Holly Prado is a poet from Nebraska. Her recent publications (2012) include poetry featured in the literary review Malpais Review and in Askew magazine; in Chiron Review (2014) and regularly on the poetry/art blog timestimes3.blogspot.com. She and her husband, Harry Northup, are founding members of Cahuenga Press, a poets publishing cooperative which has been publishing books of poetry …
Nearly three years ago, an unsuspecting session of listening to local music motivated a 25-year-old Chicagoan to begin a campaign that aims to rescue lives. That day, Julien Drayton, a native of Chicago’s often-seedy Ashburn neighborhood, created the R.I.P. Chiraq (pronounced shy-rack) Foundation after the music he was listening to appeared to be nothing more …
Congratulations! You just finished your movie, which puts you at the edge of the winner’s circle—lots of people start movies and are never able to bring them out of post-production to the light of day. You finished yours. You made it micro-budget, for $400,000, and it’s awesome, or so your friends tell you. Your investors …
The Poetry Circus was inspired by the release of the collection, In the Circus of You, by Nicelle Davis, published by Rose Metal Press. The Poetry Circus is part workshop, community outreach, performance, ride, dance, and creations. This community focused and driven event blurs the line between performer and audience to allow everyone the chance to run away and …
In yet another play that is full of anguishing questions that don’t have ready answers, playwright Rajiv Joseph (Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo) tackles one of the darker issues of our time: abducted children. What causes such things to happen and how do we deal with them when/if they do happen? Joseph is a …
After a busy weekend visiting family, cramming as many important moments with people who mean a lot into tiny moments of interaction, I found myself repeatedly revisiting/re-living these moments. Studying images of the weekend’s events, saved for posterity through various Instagram posts, Facebook albums or on my personal camera roll; I became aware to the …
The final chapter of Poetry + Murder. 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 …
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King Henry VIII’s divorce from his first queen, Katherine of Aragon, in order to marry Anne Boleyn and produce a male heir for the English throne, has been told in plays, film, and TV from many points of view. Robert Bolt’s A Man for All Seasons cast the event as a matter of conscience for …
Certain subjects are off limits. Religion. Prayer. To each his own. There must be others, but those two are uppermost in my mind at the moment because I recently saw The Power of Duff at The Geffen Playhouse. And it stayed with me. What’s a Duff, you ask? A he, not an it. Charlie Duff …
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