Swinging Modern Sounds #104: Paradise
For me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
...moreFor me, performance is a conversation with the sacred and timeless, the sublime.
...moreWhat does our “future-dread,” as O’Connell puts it, show us about our own lives in the present?
...more“Technology is our most common landscape, no?”
...moreAll I want is to feed myself like a person who wants to be fed.
...moreWhat my mind cannot yet fathom, my body already knows.
...moreI still wonder what became of all those gentle cows.
...moreI needed to reshape the definitions of words that were used against me.
...moreGirlhood remains, like the land, a constant site of male fascination, desire, and violence.
...moreElizabeth Lindsey Rogers discusses her new collection, THE TILT TORN AWAY FROM THE SEASONS.
...moreR. Eric Thomas discusses his debut memoir-in-essays, HERE FOR IT.
...more“[I]t was thrilling to try to push up against genre and density of language and see what strange hybrids emerged.”
...moreAnd then, from this scorched landscape, transformation.
...moreChange happens. It is dramatic. Poetry transformed lesbian lives.
...moreLooking can be a way to honor, a way to pay our respects.
...moreElvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
...moreLiz Breazeale discusses her debut story collection, EXTINCTION EVENTS.
...moreSurvival, for Landau, is both instinctual and ultimately pointless.
...moreIt isn’t until I look at my wife’s face that I can feel my own fear.
...moreLindy West discusses her new essay collection, THE WITCHES ARE COMING.
...moreBarr is an astonishing image-maker, adept in creating significance through anthimeria.
...moreAlex DiFrancesco discusses their new novel, ALL CITY.
...moreIn such a context, Dana Levin’s particular apocalypses deserve another look.
...moreTaneum Bambrick discusses her debut poetry collection, VANTAGE.
...moreKira Jane Buxton discusses her debut novel, HOLLOW KINGDOM.
...moreWOMEN OF RESISTANCE recognizes this reality with fierce compassion, and a lot of really fine poetry.
...moreKaren Russell discusses her newest collection, ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES.
...moreThese butterflies needed help, and I wanted to deliver them my garden.
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