“In Chill’s limited experience with the music industry, she’d learned that being heavily armed and highly insane were more common than she’d ever realized.” – OF Cieri, ‘BACKMASK’ The New […]
Rights Are Never Won
“the future’s not ours / to see tenderly” – Hoa Nguyen, “SEEDS AND CRUMBS” It’s unfair to interpret Dr. King’s “the moral arc of the universe is long, and bends […]
Friday Links: Is Your Family Made Of Eccentrics Edition
“It was true that there was an omnivorousness to the selection, but it wasn’t the thoughtless hunger of a starving person. Each painting was a dish, a tight clean nibble […]
11 Books By Queer Authors To Re-Arrange Your Brain
“Cause when people don’t know something happenin or that there’s a type a person that’s out there in the world, they think it don’t exist, an it suffers.” – James […]
Friday Links: Don’t Blur The Lines Step Over Them Edition
“I no longer aspired, as I had during my MA…to write literary mainstream or fabulist fiction.” – Molly Gaudry, ‘Fit Into Me’ Hey, I sent my poetry manuscript off to […]
Albums I Should Have Listened To Already: ‘Help’ by The Beatles
“You know I need somebody” – The Beatles Yeah you read that right. I told you some of these would make you say DUDE. Welcome back to “Albums I Should […]
Friday Links: The Book of Surviving The Camps Edition
“What devil was known to be so cowardly as to exclusively menace a young boy? Who was the cowardly monster that would not risk showing himself in the flesh? Who […]
Mid-Week BookRec: ‘The Hungering Years’ by Summer Farah
“sea & salty salt mingling / on my lips oh the sting / is so good when you / love the air that sends it” – Summer Farah, “POEM FOR […]
Friday Links: Sheep Everywhere Edition
“The only way to get out of that worm universe is to dream another symbolic dream.” – Haruki Murakami, ‘A Wild Sheep Chase’ All I really mean by that title […]
Mid-Week BookRec: ‘My Ardent Love For The Pencil’ by Vi Khi Nao
“Wake up, Dreams! Let me give you a bath!” – Vi Khi Nao, ‘My Ardent Love For The Pencil’ There isn’t a ton of method to selecting what books I […]