Jo-Anne Cappeluti earned her Ph.D in English at the University of California, Riverside. She is a widely published poet, most recently published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Lyric, Grey Sparrow, Summerset Review, and Spiritus. She recently retired after teaching for 30 years at California State University, Fullerton. ***** Cold Drink That childhood fear of seeing a wave crashing down drowning you …
[dropcap size=dropcap]T[/dropcap]his time each year so many of us are consumed with the annual march to declaring our new year’s resolutions. Lose some weight, start exercising, eat better, read more, travel more, be kinder, etc, etc. Certainly nothing wrong with that. Hell, as I write this introduction I’m on day one of my six-month attempt to …
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As we enter the first weeks of 2016 and approach the final weeks of Dare to Dance in Public Film Festival, I wanted to offer a reminder and gentle nudge to interested and driven dancers and filmmakers to consider submitting your short dance films. We have gotten some wonderful submissions and it’s still not too late… …
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The first great dining experience I discovered when I moved downtown in May of 2013 was the Nickel Diner. Walking distance from our loft, The Nickel, as we call it, has been our go-to restaurant, serving great breakfasts, lunches and dinners to an ever-increasing clientele of both tourists and regulars. Owners Monica May and Kristen …
Filmmaking, poetry, dance and the politics of art top Cultural Weekly’s list of most popular stories of 2015. That’s a tribute to all of you diverse, engaged, culturally attuned readers. Here are 2015’s thirteen most-read pieces. 13. Help Poet Wo Chan and His Family Fight Unjust Deportation. Chiwan Choi’s impassioned plea to aid Wo Chan, …
Two heretofore supporting players take the center spotlight in musical revivals with varying results. Danny Burstein, a five-time Tony nominee in featured or costarring roles, finally gets to carry a show in Bartlett Sher’s intensely moving reinvention of Fiddler on the Roof, and Jackie Hoffman, a wildly funny second banana in such productions as Hairspray, …
Camille Jacome is this week’s feature on “Tomorrow’s Voices Today“, the new series curated by poet and educator Mike Sonksen. *** Skin I wish I could say that I had never been ignored But the truth is I’ve known ignorance since I was six years old Remember the other kids treated me like a leper …
Cultural Weekly is proud to share a new illustrated poem from Wolfgang Carstens and Janne Karlsson. Who are Wolfgang and Janne?
What it is about. It is about Heidegger’s claim that we “dwell as poets”, a claim justified to the extent that we make our own places … after all the origin of the word poetry is the Greek POEIN which means to make. The making of places is an action that reveals its POETIC ASPECTS …
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