In one of my recent Google searches I came across an object relevant to my research on ritualized habitual consumption. My first reaction was gratitude, and maybe a giggle or two. But then I noticed with disappointment the site on which I found the object: The Museum of Idolatry, Artifacts of Apostasy.
Now, I must give props where props are due; Read More »
These stories…they are everywhere. Around us in analog. Drowned out by too many channels of static and sound. Images and moving pictures. Digitized.
Lifeboat Etiquette (Ryan Hollen) is the checkout man at your local grocer. These stories–they are in front of him everyday. They are in the eyes of the folk buying the eggs. Read More »
I was sitting in a crowd of poets at a summer writing conference. In front of us sat a panel of editors discussing the submission process from the editor’s view. The most singular comment of that afternoon came from an editor of a prestigious review. He told the crowd of writers Read More »
I had the opportunity to think about God’s creation and creative abilities during a recent Bible study meeting. I was astounded, probably again, by God’s awesome creative power. He created this entire world and everything in it–all that we see–but He did so with beauty and surprises.
In this time of advent, Read More »
I’ve made a tremendous mistake.
I wrote a poem. This, certainly, was not the mistake.
I published the poem. Also not the mistake.
Within this poem, I told a (“based on a true story”) story and aimed, however feebly, at an aching truth, which was not altogether reliant on the facts of the original story Read More »
Everyone has a few, unforgettable first encounters with this or that poet. A few of these occasions come under the noblest circumstances (e.g. that instant you comprehended, in a flash, the whole Blakean cosmology). Others arrive in the “ig-noblest” moments Read More »
FEATURING Sally Rosen Kindred, James Silas Rogers, Peter Mitchell Lawniczak, Micah Bloom + 2011 Visual Art Prize judged by Sandra Bowden, winner Micah Bloom
