Ten poems from Surveillance, the powerful new collection from Ashaki M. Jackson, which Cultural Weekly has been honored to serialized. Over the course of 10 weeks, we were able to feature one poem per week from this book that explores police killings of Blacks captured on video and the public’s consumption of these videos. Book is available here. …
Last month, I wrote about the make-believe economics of the movie industry that people use to convince themselves to cast actors who are white, and avoid actors who aren’t. The diversity issue is particularly annoying because as much as the movie industry has reinforced racial and gender stereotypes, and it has, films have also pushed …
Roman Mosaics Across the Empire Getty Villa / March 30 – September 12, 2016 *** We live in an age of globalization, in which a common culture is shared in many geographical locations while local identities are maintained. The Getty Villa’s current exhibition, Roman Mosaics Across the Empire, testifies to a similarity experienced nearly two thousand years …
Differences It all started when my granny crossed over To be in the U.S to celebrate the Passover And one day she’d be the next crossover So, watch out for the low riders jumpin’ over her corners Life was hard according to her memory Spending anniversaries and birthdays at the cemetery Chicanos tried to keep …
John Dorsey is the author of several collections of poetry, including Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books, 2010), Tombstone Factory (Epic Rites Press, 2013) and most recently, Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015). His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He may be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com ***** The Deer Hunter …
Look What She Did!, a series of videos created by Julie Hébert and Jill Klein celebrating extraordinary women, now has its own website, lookwhatshedid.com. After Julie and Jill served on jury duty at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles, they began to wonder: Who the heck is Clara Shortridge Foltz …
At the top of the second act of Bright Star, the onstage bluegrass band cuts loose for a brief hootenanny which sets the audience to clapping and hollering. Unfortunately, it’s the highlight of the show. The surrounding story and songs by comedy legend-banjo plucker Steve Martin and Grammy winner Edie Brickell offer a few sparks …
Preliminary The proximate environment we delve into daily, or in periodic fashion, in daytime and nightime, and across the seasons, is so familiar to us that we usually become spatially and visually aware of its poetics, i.e. in any articulated way, only at moments of changes and/or interesting developments : physical and social out there and …
PLACE MAKING: on the poetics of the proximate environment – a preview Read More »
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