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Where Does My Body Live? – Kenji C. Liu [Asian Pacific American Heritage Month]
* Previous posts in this series: Kenji C. Liu - Craig Santos Perez - Ching-In Chen - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Andre Yang - Barbara Jane Reyes As someone who was raised as a man, my gender is an incredibly slippery experience to write…
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Resisting the Narrowing of Community – Barbara Jane Reyes [Asian Pacific American History Month]
* Previous posts in this series: Kenji C. Liu - Craig Santos Perez - Ching-In Chen - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha - Andre Yang When Kenji Liu invited me here to write about APIA poetry communities, I confess, I wanted to rant about…
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Charles Bukowski: Woodcut by Loren Kantor
Charles Bukowski (c) Loren Kantor "Woodcuts are by their very nature brusque, harsh & bold," writes woodcut artist Loren Kantor. "What makes a woodcut portrait come to life are age lines, wrinkles and weathered…
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Julie Sheehan, Constituent Bartender: You Get What You Order
Bars are not democracies, but in both cases, you get what you order with regularity. Voters pick the guy who’s going to deregulate, reform education and cut taxes, and lo! that’s what he does.…
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“Famous Blue Raincoat” (by Lawrence J. Epstein)
Were the haunting, breathtaking, painful lyrics of “Famous Blue Raincoat” written by almost any other songwriter besides Leonard Cohen, there would be no question about the song’s meaning. It appears to a straightforward confessional…
