If you are in the Austin vicinity this weekend, you should come take part in the Austin International Poetry Festival! The festival takes place this Thursday through Sunday (April 3-6). Along with workshops and events for the registered poets (like myself) there will also be a whole slew of poetry readings held all over theContinue reading “Upcoming Poetry Readings at AIPF”
Category Archives: Reading
Goodreads Before Goodreads
I don’t mean to make a stink here, but Goodreads really owes me quite a bit of money. You see, I had the prototype for their entire platform back in 1999, long before Otis and Elizabeth Chandler launched their website. Yep. It was called My Book Journal. My Book Journal is an offline system forContinue reading “Goodreads Before Goodreads”
Things Fall Apart… Again
Today I finished Things Fall Apart for the second time. I first studied Chinua Achebe’s book my sophomore year in high school, and while I liked it then, I did not fully appreciate it until now. In this powerful African novel, the author perfectly balances the complexity of his tale with the simplicity of hisContinue reading “Things Fall Apart… Again”
Carie Juettner 