In Speaking Parts, Beth Ruscio explores among other ideas the link between appearance and reality especially as it relates to women. Ruscio, who has been a working character actress since the 1980s, draws on her life on television and theater and draws a parallel to the way people see women and the way women start …
Nameless In Paris Off the steel lace of Eiffel I launch myself and it’s just a matter of angle, this flying, levitating really, without strain and next to me on the night he’s died, Marlon Brando flies too, right through French doors, cups his hand over my mouth, his face within my bite No names …
Pacific Grove, California Ladies Sketch Club on the Beach, 1890 To order light, dear sister to wield a vest pocket clock and boss around the day is not considered women’s work. Yet, truly, I live on scrapes of Prussian blue and Gamboge crimson go through tubes and tubes of bright lead white, the cruelest …
Beth Ruscio, daughter of actors, is part of a family of artists, actors, writers and vaudevillians. She’s a poet, an accomplished actress, and a one-time playwright co-writing 1961 Eldorado with husband Leon Martell. In 2016, her manuscript Hollywood Forever Cemetery won both Honorable Mention for The Two Sylvias Prize, and was a finalist for the …
Cultural Weekly poet and reader Beth Ruscio has informed us that her father, Al Ruscio, died on the evening of Tuesday, November 12. This is her remembrance. Last night, surrounded by love in his own home with my arms around him, and my brother holding his hands, my wonderful amazing father died. He had …
…we looked up without looking up…
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