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Eve Ensler, Mad Max, and the Women Warriors of Fury Road
“It changes your idea of yourself.”
Day: May 13, 2015
Marty McConnell: Three Poems
Marty McConnell lives in Chicago, Illinois, and received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has recently appeared in Best American Poetry 2014, Southern Humanities Review, Gulf Coast, and Indiana Review, and is forthcoming in Tahoma Literary Review, Court Green, and Columbia Poetry Review. Her first full-length collection, “wine for a shotgun,” was published in 2012 by EM Press. “Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell” was …
The Silence of Kenneth Goldsmith is Overrated
By R.D. Wood with Joseph Beuys As many readers will be aware conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith was recently embroiled in a scandal about presenting an autopsy report of Ferguson teen Michael Brown as poetry at a Brown University event. This piece can be read as part of his ongoing project of reframing language but it …
Down but Not Out on New Orleans’ Airline Highway
Yes, we’ve seen these people before: desperate but lively outsiders congregating at a rundown hotel, or bar, or other common area forming an unconventional family unit because their own relatives and society in general have rejected them. American theater has given many examples of the genre: O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, Saroyan’s The Time of Your …
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Black & White & Noir
I confess! Although I often shoot in color, I prefer to photograph the world in black & white. And Los Angeles lends herself to this on a par (IMHO) only with NYC, Paris, and Rome (most other cities being solidly in the color camp). Here’s what I see, when I really see L.A.
