by kenz | Jan 26, 2020 | Blog Posts, Memoir
Wow.! It’s been thirty years since the novel Caverns was published. The two years of writing, revising, and editing the book were one of the more amazing periods of my life. I’ve written a little about the class Ken Kesey led to write the book, in essays... 
by kenz | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog Posts, Memoir, Stories, View From the Side
Point of Order Here’s something you probably wouldn’t guess about me. When I was a kid my parents used to listen occasionally to a record they had, (you know, those things that spun around on a turntable) an LP (though it wasn’t really called that then, in the early... by kenz | Jan 22, 2020 | Memoir, Non-Fiction, Stories
The Habit of Hope I am a creature of bad habits. When my last relationship ended I fell back into them joyfully, like an elephant falls into cool mud. Dishes piled in the sink, candy wrappers littered my desk, mounds of unopened business envelopes grew into mountains.... by kenz | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog Posts, Memoir, Stories
Imagine I was in New York City the night John Lennon was killed. After visiting with my folks around Thanksgiving, I celebrated my birthday on the sixth with my girlfriend Lisa in New Jersey, then caught a bus up to the city to visit my friends Bill and Karen. We... by kenz | Sep 17, 2018 | Memoir, Non-Fiction, Stories
There was that one night when Timothy Leary threw himself into my arms— literally— and over and over again, too. It was spring term, 1988, and I was working hard on writing the poems to finish up my MFA thesis. But Kesey’s novel class was in the revision stage, and... by kenz | Sep 13, 2018 | Blog Posts, Memoir, Stories
A Memory of Dennis Banks The death of the great Native American elder and leader Dennis Banks brought back to me the time I got the chance to meet and listen to him, and to sweat with him, as well. What a powerful man, and what an amazing experience for a young hippie...
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