Author: natilee shock

Even before the writing of his T.S. Eliot Prize-winning collection of poems, “Works & Days” (2010), University of San Francisco professor and City Brights columnist Dean Rader started a series of poems about Paul Klee paintings. The soon-to-be-released “Landscape Portrait Figure Form” has now become one of the latest in Omnidawn’s chapbook series. “I got about six or seven poems into Read More

With a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in creative writing, Alexandra Kostoulas has had many teachers and learned many approaches to writing, but of all the courses she’s taken, the one that helped her through the difficult teenage years has proved the most powerful. “I met Jack Grapes when I was 17 at a poetry reading that I Read More