The brainchild of Danny Snelson and Phoebe Springstubb, the young Aphasic Letters produces more interesting work than the vast majority of otherwise like-minded arts and literary institutions. Snelson and Springstubb – whose other endeavors find them wending through the Ontological Hysterical Thea
Created by Todd Zuniga, Elizabeth Koch, and Dennis DiClaudio – the forces behind the phenomenal literary journal Opium –, Literary Death Match has posed more threats to the established ethos of literary readings since its founding in 2006 than perhaps any other reading series in the history of th