaking years for this? Well, AITPL #13 is out [...]

my anxiety is that i get labeled

i love frequent Atlantic contributor Sandra Tsing Loh. She has the uncanny ability to nail, succinctly, the slices of the pie that make up our culture. This is from her “Classed Dismissed” [...]

pirate cat podcast now up

t was my first live interview and I enjoyed it thoroughly. Teresa wasn’t feeling well, so if it sounds like I’m dominating the conversation, it’s because every time a question went out, she’d give me a look like, “please answer that while I cough.” [...]

Hear me and fellow grotto poet Teresa Miller on Pirate Cat

This Saturaday (12/30) @9AM you can hear Teresa Miller and myself on 87.9 FM here in the city (Pirate Cat [...]

Fellow Grotto mate Raj Patel on Colbert

Hit the jump to see the good doctor, Raj Patel author of two best selling, hard hitting, socially conscious [...]

quiet lightning call for subs

Quiet Lightning is a monthly submission-based reading series here in the City. QL’s next reading is on January 25th and they’re now taking submissions for it. [...]

that’s how it works

I keep on waiting for it to happen. For inspiration to hit. I walk around during the day and think how great it’s going to be when I make [...]

do i need to be a secret agent to get an agent?

while the question, “how do i get an agent?” has beleaguered writers since Adam, we never really tire of asking it, do we? perhaps if we ask it enough, we’ll find the right [...]