Complex sentence: In 1984, Strike attended a creative reading class taught by William S. Burroughs at the Naropa University and in 2004, Headpress published his first book, Ports of Hell, with a blurb by Burroughs.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1984,, Strike attended a creative reading class taught by William S. Burroughs at the Naropa University. In 2004, Headpress published his first book, Ports of Hell, with a blurb by Burroughs.