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Bill Brent

I don't have much formal training as a writer and it's hard for me to pinpoint my influences. These probably range from popular song lyrics (my first major "literary project" was to write a full-scale musical at age 17 -- script, music, and lyrics), to hallucinogens, to the sex zine revolution of the early '90s. In terms of specific authors in the "literary canon," I enjoy F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, and all the dystopian stuff (Orwell, Golding, Huxley, etc.). Novels about animals are another influence (Watership Down, The Incredi more...

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Articles     ( View all 11 articles )
• Christmas, uh, Music (or, I'm Dreaming of a Silent Night)
• Do Appearances Deceive? Reveal? Yes.
• Omens?
• Review of DORA LIVES, by C. R. Stecyk
• Review of HELLO CRUEL WORLD: 101 Alternatives to Suicide, by Kate Bornstein
• Review of THE FUTURIST, by James Othmer (novel)
• Smart Things I Said in 2006: The Brief Bloviations of Bill Brent
• Summary, January 2007
• The Inner God
• Total Time: 55:03 (my homage to James Brown)

Poetry     ( View all 22 poems )
• Dirty Old Men (Now, Truly)
• EX GREX
• Few men have met the raging scorn....
• Give up without a Fight
• Here in Acirema
• I tramp the parching earth
• If I Could See from You to Me
• KICK THAT HABIT
• Make new words
• On the Future of Our Society

News
• Review of my story/essay, "Wounded," which appears in Best Gay Erotica 2004
• This is Only a Test now available!
• apathy* gets reviewed on a big e-zine by a renowned gay-lit critic!


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