If this is your first time here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. You may also want to checkout our list of organizations and books if you want to learn more about what this site is about.Twas a big night for BSB clients and friends at last night’s 11th Annual NAMAs (Northwest Arkansas Music Awards). The Kings of New England walked away with a Best Album of the Year and Best “Plugged” Album. Which all goes to show that if you break up, your chances …

I’ve been wanting to rave in detail about Art Amiss here for a while now. And now that Miss Haley Duke (one of the Art Amiss organizers) has graciously posted a boat load of pictures, I can more easily and thoroughly rave on.
Art Amiss was started a few years ago as a one-night-only event to showcase the scads of little-known Arkansas painters, writers, fashion designers, photographers, and musicians. The event quickly blossomed into an annual gathering and then into a website, which now promulgates 131 artists and 643 …

I am certainly not talented enough with the written word to explain why this book is so good, nor why it won the Walt Whitman Award last year, so I excerpted this review from Bookslut.com.:
Critics can argue all they want to about what makes a “real” poem, or what makes a”good” poem, or whether or not prose poetry can be either of those things. Tost blows away any argument about the existence of the genre by simply writing it. His poems are undeniably connected through the entire book, yet each …