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Foundlings on the Radio
A few weeks back Darren Canham and I joined Al Abonado in the WAYO 104.3 studios for an interview on “Flour City Yawp.” For a year now Al has been interviewing Western New York writers and tons of poets who pass through Rochester. We got to talk with Al about the beginnings of Foundlings Magazine, […]
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New Music Reviews on The Skinny: Kendrick Lamar, BadBadNotGood, Gorillaz, Beach Fossils
I’ve had the chance to review some solid albums recently. All have appeared in The Skinny. From my review of Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN.: The themes are familiar from earlier efforts – but this is more obviously an effort, a struggle. Appropriately then, he laconically raps on YAH., ‘I’m a Israelite, don’t call me black no mo’.’ […]
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Two-Week Nonfiction Youth Workshop at Just Buffalo Writing Center
Starting Aug. 22, I’ll be at the Just Buffalo Literary Center offering a workshop for writers aged 12-18. The two-week workshop is called “Writing the Other,” and our focus will be narrative nonfiction – the kind that calls about others, imagining oneself into the circumstances and the emotional lives of other people – or, as […]
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Foundlings Vol. III Available in Stores and Online
Foundlings Vol. III launched on a bright day June, and poets and readers packed Nietzsche’s, a venerable Allentown bar and music venue for the party. The other editors and I were very happy to host visiting poets George Guida and Gerry LaFemina, who grabbed a righteous lunch with us at Gabriel’s Gate before heading over the […]