Being a Person is Complicated: An Interview with Chicago Rapper and Educator Lamon Manuel
Hannah Gamble01.14.16
Hannah Gamble talks with Chicago rapper Lamon Manuel of Tomorrow Kings about performance, self-loathing, Blackness, feminism, social media, and his forthcoming solo album, Music To Feel Like Shit To.
Two Stories from Camouflage Country
Ryan Ridge & Mel Bosworth01.13.16
Two very short stories from Camouflage Country by Ryan Ridge & Mel Bosworth, out now from Queen’s Ferry Press, and with illustrations by Jacob Heustis.
Three Jawns: Lobsters, Louise, and Ritual
Sarah Rose Etter01.12.16
In the first installment of her new column, Three Jawns, Sarah Rose Etter takes a look at the latest surreal masterpiece by director Yorgos Lanthimos, a Bourgeois exhibition, and the latest from CA Conrad.
White People Problems
Jimmy Chen01.11.16
“People just loved to hear themselves talk, a constant drum roll preceding what they were about to say.” Jimmy Chen delves into the mental underbelly of the “well-meaning liberal” white man.
Three from Lucy 72
Ronaldo V. Wilson01.08.16
“Conductors float in the air, at night, above me, steel grids levitate over me, while I walk below them. Actually, I forget the night.” Three poems from Ronaldo V. Wilson’s Lucy 72, forthcoming from 1913 Press, selected by Winter poetry editor Julia Cohen.
The Lonesome Vastness
Robert Kloss01.07.16
Having recently relocated from Salem to Boulder, Robert Kloss ruminates on the influence of landscape and historical grounding on the life of the mind.
Two Poems
Nicole Steinberg01.06.16
“I need lessons on how to be / intense on the Internet.” Two new poems by Nicole Steinberg.
Uniquely Qualified Observer: Donna Stonecipher’s Model City
Kent Shaw01.05.16
A contemporary relative to Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Donna Stonecipher’s Model City threads the idea of a multiplicity of place into one immense Model City. Kent Shaw reviews.
Six Questions with Marshall Scheuttle
Danniel Schoonebeek01.04.16
Danniel Schoonebeek talks with photographer Marshall Scheuttle about his series of Las Vegas landscapes and portraits.
The Thaw
Sueyeun Juliette Lee12.30.15
“identify a molten beat inside the human ruin, with acquiescence / what are you willing to relive”: A new long poem by Sueyeun Juliette Lee, selected by Winter poetry editor Julia Cohen.
