
An overlooked suburban porch loafer who should have been in this post. March 2009, Greenpoint.
I used to say I hate poetry. For the most part, this is still true. But then I read some Bukowski, prose first, then poetry, about 11 years ago. Then I read a lot more, as much as I could – it’s good stuff to read when you’re doing exhausting menial work that you hate [...]
I’ve been considering adding a ‘sources and influences’ category to this journal for a while. Apparently students doing my course last year had to do a notebook form of this in their first term. We, instead, we asked to make a ‘U-Book’ and I never managed to get over the idiocy of the name to [...]