Often we bledafterwards.A seep highin the nostrils,then red. Orour heads pounded& we sleptfor hours in darkrooms, waitedfor our thoughtsto unbrick.—from “Effluvium,” Volume 61, Issue 3 (Fall 2020) Tell us about one of the first pieces you wrote.The first story I ever wrote was a near-total plagiarism of “Popcorn” by Frank Asch. If . . .
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Photo: Nikolai Aistov as the Rajah, Julia Sedova as Gamzatti and Pavel Gerdt as Solor (ca. 1902). Courtesy of the Marius Petipa Society. We have recently seen a conflict over a Depression-era mural on the wall of a public school in San Francisco. It came under attack by the student body for . . .
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When my son was young we’d read a book or two each night before he went to sleep, and invariably he’d ask for just one more. For that extra read, one title became my favorite: Marvin K. Mooney Won’t You Please Go Now, by Dr. Seuss: “The time has come! The time is . . .
Read MoreWe are thrilled to share the Denver Art Museum’s video of their artist-in-residence, Rose B. Simpson, who we were happy to feature in our current special issue, A Gathering of Native Voices (Winter 2020).
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(Photo: Diane Diederich Photography) Read Parts 17-18 here A clear, cold winter morning dawns and London’s pigeons, night-shift workers, breakfast cookers, and babies are all up and moving. “O what a busy morning,” abuzz with engines, wires, machines, and butchery: “The housewife . . . Watches the cleaver catch the naked / New . . .
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At seventeen, he didn’t have permissionlike his friends to go under the ice,to dive down and seewhat the river held secret in winter So he sat on the bank instead, bundledand waiting for the two diversto come up from the jagged manhole—from “Ice Diving,” Volume 61, Issue 3 (Fall 2020) Tell us . . .
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Watch our Virtual Gathering of Native American Voices from Dec. 10th with Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., Elise Paschen, Toni Jensen, and Tacey M. Atsitty, moderated by Laura Furlan, the reading will hand over the mic to contemporary Indigenous voices, rather than cosplay Pilgrims, during the 400th anniversary of the landing at Plymouth Rock. Tacey M. Atsitty, Diné, is Tsénahabiłnii . . .
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I am this nakedmineral:echo of underground:I am gladto have come so farfrom so much earth:I am last, barelyentrails, body; hands—from “XXIII” by Pablo Neruda, Translated by Karen Hilberg, Volume 61, Issue 3 (Fall 2020) Tell us about one of the first pieces you translated.I studied poetry in college and was learning Spanish . . .
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Classic Sin: Ballet, Sex, and Dancing Outside the Canon Photo: Valerie Robin and Fabrice Calmels in Gerald Arpino’s Light Rain. Photograph by and courtesy of Herbert Migdoll. What makes a ballet a classic? Is it earning a permanent place in the history books, or is it being worthy of the Herculean investment of . . .
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Photo: University of Central Florida the soul, after alldoesn’t exist by itselfit needs to take the formof the things it inhabits…-Elidio La Torre Lagares, from Arecibo Observatory On December 1st, I woke up to the news that the radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory had collapsed. A cable holding the main platform in place . . .
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