Kevin Sampsell

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  • Good Men VS Rape

    Hi Friends, I had a new essay appear over the weekend at The Good Men Project website. It’s about the rape of a close friend. I sent it to the editor there on Friday and she responded with one of the nicest emails I’ve ever gotten from an editor. “Really powerful. I hope you don’t…

    Kevin Sampsell

    November 5, 2012
    Uncategorized
    Essays, Good Men Project, Justice, Rape
  • Weekday! And Weekend!

    Hi Friends! I have two little fictions in the new issue of WEEKDAY, the cool journal printed right in front of your eyes at the Publication Studios in Portland, Oregon. This issue (their third) even has a cool embossed border and title printed on it. Editor Patricia No told me they were going for something…

    Kevin Sampsell

    October 12, 2012
    Uncategorized
    Bingo, Booty Call, Chloe Caldwell, Publication Studio, Sarah Mirk, Tin House, WEEKDAY, Wordstock
  • The Story of a Dirty Picture

    I’ve talked about Davy Rothbart before. He’s a great guy and we met several years ago as he was starting up his now-huge Found empire. Right now, I’m halfway through his new essay collection, My Heart Is an Idiot (the title of which is also the name of an awesome Davy documentary by David Meiklejohn).…

    Kevin Sampsell

    October 6, 2012
    Uncategorized
    Davy Rothbart, Dudes I Love, Events, Fiction, Found Magazine, My Heart Is an Idiot, Porn, Powell’s, Requiem For a Paper Bag
  • The Wilson Sisters’ Shoulders’ Blades

    The other night I read a new essay at a show at the Ash Street Saloon with Heart cover band, Heartworm (comprised of Portland writer friends Kerry Cohen, Greg Robillard, Laurel Hermanson, and others). The band asked me and a few others to write something that we could read while the band improvised behind us.…

    Kevin Sampsell

    September 15, 2012
    Uncategorized
    Ann Wilson, Ash Street Saloon, Erotic City, Heart, Heartworm, Hickies, Kerry Cohen, Nancy Wilson, Readings, Rock-n-Roll, Shoulders, Ten-year-old boys
  • Suicide and Salon

    Me on the Burnside Bridge. Photo by Chloe Caldwell.

    Kevin Sampsell

    August 3, 2012
    Uncategorized
    Burnside Bridge, depression, Essays, Powell’s, salon.com, suicide
  • The Thrill of Victory But Mostly the Agony of Defeat

    I was in downtown Portland today and I was checking out the used mass market books by the front entrance of the long-standing Cameron’s Books. What caught my eyes were a bunch of vintage sports books that evoked both nostalgia and excitement for me. The feelings of excitement elicited by seeing Dan Fouts or Bart…

    Kevin Sampsell

    July 28, 2012
    Uncategorized
    76ers, agony, Arizona Cardinals, Bart Starr, Basketball, Cameron’s, Football, Gayle Sayers, Nostalgia, sports books
  • Back From the South

    I recently got back from a week down south. It was a great visit, spending time with my brother Matt in Houston, and also taking a road trip to New Orleans. I got to read with the fine ladies of the Summer Southern Comfort Tour at Domy Books in Houston and the funky cool Mudlark…

    Kevin Sampsell

    July 18, 2012
    Uncategorized
    Houston, New Orleans, R.L. Burnside, Summer Southern Comfort Tour, The Blues
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    Kevin Sampsell

    July 18, 2012
    Uncategorized
  • Summer Splash

    Hi friends, Summer is officially here and I’m planning on doing some fun stuff and getting a few important things done. Here’s a quick rundown. Tomorrow night, I’ll be hosting a kick-ass outdoor reading at Colonel Summers Park. It starts at 7pm and the weather is supposed to get clear and nice by then so…

    Kevin Sampsell

    June 25, 2012
    Uncategorized
    B. Frayn Masters, Becca Yenser, Big Float, Bipartisan Cafe, bryan coffelt, Chelsea Martin, Chloe Caldwell, Diana Salier, Eirean Bradley, Elizabeth Ellen, Houston, Lil Bitch tour, Nicholson Baker, Peggy Lee, pie, Radio Silence, Readings, Ryan Boudinot, Scott McClanahan, Summer
  • I Have Never Won a Super Bowl But I Have Won Some Poetry Slams

    Hi friends, As many of you know, I have a love/hate relationship with poetry. Or maybe I should say a get it/don’t get it relationship. But poetry has made a comeback in my life the past couple of years. Take a look at my Goodreads page! It’s chock full of the stuff. I even started…

    Kevin Sampsell

    June 12, 2012
    Uncategorized
    Ariana Reines, Ben Mirov, Book Clubs, Chloe Caldwell, Diana Salier, Emily Kendal Frey, Facial Hair, goodreads, Gregory Sherl, Jenny Zhang, love/hate, Mark Leidner, Matthew Dickman, Metazen, poetry, poetry slams, Sharon Olds, Skype, Sommer Browning, Zachary Schomburg
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