I am having a difficult time finding words to describe my experience reading Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach’s latest collection of poems, Don’t Touch the Bones, which won the Idaho Prize for Poetry (2019). The collection is deeply touching. It remembers while it forgets. It wails while it sings. It is both wonderfully clear and deeply compressed. …
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At the end of August, along with fellow members of the creative community, we were delighted to announce the formation of the SIE Society, an organization designed to serve as a central hub to connect, empower and create alliances between Social Impact Entertainment companies, content creators, organizations, institutions and professionals. We are building an SIE …
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Here in 2020, virtually every aspect of life has been turned on its head in the aftermath of global pandemic. In the workplace, the changes are especially striking — what were once dynamic open office and co-working spaces suddenly became ghost towns, empty and virtually devoid of life. Isolation has become the new norm in …
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The Glorias, directed by Julie Taymor, is based on Gloria Steinem’s 2015 autobiography My Life on the Road. The plural indicates the four periods of her life, where she is played by different actresses: Ryan Kira Armstrong as a 6-year-old, Lulu Wilson as a 12-year-old, Alicia Vikander from age 20, Julianne Moore from age 40. …
After six months of lockdown and a steep learning curve translating dance to zoom and film, live performance is gradually re-emerging in a mid-pandemic form–masked, socially distanced, drive-by, drive-in. Postponed dance resumes in West Hollywood, a synagogue starting point for a ten-day roadshow celebration, contemporary dance on location, a digital duet from Venice, and more …
A wind shear had knocked down most of the trees on the lee slope of the mountain, and so far only the trunks had been salvaged. Branches and duff lay several feet thick and had dried brittle hard after two years of drought. Terpene fumes rose from the piles of needles and resin-rich pine kindling. …
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, …
For the lost songs where the shiksa cuts butter with a meat knife and the rebbe tells you to cover it in ash set it on fire among the coals and stick it in the straw earth to make it Kosher again where Odessa is a pearl by the black sea and Kostya brings …
Playing the Part INT. MY BEDROOM, AFTERNOON 3:43 PM I squint at a screenplay while my brother crouches in the other corner, finagling his way through any old love song on the ukulele. He sits like a heathen or a pigeon, perched on the stool with his long legs askew. 3:45 PM …
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