When I first volunteered for the Sims Library of Poetry, I did not expect a physical manifestation of myself–unfinished, still growing, pursuing a dream. Like the library, I was in the process of transformation. I reflect back to the moments of tension in my life that pulled me in opposing directions. I remember being called …
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love crowns gently moving into transition time is cotton-muffled yip-yapping somewhere in the background but held by earth squat succor mindfulness – there is no moment with which to be more present than when these beings want to push their way into existence and it will never be the same as your heart moves into …
National Tap Day reigns downtown, why Little Tokyo went Bronze, contemporary dance on a parking lot stage, LatinX collaborations, ballet paired up in the plaza, new lessons from a prior plague, plus recent online encores, where to take online dance classes, and more SoCal dance this week. This Week When Little Tokyo Was Bronzeville Filmed …
I’ve never encountered a chapbook quite like Gail Butensky’s Every Bend, which is a photographic memoir combined with journalistic descriptions of the places Butensky traveled to and the people she met as a photojournalist in the music world. I have, of course, seen any number of full-length books that take a similar approach, but the …
The Long Beach Opera did it again! The production of Les Enfants Terribles at the rooftop parking of the new 2ND & PCH Shopping Mall follows a long list of avant-garde creations by this cultural institution. It includes, among many others, productions such as Orpheus & Euridice (at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool), The Diary of …
For this fortieth post in the Poets on Craft series, we have Melinda Palacio and Richard Vargas. 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 …
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Joy Ladin is a transgender lesbian scholar, essayist, and poet. The Book of Anna is a hybrid of diary entries interspersed with poem cycles that tell the story of Anna Asher, a fictional Czech-German Jew who spent her adolescence in a concentration camp and now lives in Prague in the 1950’s. Ladin originally published …
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With COVID infections dropping and vaccinations reaching higher levels, the New York theater is poised to reopen after a year and a half of lockdown. Both Governor Cuomo and Mayor DeBlasio have touted that the city will be open for business this summer and Broadway has followed suit. It started with a trickle of press …
Terry Braunstein and Victor Raphael – A Collaboration This collaboration grew out of a professional relationship and mutual appreciation of one another’s work. They were motivated to create these artworks in response to the current political environment over the last few years. Four series of limited edition ink jet prints will be featured here …
More Makeup – after Sharon Olds, “No Makeup” I’ve resisted paint for so many years, resisted the chance to be like my mother. My reflection hangs in all the mirrors I refused — bathrooms, college dorm rooms, bedrooms, the makeup counters I passed by, the places where I could have “put my face on” …
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