Looking toward Yearly Kos

Summer in Minnesota is at its peak, and for me that means Yearly Kos is fast approaching. The gathering of bloggers affiliated with the nation's most popular political website, Daily Kos, in Chicago this year, promises to be far bigger and better even than the first event last year, and this time includes an artistic component.

I'm happy to be part of the first literary magazine to come out of a blogging convention--and probably the first to come out of any major political website. It's called "Art in a Liberal Frame" and will be published in limited quantities for sale at the convention. It's a gorgeous book, full color and full of political photographs, cartoons, poetry, and even an internet-themed short story by yours truly, titled "Another Thread". I also participated as an assistant editor. After the convention I'll post it here in readable form. It's a labor of love by Daily Kos members and is one of the most stridently political literary magazines you'll ever see. In a time when many litmags are dishrag nebulous, "Art in a Liberal Frame" is full of passionate, angry, witty folks. We're hoping it will be for sale online after the convention.

More writing news to come. Biography and sample work is on the way as well.