Charles Bukowski Epic Glottis: His Art & His Women (& me)
Joan Jobe Smith< />,founding editor ofPearlandBukowski Review, worked for seven years as a go-go dancer before receiving her B.A. from California State University Long Beach and MFA from the University of California Irvine. A Pushcart Honoree, her award-winning work has appeared internationally in more than 500 publications, includingOutlaw Bible, Ambit, Beat Scene, Wormwood ReviewandNerve Cowboy—and she has published 20 collections, includingJehovah Jukebox(Event Horizon Press, US) andThe Pow Wow Cafe(The Poetry Business, UK), finalist for the UK 1999 Forward Prize. In July 2012, with her husband, poetFred Voss, she did her sixth reading tour of England (debuting at the 1991 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival), featured at the Humber Mouth Literature Festival in Hull. In 2013, World Parade Books will release her memoirTales of an Ancient Go-Go Girl.