Themes from a Summer
* Eric McDowell *
This summer I read two books about music, equally fascinating on their own and even more so in combination.
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David Nash Communes with Nature
* Robert Sparrow Jones *
Nash is an obvious sentient being. His language is wood—oak, elm, ash, lime, yew, redwood and mizunara. He speaks it very well. The life-force of the tree and it’s inherent properties; light, moisture, minerals, and gasses, are thoughtfully considered while approaching every sculpture. He shapes and gouges, using deep cuts as linear drawing by way of chainsaw. They are not fastidious. However, the most important methodology in his work is…letting go.
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Material Girl
* Oksana Lutsyshyna *
To think about clothes is a distraction, even in strange and, at times, dramatic circumstances. A lot comes to mind. My daughter and I are considering a little yard sale: selling clothes we don’t wear anymore, and thus raising money for the needs of Ukraine.
Warsaw Dispatch: Your Place?
My Polish residency officially expired yesterday, and I mourn its passing. Nevermind that my non-renewal of this residency status was due to pressing US concerns and according to original plan.
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Clean Sweep
* Lillian Li *
August 7th was moving day, a day I had anticipated with equal parts dread and excitement since the dead-end of January.
The Case for Locally Sourced Books
* Kevin Haworth *
What if we assigned books the way that many of us buy our food—from the local outward. What would a locally-sourced book list look like?
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Literacy for Poets
* Leah Falk *
In the fiftieth anniversary year of Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media, considering the alphabet as both technology and aesthetic object.
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Intimacy, and Maureen McLane’s My Poets
* Paula Mendoza *
I’m fascinated by the phenomenon of literary intimacy—the relationship between a reader and the literature they love—and in particular, the intimacy between a poetry reader, and the poets they admire.
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On Transformative Compassion
* Kaveh Bassiri *
The recent trying political events in the Middle East are so dark and troubling that I lost the elation of Arab Spring and went in search of moral and ethical grounds — a vista where I can look at what is happening from a clear vantage point.
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Fearsome Beauty, the Art of Lauren Boilini
* Robert Sparrow Jones *
“I thought I was touching God the first time I tackled someone in a rugby practice. When I played rugby I loved being crushed into a scrum, pushed into the inside of a maul, piled into a ruck. I loved being a part of bodies on top of bodies, on top of bodies, and I think that has reflected in my work over the years. Open water swimming is all about vast, open space that surrounds you, and over time that has become a necessary contrast to the compression of space that I usually look for.” –Lauren Boilini
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