* Eric McDowell *
The stage became a little society: instead of talking to one another, the participants expressed themselves through their jazz instruments.
Ain’t Misbehavin’: Notes On A Master Class With Han Bennink Read More »
* Nicholas Johnson *
Last December Anarch gallery of London commissioned the artist Andrew T Cross to build a sculpture designed to function as a platform for a series of artists to ‘colonise’ the space. For two weeks Warren St. in London’s Fitzrovia district was host to a frenetic schedule of day long residencies, exhibitions, performances, meals and parties. In the spirit of artist Gordon Matta Clark this temporary community assembled in a vacant lighting show room to propose new ideas about making art.
Colony: An artist-led takeover in London’s Fitzrovia Read More »
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Honza Zamojski, Alexander Calder, the La Brea Tar Pits.
Warsaw Dispatch: I Call This Friendship Read More »
Drive into any village in France and you will find a Great War memorial, usually larger than the WWII memorial, simply because, when WWII came around, there were fewer men left to die.
* Paula Mendoza *
A review of Danielle Pafunda’s Natural History Rape Museum
Natural History Rape Museum, by Danielle Pafunda Read More »
* Gina Balibrera *
For my part, I remember regularly, systemically, intruding upon my little sister’s dreamstate. The idea occurred to me one night as she snored in the pull-out trundle beneath my twin bed. A perfect motor inside of her. Four years younger than me, I could pick her up whenever I felt like it, and I would. That night I lifted her into the closet, placed her gently amongst the sneakers, and shut the door, hopped back onto my bed. She awoke with a start, a snort, a gasp.
*poetry by Campbell McGrath* From curiosity comes dynamism, from obstinacy drive.
From the drawing board, from tinkering, from the machine shop in the old barn come pistons and cams.
“Henry Ford (1904),” by Campbell McGrath Read More »
Natalie Bakopoulos on what makes one Greek, Harry Mark Petrakis on life in Greece today, Bob Brunk on setting a Samuel Beckett poem to music, Ilan Stavans on Andrés Serrano’s Piss Christ, Eric Torgersen on the Rilke of spiritual seekers.
Fiction by George Choundas, Amber Burke, D. Seth Horton, Jill Logan, Jennifer Moses, Tony Tulathimutte
Poetry by Anne Barngrover, Karen Kevorkian, Campbell McGrath, Rachel Richardson
MQR 52:4 | Fall 2013 Read More »
* Kaveh Bassiri *
Do parents choose names in search of their children? My father wasn’t a poet, but he chose sound over meaning. He named his second son Kavoos, an unjust king in Shahnameh, and ended up naming his other sons with Persian words beginning with “ka.”
