I had been trying to figure out an interesting theme for my precious Pulp section for some time before staging a pirate invasion occurred to me. A conversation I had with Randomville writer Gary Price about jewel thieves was the launch point. Starting with thieves, the topic quickly shifted to pirates, and then from pirates […]

As you surf the Internet, always remember that there are pirates in them there waters. Pirated software and music aren’t anything new at this point. As I did research for this article (which consisted of Googling variables of “pirate”), I discovered that pirates abound the net. There are several History of Pirates sites available for […]

Contemporary poetry is in tumult these days, though the average reader wouldn’t know it. There is no “average reader” of contemporary poetry; most books written by modern poets are bought and read only by other modern poets, if at all. What’s going on? Explanations abound: poetry has become too “academic,” poetry hasn’t become “academic” enough, […]