Interview with poet Leonard Kress by Ryan Sparks

by Ryan Sparks Franklin Street Noise is proud to present its first interview. Poet Leonard Kress took the time to talk with me about his latest publication, Orphics, the importance of classical knowledge, transcending the status quo in contemporary American poetry,...

Roses On His Piano, Tulips On His Organ by Alan C. Baird

by Alan C. Baird It’s a musician’s world of ruffled shirts and breakaway pants: Grant Jarrett discusses his book More Towels with Alan C. Baird. The younger brother of a world-renowned jazz pianist, Grant Jarrett has authored More Towels, a memoir of his...

A Conversation With Richard Currey by Andrew Gifford

Andrew Gifford of the Santa Fe Writers Project joined Richard Currey in January 2003 for a conversation about the writing life: “musical” composition, the genetic need for stories, Currey’s “holistic” view of literature’and...