At the time of her death in 2004, Lucia Berlin was known as a brilliant writer of short stories, beloved by other writers but never achieving wide readership or acclaim. That …
Winner of the 2014 PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in LiteratureFrom the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and Edward Dorn …
Boston born and bred, John Wieners was a queer self-styled poète maudit who was renowned among his contemporaries but ignored by mainstream critics. Twenty-first-century readers …