Enjoy a sample of what I’ve been recording.
Micro Cassettes, Metered Stamps, and a Swintec Typewriter
August Kleinzahler, a Poet Who Loves His Smith-Corona Typewriter
San Francisco’s Angry Poet One of my favorite poets, August Kleinzahler, uses a Smith-Corona typewriter exclusively, and sometimes while sitting on the toilet. In the photo, the bad boy of American poetry has a drink at one of his hangouts, the Zam Zam bar in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
Working on WordPress Stuff
Spent the morning working on blog design, that is, WordPress stuff. Also, I received a huge pile of microcassette tapes from a guy on eBay who just wanted to offload them pretty cheap. I plan to use them in my Cassette Tape Radio Show. That’s all coming soon — now that I’m recovering from carpal […]
Typewriter Repair Shop Closing
Ruben Flores, owner of a family typewriter repair shop since 1962, moved his business home after facing a 200% rent increase.
Typewriter Series Poem #1
The idea behind this project is to use a typewriter to type all the poems in my present collection, then post them to this site.