Letter to Charles Bukowski No I don’t want to be a goddamn writer for the most part I wish I were a carpenter or a mechanic I wish I had a skill that folks could use I wish I had a job that paid the bills I wish I did something that folks might appreciate or better still understand I wish I could do something that would make my wife proud No I don’t want to be a … [Read more...]
An Interview with Poet Jack Leaf Willetts
Jack, your new poetry collection, The Beauty of being Hated, has just been published. What can you tell us about it? It was hard to live and hard to write. It was written out of a series of negative situations and I was bent on documenting them. I was in a position where I was able to explore the concepts of love and hate and the close connection between these emotions. In … [Read more...]
3 poems from The Beauty of being Hated
Ode to Trailer Trash Trailer trash: who didn’t understand the endearment, the mock insult Trailer trash: who walks with no shoes through glass and beer and blood never cutting her feet perfect feet dark dark, pale but darkened by the street the street a sanctuary a home Trailer trash: trashing traditional beauty with sandals, with bare … [Read more...]
The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
The Sea is My Brother was Jack Kerouac's first attempt at a novel. Technically it fits the criteria of a novella, the original manuscript weighing in at 158 pages. Published for the first time in its entirety by Penguin Classics (2011) and bound together with other collected juvenilia, it is important to remember that this manuscript is exactly that, juvenilia. Penned by … [Read more...]
