Sharon Olds grew up in a Calvinist home in Berkeley, CA. She received a BA from Stanford University in 1964 and an English PhD from Columbia University in 1972. Olds is known for candidly exploring the ordinary and unpleasant--from toilets to take-out. Olds did not publish her first poetry collect

Domestic, Perceptual, Playful

Benjamin Kunkel, novelist and founding editor at n+1, grew up in Colorado. He attended California's rural, all-male Deep Springs College, before finishing his undergraduate degree at Harvard University. He later received an MFA from Columbia University. Kunkel, who has contributed essays and artic

Neurotic, Perceptual, Political

No Ease is a solyquoquy, a proposal, and as a spectator, you have to choose elements from this music to make it personnal. It's quite rock music because of it's simplicity, but i use elements from noise, lo-fi, and contemporary music. This will not make you dance, but i hope it'll make you thin

Alternative rock, Beautiful , Contact improvisation, Contemplative, Dissonant, Experimental, Field recordings, Improvised, Musique concrete, Noise rock/art rock, Organic, Perceptual, Psychedelic, Visceral

Paul Chan lives and works in New York. His recent solo exhibitions have been presented at the New Museum, New York (2008); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, (2007); Serpentine Gallery, London (2007); The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, (2006-07); Portikus, Frankfurt, (2006); Magasin 3, Stockholm

Abstract, Atmospheric, Formless, Perceptual, Political, Saturated