Sound and Not

Grant Maierhofer

05.08.17

How does noise change who we are? What is the difference between noise as music and mere cacophony? Grant Maierhofer meditates on the influence of chaotic audio in his life, including SUNN O))), Joy Division, and The Body.

“saint angela”

Theo Francis

05.05.17

“i think a black and white crown vic is basically the platonic ideal of a cop car” New work by Theo Francis.

In Search of Duende: Marina Abramović’s Feral Power

Bradyn Sloan

05.04.17

“The ephemerality and immateriality of the evening lurk in the vaulted space, threaten the elevated precise present, and host duende, which by nature comes awake when time and element are allocated as such.” Bradyn Sloan elegantly charts the duende within a recent Seattle visit by Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramović.

Rooster

Anne-Marie Kinney

05.03.17

“Even when she was the size of an aircraft carrier, the tumbling bodies jockeying for space were a bizarre delight. She imagined her womb as a wilderness where anything could happen.” New short fiction by Anne-Marie Kinney.

To Hack, To Become Immune: An interview with Aase Berg

Paul Cunningham

05.02.17

Aase Berg in conversation with Paul Cunninghan upon the release of her latest book, Hackers, translated from the Swedish by Johannes Göransson.

“I’m Nobody! Who are You?” The Life and Poetry of Emily Dickinson @ The Morgan

Adam DeGraff

05.01.17

Adam DeGraff visits the Emily Dickinson retrospective at the Morgan Library and becomes immersed in previously unfamiliar aspects of her life.

Case Clown

Mairead Case

04.27.17

What does it mean to perform as a clown? What can be gleaned from the experience and carried over into life, creation?

You Were Saying

Zoe Gold

04.26.17

“A cop looks at me from another car and I feel…panic? No, I just regret everything.” New short fiction by Zoe Gold.

Swimming in Starlight: A Review of Hannah Lillith Assadi’s Sonora

Kimberly King Parsons

04.25.17

“Like coming across an animal skull in the sand, gleaming and picked clean, Sonora is as striking as it is unforgettable.” Kimberly King Parsons reviews Hannah Lillith Assadi’s debut novel.

PLIE, TENDU, DEGAGE: 3 MEDITATIONS ON DANCE

Devin Kelly

04.24.17

“Disengage. Set free. Leave. Forgive. Never look back. Look back. Lot’s wife. Orpheus. Fear. Freefall. Loving. Never loving again. Pillar of salt. Banishment. Disembodied, disemboweled, disembarked. Divorce.” Devin Kelly provides a moving exploration of the intersection between lives and bodies.