2011 — The Monarch Review — Page 3
Critique vs. Negativity – Evan Flory-Barnes
Friday, November 11, 2011 14:01 — 1 Comment
On my mind of late has been a series of exchanges I have had with a rather well known musician who lives in Seattle, a gentleman named Cuong Vu. I admire him in many ways, from the energetic output and creativity of his music and the positive effect he has had on developing a cohesive and creative musical scene in this city. It is inspiring. His energy and intentions are aligned with many of the ideas and ideals I have held in my heart for Seattle for a long time now, having been born and raised in this city of […]
Ketchikan Alaska 1994 – Robert Franklin
Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:57 — 0 Comments
Sitting on musty carpet
High Fidelity – Mark Hage
Tuesday, November 8, 2011 12:44 — 1 Comment
He held a copy of Barthelme’s Forty Stories. She sat across with husband and baby carriage. They went home. She rolled the infant toward him. She opened the door and left. That night, in a spare bedroom, the husband saw her with a book. What are you reading, he said. She looked up. She did not answer. This is the book that man was reading on the subway, the husband said. The man who got out on 51st. A child wept. She scanned the titles. Past the midpoint, she stopped at The Temptation of St. Anthony and started to read.
Monarch in Glorious Physicality
Sunday, November 6, 2011 23:23 — 2 Comments
We are delighted to announce the arrival of our debut print edition! Soon it will be available in bookstores all across Seattle, but for now you can order through our home page. If you want the full physical effect (free from digital mediation of any sort), please join us for our release party, November 20th, 8:00-11:00pm at The Pub at 3rd Place Books, 6504 20th Ave. NE (on the corner of 65th and 20th). We’ll have plenty of copies waiting (sans shipping charges). Jim Brantingham, Rebecca Hoogs, Rebecca Bridge, Jed Myers, Zac Hill, Jason Whitmarsh and Julie Larios will read their inspiring […]
Questions – Peycho Kanev
Saturday, November 5, 2011 13:02 — 0 Comments
On the street, the grizzled, bygone Time stops me and asks:
White – Vanessa Young
Thursday, November 3, 2011 17:23 — 0 Comments
Let us make no angels finding none here.
Overhaul – Hall Jameson
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 13:36 — 0 Comments
There were kittens in the barn next-door, black and white and tiger-striped. Amber watched from the kitchen of Horace’s and Imogen’s house as their neighbor, Mr. Veazie, emerged from the barn with a lumpy burlap sack, the mother cat following close behind. He tossed the sack into the stream, adjusted his tie, straightened his hat, and kept walking towards Main Street. Amber sprinted to the water’s edge, ignoring Imogen slipper-shuffling towards her with a tray of oatmeal cookies. She splashed through the brown water, retrieved the sack, and dumped the kittens out. One lay completely still on the soggy bank, […]
The Loves and Lusts of a Horticulturalist – Askold Melnyczuk, Heide Hatry
Sunday, October 30, 2011 14:40 — 2 Comments
Essay by Askold Melnyczuk and Photograph by Heide Hatry from the forthcoming book Not a Rose Flowers are flirts. Like strippers in a church, they will not be overlooked. They can’t help it. They were born that way, sex organs on their sleeves. Kind of like Lady Gaga. Both invite us to speculate about appearances and time. For poets, roses once reported life is short. Heat cools. But poets are cowards, and lazy to boot. They sang roses—span’s forever to a lily, whose biological clock chimes with the sun. Flowers bring us to our eyes, yet their implications vary by […]
Spek and Duke
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 19:05 — 0 Comments
As fellow editor Evan Flory-Barnes likes to point out from time to time when the difficult conversation of genre arises, many of the old jazz masters preferred not to speak of their work as “jazz”, opting instead for the simpler word “music”. It was a response to classical music snobbery. Hip-hop suffers a similar snobbery, despite enjoying wide popular appeal, just as big-band swing did in its day. Spekulation cleverly rebukes this snobbery with his newest work, “The Ellington Project”. His work is Music, definitively. Using samples from Ellington’s band and snippets of the Duke talking, Spekulation creates new songs […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
