From the monthly archives: September 2009

“I stuck out my palm…/ the snow the pine needles / hit lightly // I thought it was rain for a minute / I thought the game had been called” (On The Rush) I got turned on to the poems of Jim Carroll in late spring, 1993. I learned that Jim Carroll was [...]

Joe Pug is a 23 year old singer-songwriter from Chicago who’s been barnstorming the US since the release of his debut EP, Nation of Heat, midway through 2008. Other press favorably compares him to stolid American folk/troubadour types: Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle. Although I haven’t seen it, John [...]

