Links and Influences
I also write periodically for or in:
the Agitator, a radical on-line rag in Salt Lake City
MySpace blog
Commoncircle blog
Random (but alphabetized) Favorite Writers
Sherman Alexie - both his short stories and poetry
Isabel Allende - (Chilean) anything
Noam Chomsky - anything
Ward Churchhill - "On the Justice of Roosting Chickens"
Mike Davis - "Magical Urbanism", among others
Isak Dinesen - (Danish) "Out of Africa", and her short stories
Jens Peter Jacobsen - (Danish) his short stories.
Verlyn Klinkenborg - "The Rural Life"
D.H. Lawrence - his short stories, especially "Glad Ghosts", and his amazing poetic opus "Look we Have Come Through"
Ranier Maria Rilke - (German) "Letters to a Young Poet"
Susan Sontag - Really anything, but particularly the essay she wrote shortly after 9/11
J.R.R. Tolkien - "The Lord of the Rings" especially "The Two Towers"
T.H. White - "The Once and Future King" especially "The Book of Merlin"
Terry Tempest Williams - "The Open Space of Democracy"
Local (Salt Lake City) Poets
Some of the local poets have work published through Push! Publications
Jaguar Duffy
Eathan Higby
Jim Keller
Iris Moulton
Repo
Kildem Soto
Dave Stevenson
Shawn Dallas Stradley
Zoe (now in Ithaca, NY)
Other Poets, Lyricists and other Word Artists
Margaret Atwood
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Elizabeth Bishop
Billy Collins
Reggie Gibson
Allen Ginsberg
Hafiz of Shiraz
Suheir Hammad
Jack Kerouac
Taylor Mali
Ellyn Maybe
Viggo Mortensen
Pablo Neruda
Tom Petty
Marge Piercy
Silvio Rodriguez
David Rovics
Jalaladin Rumi
Patricia Smith
Luke Warm Water
Walt Whitman
Saul Williams
