Music - Saturday, May 25, 2013 13:16
Sasquatch! vol. 1
Erik Blood saved the day. With rain threatening to fall and the wind already rolling in, the legendary Seattle ... Read More
Fiction - Thursday, May 23, 2013 13:17
Movies 1, 3 and 5 – John Osebold
Movie 1 1. Title card 2. Darkness 3. Three lights 4. Sound of player piano 5. Player piano 6. Laughter 7. Pi ... Read More
Essays - Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:43
Hidden Inflammation? – Stephanie Nicole Lum
Just because you don’t see typical inflammation signs on the outside of your body, it might be lurking in ot ... Read More
Pantoum: Miles Away Gray – Danny Earl Simmons
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 13:48 — 0 Comments
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide – Rudyard Kipling
Political Reporting – Nick Ravo
Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:37 — 1 Comment
I was drunk on television once; no one noticed except a pumpkin hair-do, blonde, cute, primly seated next to me on meet-the-media set. She smiled and said I looked relaxed. We fired at a governor running for senator who had married a president’s daughter. He lost because he received a massage by a former Miss Virginia with a pumpkin hair-do, blonde, cute, at the Pierre Hotel in New York. The winner was a famous football coach’s son, but he later blew his chances for reelection by calling blacks ‘ca-cas’. By then, the former Miss Virginia had posed for Playboy. I never appeared on television [...]
The Dustbowl Revival
Thursday, May 2, 2013 11:46 — 0 Comments
There’s a circus in your mind. It’s the one you want to return to, a circus with women in red sparkle dresses, trapeze artists so capable they make it look first-nature, animals walking on giant globes. This scene is the sound of the new album by the Dustbowl Revival, Carry Me Home.
TMR #2 is Sold Out!
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
An Interview With Catherine Smyka, Founder Of T(OUR) Magazine
May 21st, 2013
Catherine Smyka is a Seattle writer and founder of the quarterly literary journal T(OUR) magazine, which focuses on LGBTQ stories and artwork. She also works for The Stranger and performs non-fiction narratives with The Moth and Fresh Ground Stories. She and her staff of 10 produce the quarterly journal, and keep a literary blog. Plans for a community center in Capitol Hill, a storytelling podcast and a reading series are in the works, as well. The Monarch Review chatted with Catherine about T(OUR)’s history and Smyka’s relationship to it.
