I first got to know Gina Frangello when I wrote her a fan letter because I loved Slut Lullabies so much. I don’t usually write these, but was so inspired by her work and so taken with the risks this woman writer took, I went ahead and did it anyway, and then met Gina at [...]
A wonderful time last night seeing old friends and new. Pictures of Susan Tepper, Richard Peabody, Gloria Mindock, Eric Darton, Anne Elliott, and Richard Hensley.
On Tuesday, June 3rd, I'll be on Doug Holder's Somerville Community Access TV Show "Poet to Poet/Writer To Writer" ( Channel 3 5 PM ) . You can see it live here. Read Doug Holder's wonderful review of my new book What Happened Here.
Tonight I'll be reading at the Cervena Barva Reading Series in Somerville at 7:00 p.m. for my old friend Gloria Mindock and with Doug Holder and Robert Kloss, whom I look forward to meeting. Hope to see you there! See address and directions below. IN THE CERVENA BARVA PRESS STUDIO At The Arts for the [...]
North Park writer prowls the home turf Bonnie ZoBell talks about new short-story collection Bonnie ZoBell lives in North Park, near the site of the 1978 PSA crash that killed 144 people. In her new collection of short stories, “What Happened Here,” she uses the crash as a springboard to explore questions of fate, loss [...]
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 WHAT HAPPENED HERE The aftershocks of the 1978 plane crash that shook San Diego’s North Park neighborhood are still, decades later, rippling through the lives of its residents. Both the new and long-term are struggling with some deep emotional trauma that is simultaneously exacerbated and deflected by the neighborhood’s macabre obsession [...]
From Gently Read Literature Spring 2014 Sometimes in the process of getting engrossed in a truly mesmerizing book, you can’t help but take a sly glance at the author’s photo—even though you’re not supposed to—and wonder if perhaps she's really writing this riveting tale about herself in spite of the fact that it says "novel" on the [...]
From Gently Read Literature Spring 2014 In the spare yet rich poetry of Doug Holder's book Eating Grief at 3:00 AM, published by Muddy River Books, there is a symphony of voices, places, and sounds. So clear are the ambiences, the run-down settings, the often broken, yet not always unhappy people who populate these poems, it's [...]
New Mini-Documentary about North Park South Park's own Rebecca's Coffeehouse will host this extraordinary multi-media even at 4:00 p.m. on May 10th. Free. in this never-before-seen mini-documentary on North Park, locals confide , about what they love about the place as well as how they and their families were affected by the crash of PSA Flight [...]
