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NEWS: Events, Publications, and a Show — November 2014

November 6 at 6:30.   Basil will read from his new book, The Spoken Word/The Painted Hand (Marsh Hawk Press, 20l4*) and his old friend Hettie Jones will read some of her not-yet published short fictions.  They are both being presented … Read More

Basil King, Black Mountain College, Marsh Hawk Press, Martha King, memoir, Prose Pros, SideWalk Cafe

Ver Gangen Bangen Heit a bust as a sound file

Sorry, friends!  The CD of  our SideWalk show on August 2 was a wash.  Technical gremlins, even before I got my fingers on it.  So no MP3 – let alone a YouTube item. Here’s a snippet. No sound. No pictures. … Read More

Elinor Nauen, Exquisite Corpse, Francis Levy, Mike DeCapite, Prose Pros, SideWalk Cafe

Sheherezade

There are other spellings…this is the one Andrei Codrescu has embraced.  She, She Here, the iconic spinner of tales and excursions, of conversations long into the night.  Why is she our ever-fascinating icon? Weak words can save lives?  Hers did.  … Read More

Andrei Codrescu, Exquisite Corpse, Princeton University Press, Prose Pros

Coming this Thursday – Prose Pros does it again Levenberg and Simmons

We’ve put another odd couple together, although Diane (Simmons) and Mitch (Levenberg) actually know each other. Mitch is coffeeshop counters in the city, subways, garbage cans going crash in the night, misconceptions…. Diane is pickup trucks with bad alternators, roadside … Read More

Diane Simmons, Elinor Nauen, Little America, Martha King, Mitch Levenberg, Principals of Uncertainty and Other Constants, Prose Pros

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