Hello, readers. This is Chiwan Choi. I am one of the editors of Cultural Weekly. I am also a poet, with three books published, currently working on the fourth. I have also written here on these pages. I am writing this post to announce I’ve launched a Patreon. For those who don’t know, Patreon is …
If Anita Hill can let bygones be bygones and vote for Biden for President, I guess I can, too. Now maybe Clarence Thomas will miraculously disappear and AG Barr and TRUMP will explode. VOTE FOR JOE AND KAMALA! DUMP TRUMP!
One definition for “lullaby” is “any soothing song.” Bradpiece’s poems in Lullabies for End Times (Moon Tide Press) are songs to soothe us through these end times. Not just our current end times of disease and hatred and brutality, but specific end times — deaths and other losses, and various passages and remembrances. But these …
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Dr. Anthony Fauci recently predicted we may not be able to sit safely in theaters until the end of 2021. If that is the case, we’ll have to make due with the new hybrid form of theater, the Zoom play of which Richard Nelson has become the main practitioner. His latest piece Incidental Moments of …
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Lullaby for Children I envy them too much to have one. Their infinite mouths, mad things uttering syllables detached from discernible meaning. The unprovoked screams in crowded restaurants. The inconsolable moan at improbable altitudes in planes. The things they do with food when tiny green peas inspire performance art instead of appetite. I am …
The Wrapping: A three to one ratio of flour to water kneaded into dough that can be used for jiucaihezi, dumplings, and even noodles. A combination that brings back memories of learning your culture, your mother transmitting it to you with each knead, each spoonful of filling, each crimp, with the reminder to be careful …
Like many, I’ve been taking tons of walks since the pandemic struck. I’ve explored just about every nook within a few square miles around my Los Feliz one-bedroom flat. So when I saw that an expanded second edition of Paul Haddad’s 10,000 Steps a Day in L.A. had recently been published – now with 57 …
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, …
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Two shy people. A spark of attraction. Will they get together? In the dance-filled musical Romantics Anonymous, the answer is—chocolate! This gentle, joyous rom-com won British theater awards and in March was scheduled to launch its U.S. tour at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills. Then the pandemic shut down all …
In a week that mega-smoke clouds from west coast forest fires turned the skies orange in three states and made breathing, let alone dancing problematic, dance still persists. A surfside festival goes viral, a live performance returns in West Hollywood, a new ballet company debuts online, live drive-in duets in a downtown parking lot, more …
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