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Albert Huffstickler Reads | Vox Audio

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Albert Huffstickler (December 17, 1927 – February 25, 2002) was an American poet. Albert Huffstickler was born in Laredo, Texas, surviving a twin who died at birth. As the son of a teacher and soldier, he and his two siblings (a brother and a sister) moved often growing up. After graduating from high school, he worked in Charlotte prior to attending the University of North Carolina where he discovered poetry. Marriage and children followed as well as various jobs in Florida and Arizona, where he briefly studied Scientology. Drafted in 1954, he spent two years in the army. After completing armed service he returned to Texas where he attended Southwest Texas State University, majoring in English and developing an interest in Jungian psychology. During the 1960’s Huffstickler continued writing poetry as well as pulp fiction, publishing under a pseudonym. Continue reading →

John Macker Reads at Acequia Booksellers | Vox Audio

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John Macker lives in Northern New Mexico with his wife, Annie, a few miles south of Las Vegas, NM in an old roadhouse on the Santa Fe Trail with some cool views of the llano and he has two dogs and when time permits, listens to the wind… Books and broadsides of poetry include For The Few, The First Gangster, Burroughs At Santo Domingo, 2 +2=1, among others. In 2001, won the James Ryan Morris Memorial “Tombstone” Award for poetry. Has given public readings with writers such as S.A. Griffin, Frank Rios, Tony Scibella, Gregory Corso, Andy Clausen, Ed Dorn, Linda Hogan among others. Has had essays and poems published in journals and magazines throughout the U.S. including, most recently, Manzanita Quarterly, Sin Fronteras (Writers Without Borders), Pitchfork, Black Ace Book 7, Mercury Reader, A People’s Ecology: Explorations In Sustainable Living and a large section from a new manuscript Adventures In The Gun Trade mad blood (considered to be a seminal Outlaw text), was featured in Mad Blood #2, October 2003. In Colorado, in the early-mid 90’s edited the award-winning literary arts journal, Harp, which featured interviews and poetry by Robert Bly, Gregory Corso, Charles Bukowski,Tony Scibella, Diane DiPrima and many others. He has won 2006 the mad blood magazine literary arts award for the poem, “Wyoming Arcane.” Also nominated for 2006 Pushcart Prize. (Oct ’05, October 07). Continue reading →

Margaret Randall Reads | Vox Audio

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Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936, she has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque, New York, Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities. In 1984, Margaret came home to the United States, only to be ordered deported when the government invoked the 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act, judging opinions expressed in some of her books to be “against the good order and happiness of the United States.” Continue reading →

Lee Sharkey Reads | Vox Audio

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Lee Sharkey bought in 1974 a hundred-year-old Pearl platen press, taught herself to set type and print, and produced over the course of a long Maine winter her first poetry chapbook. Over the next four years, under the imprint South Solon Press, she printed two more chapbooks of her own poetry, portfolios of other poets’ work, and ephemera such as poems on paper lunch bags. Since then, she has continued to work both on and off the grid as a writer and an editor. Her publications include two other full-length volumes, Farmwife (Puckerbrush Press, 1977) and To A Vanished World (Puckerbrush, 1995), a poem sequence in response to Roman Vishniac’s photographs of Eastern European Jewry in the years just preceding the Nazi Holocaust. In 1997 she received Zone 3’s Rainmaker Award in Poetry, judged by Carolyn Forché. Recent poems have appeared in Green Mountains Review, Margie, Nimrod, The Pinch, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals. Since 2003 she has co-edited The Beloit Poetry Journal, one of the country’s oldest and most respected poetry journals. She lives in the woods outside of Farmington, Maine, with her husband, Al Bersbach, and stands in the weekly Women in Black peace vigil in front of the Farmington post office. Continue reading →

Nathaniel Tarn Reads at Acequia Booksellers | Vox Audio

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The reading took place on September 7, 2008 at Acequia Booksellers, 4019 Fourth St. NW, Albuquerque, NM, with the exception of the last poem, recorded in Magdalena, NM October 5, 2008. Nathaniel’s most recent book are Selected Poems, 1950-2000 (Wesleyan 2002) and Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (New Directions 2008). Copyright 2009 Nathaniel Tarn and Vox Audio, PO Box 594 Magdalena NM 87825. Photo by Janet Rodney. Continue reading →

Nathaniel Tarn Reads | Vox Audio

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Recorded in Magdalena, NM October 5, 2008. Edited by Bruce Holsapple. Photo by Tony Fraze. Copyright 2009 Nathaniel Tarn and Vox Audio, PO Box 594 Magdalena NM 87825. Nathaniel’s most recent books are Selected Poems, 1950-2000 (Wesleyan 2002) and Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers (New Directions 2008) Continue reading →