Nick Courage, curator of A Mutual Respect Books and Music, is a New Orleans born writer, painter, lo-fi rocker, and escaped academic living in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of the way underground lit-hits My Life as an Aerophyte (novella), Mr. Feathers Flies Again (poetry), and Triangulating Happiness (poetry). In his review of the latter, Andrei Codrescu described Courage as exhibiting a fresh sort of daring in the overstrained broth of contemporary American poetry (Exquisite Corpse, Recommended Books). A Mutual Respect Books & Music is the fresh and daring underground publishing venture of Nick Courage & friends. You can reach Courage via e-mail at: nickcourage[at]gmail.com. This website made possible by Mighty Amy.
Friend of a Friend: Sara Jackson
Friend of a Friend spotlights people of interest to the greater AMR community: poets, rockers, artists, aesthetes, and assorted bon vivants. The series is called Friend of a Friend because all the interviewees are my friends, and hopefully you’ll be their friend too once I introduce them to you. - Nick Courage DISCUSSED [...]
Read MoreFriend of a Friend: Joe Yoga
Friend of a Friend spotlights people of interest to the greater AMR community: poets, rockers, artists, aesthetes, and assorted bon vivants. The series is called Friend of a Friend because all the interviewees are my friends, and hopefully you’ll be their friend too once I introduce them to you. - Nick Courage DISCUSSED [...]
Read MoreFriend of a Friend: Mark Fullmer
Friend of a Friend spotlights people of interest to the greater AMR community: poets, rockers, artists, aesthetes, and assorted bon vivants. The series is called Friend of a Friend because all the interviewees are my friends, and hopefully you’ll be their friend too once I introduce them to you. - Nick Courage DISCUSSED [...]
Read MoreSong: “No Brakes”
Hopefully this sounds even a little bit like coasting down the Williamsburg Bridge with no brakes… More songs at here. Click here to listen to “No Brakes,” by Nick and Rachel
Read MoreNo Sexy Regrets: Learns the Hard Way!
Fans of the project will remember M. Amy’s drum machine in the first, eponymously titled No Sexy Regrets recording. Namely, me learning how to play it, butchering a few choice tracks in the process. If you held on after that, you might fondly recall the shaker next to the mic recordings in No Sexy Regrets: [...]
Read MoreGuest Post: A Fictional Suburb of Pittsburgh, PA
I’ve been to Pittsburgh a few times now, can tell the Monongohela and the Allegheny apart; recognize where they meet at the downtown point of the city to form the Ohio. I’ve had a Chicago veggie at D’s Six Pax and Dogz, biked the jail trail, and seen the cloud factory behind Carnegie Mellon (twice). [...]
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