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Elizabeth / this is your life. Get up and look for color [by Laurence Goldstein]
Next week, as we all know, Elizabeth Alexander (left) will read a poem composed for the occasion at the inauguration of Barack Obama. The welcome mat is being extended by communities beyond the sphere…
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Quote of the Day: “Blazing forth and muddling through.” Philip Roth on 50-plus years as a writer
C.M. Looking back, how do you recall your 50-plus years as a writer? P.R. Exhilaration and groaning. Frustration and freedom. Inspiration and uncertainty. Abundance and emptiness. Blazing forth and muddling through. The day-by-day repertoire of oscillating…
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We All Belong…to Dance [by Charise M. Hoge]
People have signature moves, which collapses the argument that you can’t or don’t dance. There’s a proscenium that is not a dance floor––it’s wherever you exist in space, with weight, timing and energy. Rudolph…
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Full of Strange Experience: Seven Brief Reviews by Dante Di Stefano
Swarm Queen’s CrownStephanie Adams-SantosFathom Books, 2016 Stephanie Adams-Santos’ collection of finely-wrought, barbed, numinous lyric poems weaves from “a few warbled jags of wind” a laurel for all searchers enthralled and menaced by the beauty…
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Dancer and Poet Meet at the Barre [by Charise M. Hoge]
How does a poet know how to phrase writing? How does a dancer know how to phrase movement? In a turning point of enjambment the phrase hangs in mid-air…this sounds like dance, and this…
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Charise M. Hoge, Guest Author January 15-19
This week we welcome Charise M. Hoge, MA, MSW, as our guest author. Charise is a dance/movement therapist, performing artist, and writer. Her work in arts and healing has brought wellness programs into hospitals,…
