Intro to the Prose Blog
My name is Simone, and I was named after Simone de Beauvoir. I have a bookshelf tatooed on my upper arm. I own well over 2000 books. I've worked in bookstores or libraries for the last eleven years; I'm 25. I read at least a book a week, as well as a plethora of print and online magazines. I use words like "plethora". I read and speak in English German and Spanish. My Dad read the History of Class Consciousness to me in its entirety the week I was born (septmeber 20, 1983, which makes me a Virgo in the Zodiac and a Pig in Chinese Astrology). I'm the fiction editor, among many other things here at illiterate. Suffice to say that Reading is What I Do. ...Read more
Welcome To The Illiterate Poetry Blog
My name is: Robert Richard Eugene Geisen. You can call me Rob. My life pt 1 took place on a farm in Springport Michigan. Constantly surrounded by flat mountains of space, I began obsessively playing the guitar when I was 15 and started playing in bar bands a couple years after that. I lived rent free in a trailer shaped house that my family built on the edge of a corn field when I was a wee little baby. I made money playing in bars and giving guitar lessons, stuff like that. I majored in classical guitar and music theory in college. I dug cats, not dogs. Heavy Metal, not Disco. Twilight Zone, not Murder She Wrote. Turn off's = yard work and Reba McEntire albu...Read more