Day: July 29, 2020

Poets on Craft: Jordan Smith and Alexis Rhone Fancher

When I was a community college student in Long Beach, California, I browsed the library catalogue looking for books containing interviews with famous writers and poets. I was particularly interested in craft—i.e. how writers and poets approach their work, how they start, maintain momentum, and conclude their stories or poems. Now some thirty years later, …

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Bold Mélange: Review of Blues for French Roast with Chicory by Martina Reisz Newberry

There is no sun. The sun left long ago when times got tough and people got greedy and ate the sun. Now there’s only gray light. (“Precognition”)   “May you live in interesting times.” (expression incorrectly attributed to an ancient Chinese curse)   Nothing tastes and smells better than French coffee. The flavor of French …

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Tidal-Shifting Streams

This was a week when Italy’s La Scala Ballet was to perform Giselle and Onegin, two full-length story ballets that revolve around different types of revenge after mistreatment of women by men in positions of power. Meanwhile…the floor of Congress was the stage as a congresswoman articulately shredded a male colleague’s non-apology for misogynistic behavior. …

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