You love the work; you hate the person who made it. How do you navigate that?
Rosanne Cash Performs at Folsom State Prison
March 24, 2013 By 3 Comments
Forty years after the late musician Johnny Cash performed “Folsom Blues” in the Folsom Prison Library, his daughter returns and meets GMP poet Spoon Jackson.
Open Thread: Can You Name More Than Two Modern Astronauts, Painters, Inventors, or Scientists?
February 26, 2013 By 9 Comments
Do we value celebrities and playboys more than poets, scientists, and inventors?
About My Sentence
February 24, 2013 By 1 Comment
Spoon Jackson, who has served 34 years of a life sentence in prison, faces the reality of his fate.
Never Stop Living
December 27, 2012 By 3 Comments
Does self-image ultimately determine how the body will perform?
What We Loved in 2012 According to Facebook
December 15, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Top trends in 2012 according to our favorite social network
Cockfighters and Poets
December 10, 2012 By 3 Comments
What the cockfighter and the artist have in common is what they put on the line.
Pick Your Moustache for Movember
October 23, 2012 By 2 Comments
Just in time to raise awareness for men’s health in November.
How Erik Got His Groove Back
October 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
White-knuckling his way through sobriety was burning him out, until Erik Christian returned to his youthful creative passions.
Dear John: Where Does Generosity End And Mooching Begin?
September 14, 2012 By 14 Comments
This week Dear John address a moocher, a nude portrait of a wife, and sperm donation.
My Under-Used Clothes
July 6, 2012 By 1 Comment
All the clothes that I assumed I would need in life have been rendered useless.
The Don Draper Dilemma
March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Mark Radcliffe can relate to Dick Whitman’s urge to escape his native clay and transform himself into “Mad Man” Don Draper.
This Is How We Do It: Evan Burse Draws Death The Kid
June 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Remember William Hung of American Idol fame, who became famous for his painfully bad version of Ricky Martin’s song ‘She Bangs’?
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