A literary spark started fires on the east and west coasts of the U.S. following World War II. The Beat writers in New York and the Berkeley (or San Francisco) renaissance poets in the Bay Area ...
Donald Allen’s 1960 anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960 blew the lid off 1950s American verse. Against establishment poetry’s gray-flannel formalism, Allen unleashed a horde of ...
James (Jack) Spicer beloved husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, was called to eternal rest on April 18, 2025. He is now reunited with his cherished wife, Vonnie, who passed just six ...
A Texas family grapples with the gift of clairvoyance in this incandescent saga from Watkins (Holler, Child). In 1979 Jerusalem, Tex., Walter Lee “Chuck” Gardner, 22, keeps Continue reading » We Want ...