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Please keep a safe […]: Chin Chin – Grass Jelly Drinks
by j.p.mot

April 1, 2021 Contributed By: j.p.mot

Print by j.p.mot

j.p.mot’s object of research centers on reclaiming the orientalist gaze depicted by colonial ethnographers.

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Culture, Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: April 1, 2021

Apocalypse Singing: A Review of Claire Wahmanholm’s Wilder for Pandemic Times
by Robin Gow

March 30, 2021 Contributed By: Robin Gow

Cropped Book Cover

Claire Wahmanholm uses poems to take us through unraveling fairytales and the volatile terrain of our unraveling planet.

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: March 30, 2021

Feminist Flashback: The Woman’s Film
by Jennifer Gauthier

March 29, 2021 Contributed By: Jennifer Gauthier

The Woman's Film (1971)

I can’t remember precisely the first time I saw The Woman’s Film, a collaborative short documentary made by San Francisco Newsreel in 1971, but I do remember being struck by its boldly feminist mode of address and content. It has stuck with me for years and now I use it in class anytime I can. […]

Filed Under: Culture, Essays, Featured Culture, Featured Essays, Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: March 29, 2021

Review of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov
by Aya Kusch

March 20, 2021 Contributed By: Aya Kusch

Small's Paradise

Helen Frankenthaler was adept in the art of getting noticed. On May 19, 1950, she donned a costume meant to transform her into a Picasso painting and made her grand entrance into the Astor Ball flanked by an actress friend, Gaby Rodgers. Fresh from college and largely unknown, Life magazine found her eye-catching enough to […]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: March 20, 2021

How Justine by Forsyth Harmon Taught Me How to Feel
by Aya Kusch

February 27, 2021 Contributed By: Aya Kusch

Cover of Justine

  A few days ago, I was talking with a friend, and I told her that teenage girls must have superpowers that temporarily bestow them with emotional endurance beyond what anyone else in any other demographic could hope for or imagine, and it’s amazing that anyone survives girlhood without needing tons of therapy afterwards. Her […]

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: February 27, 2021

Breaking Currents: eddy at M23
by Corey Durbin

January 14, 2021 Contributed By: Corey Durbin

eddy Installation

An eddy, the titular inspiration for this show, is a flowing water phenomenon where the current is disrupted by inverse movement, causing a whirlpool. This exhibit of young emerging sculptors makes a similar gesture against a cultural current, long spiraling toward doom. M23 is a small gallery in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, the […]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: January 14, 2021

Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
Reviewed by Sophia Kaufman

January 12, 2021 Contributed By: Sophia Kaufman

An American Conversation

At the end of Ziwe Fumudoh’s Instagram Live shows this summer—in which she quizzed her guests on civil rights leaders, asked them whether they’d ever worn blackface, what they qualitatively like about Black people, how many Black friends they have, and whether they would commit to reparations, among other rapid-fire prompts often tailored to her […]

Filed Under: Culture, Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: January 12, 2021

Explorations in Friendship & Witchcraft in The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington
by Aya Kusch

December 7, 2020 Contributed By: Aya Kusch

The Hearing Trumpet Book Cover

Long before Sephora started selling “Starter Witch Kits” and books with titles like Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive became mainstream, the Mexican-British surrealist painter, Leonora Carrington, was conjuring her own magical realms with the help of paint and the written word.  Her wild life was marked by adventure, rebellion, and an irrepressible desire to create. […]

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: December 7, 2020

Peter Milne Greiner, Temporal Cyborg
Reviewed by Christopher Cokinos

June 7, 2018 Contributed By: Christopher Cokinos

Weizmann Accelerator

Lost City Hydrothermal Field by Peter Milne Greiner The Operating System, 2017 148 pp., $18 The poet David Wojahn has made the distinction between the poetry of stuff and the poetry of wisdom. The former, he claims, is the deployment of references in often pell-mell fashion; it does clutter so much poetry today, especially that […]

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Poetry, Reviews Posted On: June 7, 2018

Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi
(reviewed by Brian Satrom)

January 1, 2018 Contributed By: Bao Phi, Brian Satrom

Thousand Star Hotel by Bao Phi (reviewed by Brian Satrom)

THOUSAND STAR HOTEL by Bao Phi Coffee House Press (2017) 110 pages reviewed by Brian Satrom What authors empathize with in their work can reveal a great deal about their perceptions of themselves. The poem “Not a Silverfish,” toward the end of Bao Phi’s second collection, Thousand Star Hotel, has the speaker imagining the perspective of […]

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Reviews Posted On: January 1, 2018

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