All posts tagged "arts and culture"
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Poem Suite: Monsters
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Poem Suite: Becoming
In our Poem Suites, we bring together the voices of emerging and established poets exploring a common theme. In today’s Poem Suite, two poets explore...
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Three Poems by Joy KMT
By Joy KMT Renisha McBride Even now you are being explained away your body laid on the coffee table and autopsied...
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Four Poems by Cindy Lynn Brown
By Cindy Lynn Brown Harmless Just a remark casually through the room under neon lights nothing to hang on to for several minutes...
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Fiction Feature: CORONA by Bushra Rehman
Corona (and I’m not talking about the beer) Corona, Queens 1983 Corona, and I’m not talking about the beer. I’m talking about a little village...
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Fiction Flash: Lyssa in Limbo
By Michelle Auerbach (Excerpt from The Third Kind of Horse) I stared hard at Melody, at the blonde tips of her hair and I knew,...
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LGBTQ Film Feature: “U People” Fifth Anniversary Interview with Hanifah Walidah
Nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary in 2010, U People is a music video, a documentary LGBT film, and a...
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Two Poems: "Different Pages" and "The Bee Trap"
By Kristy Webster The Bee Trap Some girls have eyes like invitations, and some girls wear glasses and scarves, walk with a whistle...
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Two Poems
by Brook Blander Stupid (from now that I’m here; lyrics from the mud to the sun) …is what they call her. Without regard to...
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Two Poems
By Caits Meissner the two girls loved like a sieve and drank a river of fish and read poems too big for their mouths...
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Vena Amoris
I’m on a relatively small plane on my way to Denver. I’m in the window seat. There’s no middle, just the guy in the aisle...
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What Contents Different Containers Can Hold: An Introduction to the Monthly Lyric Essay
…with gratitude to Katherine Ferrier and The Architects “What begins in recognition, – …ends in obedience.” Frank Bidart, “By These Waters” John Cage: It’s...