Brian Sonia-Wallace’s mission and vision as a poet is beautiful and compelling. He is a full-time poet, and he is able to make a living writing poetry, which is an impressive feat, but simply paying his bills is neither his mission nor his vision. Sonia-Wallace is a kind of performance poet, someone who will come …
A few weeks ago I watched an online press screener of the movie The Personal History of David Copperfield, directed by Armando Iannucci from the 1850 novel by Charles Dickens, and found it tremendously exciting. I pulled out of one of my bookshelves the paperback of the thick novel with the original illustrations by H.K. …
Koki Nakano recently came into my consciousness when some of the short films made – or more formulaically speaking – some of the music videos made for his pieces appeared in a Japanese magazine in which my work was also being featured. Besides the beauty of his music and the overall aesthetics of several short films …
August 6th, 2020 is the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. To honor this historic civil rights legislation, author, entrepreneur and philanthropist BK Fulton teamed up with lawyer and activist Jonathan Blank to co-write and release The Tale of the Tee: Be Kind and Just Believe. BK is African American and Jonathan …
Artists make Art — especially now. We’re especially proud to share this Crowdfund of the Week, because it is fun, funny, and all about the persistence of theatre and theatre-makers. Actor and playwright Melissa Center tells the story (hilariously) on the project’s Seed&Spark page. Her play got audience raves, was pointed toward the Edinburgh Festival, …
Two LA companies show up at a N.Y. festival, an all-female dance troupe celebrates the centennial of U.S. women’s right to vote, a romanticized and reviled tale of California’s missions reconsidered–three that lead new streaming options. Meanwhile, the list of virtual performances, streams of past performances, and excursions into filmed dance keeps growing, plus where …
Poets on Craft is a cyberspace for contemporary poets to share their thoughts and ideas on the process of poetry and for students to discover new ways of approaching the writing of poetry. In the face of a pandemic that is both viral and political, it is a resource for strength and creativity, friendship and beauty, …
I meant to write the review of Elya Braden’s Open the Fist fairly quickly. It is after all a chapbook, and those generally take less time because they are short and generally fairly focused on one topic. I’ve found myself sitting down at the computer and staring at it and then taking long walks trying …
Overrun My body was a highway interchange. Father, brother, frat boy, preacher’s son. All the “no’s” I couldn’t say like nickels, dimes and quarters tossed into the pockets of my tollbooth. People say I look like my mother, but my father’s nose dominated my face until a doctor’s hammer and file erased daddy’s grip. …
In a different world, we are all one, but here we have been positioned against one another for the sake of Capitalism & an American Dream turned Nightmare. I landed in the City of Rose Quartz hungover needing to replenish and center myself. My brother picked us up from the airport. I looked across the …
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