I apologize in advance for any errors in memory or judgment.
The Real is not the stories and laws which we think make up reality, but the raw void that appears when those stories and laws collapse. An abyss just out of reach, forever.
Often, Rust Belt stories are neglected in the national sphere or controlled by cultural outsiders.
to my knowledge this poem is the first poem of any length to be written about cleveland in 150 years.
Time moves fast, and slow, and bent. Mostly this is an effect of the new authoritarian gravity stretching and clumping it.
My dollhouse consulting room is at the scale of my truth, and is therefore the true room.
Whistles and honks and encrypted messages and patrols and training and sit-ins and food drives and carpools.
Shimmering at the barely visible edge of the horizon, the faintest color of hope.
Among the power brokers of the art world, the recent weakness in the market hardly registers as a crisis. But the effects of this deeper, structural change will be felt outside of art's capitals.
Is literature political? How about can literature use activists? If they are people too, I guess it can.
The story of Saint John’s Abbey Church is thus a kind of creation myth: an origin story that illustrates the advent of a new symbolic language, formed by the dialogue between liturgical and architectural forces, and forged for an uncertain moment of rapidly-emerging modernity.
The forms demand to be reckoned with. Reverb, a new project of St. Louis artists and curators, works on these themes. Inside Bunker 3, artists confront the site’s history of violence and explore the disturbed state of the forest.