African Poetry Fictions
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Keguro Macharia, "African Poetry: Introduction": The story of African poetry, if is to be told, will be the accumulation of very stories: very...
Courage, Please
...Robert Ashley died today. In memory of one who believed that the "technique of profound collaboration is essential." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza2GCF74lo ...
Inside Out, Namwali Serpell's "The Sack"
...story’s narrative completion, it un-resolves itself, taking you back to the beginning… only now, you’re inside out, upside down, looking out from looking in. If you turn a sack inside...
Have you read Stendhal?
...same time, be the current. State 2. Feeling and acting like a thing. Audio excerpt from conversation with Jimmy Brodkey, Tape 11, May 2010 [audio:http://www.stereohell.com/audio/brodkey.mp3|titles=A conversation with Jimmy Brodkey] Conversations...
The Sabotage of Life (Sabotage Talk #4): 5/14
...could support one so unlivable. Topics include: birth strikes, Neo-Malthusian and otherwise; animation; hostile objects; material feminist urban design; slapstick; unwaged time. (Seating is limited, please register on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/evan-calder-williams-the-sabotage-of-space-manual-override-lecture-4-tickets-11588885669?aff=efbevent...
The Literary Community Presents: LET'S MAKE A MOVIE!
...Kickstarter party for Happy Baby, the first feature film from The Rumpus Learn more and RSVP on Facebook Sliding scale. $20 donation recommended but pay what you can: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/706884381/happy-baby-the-movie/posts/354932...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
...doesn’t drive some black Ford with a two-way radio.' —Joan Didion, 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' From Slouching Towards Bethlehem, p. 116. The occurrence of appearance should come as no surprise. Fashion...
Disband West Virginia
...level, it will only impede development of a sustainable organ harvesting industry, all the while failing to empty the state completely. Yet if poisoning the water for 300,000 people is...
if these adjectives are synonyms of ‘enemy’
From a friend who translated this endlessly contemporary work: "One shouldn’t be too generous with certain adversaries. Against those who without disgust tolerated reading or listening to...
Also Evolving: The Language of Sexism in Biological Anthropology
...medicine and provides an accessible and inclusive platform for writing about women on the web. For more articles, information on pitching, and to subscribe to our newsletter, visit ladyscience.com....
Domesticated WildCats
...plant-based items for which RTI’s robotic technology is designed to forage. ... “We completely understand the public’s concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not...
My Soul Has Known Rivers... of Beer!
...The right-wing backlash against this Budweiser commercial is the best praise you can give it, like when Fox News described “No Fascist US” as “anti-Trump graffiti.” The ad...
African Poetry: Introduction
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com I received a review copy of Eight New Generation African Poets: Tatu, a collection of chapbooks selected and edited by Kwame Dawes and...
Jul, One Year Later
...a musical track in remembrance of Juliano featuring his students. It is a moving tribute, and frankly, it proves difficult viewing as his coffin is carried atop waves of friends,...
World Melodrama: Opfergang, 1944
...and workers collide in a way that is graphically emblematic of the divided nation France became under Nazi occupation. Lumière d'été also heats up the sexual musical chairs of Renoir’s...
Silten wares
The assembly line / It coughed And Thick was / The resultant silt It huffed / The silt thick And The trucks / Stunting like...