2015 — The Monarch Review — Page 15
Three Songs To The Head vol. 24
Wednesday, January 21, 2015 10:42 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring Will Sprott, Staxx Brothers and Wes Sp8. Enjoy!
Urban Shadows – Jim Brantingham
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 9:34 — 1 Comment
Hour by hour the girders play as ribs and reach out and hold together the stone walls and floors. – “Skyscraper,†Carl Sandburg Shadows slide along streets and alleys, Slink slowly up old brick buildings. Each inch traveled along the walks Matches the vertical rise of concrete, Of steel and tall sheets of glass. Sandburg’s skyscraper has soul: The soul of dreams and hopes Poured into each cubic yard of concrete, Fastened into each steel beam. But these are squat soulless slabs That scarcely scrape the sky Yet still leave long black traces Where sunlight once brightened the leaves Lining […]
An Interview With Poet Susan Rich
Monday, January 19, 2015 12:11 — 0 Comments
Susan Rich and Kelli Russell Agodon co-teach poetry workshops for beginners to those with reams of poems coming out the drawers. This Saturday, the two will continue their classes with Demystifying the Manuscript: A Poetry Workshop. I caught up with Susan to talk about the class, her relationship with Kelli and the cruel hand of doubt.Â
What We Were Never Taught – Shaun Scott
Monday, January 19, 2015 9:59 — 1 Comment
If you’re coming from lower Manhattan like I was, there’s no way to the Staten Island storefront that spawned #icantbreathe without taking a ferry.Â
Here And Now: A Night At The Josephine†– Poster Bot
Friday, January 16, 2015 11:29 — 0 Comments
I’ve never had a very good working relationship with reality. I grew up in California. I was a latchkey kid. Rather than using my after-school freedom to bask in the warm Californian sun, my preference was to park in front of the TV and bask in the warmth of its rays. I watched a lot of cartoons and like the rest of my contemporaries I watched a fair share of 80’s teen movies: The Breakfast Club, Revenge Of The Nerds, Pretty In Pink… These films helped shape my imagination and it is an unjust tragedy that by the time I […]
Three Songs To The Head vol. 23
Thursday, January 15, 2015 11:06 — 0 Comments
Hello and welcome back to Three Songs to the Head where we share three songs that moved us, three songs we love, three songs we can’t get out of our heads! Today, we’re featuring The Corespondents, The Spider Ferns and Theoretics. Enjoy!
Quarreler, Vol. 1: David Shields
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 22:38 — 0 Comments
I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, by David Shields and Caleb Powell is fresh off the Knopf presses. It’s a book in the form of one extended and contentious dialogue. Over the course of a weekend at a remote cabin tucked into the Cascade Mountains, Shields and Powell argue Life versus Art, testing the limits of civilized conversation and the boundaries of the self. The Monarch Review had the chance to talk with both Quarrelers individually about the making of both the book, and the adaptation of the book into a film directed by James Franco. This is the […]
Advice For Yourself
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:53 — 1 Comment
I had the opportunity to ask some of Seattle’s most interesting folks this one question: What message or idea would you relate to your former 15 year old self, and what message would you hope to hear today from your 75 year old self? Here are their responses:
The Monarch Drinks With Tom Douglas & Thierry Rautureau
Monday, January 12, 2015 11:41 — 0 Comments
Over the years I’ve been fortunate to work with master chefs Tom Douglas (chef/owner of Lola, Palace Kitchen, Serious Pie, Dahlia Lounge, Etta’s, as well as many, many others) and Thierry Rautureau (chef/owner of restaurants Loulay and Luc) not only within the world of radio, both present day and back when the duo had their first radio show, In the Kitchen with Tom and Thierry, but I’ve assisted Mr. Douglas in the kitchen as well – in Hawaii no less!Â
To Memphis – Matt Morgan
Monday, January 5, 2015 10:51 — 0 Comments
I flush the ticket down the bus toilet. Plastic. PissÂglistened and disinfected. Below me the pavement surges ahead, hurtling me northbound along the flat back of the Mississippi Delta. There’s a xanax stuffed in my front pocket— and in the back, a fistÂclutch of New Testament pages ripped from a Gideon’s Bible. I’ve come to leave. I’ve come to wrap my arms around something new and squeeze it empty like I have everything else. My wife. My second wife. The savings account. I’d ruin every last person and crying child on this godforsaken bus if given the chance. If given […]
What am I?
Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies
Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;
Scientists can't find me.
Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—
Remind me:
The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…
Tick, Tock: Divine me.
-- Richard Kenney
