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Hedwig Gorski is a free lance journalist, poet, art critic and producer in Austin, Texas, where she has lived for the past five years...
...Parler, which dedicated that volume to his creative struggles and accomplishments. He also co-edited Apollo, a six-hundred-page anthology of contemporary Russian literature and art, as well as contributing to a local small press journal called Thicket. After three and a half years of establishing residence in Austin, the poet has planted his future in the "fresh and promising" literary climate of the city, shunning New York, which he considers "dead," and California, calling it "rotten," while quoting O. Henry's description of Texas...
...relevant to Austin's literary evolution as Werden's thoughts on evolving womanhood is the dynamic outburst of newcomer Andy Clausen, who speaks daringly for the working class in colloquial language, describing the passions of a poetic soul trying to fulfill the mundane requirements of job and family. Clausen gained important support in San Francisco, where he published Renegade, from Beat hero Allen Ginsberg, who last year staged a reading at a local Austin club called Liberty Lunch for the purpose of exposing Clausen, whom Ginsberg calls "a great poet." If there are to be any popular stars...
...migration of non-Texan writers to Austin is also bringing the awareness of national audiences to local activity as they follow the presses that follow the poets to their new home base. Poets Paul Foreman and Foster Robertson moved from San Francisco, where they published the ten-year-old poetry journal Hyperion, and opened Thorp Springs Press, which has published about ten titles so far. The opening of their off-beat bookstore at 803 Red River Street was a major literary celebration that offered a weekend of readings by scheduled and non-scheduled writers, a home for in-print...
...what extent the predictions of Austin's importance to national contemporary literature are being fulfilled is uncertain; the local vitality, though, is highly visible. The Circuit's Downtown Literature Series' monthly readings are supplemented by three other ongoing poetry readings in various clubs, cafes, and museums around town, steadily gathering growing numbers for poetry audiences that can benefit from the volatile creativity and solidifying sense of purpose in this newest Literary Center...