Two Days in April April 4, 1968 At 6:01 p.m. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot by a white supremacist named James Earl Ray while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. At 7:05 p.m. he was pronounced dead—killed, according to an expert panel of forensic pathologists, by a single “soft-point, […]
Michael Judge
Michael Judge has published poems in The Southern Review, The Literary Review, The Iowa Review, and Poet Lore, among other publications. A poet, editor and freelance journalist, he lives and works in Iowa City, Iowa.
Jesus’ Son and then some: Denis Johnson reads to Iowa City this week
According to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the acclaimed poet, playwright, essayist, short-story guru and award-winning novelist Denis Johnson has returned…

