FORTY WHACKS by Charles Edward Brooks My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tambours I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony. —Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet ...
by Galanty Miller Contributing Columnist I try to take a lot of wind & solar naps because I support alternative forms of sluggishness./ Women think ‘vulnerability’ is sexy, so when I meet women at parties, I always cry./ I hate fuzzy fruit. But I’ll fight...
Photo by jensjunge (Pixabay) United Nations plaza, NYC. The Architect’s Granddaughter Eleonore Nitzschke, granddaughter of Oscar Nitzschké, discusses her dream of archiving the legendary architect’s drawings, papers & memorabilia ...
Dustin Lee photo *** Hey, Teacher! by Bill Dixon Contributing Columnist It was Spring Quarter, 1970. After seven long academic years at The Ohio State University, attending classes only when I could afford to pay cash for my books and tuition up front, and busting my...
Viva Ramona, by Christie Devereaux Grupo Neo-Latino: Reaching Critical Mass by Dr. Andrea O’Reilly Herrera According to the Census Bureau, the minority and bi-racial/bi-ethnic population in the U.S. is expected to rise to 56 percent of the total...
Crystin Moritz photo *** The Brilliant Dilettantes: Modern experiments in Art & Music Introduction One often hears the deliberately misspelled term “geniale Dilletanten” in Germany used to describe a performance that floats in the realm between...
Hats in the Air | 2016 | Acrylic and spray enamel on canvas | 32 x 50 in. (81.3 x 127 cm) *** “…paying homage to higher powers.” “Looking at my work I have been most curious about the subjective and illusory nature of messages, narratives and...
Leonard Roberts Photo Tip of the Iceberg in a Digital Sea Ten Releases You Really Ought to Hear by Fred Roberts Contributing Music Editor Writing about music tears me apart, because I learn about so many artists that deserve to be known, yet I am extremely limited as...
How to Save Your Manuscript Before It Leaves Your Laptop: An Interview with Cindy Hochman by Ann Cefola Cindy Hochman peers over a manuscript. On the first page, she has already discovered a typo, a punctuation error, and a malaprop. She feels a...
Festival Through the earthworm scent of fresh-broken sod plowed in a wide ring where the city’s walls would go, families gathered to see the settlement founded by the boy to whom a wolf gave her milk, the man who killed his brother with a shovel to see Rome built....
Scott Webb photo Why Teachers Matter in Dark Times by Henry A. Giroux Americans live in a historical moment that annihilates thought. Ignorance now provides a sense of community; the brain has migrated to the dark pit of the spectacle; the only discourse that...
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