Odds are, most people have at least one illegal copy of a song, software, picture or movie somewhere on their hard drive and we are all familiar with P2P (peer to peer) services thanks in large part to Napster. There are a few sites that are thriving in this world of copyright crackdown and moral […]

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 […]

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, […]