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Author, Poet, and Podcast Host Carrie Fountain Isn’t Trying to Trick You
The 2019 Texas Poet Laureate talks shop as she receives two Texas honors
"...William Carlos Williams poem), where she talks to other poets about their processes. I mention how unusual it is..."

April 5, 2019 Arts Feature by Rosalind Faires

A Poet's Paper Trail
Billy Collins' archives acquired in advance of Austin appearance
"...Billy Collins is one of a few American poets who can easily fill a few hundred seats for..."

Jan. 21, 2014 Books Post by Amy Smith

Happy News for 'Happy Poet'
Austin comedy wins at Traverse City
"...Moore's Traverse City Film Festival, Paul Gordon's The Happy Poet walked away with a top prize at this weekend's..."

Aug. 2, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

M Train
Poet leaves time and space
"...with M Train. Stream of consciousness metered by her poet's rhythm, stories upon stories thread seamlessly through time, space,..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Jessi Cape

'Chron' House Poet S.E. Smith Storms Radio Waves & Watering Holes
KOOP and Nomad to host the award-winning writer
"...has this whole other life, too, as an award-winning poet and fiction writer, and did we mention the publication..."

Jan. 13, 2012 Books Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin Writer ire’ne lara silva Plans Her Year as Texas State Poet Laureate
Looking at the legacy of the honor
"...Lovers of local poetry, meet (or revisit) your newest torchbearer: ire'ne lara silva,..."

July 21, 2023 Arts Feature by Genevieve Wood

A Poet Warrior's Reward
Amorindio: Tributo y Celebración for raúlrsalinas
"...Yet, poets, writers, scholars, musicians, students, friends, and familia will come..."

Aug. 24, 2007 Books Feature by Belinda Acosta

The Heartsick Poet
Poet Dean Young celebrates a new book and hopes for a new heart
"...Young, a poet who teaches at the University of Texas, is on..."

April 8, 2011 Books Feature by Amy Smith

'The Happy Poet' Hits Stateside
There's something sweet about this veggie stand
"...The Happy Poet is screening tonight at the Stateside as part of..."

May 6, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

A Life ... Well, Lived
A redneck mother's recollections – those that remain
"...Ray Wylie's Hubbard's self-published autobiography reads like a "drunken poet's dream," a morning-after piecing together of what happened. "It's..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

The Poet Goes About Her Business
Linda Gregg reads tonight at UT
"...and loss in remarkably relatable ways. Of Gregg's work, poet W.S. Merwin once said "they convey at once the..."

April 11, 2013 Books Post by Monica Riese

Poet Marlys West
"...Marlys West writes some of the best poetry I've ever seen outside of a Norton's Anthology. A..."

Sept. 27, 1996 Books Feature

Weird Yet Strange: Notes From an Austin Music Artist
Vaunted Austin artist writes beyond his own posters

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Austin City Limits: A Monument to Music
Four decades of ACL tapings told in (mostly) pictures

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Way Down in Louisiana: Clifton Chenier, Cajun, Zydeco, and Swamp Pop Music
South Louisiana stew with a side of accordion

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

Fortunate Son
Ex-Creedence Clearwater Revival frontman rocks joy and rolls vengeance

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Michael Toland

Petty: The Biography
Gator comes clean

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Scott Jordan

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender
Pretenders frontwoman gets as far as album No. 2
"...most accomplished and commercial bands. Prickly with the occasional poetic grace note, the only fault with this thrilling book..."

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Tim Stegall

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl
Dysfunction made me a riot grrrl

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Neph Basedow

Dark Days: A Memoir
Lamb of God frontman details his 31 days in a Czech prison

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

Over the Top and Back: The Autobiography
It's not unusual that Tom Jones doesn't kiss and tell

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Los Lobos: Dream in Blue
Four decades of that little ol' band from East L.A. in 162 pages

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Jay Trachtenberg

The Rap Year Book: The Most Important Rap Song From Every Year Since 1979, Discussed, Debated, and Deconstructed
Thirty-six rap songs, one for each year of hip-hop's life

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Thomas Fawcett

Chapter and Verse: New Order, Joy Division and Me
Where's Hooky?

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Drunken Poet's Dream
Gift Guide: Music Books

Dec. 11, 2015 Music Feature

The Poet as Filmmaker
The Films of Alexander Dovzhenko

Sept. 6, 2002 Screens Feature

Waitin' 'Round to Live
The making and subsequent success of Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt
"...Poet: A Tribute to Townes Van Zandt opens with Guy..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Music Feature by Andy Langer

Bright Star
Jane Campion's achingly immediate yet eternal story about the love between tubercular poet John Keats and the literal girl-next-door, Fanny Brawne. It affords the filmmaker another rich opportunity to scratch beneath the surface of female sexuality.
"...rising of the sun. In the voice of a poet, the words may take on a life of their..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
"...have called the emotional epicenter of the Beat triad, poet Allen Ginsberg. Aronson's 83-minute film is a meticulously-researched chunk..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bukowski: Born Into This
Every young writer goes through a Bukowski phase, but only the skid row author himself was "born into it."
"...John Dullaghan. Los Angelean to his surprisingly soft center, poet and novelist Bukowski became the patron saint of skid..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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