Visual Poetry: Joerg Piringer

For those who magnetize toward mixed media, border-bending art, and gesamtkunstwerks, Joerg Piringer is a must to check out. His work encompasses everything from sound art, interactive art, word art, video art, and probably any other kind of art you can think of. You can check out his website at http://joerg.piringer.net/ ...Read more
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Wed Night Open Mic Now Beamed to Monkeys In Space!

If you missed the Illiterate/Baobob Tree Press Poetry/Open Mic last week--or you were there and have found yourself waking up in a cold sweat post-then wishing that you could listen to the entire thing over and over again—well fear not you sweaty Illiterates! Because Bradley Micheal Albus has recorded the entire thing and posted it to the inter-web. Just click on the link below and you’ll be transported back in time, to a simpler place known as September 23 at the Burnt Toast—a place predating Roman Polanski’s Swiss incarceration and Bill Clinton’s Sunday morning appearance on Meet The Press. It was a magical time, filled with words, music, friendly collabor...Read more
100th Open Mic at the Burnt Toast

Who: An Invitation to You!What: A Celebration of the 100th Open Mic at the Burnt Toast hosted by Olatundji Akpo-Sani! & Me! When: Wednesday Night (sign up at 8:00, show starts at 8:30) Where: The Burnt Toast, 1235 Pennsylvania Ave, Boulder CO, USAWhy: (see bit already mentioned under the 'What' section, about it being the 100th Burnt Toast Poetry Reading/Open Mic brought to you by Illiterate Magazine & Baobob Tree Press)...Read more
Welcome To The Illiterate Poetry Blog

My name is: Robert Richard Eugene Geisen. You can call me Rob. My life pt 1 took place on a farm in Springport Michigan. Constantly surrounded by flat mountains of space, I began obsessively playing the guitar when I was 15 and started playing in bar bands a couple years after that. I lived rent free in a trailer shaped house that my family built on the edge of a corn field when I was a wee little baby. I made money playing in bars and giving guitar lessons, stuff like that. I majored in classical guitar and music theory in college. I dug cats, not dogs. Heavy Metal, not Disco. Twilight Zone, not Murder She Wrote. Turn off's = yard work and Reba McEntire albu...Read more