
I was a student enrolled in Carlow University’s Low Residency M.F.A. program the day I met Lewis “Buddy” Nordan. He was scheduled to read at one of our events in Pittsburgh. Many of the other students had been excited about the event most of the day. Past students had come to town for the [...]
The new issue of Shaking is out now. It features work by Curtis Smith, Kristopher Jansma, Travis Kurowski, Emma Briant, Jennifer Taylor, Dana Staves, Anna Mavromati, Cameron Cook, Alexander Freeman, Patty Somlo, Susan Grier, Eric Ramseier, Stephen Hartunian, David Beckman, Jim Johnston, Traci Parks, Patrick Ross, and Bitsy Sanders. You can currently grab a copy [...]

In January of 2007, Shaking Like a Mountain was born in a small Mexican restaurant in Shadyside, Pittsburgh on the idea that music and literature are intimately connected. Within months we set up a site, began accepting submissions and later that year, July, released the first issue. We’ve grown over the years, eventually [...]

And while we’re on the subject of vampires…. while driving this morning, the T. Rex song “Jeepster,” came on the radio. Like most of Marc Bolan’s repertoire, the song is infectious, it’s sexy, or as one YouTube commentator puts it, “ If it’s possible for a song to have testicles (is that word allowed here?), this song has ‘em!”




