Sometimes the reading of a book begins with the experience of the book itself as an object. Such was the case with All the Sad Angels, a book of poems by Jack Grapes. The book is small and thin, a throwback to City Lights Pocket Poets Series, which began in the Fifties, or the dime …
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The history of filmmaking technology is one that is littered with stunning achievements. The film industry continues to be at the forefront of innovation as cinema has championed some of the most awe-inspiring technologies within the visual arts. From 3D to the Steadicam to shooting on an iPhone to CGI – here is our list of …
From 1981 – 1984, as a young and emerging choreographer/director, Sarah Elgart taught dance and created choreography with a small group of maximum-security inmates at California Institution for Women, the state prison. Initially unbeknownst to Elgart, two of the inmates in her class included Patricia Krenwinkel and Susan Atkins of the Manson Family. When each …
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What is a place? A place is a meaningful location in space, the meaning being usually associated to the “where,” “when” and “what” or “who” is therewith located. If the place is of a tool, its meaning will be usually instrumental and practical. If the tool is no longer used or if the tool belongs …
Chris Davidson has been published in Zyzzyva, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Rumpus, Spark & Echo Arts, Green Mountains Review, and elsewhere. A chapbook, Poems, appeared in 2012, and he keeps an inconsistently updated blog at 52songs.blogspot.com. We are proud to premiere these poems in Cultural Weekly. ***** Maps, People Maps take the land’s variability and make …
Thanks to the cover art on Jack Grapes’s most recent book of poetry—a painting by Marc Chagall titled “The Circus”—you enter “the big top” just by holding the book in your hands. You can almost hear the music. The book opens with a photograph of Grapes having just tossed an apple into the air, the …
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