My Preview/Review of Halloween: 30 Years of Terror from Devil's Due

steven_eks — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:49:13 -0500

Howdy-doo Red Room Readers!

Holy Crap!!! "Breakfast" gets the reprint rub in Negative Burn #20

steven_eks — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:28:25 -0500

I have to admit--it's pretty amazing when you get to hold a physical copy of something you created when it hits shelves. I'm in San Diego--and the store, Comickazee, where I was picking up someth

Why you should buy GO-GO GIRLS OF THE APOCALYPSE on JULY 8th.

steven_eks — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:51:48 -0500

Recently, I did a book review covering Victor Gischler's Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse from Touchstone.

06/24/08: New Poem "Her Lurid Affair"

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:20:17 -0500

This is a really cool piece I did in college--it's a "third party" experiment.

06/24/08: New Poem "nyctalopia"

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:03:21 -0500

I love exploring my darker side--this piece could have the alternate title "Why Steve should never eat pizza late at night and fall asleep after looking at naughty XXX websites."

06/24/08: New Poem - "Circumlocution"

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:52:14 -0500

I wrote this for some girl a long time ago--and I gave it to her and I don't think she ever really appreciated it...probably explains why I made a better choice and went with "old F

06/24/08 - New Poem: An Elegy Made in Good Faith

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:40:26 -0500

This was the poem that I wrote for my Grandmother, Foy Bragg, before she passed away from lung cancer in 2006. Basically, this poem became her eulogy at her funeral--easily one of my best pieces.

06/24/08: New Poem - A Sad Clown on January 22nd, 2002

steven_eks — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:27:31 -0500

Wow, dug this one out of a box--what a difference "NOT DRINKING SO MUCH" makes.

Oh, like you don't find sad clowns interesting--shut up.

Enjoy!

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 6 of 6: "The Pop-Up Book"

steven_eks — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 02:02:31 -0500

Yeah, this is my last piece of poetry I promise to subject you to (FOR NOW...) and this one is a doozy.

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 5 of 6: "The Molt of a Man Ablaze"

steven_eks — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:47:50 -0500

I know--these things are awful, aren't they? With Tags like "self-loathing" "alcoholism" and "drug use"--what can you do, right?

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 4 of 6: "acciaccatura"

steven_eks — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:47:36 -0500

Here we are--part 4 of my 6 piece poetry submission to "The New Yorker" magazine.

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 3 of 6: "bellezza, the nonce mango"

steven_eks — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:05:37 -0500

Oh oh oh--we've reached the "hump" of my 6 piece submission to "The New Yorker" last November.

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 2 of 6: 'I May Never Be Your Stanley Kowalski'

steven_eks — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:32:26 -0500

Here we go! Installment two of a six part series of my recent submission to The New Yorker.

My "The New Yorker" Poetry Submission Part 1 of 6: Everyone Else Calls It 'Writer's Block'

steven_eks — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:41:28 -0500

Several months ago, I attempted to submit 6 poems to the New Yorker. March was allegedly the month that they would contact me IF they were interested in my work...

New to the Red Room...

steven_eks — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:25:41 -0500

Hello!