Thought the sappy love poems you wrote in your high school notebook were worthless? Think again. Those gems could be worth $100, if you manage to dig ’em up and perform ’em well at the Anthology Invitational Poetry Slam, 8 p.m. on Friday, May 22 at Club Mardi Gras, 8040 East McDowell Rd. in Scottsdale…
That’s the crazy scheme nationally recognized poet and former LA Weekly writer S.A. Griffin is planning. Griffin purchased a defunct U.S. military practice bomb for $100 from some dude on Craigslist in November of last year and set about drilling, grinding and refurbishing it into a sleek pinstriped capsule filled with poetry…
Although we still wish that longtime Phoenician Laurie Notaro hadn’t moved to Oregon, we’re always thrilled to know that the prolific scribe of Autobiography of a Fat Bride: True Tales of a Pretend Adulthood and We Thought You Would Be Prettier: True Tales of the Dorkiest Girl Alive will crack…
