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I first met Frank Gaspar in the fall of 1996 when I stumbled, quite by accident, into an English class at Long Beach City College. I say by accident because I had no real intention of taking an English class, let alone English 1. I’d retired from playing music and was looking for something else to do with the next 40 years of my life, and taking a lot of strange classes at the college hoping to find something to get into. At the time I was leaning towards Sociology.
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Over long distance drinks one night our publisher John Turi and I were trying to decide what our next column offering would be. A little baked and sentimental, we kept coming back to the idea that there are a few artists out there responsible for either teaching us or teaching our teachers or teaching our teacher’s teachers; women and men that have spent their lives not only producing astonishing and ground-breaking art, but sharing what they know with those interested in learning. We thought of a lot of folks, like Professor Stephen Minot at UCR for instance, but John & I spent a lot of our formative years living in Long Beach, California so there was only one Emeritus Professor we thought of first and foremost: Gerald Locklin.
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This is the second half of the interview we did with Charles Evered at the Sedona International Film Festival’s Best of Fest Week. We apologize in advance for the silliness, but we all had a great time. If you pay close attention, you’ll even get a rare peek at John Turi, our Publisher and Web Designer. Our thanks again go out to the whole crew at Wonderstar Productions, and festival director Pat Schweiss for the use of his office. Since the time of this shooting Charles has joined our Advisory Board here at Connotation Press and brought us our new Drama editor, Joshua Fardon. We are so thrilled to present, as Featured Artist of the Month, our friend Charles Evered.
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We caught up with writer - director Charles Evered at the Sedona International Film Festival’s “Best of Fest Week.” Thanks to the whole crew at Wonderstar Productions, and festival director Pat Schweiss who let us shoot this interview in his office. And thank you to Charles, who, in the beginning, more than anyone else, convinced John & me this magazine just might work.
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James Harms is the author of five books of poetry from Carnegie Mellon University Press, After West (2008), Freeways and Aqueducts (2004), Quarters (2001), The Joy Addict (1998), and Modern Ocean (1992), as well as a letter press, limited edition volume, East of Avalon (2000) from Caddis Case Press. The Joy Addict has just been reissued in the Classic Contemporary Series. His poems, essays and short stories have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, Verse, The North American Review, Oxford American and many other literary journals; in addition, he is a contributing editor of West Branch.
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