Culture Shock: The Only Provable Way To Improve Your Life Sherman Alexie Visits Our “Literary City” “If I wasn’t writing poems, I’d be washing my hands all the time,” Sherman Alexie once said. His work has that effect—of running [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 19, 2016 Read More (Lee Towndrow)
Book Review: Zero K Zero K Extends Career-Long Queries Page 159: “I almost know some things. I think I am going to know things but then it does not happen.” This is [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 19, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: Leonard Peltier’s Last Chance For Freedom Gregg Deal's Visual Activism Is Indicative Of The Power Of Art In 2005 then-Secretary of State Colin Powell stood in the Security Council chamber at UN headquarters in New York. He was there to [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 12, 2016 Read More (Dirty Velvet)
Forget Love, Juliet Wants Life The Women Of Shakespeare Question Their Maker At intermission I turned to my partner and said enthusiastically, “This is delightful!” Slouched in his chair, his hair ruffled and eyes glazed, [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 12, 2016 Read More (Bob Jesser)
Culture Shock: More Than White Men On Horses El Retrato Nuevomexicano Ahora Explores The Many Contexts Of Portraiture In the heart of the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s art museum, an expansive collection of portraiture by New Mexican artists has expanded its [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 05, 2016 Read More Begin That Beguine (Max-Carlos Martinez)
Comic Review: We Can Never Go Home “Reckless youth with handguns and full of bad ideas.” That line will either perk your interest or make your stomach turn. Those same [...] Mikee Riggs \ May 05, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: Solastalgia : (N.) The Pain Experienced When The Place Where One Resides Or One Loves Is Under Immediate Assault I remember sitting in a classroom and learning about western culture and feeling no proper representation of myself within it./ I wish I [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 05, 2016 Read More (courtesy of the artist)
Poetry News Selected Poems For National Poetry Month Esta Spalding described reading poetry as “rid[ing] into absence, [the] province of the heart.” Joyous or bereaved, poetry is the ink and paper [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 28, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock:the Queen Of The Geeks Felicia Day Embraces Her Weirdness, Online And Off “If you’re familiar with my acting work,” Felicia Day writes in her memoir, You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), “you know that [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 28, 2016 Read More
Gallery Preview: The Merry Month Of May New Galleries Downtown Brighten The Season “And a bird overhead sang Follow/ And a bird to the right sang Here/ And the arch of the leaves was hollow/ And [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 28, 2016 Read More