
The Princess of Pop remembered being a kid back in Louisiana on her cousins’ wide wooden swing, climbing so high that with one release of the chain links she might sail off into the clouds…

My mother found me living a new life on an island off the coast of Maine where a lighthouse on a rocky finger of land sheltered my solitude. A society designed to preserve the past had offered me refuge in exchange for being present, for walking on floors and opening doors, for filling musty rooms…

Award-winning Portuguese novelist Jacinto Lucas Pires visits Orlando to read from his latest book.

Kerouac House resident Caroline Walker reads an excerpt from her narrative nonfiction project, America Underground.

Terri Witek almost literally disappears into her mixed-media poem, written especially for Functionally Literate, then prompts a spontaneous poem from the audience.