King Cool: Ed Ochester and The Pittsburgh School of Poetry
A celebration of Ed Ochester’s life and legacy reveals how a poet from Queens transformed Pittsburgh’s literary scene.
In Search of Lost Process; or, How I Wrote My First Book
“I was young, full of creative energy, filling black notebooks with pressed ballpoint ink. Time dilated because I was unbothered by the reality of lugging my dirty laundry down to the laundromat every few weeks or eating rice and beans day after day.”
“First Lady” at PICT Classic Theatre
“The play is set in a ‘modern banana republic’ in a vaguely defined Mesopotamia, in the midst of a popular uprising against an oppressive authoritarian president.”
The Language Equation
A conversation with Patrick McGinty on new language, narration, and queer identity in his new novel “Town College City Road.”
Meaning and Michigan in Cal Freeman
“Yet Freeman’s musings on language are more than melancholy; they take the reader on a metaphysical investigation of language itself.”
Ghosts of the American Left in Millvale
By Timothy R. Grieve-Carlson “Ihave a question,” said the gentleman who approached me after I gave a tour at the [...]
Robert Gibb’s Rust Belt Poetry
Robert Gibb is a real poet, which says a lot.
How The Welding Machine Works
“I thought I would not miss him. I was wrong.”