… poetry & jazz from the Grizfork Studio,
in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the relfection of the Yellowstone River,
in the range of the redtail and raven …

This week’s Report features poetry by Turkish poet, translator, photographer & musician Yusuf Eradam, and music by the Sonny Clark Trio. Click here to read more and listen [...]

… poetry & jazz from the Grizfork Studio, in the shadow of the Absarokas, in the reflection of the Yellowstone River, in the range of the redtail and raven …

Episode #51 is a special memorial tribute to fallen Saginistas Bruce Crawley, Al Hellus and Buddy “Shabazz” Harris, featuring some unpublished poems by Al and music [...]

… Poetry & Jazz from the Grizfork Studio …
Episode # 50 is now online featuring the poem “The Illness of Windows (Junco Hyemalis)” and “Hymn to Freedom” from the Oscar Peterson Trio.

Thanks for listening tonight!
For show #8 we are talking to Deborah Emin of the Itinerant Book Show. We are discussing setting up book events in venues and selling book throughout the heartland – and more!
For more info about Deborah, visit sullivanstreetpress.com
We are also talking about apples iPad, and how it measure up to Amazon’s [...]

Maryann Thomas, who “runs The Ginger Press in the heart of Owen Sound” in Ontario has just started a new blog called From My Corner.
I don’t know Maryann, and have never spoken with her. She is only 3 posts in as I write this. But I like what she’s done so far and [...]

The Oped news blog recently dropped a nice post about a phone call I had with Deborah Emin, owner of Sullivan Street Press and inventor of the Itinerant Book Show.
Debora and I had a great phone conversation a bit ago, comparing notes on how we find the state of indie publishing, what our goals and [...]

Our last show was called “The Hustle,” and we had a great conversation about what it takes to get out there and get people to pay attention to your book. With our upcoming show, we could almost call it “The Extreme Hustle.” We are going to talk about taking the art of hand-selling your book [...]

THIS WEEK – we visit with Kelly Powers, owner, along with her her business partner and husband Ellis L. Marsalis, III, of Obie Joe Media. Obie Joe is a marketing agency that specializes in niche and indie books. They work directly with authors and small publishers to find unique and unusual venues through which to [...]

Here’s something that showed up in my inbox recently:
Calling all feminists, wizards, Queer theorists, ex-Black Panthers,Christians, Green activists, avant-gardists, Kabbalists, vegans, Hawaiiannationalists, kickboxers, Punks, Hip Hop evangelists, New New Leftists,pink-haired emo warriors, organic gardeners — submit your work for “The BigBook of Revolutionary Poetry,” edited by Sparrow and Mickey Z. Send up to 3poems [...]

Jack Kerouac died forty years ago today at the age of 47, in many ways an alien to my generation. But was he a free man? About as free as any of us can be, I suppose. And he could write like an angel. Here he is on the old Steve Allen show, reading from [...]