My responsibility is to tell you the truth. – Dr. Christine Blasey Ford I used to systematically read the comics each day after making myself and my sister lunch, but I’d over-think them. I liked to read collections of wise sayings and then try them out in imagined conversations […]
Sari in a tear, face an ungodly mess, run of red from one lip to the other. Over there a blue-skinned flirt, a Krishna, looking past me at the goddess from the next lifetime, the one with the light eyes who shows off her belly ring, swings her […]
Process Notes Laura Christiansen on Collaboration In my artwork, I paint on found portraits and snapshots, cancelling parts of images and conjuring new illusions– all of which are further recreated when combined with a poem. I invited Marjorie Thomsen and Christine Poreba to write in response to my work. These […]
Process Notes Laura Christensen on Collaboration In my artwork, I paint on found portraits and snapshots, cancelling parts of images and conjuring new illusions– all of which are further recreated when combined with a poem. I invited Marjorie Thomsen and Christine Poreba to write in response to my work. These […]
Elizabeth Phelps Meyer’s “Rough and Ready” Delicate Vessels, a micro-interview with Elaine Sexton. ELAINE SEXTON: You are juggling several projects, all in clay, and each with a separate but related focus. I think our readers would be interested in the origins of your work as social […]
On September 29-30, 1941, approximately 33,771 Jews were murdered by the Nazis at Babi Yar, a ravine in Kiev. The massacre was among the largest single mass murders of Jews during WWII. A girl rose out of a wolf, peeled the soft fur down, ripped […]
Beth McDermott is the author of a chapbook titled How to Leave a Farmhouse (Porkbelly Press, 2015). Her poetry, reviews and criticism appear or are forthcoming in DIAGRAM, Southern Humanities Review, American Book Review, Kenyon Review Online, and The Trumpeter. A graduate of the Program for Writers at UIC, she […]
Hadara Bar-Nadav is a singular voice in contemporary poetry. Her work often speaks to the aesthetics of violence and violation, offering an incisive deconstruction of suffering — and the power structures that set it in motion —-through the nuances of writerly craft. Here, expertly conceived poetic lines exist […]
After Jenny George Sunrise arrives just as it would anywhere. A raccoon sleeps in the dry fountain of the main square. Children drag dark red jump ropes along the streets behind them. There is a local motto, but no one can remember quite what it is. Something to […]
CONVERGING: JAYNE HOLSINGER’S WOMEN & LANDSCAPES, a micro-interview with Elaine Sexton Waiting in line at Cooper Union in New York for a panel discussion of artists and editors, a chance meeting with the Jayne Holsinger resulted in a studio visit a few weeks later. This artist’s new work shifts […]
