A judge in Indiana has overturned the state's law which would have required bookstores to register as adult businesses if they sold sexually explicit materials. Plaintiffs--including Indiana bookstores, the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Indiana ACLU, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art--claimed the law was so broadly written that it would include literature … Continue reading No Registration for Indiana Bookstores

"What Light" is looking for Minnesota poets. Please submit up to three short poems, maximum 50 lines or 300 words each, as attachments to poems@mnartists.org. You must be a resident of Minnesota and a member of mnartists.org to enter. Our judges--Maria Damon, Patricia Kirkpatrick, and Carol Muske-Dukes--will select twelve winning poems to be posted, one … Continue reading Call for Entries

Matt is a self-described "31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut" who quit his job to travel around the world. And when he gets there, he dances and dances and dances. You can read about it on his blog. I'm sure by now someone has emailed you his video, but if not:Why am I telling you this? Because … Continue reading Actually Literary