Subject: Richard Newman

• Green Party

  August 20, 2008

• River Styx keeps on rolling.

  January 30, 2008

• Ghost Writers

  October 11, 2006

• Everybody's Sauced

  At Sauce in the City

  August 24, 2005

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  Week of December 15, 2004

  December 15, 2004

• Revolver!

  Sufi mystics spin through town

  September 22, 2004

• This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

  Week of March 10, 2004

  March 10, 2004

• Endorsements

  Wait no more: Unreal's presidential-candidate endorsements are in; plus we lament the loss of "Poetry Beat," check in with the lads at Sanford-Brown and wonder if we can get a direct line to God

  January 28, 2004

• Robert's Rules of Order

  March 22, 2000

• A Few Reasons Why Poetry Sounds Better in Bars

  Jennifer SilverbergNewman​1. A bar is actually the poet's natural habitat. Dylan Thomas loved bars so much, he died in one.2. If poetry is meant to be read aloud, can we agree it sounds exponentially better shouted over a jukebox or the house band?3. The food in bars is a hell of a lot better than most of the shit they serve you at readings in university lecture halls. (Drawback: At bars, they usually make you pay for your own food.)4. Ditto the alcohol.5. Poets describe things better than

  October 20, 2009