I first got to know Juliet Cook because we were both members of the same online poetry group. I learned that besides being a prolific, widely-published poet, Juliet runs Blood Pudding Press, which publishes unique, hand-crafted poetry chapbooks and Thirteen Myna Birds, a zine that publishes cutting-edge contemporary poetry. This is the second time I’ve …
Conversation with Poet-Publisher-Artist Juliet Cook Read More »
CONSTIMOCRAZY is a story of Africa weaved by an African poet-patriot, a slinger wielding the spear, his pen, against treachery perpetrated by history and its cruelty. The same pen wielder rebukes Africa for frying its own beauty, dignity and morality in copper-roasting furnaces of disgrace and despotism. The African poet-patriot traverses with us around, from …
Talking Poetry: Nsah Mala, An African Poet-Patriot Read More »
A poet is a societal surgeon whose poesy identifies, diagnoses, proscribes and acts accordingly. Their words are the scalpel and the sutures to expose, extract and treat the tumor that has been affecting and afflicting the social standing, the character, the stature and the integrity of the society beyond boarders. The tumor that has inflicted acute …
Everything Remembers in Michael Dickel’s Nothing Remembers Read More »
He is an energetic, a rare breed of the Zimbabwean revolution, an ideologue, whose tongue-lashing and verbal acid spewing lips, rude honesty and raw revolutionary anger does not stop in front of any sacred cow, a multi-talented cadre whose creativity and wit is shaped by the gun, ideology and the pen. His candid verbosity and …
A THROWBACK: Zimbabwe’s cracked footprints towards the Coup and beyond Read More »
Machipisa in Highfeilds is a paradoxical African high density suburb in Zimbabwe. It gave birth to the both iconic song maestros and political heavyweights inclusive of the late George Nyandoro, Enos Nkala. Robert Mugabe, the late nationalist and former long serving president of Zimbabwe, resided in Highfeilds before his long trip to Mozambican jungles to …
Tafadzwa Muzondo Curates the Inaugural Zimbabwe Human Rights Festival Read More »
I went to the Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Conference & Bookfair #18 in Tampa last week (March 8-10), expecting literary people, books, discussions, and fun in the sun. I wasn’t disappointed. Or only somewhat. Here’s my report. AWP #18 in Tampa a limited success The AWP Conference is the biggest writing and publishing conference-event of …
Hello. How are you? I am sorry that it has taken me so long to write to you. Almost 25 years, I suppose.
Seasons are changing even in our city. Yes, actual seasons in LA. There’s a bit of a cold snap. I feel it on my hands when I’m walking around early morning taking photos. I was thinking that this was actually my 52nd post on Literary Alchemy. Then I searched through Cultural Weekly and realized I’d …
Wow. Crazy weekend. Two beautiful events sponsored by DT•LAB, one on the main floor that brought over 150 people to a poetry book release and one in our intimate little space when a group of awesome CalArts students visited and we discussed all things zine, chapbook and maker culture. Actually, I should say what was …
$200: How DT•LAB Got Forced Out of The Last Bookstore Read More »
In which the publisher experiences the grace and peace of nature before the next big book event.
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