Interviews
Chiron Review (2020, print) NEW
On Songwriting (mostly) 2023NEW
on A Visit to the Ranch
Satire & Skepticism
Santa Barbara Independent
Artaud Exhibition
Selected Poems
Cultural Weekly (four poems)
The Unknown Lyrist’s Easter Sunday Sermon . . .
Hamlet with a Hangover
The Barry Hannah Poem
No Logo
Selected Reviews
Vallum
Coastal Spectator
Rattle
Galatea Resurrects
The Pedestal Magazine
Four By Two
“Listen up artisinal nerds, would you
believe if you lick it, it tastes like lemon
meringue pie?” -Chuck Prophet
Unboxing Video by “Lil Mike” Martzke
Review
Instagram
Sandra Beasley Blog Entry
Interview w/Jeremy Gaulke
Selected Literary Journalism
on Frank Stanford (2016)
on Diane di Prima (2014)
on Charles Potts
on Poetry
on Antler
on Bill Knott
on Denis Johnson
NEWS
There’s been a lot of water under a lot of bridges since this site was built in 2017. New books of mine. New Chuck Prophet releases. A barely thwarted fascist takeover of the Homeland that remains an ominous threat. The death and rebirth of Temple Beautiful: The Musical. Of note locally, this site will continue to be refurbished. For now, there are two new books (and two old books) added to the slide show and three announcements:
Jeremy and I are looking into getting some archives of Four by Two on this site, along with a history of the magazine.
Long Engagement: New & Selected Poems (1985–2023), put together with the hands-on editorial eye and ear of Brenda Hillman, is looking for a home. Adopt a book! Become a publisher! Launder dirty money! A lot less clean-as-a-hound’s-tooth money will come
out the other side.
THE ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE
Jack Gilbert
Thomas Hardy
Jaroslav Siefert
Don Marquis
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Carol Ann Duffy
Frank Zappa
James Thurber
Edgar Lee Masters
Joseph Moncure March
Ai
Roberto Bolaño
Russell Hoban
(for Riddley Walker)
Frederick Exley
Du Fu
Li Po (aka Li Bai, Rihaku)
Catullus
Sappho
Juvenal
Nathanael West
Charles Reznikoff
Wislawa Szymborska
Edmund Wilson
Sandy Koufax
Charles Portis
John Clare
Duane Michals
Flannery O’Connor
C.P. Cavafy
Emily Dickinson
Wm. Shakespeare
Chaucer
W.E.B. Du Bois
Zbigniew Herbert
Paul Zimmer
Mary Oliver (just kidding)
Carl Sandburg
Bert Meyers
Kenneth Fearing
Helen Adam
Howard Stern
George Crabbe
Christopher Smart
Karl Shapiro (criticism/essays)
Flannery O’Connor
Frank O’Hara
Ishmael Reed
Weldon Kees*
*who coined the term ‘idiot wind’
Inexhaustibles
Kenneth Patchen
Ford Madox Ford
Current Fixations
Giovanni Papini
New York Dolls