Lit City


	Carl Dennis: Another Reason by Barbara Cole
	No doubt you’ve seen him walking the streets of Elmwood on one of his morning constitutionals, or maybe you’ve stood in line behind him at the Lexington Co-op and noticed his gentle manner with the cashier. But it’s highly unlikely that you suspected from his unassuming manner that standing in front of you is a Pulitzer Prize winning poet.
	Just Buffalo Writing Center Opens by Robin Jordan & Leah Mosher
	“How solitary I have always felt, in my writing life,” remarks award-winning author and Western New York native Joyce Carol Oates in her essay “In the Absence of Mentors/Monsters.” She ends her essay admitting, “I think that I am still waiting to be ‘influenced’—by a loving mentor, or even a monster. By someone.”

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