Most connections you make on the road are one-time hits. More often than not, you never see each other again. Maybe you add each other on Facebook, or something, but more often than not, the time for long-term friendships does not bloom. It’s been two… Read More
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Traveling pop-up bookstore founded by Nostrovia! Poetry
4,269 miles later, we’ve landed in Tucson, AZ
Hapgood & I left New Hampshire hesitantly. Our car is a 92 camry station wagon that has aged as well as most people do. We had to rip the passenger door panel off & cut the window motor out in order to screw the window in place.… Read More
The Arts Resistance, Lit Crawl, & Our Traveling Bookstore
WHAT’S GOING ON? Lit Crawl, the finale of LitQuake, is an expansive gathering of writers & creatives bringing “literary mayhem” to the Mission each year. It’s been heralded by The New York Times as a “specter of writing and literature — literature! — transforming an… Read More
Nostrovia! @ 2015 NYC Poetry Festival + settling East + where to now?
I write this in a Manchester, NH cafe, caffeinating, quietly gnawing on bread I snuck in. The past couple months have been the usual Nostrovia! chaotic. A four-day Greyhound transported Neeko Ford & I from Oakland, CA, to New York, NY, where over-stimulation snatched the… Read More
Nostrovia! + our traveling bookstore at Beast Crawl Lit Fest 2015 + the road East
I write this on a Greyhound, passing through the Midwest with Neeko Ford, en route to New Hampshire, lugging backpacks full of books. The bags under my eyes are steeping in exhaustion. Greyhound windows have framed desert, mountain ranges, open plains of flat, bumps of… Read More