My students wrote a letter to the administration asking for a change. And it worked.

Experimental art and poetry by Richard Perkins.

Vonnegut was a favorite of my buddies and I back in high school. Slaughterhouse. Cat’s Cradle. Time Quake. Breakfast of Champions. Reading him in class was our Farmville, or whatever the hell my students are doing on their cell phones the moment I turn my back on them.

A few poems inspired by Elliott’s Fair Grounds in Ghent.

This second half is where DPK really gets it going. If you’ve ever taught–especially if you’ve ever taught English–this is a must read.

“I’d like a Jesus so fat he broke the cross,” read David Sedaris at Chrysler Hall last night. “This is a Jesus who conjured 1,000 loaves of bread, then ate 50 of them.”

“Feed whatever it is that inspires you, that will make you do that excited dance inside, that will quicken the pulse. Don’t let anything steal your love to create, your love for the craft. Because, the moment you get cynical, you’re done.”

Loss has always been a reminder that things are tenuous, and out of such loss is, I believe, the implication of survival.

The controversial author of “Heather Has Two Mommies” comes to Virginia Beach.

Mark Bowden, consummate journalist and author of “Black Hawk Down,” read @ ODU Thursday.