The Vast Inside – Suzanne Farrell Smith
Monday, August 5, 2013 15:50 — 2 Comments
At the heart of Southern Africa, in the northwest region of Botswana, on a long thin island surrounded by vast flood plains, inside a thatch-and-canvas tent-like room built on a wooden deck fifteen feet above vegetation and animal habitat, I sit on a plush white bed surrounded by sheer cotton mosquito netting, staring at the locked glass door, cursing my husband.
Review Of Jane Wong’s ‘Kudzu Does Not Stop’
Thursday, July 25, 2013 10:52 — 0 Comments
Jane Wong’s voice comes off the page like that of a mother’s reading a cautionary story to her children. In her new book of poems, Wong uses her voice to make a point: that, as people, we are like the kudzu vine: we take and we are taken.Â
IRREGULAR – Peter Brav
Wednesday, July 17, 2013 13:00 — 0 Comments
It is a great deal of pressure to be a regular. Maybe more than it’s worth.Â
The American Storyboard – Shaun Scott
Thursday, July 4, 2013 11:34 — 0 Comments
An American invention, the storyboard appears to us in retrospect as a forceful idea that changed the way films were made and seen forever.
Healthy Dudes Score More! – Stephanie Nicole Lum
Monday, June 10, 2013 11:22 — 0 Comments
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Notes From The Croatian Underground – Daniel Davis-Williams
Thursday, June 6, 2013 12:29 — 1 Comment
I once believed the Old World still thrived on the other side of the Atlantic. I pictured it sprawling across rolling hills and green pastures edged with virgin woods. I believed its cobbled streets still shined from the abrasions of horse shoes and wagon wheel. That Old World, grand and immutable, was inhabited by good, simple people. Even then I wouldn’t deny that this Old World was now suffused with modern tech and talk, but I doubted these modern intrusions had dimmed the celestial glow of castles and statues and institutions that had survived the hardships of time.
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 […]
Dallas Area Rapid Transit – Michael Nagel
Thursday, March 7, 2013 12:07 — 1 Comment
My first night in this apartment I laid awake listening to the rail bells ring, thinking I would never sleep again. The bells rang when the train came and when it left, every seven minutes, and I stared at my ceiling for hours wondering why I’d never noticed how loud this city was. Now I’ve lived here three years and I can’t hear the bells anymore. They’ve become part of my silence. I sleep just fine.Â
SHANGRI-LA DEFINED
Monday, February 18, 2013 11:44 — 0 Comments
A couple years ago I infiltrated the Juggalo Family in an event called “The Gathering of the Juggalosâ€, where 20,000 followers of the Insane Clown Possee congregate, dress up in outfits and act, basically, depraved. The Juggalos are followers of ICP, Psychopathic Records and a genre of music called “Wicked Shitâ€. Wicked Shit uses violent, gory and excremental lyrics to teach the message of the Dark Carnival, a Judeo-Christian type of faith that came to Insane Clown Posse member Violent J in a vision that consisted of evil clowns leading the path to Shangri-La as the earth went down in […]
La Bella Figura – John Wesley Horton
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 13:14 — 0 Comments
A writer should not evaluate her self-worth based on how many “likes†her most recent status update collected on facebook. And yet, I felt satisfied with myself over an update that generated thirty-seven likes in the time it takes to finish a Guinness. I wrote:
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
