Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
So, we’re in the midst of wrestling with the issue of how to approach the big Six Sentence Café &… Read More
Watching Dawn of the Dead director's cut after doing cardio and washing the dishes, and it's one of those few times in my life when I feel caught up. It's a shame it is so late, because I'd… Read More
I just learned one of the benefits of paying nearly $100 a month for slow internet service from Xfinity is I can watch the entire run of The Rockford Files on my laptop at my leisure, instea… Read More
Several celebrities have expressed interest in joining the Outsider Poetry Slam League of America for the 2017 season after the rousingly successful 2016 season, which culminated in the Ranc… Read More
Lyrical gunslinger Bruce Pandolfo, who records and performs under the moniker AllOne, has premiered the animated music video for his mesmerizing tale of two cities “Don’t We? (f… Read More
A.R. Bender is a peripatetic writer living in Tacoma, Washington USA. He has held a variety of jobs over the years, and has travelled and lived in different parts of the USA, as well as in… Read More
If the energy and flow of poetry steals your heart, but you also long for the narrative and pacing of a novel, there is a perfect book for you! Novels in verse hit all the right notes. These… Read More
Time for one last Rockford Files tonight, which may put the cap on season number one, which I have watched in one week. On Friday there is a Charles Bukowski reading here in Rockford, a… Read More
Bookish goings-on in Texas for the week of March 25-31, 2019 compiled exclusively for Lone Star Literary Life by Texas Book Lover.Special Events:54th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Le… Read More
Ariel Nava/Lionsgate
It felt fitting to learn that Blindspotting stars and writers Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal met on the slam poetry scene at Berkeley High, because I experienced the fil… Read More
One of the great riddles for me is the absence of the publication of Sekou Sundiata's work. There are the two CDs and his small chapbook, Free, which is somewhere in my personal collection… Read More