todd moore | the gold cane, van gogh’s ear, and the gun in the casket: wandering down this crooked road

This is the age of Lummox.
Granted, there are many fine publishers out there, some of them even legendary. Grove Press, City Lights, and Black Sparrow not only published great writers but somehow went on to define an age. Scribners gave us Hemingway and Fitzgerald when we desperately needed them. Now, it is [...]

todd moore | saturday night desperate, don winter, and the black mitten of poetry

I remember getting hit once with a baseball bat right in the middle of the back and the force of that blow spun me around toward a girl who was laughing. Sometimes a book will have that same effect on me. Reading Tom McGrath’s LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY FRIEND was like that. [...]

saturday night desperate, don winter, and the black mitten of poetry

I remember getting hit once with a baseball bat right in the middle of the back and the force of that blow spun me around toward a girl who was laughing. Sometimes a book will have that same effect on me. Reading Tom McGrath’s LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY FRIEND was like that. [...]

john dorsey & s.a. griffin | the dead zone trilogy by todd moore

john dorsey & s.a. griffin | the dead zone trilogy

gerald locklin | a sinatra sequence

WHAT’S HOT:

Sinatra, some stories and the Stones.

Long Beach poet Gerald Locklin’s latest chapbook, his annual collection of jazz poems, is an all-Frank collection, “A Sinatra Sequence,” paean after paean to Old Blue Eyes. By Tim Grobaty, Press Telegram Long Beach Staff Writer. Posted: 03/17/2009 09:53:55 PM PDT

Gerald Locklin | The Plot of Il Trovatore

What’s Hot: Poetry in person with LB’s Locklin by Tim Grobaty, Columnist Posted: 02/25/2009
POCKET OF POEMS: For some reason, we’ve taken quite a liking to “The Plot of Il Trovatore,” the probably 80-somethingth book of poems we’ve received from and by Long Beach’s finest poet, Gerald Locklin.
We tote it around with us, reading a piece [...]

tony moffeit | a man on fire

tony moffeit | a man on fire

todd moore | chasing jack micheline’s shadow