Thomas Alexander Ross

So the New York Times has a short thought piece on public arts/puff piece about Fresno, CA. It’s about how Fresno’s got itself a poet laureate and apparently a bunch of other cities and towns are doing this, too. The idea seems to be that Fresno is an important literary city, but its residents need […]

HEY! Don’t forget! Tonight is IPRC’s first Pub Night, which means you can grab a drink for a small donation to a good cause (side note: Wouldn’t it be nice if you got a free pint when you wrote that Arts Tax check? I’d pay five extra bucks if it came with a beer) and […]

I’m sorry I’m not well-read enough in Icelandic literature to have anything to say about Sjón’s novels, the flagship of which seems to be The Whispering Muse, but I’m an AMERICAN, so to me, Iceland is basically just the place I think Bjork might be from. But Bjork has actually worked with Sjón to write […]

Ugh: Amanda Palmer’s “Poem For Dzhokar” is not as edgy or powerful or stomachable as Amanda Palmer fans think. Maybe Neil Diamond will at least edit his once before… Nope, never mind, he’s already recording a song. Here, to cleanse your palate, is former US Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky’s response to the bombings. And here’s […]

Last week, the Chilean government followed through on plans to exhume the body of Pablo Neruda. The poet was renowned equally for his beautiful, harrowing (and super sexy) love poetry and his powerful, sincerely held (and super sexy) communist ideals. It’s mostly been accepted that Neruda died of cancer 12 days after Augusto Pinochet’s coup […]