Shawn James on his new album ‘Shadows’
By Kody Ford
Idle Class Editor
Shawn James, the wandering, soulful folkster, just finished his debut album “Shadows,” a collection of ...
The Other Side of Eddie Love
By Kody Ford
Idle Class Editor
Tucked away in a benign subdivision on the outskirts of Fayetteville, AR, Eddie Love, front man for rockers A...
INTERVIEW: Trevor Richardson
By Kody Ford
Editor
A few months ago, I had the pleasure of seeing Trevor Richardson give a reading from his debut novel American Bastards...
Family of Flags
By Jamie Cooper
The first flag of our family
Is a tricolor flag
& like most flags it is a flag
of independence
though it must abide by t...
Instanbul in July
By Martin Bemberg
There had been no rain that at first fell frozen when it did,
At least this Fall, but wet from Bar I fell in home and slee...
Image and Afterimage
By Jennifer Jabaily-Blackburn
We met between cars on the Great Western line,
Paddington to Penzance, smoking out the window.
He was wiry &a...
The Last King of Vaudeville
By Andrew McClain
Editor-at-Large
Around noon on a Sunday, Idle Class editor Kody Ford and I pull up to Adam Putman’s Insomniac Stud...
The Hemingways Left
By Marty Shutter
the hemmingways
of the northside
of chicago
remain
still ride their bikes
leaving in their wakes
destruction
weaker women
t...


