2013 — The Monarch Review — Page 18
Hidden Inflammation? – Stephanie Nicole Lum
Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:43 — 0 Comments
Just because you don’t see typical inflammation signs on the outside of your body, it might be lurking in other ways. Inflammation is a by-product of an immune response, which is supposed to help your system heal. Four classic inflammatory responses that we can see and feel are redness, heat, pain, swelling. However, what few people understand is that hidden inflammation is the root of all chronic illness we experience–conditions like heart disease, diabetes, dementia, depression, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, asthma, cancer, autism, and many other degenerative diseases along with weight gain, obesity and weight resistance. We may feel healthy, but if […]
An Interview With Catherine Smyka, Founder Of T(OUR) Magazine
Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:57 — 0 Comments
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.Â
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 — 2 Comments
I was drunk on television once; no one noticed except a pumpkin hair-do, blonde, cute, primly seated next to me on a 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 […]
The Kapowsin Tavern – William Ford
Monday, May 6, 2013 14:12 — 1 Comment
             Of Richard Hugo
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.
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
