Sherman J. Alexie, Jr. was born in October 1966. A Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian, he grew up on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, WA, about 50 miles northwest of Spokane. Born hydrocephalic (water on the brain), Alexie underwent brain operation at the age of six. He survived the surgery,

Angry, Dark, Death, Deconstructive, Dreamy, In-your-face, Lyrical, Mythic, Native american fiction, Native american poetry, Pioneering, Playful, Political, Post-colonialism, Rhythmic, Rough, Spiritual, Tragic, Tribal

Marjorie Perloff is a poetry critic and professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at Stanford University. Her work has been especially concerned with explicating the writing of experimental and avant-garde poets and relating it to the major currents of modernist and, especially, postmod

Intense, Pioneering, Smart

Just a guy with a blog (or five) and a love of film, liquids and words. Like WSB, I eat images. Like everybody else, I keep getting older; I just happen to write about it, from a particular angle, on the internet where everybody can see. Sometimes people pay me to write things. I also make little mov

Architectural, Event, Excessive, Flux, Hermeneutics, Joyful, Layered, Lyrical, Mythic, Open-ended, Perceptual, Playful, Repetition, Science fiction, Sensual, Slangy, Sprawling, Urban

Marc Lafia is a new media artist interested in systems and events, authoring machines, context and meaning. His work re-writes, re-invents meaning or enunciation through rewriting forms. Marc’s work emerges in the context of net art, in the condition that the network, new technologies and computati

Architectural, Avant-garde film, Chance, Citational, Conceptual, Conceptual photography, Discourse as event, Event, Expansive, Intimate, Layered, Playful, Repetition, Self-reflection