In Search of Duende: Language In His Own Hands: Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker The Berry”
August Evans10.11.16
A mouth, open to its widest, prepares for ancestral possession. August Evans considers duende as a potent force in Kendrick Lamar’s “The Blacker the Berry.”
In Search of Duende: Diane Arbus at the Met
Rachel Lyon09.06.16
For the first of a series of posts contemplating a contemporary idea of cultural duende curated by August Evans, Rachel Lyon visits the Met to explore a new exhibition of early work by Diane Arbus.
Album Roundup: March 2016
Scott Creney04.26.16
Scott Creney’s a parent to a small child and still listens to more music than most of us. His roundup of the highlights and lowlights of last month’s releases includes new sounds by Santigold, DIIV, Porches, Teen, and more.
Cada día, cada día and How to Get Through the Next
Meghan Broughton10.19.15
Megan Broughton chronicles a trip to Spain and back home: “Along with old familiarity arrives the new understanding that closure is perhaps not what one seeks or perceives it to be.”
The Fragments of the Frame: On Alan Gilbert’s Late in the Antenna Fields
Laura Carter05.27.11
Laura Carter reviews Alan Gilbert’s new book of poetry, Late In The Antenna Fields, which she finds to be an "architecture of loss and longing," tinged with "a tension of the cool." But there "are laws to cool, and Gilbert names them, and they reside in signals and machines, but loosely. He takes off the layers of childhood intensity with a laid-back commitment to air and what it has melted from…" Poetry on Poetry…
