Inside The Little House. These days where I stay inside No sunlight and no interaction. I miss when I could go outside Without getting worried, but it’s a curse. A curse that makes me lose hope. I feel like a late bloomer for I have not been myself lately. I try to run from the …
Alonzo Heredia-Caballero: “Inside The Little House.” Read More »
IS IT THE DEAD? Against unnumbered foes, They fought for a better life, They sacrificed all the pleasures of now, For later and some sacrificed their lives. But what was “their” response? Sited on the hustle and sweat of her people They signed papers that could cause a shift It wasn’t for positive, you guessed …
Rolling Stone’s recently updated greatest-albums-of-all-time list is intriguing for the cultural, demographic, and stylistic changes it reflects, but more so for the way it illustrates the broader reality of impermanence — which includes and transcends culture, demography, and expressive modes — how all things, even the most admired aesthetic templates, over time lose their prominence, …
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a father beats his son w/ in its walls where bones are broken more than bread sounds fucked up but it’s the price we pay for the birth of a true fucking poet (“the price”) When I was little, we’d help my grandpa scoop up buckets of live oysters in their shells from one of …
Delicious “Raw” Poems: Review of My Soul is a Broken Down Valise by Rob Plath Read More »
Live streamed jazz dance, last chance for drive-in dance in a parking lot, 50 years of Black dance explored, a festival gets an encore, and dancers collaborate with an opera, a chamber orchestra, and a dead Polish playwright, plus encore streaming, where to submit dance videos, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal …
Foreword My practical experience with photography, my familiarity with its canon and basic reading on its specificity as a visual art form, bring me to the conclusion that it is a particular way of seeing. By that I mean that when looking at the ground glass of the camera, the photographers must be sensitive to, …
One of the best things museums do is to introduce you to an interesting or important artist you’ve never heard of, or just barely, through a full-scale presentation of a life’s work. That’s what the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has done with David Park: A Retrospective, documenting the evolution of Park’s paintings and …
As a lifelong cinephile, with a master in Critical Studies from USC School of Cinematic Arts, I knew about the making of Citizen Kane (1941), directed by and starring Orson Wells. As a film journalist, I did interviews for the TV movie RKO 281 (1999) and learnt about William Randolph Hearst’s attempt to block the …
Death is one of those things we all have in common. After all, it’s inevitable, and most of us ponder it to greater or lesser degrees, especially in the face of a Pandemic wherein we are consciously doing everything we can to avoid it on a daily basis. Life goes on, but sometimes the struggle …
I am a Chicana activist, author, and award-winning artist from Orange County, California who resigned late October as an Arts Program Specialist at the California Arts Council (council). The year prior to obtaining my position at the council, I served as a grant panelist reviewing over 100 grant applications between three grant programs. I had …
Why I Resigned From The California Arts Council In The Middle Of A Pandemic Read More »
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, …
Poets on Craft: Lucyna Prostko and Sarah Giragosian Read More »
a good raw poem a good raw poem is much needed at times of literary freeze it’s a zippo lighter flame on high beneath the frozen sack of black juice in yr torso it’s a keg tap on yr spleen don’t ever fucking knock the good raw poem one day when yr literary vision is …
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