Courtney Blazon grew up reading Richard Brautigan, the cult writer of the novel "Trout Fishing in America." By high school, she dove into his poetry, now out of print. This last winter, while going ...
I DON'T think that Richard Brautigan is crazy. Granted, he was the focus of a crazy Saturday night, but that doesn't make him crazy. In fact, he's the most lucid person I've heard in quite a while. It ...
John F. Barber, faculty member in the WSU Vancouver creative media and digital culture program, will speak about the renowned Washington-born author Richard Brautigan at a poetry night hosted by ...
I've been studying The Poetry Home Repair Manual by former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. One of the major principles of his writing practice is to write poems that say what they mean and that don't ...
A photograph can do many things, but above all else it captures a moment in time and stands as record to someone who grows as it stays the same. That's certainly true of Beverly Allen, a retired ...
Richard Brautigan spent a few years basking in the celebrity sun as the author of such counterculture classics as Trout Fishing in America and In Watermelon Sugar. But it was a short honeymoon, and ...
The writer Richard Brautigan burst onto the nation's literary scene in 1967 with the quirky, utterly original novel, "Trout Fishing in America." A blurb on its cover said this: "Mr. Brautigan ...
"It's very hard to live in a studio apartment in San Jose with a man who's learning to play the violin." That's what she told the police when she handed them the empty revolver. Those two sentences ...
Basically, the technology of today seeks to replace, by a system of Humanistic Values, the older, Insect Values of social systems, i.e., the values of the Ant and the Cicada. But surely I digress.