Click on the date for video. Influences ~ Presenters. Enjoy! Tuesday, June 23, 2015David Letterman ~ Jason HeadleyJames Joyce + Virgil ~ Ivan ArgüellesSophocles ~ Aaron SunshineBlake Butler ~ Adam “Bucho” RodenbergerThursday, May 21, 2015Robert Duncan ~ Jack and Adelle FoleyFlannery O’Connor ~ Joshua BraffJoan Didion ~ Brigid M. HughesFela Kuti ~ M.C. K~SwiftThursday, April 16, 2015Sara Mumolo ~ Candace Eros DiazUrsula K. Le Guin ~ Deborah K. SteinbergRenata Adler ~ Kate FolkLuis Bunuel ~ Michael BucuzzoRoque Dalton ~ Tongo Eisen-MartinThursday, March 19, 2015James Joyce ~ Joe LoyaAnne Lamott + Shaggy ~ Allison LandaJames Tate ~ Peter (Thomas) BullenHollis Frampton and The Wizard of Oz~ Christina KolozsvaryJ.J. Cale + Marc Bolan ~ Chris PeckThursday, February 19, 2015Italo Calvino + Robert MacFarlane ~ Rashaan Alexis MenesesKen Kesey ~ Patrick Newson19th c. writing chest ~ Thaisa FrankBret Easton Ellis ~ Abbie AmadioTomi Ungerer ~ Joe StillwaterThursday, January 15, 2015William Wordsworth ~ Jon SindellShade Queens and Revolutionary Hopelessness ~ rex leonowiczJohn Belushi ~ Lael GoldDiane Lewis ~ Elizabeth FederNina Simone + James Baldwin ~ Raina J. LeónSaturday, December 20, 2014Keith Jarrett, Virginia Woolf + Sharon Olds ~ Elizabeth RosnerGustaf Sobin ~ Cosmo SpinosaRita Moreno ~ Sandra Garcia RiveraBeastie Boys ~ Evan KenwardJack Kerouac ~ Stephanie McKenzieThursday, November 20, 2014Stéphane Mallarmé ~ Steven GrayCarole Maso ~ Madison DavisAndrea Gibson + W.G. Sebald ~ Katia NoyesAlbert Einstein ~ ChejaCharles Bukowski ~ Norman ZelayaFriday, October 24th 2014Steve Martin ~ Jaime CortezLi-Young Li, Sonia Sanchez, and Michael Dickman ~ Christine NoAna Mendieta + Samuel Beckett ~ The Third ThingMurdo MacDonald Bayne ~ Michael DisendDonald Justice ~ Koon WoonFriday, September 26th 2014Lisa Robertson ~ Joel GregoryThe Last Poets ~ Michael WarrAlice Adams ~ Fia MaxwellWundercabinet ~ Penina Eilberg-Schwartz + July WesthaleKurst Schwitters ~ Matt GonzalezFriday, August 22nd 2014Aaron Shurin ~ Micah BallardAfaa Michael Weaver ~ Vernon Keeve IIIJohn Berger ~ Tessa MicaelaSusan Sontag ~ Emji SperoHenry Dumas ~ D. Scott MillerFriday, July 25th 2014Henry James (Patrick James Dunagan)Kevin Canty (Turner Capehart Canty)Italo Calvino (Candy Shue)Emily Dickinson (Zack Haber)Bei Dao (Bill Hughes)Friday, June 27th 2014Alice Notley (David Welper)John Cage, Morton Feldman + Marcel Duchamp (Ava Koohbor)Aimee Bender (Sarah Bushman)Richard Serra (Liam Curley)Brenda Hillman (Ava Sayaka Rosen)Friday, May 23rd 2014Laura Walker (Sarah Heady)René Depestre (Derek Fenner)Albertus Seba (Lindsey Englehardt)Rick Moody (Erin Ginder-Shaw)The Zohar (Alana Siegel)Friday, April 25th 2014Frank O’Hara (Chloé Veylit)Sextus Propertius (Brandon Brown)Roberto Bolaño (Melissa R. Sipin)Glenn Kotche + Harryette Mullen (Maggie Heaps Lauffer)Duncan McNaughton + Nathaniel Mackey (Sunnylyn Thibodeaux)Friday, March 28th 2014Truman Capote (Jill Tydor)Harry Crews (Jason Morris)Agnes Martin (Jane Gregory)Jean Du Chas, Alejandro Jodorowsky + Alfred North Whitehead (David Vandeloo)Lidia Yuknavitch (Bel Poblador)Friday, February 28th 2014Sherman Alexie (Liz Mayorga)Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground (Menlo Macfarlane)George Herbert (Evan Kennedy)Etel Adnan (Nanor Abkarian)Friday, January 24th 2014Jun Togawa (Channing Kennedy)Ludwig Wittgenstein + Thich Nhat Hanh (Jason R Jimenez)Edmond Jabès (Simona Schneider)Dodie Bellamy (Eric Sneathen)Joe Bataan (Jason Bayani)Friday, November 22nd 2013Marcel Proust + Nanni Balestrini (Miranda Mellis)Donna de la Perrière (Lorelei Lee)Jennifer Moxley (Nicole Trigg)Brian S. Ellis (Kevin DeVaney)Friday, October 25th 2013Michelle Tea (Carol Queen)Jeff Mangum + Joseph Cornell (Nathan Grover)Fyodor Dostoevsky (Moneta Goldsmith)Jackie Wang (Oki Sogumi)Friday, September 27th 2013Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Colleen Hubbard)Paula Vogel (Abe Becker)William S. Burroughs (Clint Flippin)Maggie Nelson (Amy Berkowitz)Friday, August 23rd 2013Brian Eno (Heather Bourbeau)Jonathan Safran Foer (Ariana Weckstein)Trish Salah (Zoe Tuck)Mark Linkous (Nathan Keele Springer)Christian Marclay + Cassandra C. Jones (Liz Worthy)Friday, July 26th 2013Jeanette Winterson (Jenny Bitner)Yasiin Bey (Gabriel Cortez)Jack Kerouac (Matthew Sherling)Maya Deren (Brittany Billmeyer-Finn)Friday, June 28th 2013Minutemen (Maw Shein Win)Christian Drake (Natasha Huey)Naked Raygun (Daniel Suarez)Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (Cheena Marie Lo)Friday, May 24th 2013Charles Bukowski (Alexandra Kostoulas)W.B. Yeats (Terry Taplin)Gil Scott Heron (Jason Schenheit)Grace Paley (Marcus Lund)Friday, April 26th 2013The Mountain Goats (Lizzy Acker)Sandra Cisneros (MK Chavez)L.M. Montgomery (Mariama Lockington)Carla Kihlstedt (Genine Lentine)Friday, March 22nd 2013William Saroyan (William Taylor Jr.)James Agee (Toni Mirosevich)Philip Roth (Nate Waggoner)Johann Sebastian Bach (Stella Peach)
