Bali International Indigenous Film Festival

Bali International Indigenous Film Festival

Bali International Indigenous Film Festival 2018 January 26 – January 28 By Stephanie Brookes An event took place in Ubud, Bali in January 2018 that honoured the work of indigenous documentary filmmakers and over the course of two days was attended by Indonesian...
Fred Roberts/World Music

Fred Roberts/World Music

Stef Bos  photo © Ben Kleyn     Fire, Flame, Desire, Passion: Stef Bos – Vuur (1994)   Few people outside of the Dutch, Flemish and Afrikaans speaking world will have heard of Stef Bos. He entered the music scene in Holland in 1990 with a song...

Mario Moroni/Poetry

 *** Intermezzo by Mario Moroni     Recitare le ceneri Ciò che rimane del giorno, ciò che non si vede più o che è stato mal visto, quel giorno quando John Trevor era uscito in strada, scese le scale: “Cielo quasi blu dalle mille forme scure” aveva...

Bill Yarrow/Poetry

RUN OF HUNTERS The leaking state. Comparative possum. The crushing sound of conjunction. Like eating a meal of attenuated steam. I am passionately committed to palisade market shares. Time is the bebop of the spheres. Your self insists you take inverted sides. What’s...

Anum Kamran Sattar/Poetry

by Anum Kamran Sattar   Arrogance I wanted to participate in our class discussion on a scummy pond, so I said the water was not filled with bacteria, but some aquatic plant. But my professor dismissed my observation. He thought that nitrogen–containing waste from...

William Crawford/Flash Fiction

  “It’s like a heat wave…”    A Kool, Kool Fool From The Rock ‘N Roll School Shares A Frigidaire Nightmare.   I pulled into El Paso along about half past dead. The weathered wall thermometer hit 99 in the red! The Band, not Spike Jones, blared out of my...
Augusto De Luca/Photographer Interview

Augusto De Luca/Photographer Interview

© Augusto De Luca                      James Senese                                                                               Lina Sastri  *** “Feeding on Content & Form” An interview with Italian photographer Augusto De Luca   by Chuck Haupt...
Candice Watkins/All That Jazz

Candice Watkins/All That Jazz

Rusty Bryant at the Carolyn Club *** Royal Rusty Bryant   by Candice Watkins Contributing Music Writer I was lucky enough to be Royal Rusty Bryant’s friend in the later years of his life. He came to play at the Hot Times Festival in the Near East Side of...
Steve Poleskie/Then and Now

Steve Poleskie/Then and Now

Citadelle Laferriere, built between 1805 and 1820 to protect Haiti from invasion. Photo by Stephen Poleskie     Almost Shot Out of the Sky While Flying Over a “Shithole” Country     By Stephen Poleskie Donald Trump’s recent derogatory comment about...
Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

Barbara Rosenthal/A Crack in the Sidewalk

    The Production of Meaning in Art Fabrication: What Are You Doing? Do You Know? When? Before or After?   by Barbara Rosenthal Contributing Columnist — NYC, March 1, 2018. Which comes first? It’s not the same for every artist. And maybe it isn’t the...

Sue Atkinson/Old Schools, Part 2

    What Happened?   Part 1 of this series highlighted former school buildings in rural upstate New York. This installment explores consolidation, the combining of two or more small school districts into one larger district, the practice that orphaned...

Steve Dalachinsky/Poetry

the stone age   i’m lost – they’ve knocked me back to the stone age – this sick skin in a dream populated by science fiction literates – this terribly lonely dream populated by people into their own heads – gin drinkers & young girls...
Jessica Powell and Meredith Sinclair/Education

Jessica Powell and Meredith Sinclair/Education

JACOB MORCH Photo/Unsplash     No Room for Nice White Teachers When We’re Taking Down the Master’s House   By Jessica Powell and Meredith Sinclair Over the past decade, the dialogue around education reform has gotten louder, at times acknowledging inequities...

Adele Kenny/Poetry

2 Poems by Adele Kenny   Past the Waterline (After Lake with Dead Trees by Thomas Cole) This could be any day, anywhere—either one of us could be the other, momentary deer where the water ends and the forest begins. Whatever hard things we’ve seen—what we’ve...

Fiction/Leslie Brown

  WALKABOUT   by Leslie Brown In the summer of 1969 I told my mother II was going to sublet an apartment in the Cass Corridor. I’d always wanted to live near campus, and this was my last chance, my final quarter of graduate school at Wayne State University....