Keep St Pete Lit celebrates the written word with the 6th annual SunLit Literary Festival, coming up April 1-3. The festival “is a confederation of like-minded literary, cultural and civic organizations coordinating their individual efforts for the common goal of advancing the enjoyment of books, reading, writing, and the classic art of letterpress printing.”… Read More
By Margo Hammond. Jack Kerouac would have turned 100 this month, but he’s never really grown old, has he? He died more than a half a century ago at age 47 in St. Petersburg – but, thanks to photographs and the work he left behind, he is fixed in our minds as that young man with a full shock of hair, seated on a poetry stool, reciting poems to jazz in San Francisco…. Read More
By Jake-ann Jones Sometimes Farmgirls Become Revolutionaries: Notes on Black Power, Politics, Depression, and the FBI a new book by Florence L. Tate and Jake-ann Jones . . . Author… Read More
By Margo Hammond Writing About Florida’s Cattle Industry Where Cowboys are Indians and Ranchers are Green . . . Remember the Wild West when cowboys fought Indians, shooting from the… Read More
By Margo Hammond Public Libraries What Heaven May Look Like . . . “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of a Library.” — Jorge Luis Borges… Read More
By Margo Hammond Reading My Age 73 Books in 2022 . . . For some years now I have been challenging myself to read my age. That is, I’ve been… Read More
Curated by Gloria Muñoz Rookery Presents Poems by Maureen McDole and Sara Ries . . . The days are shorter which means there is more time to curl up with… Read More
The Books that Sparked You as a Kid . . . Some books stay with us, and which ones do is very personal. You may not know why you love… Read More
By Cindy Stovall Becoming Flo . . . Author Deb Carson has had a rich and multi-faceted education and career in the arts – singer, musician, photographer – and most… Read More
Adam and Kayte are a husband-and-wife team, dedicated to making an impact, not only in the artistic world but striving to bring today’s important issues to the next generation; those… Read More
