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RESUME THE RESUMÉ Some nights I sleep in my tuxedo. My fingers untie the bow-tie in my sleep as if I were swooning to the tune of Begin the... Read more →
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Jack Grapes: Two Poems
Gulf of Mexico My father liked being on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico, anchored near one of the oil rigs, pulling up spade fish and red... Read more →
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An Island in the Middle of a Lake
I came to Los Angeles 50 years ago -- in the fall of 1968 -- the same year George Drury Smith founded Beyond Baroque -- to do a pilot for a tv... Read more →
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Chiwan Choi: The Fire This Time
When Chiwan Choi first walked into my class over 25 years ago, he was a 17-year old teenager, quiet and introspective. The writers in my Method... Read more →
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Send in the Cavalry!
I've said this before, I figured it bears repeating, or resending, especially with so many of us dreading the state of our nation as a (check all... Read more →
Why I Support Cultural Weekly
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices. Well, it's impossible to do everything and... Read more →
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Jack Grapes: Five Haiku
Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, actor, playwright, and teacher. He's written two how-to books, Method Writing and Advanced Method Writing. He... Read more →
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Jack Grapes: “Jessie, My Dog”
Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, publisher and teacher. He wrote and starred in Circle of Will, a metaphysical comedy about... Read more →
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The Limits We Put on Our Writing, and Ourselves
What saddens me are the limits we put on our writing, on the "form" we think it must take in order to be approved by those judges we’ve... Read more →
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Jack Grapes: “Lake Pontchartrain Seawall” & “Lost Lake”
Jack Grapes is an award-winning poet, playwright, actor, teacher, and the editor and publisher of ONTHEBUS, one of the top literary journals in the... Read more →
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