Richard's tops in St. Louis
The Riverfront Times named Richard "Best Local Poet" in the Arts and Entertainment category, home also to "Best Hair on a Local TV Personality" and "Best Art Gallery to Die in the Past Year." Find out why.
River
Styx keeps on rolling
Richard Newman has spent the past thirteen years working
to keep St. Louis' oldest literary magazine alive. It has not been an easy task. "Literature
and poetry are never going to have a huge audience," concedes the 41-year-old
editor of River Styx. "We're not in the checkout aisle of the grocery
store — not
that I expect that, but it would be fun." Read
the rest of the article.
Darn poems
still earning their keep
New chapbook released
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Boys: Dark Verse for Light Times today!
The Writer's Almanac
Garrison Keillor featured Richard's poem "Fireflies," from Borrowed
Towns, on
The Writer's
Almanac on May 22, 2006.
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