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Interview with Portland's Carla Rossi — On Queer Horror & Empowered Women In Pop Culture

June 14, 2017

Obviously I was head over heels for THE VVITCH and the coven in that. MALEFICENT is another hero of mine and I still can't believe that Disney made her film anti-patriarchy rape survival story. I love Faye Dunaway in SUPERGIRL as the witch who lives in a funhouse. My very favorite kind of witches are the earthy Satanic dirt witches who live on the outskirts of society and exist solely to terrify and oppose men—women like Meg Foster in LORDS OF SALEM, the witch in the '80s classic SUPERSTITION (it's amazing, try to find it and watch it!), and Gaga in AMERICAN HORROR STORY. I personally identify as a Satanic feminist witch and these ladies give me life. But so do the Sanderson Sisters in HOCUS POCUS. From the witches of childhood stories to the witch heroes in the movies I love today, I can't get enough of powerful women existing in spite of society, being fabulous, and twisting mens' folly to their will. And, like I and three other drag queens endlessly argued over in our intro to THE CRAFT, I am indeed the Nancy.

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In Interviews, Social Issues, Pop Culture Tags Drag Show, Queer, Queer Horror, Horror, LGBTQIA, Witch
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Via Rebecca Gonzales

Art, Activism & Motherhood: Poet & Book Binder Rebecca Gonzales

June 13, 2017

...bookbinding, activism, and mothering brown boys in these tumultuous days

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via Bast Magazine

via Bast Magazine

The Ultimate List of '80s Music Rarities You Should Know

June 9, 2017

I love all music, but if I'd have to choose a favorite decade in the music scene, it would undoubtedly be the 80s—a time I wish I was transported to right now. My heart just skips a beat whenever a new wave song comes on the radio, my whole body boils with passion and energy when I hear an 80s album remixed beautifully. And so, I created a listicle—albeit abridged—of some of my beloved musical artists with lesser known songs that are nonetheless deliciously tuneful and timeless, with a bit of a background on my favorite genres—gothic rock and new wave.

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Charlotte Wales

Charlotte Wales

10 Songs You Will Love If You're a Lana Del Rey Fan (That Aren't By LDR)

June 8, 2017

Nadia Gerassimenko is the assistant editor at Luna Luna Magazine by day, a moonchild and poet by night. Nadia self-published her first poetry collection "Moonchild Dreams" (2015) and hopes to republish it traditionally. She's currently working on her second chapbook, "at the water's edge." Visit her at tepidautumn.net or tweet her at @tepidautumn.

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In Music Tags Lana Del Rey, Music, Mixtape
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Tomo Nogi

Tomo Nogi

Poetry by Gillian Cummings 

June 7, 2017

Gillian Cummings is the author of My Dim Aviary, winner of the 2015 Hudson Prize (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). She has also written three chapbooks, the most recent of which is Ophelia (dancing girl press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Boulevard, the Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, The Laurel Review, Verse Daily and in other journals.

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What Self-Care & Beauty Rituals Mean for Trans & Non-Binary People

June 5, 2017

Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York, and is the author of Sirs & Madams (Aldrich Press, 2014), The Gods Are Dead (Deadly Chaps Press, 2015), Marys of the Sea (The Operating System, 2017), Xenos (Agape Editions, 2016) and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault (CCM, 2017). Joanna received a MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and is also the founder of Yes, Poetry, a managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine and CCM, as well as an instructor at Brooklyn Poets. Some of their writing has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Brooklyn Magazine, Prelude, Apogee, Spork, The Feminist Wire, BUST, and elsewhere. 

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Via Culture Trip 

Winona Ryder's Misfit Fashion in Film

June 5, 2017

She's been a paradox, a popular unpopular...

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In Beauty, Art Tags fashion, beauty, costumes, gothic, film
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Viviana Peretti

Viviana Peretti

Elegy in Which I Rename a City for You: Poetry by Roberto Carlos García

June 2, 2017

Roberto Carlos Garcia's book, Melancolía, is available from Červená Barva Press. His poems and prose have appeared or are forthcoming in Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day, The New Engagement, Public Pool, Stillwater Review, Gawker, Barrelhouse, Tuesday; An Art Project, The Acentos Review, Lunch Ticket, and many others. He is the founder of Get Fresh Books, LLC, a cooperative press. A native New Yorker, Roberto holds an MFA in Poetry and Poetry in Translation, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His website is www.robertocarlosgarcia.com

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Christine Stoddard

Christine Stoddard

Review of Christine Stoddard's 'Chica/Mujer'

May 31, 2017

Chica/Mujer is a collection of vignettes about women and for women who are biracial but hide their identities or who wear them on their sleeve. It is also for women who grieve the loss of an unborn child or who resist motherhood after giving birth. It is for women who were raped, and for those whose wounds are raw. It is for women who have sex for empowerment. It is for women who are going through menarche but don't quite know how to welcome it or for those who deem it a beautiful, strengthening, cleansing ritual. It is for women who studied so hard to end up working in an entirely different job than they first envisioned or who forewent a full-scholarship due to an unforeseeable traumatic event. 

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In Poetry & Prose, Politics Tags Women, Chica/Mujer, Christine Stoddard, Politics, Chapbook, Political
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David Zvonař

David Zvonař

Occult Poetry by Lisa Grgas

May 26, 2017

Lisa Grgas is a poet based in Portland, OR. Her work has recently appeared in The Literary Review, Fractal Magazine, and elsewhere. 

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Andrew Neel

Andrew Neel

Poetry by Ashley Mares

May 25, 2017

Ashley Mares is the author of Maddening Creatures (Aldrich Press, forthcoming),The Deer Longs for Streams of Water (Flutter Press) and A Dark, Breathing Heart (dancing girl press). Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Stirring, Whiskey Island, Sugar House Review, Glass Poetry Press, Prelude, PANK, and others. She is currently completing her J.D. in Monterey, Ca, where she lives with her husband. Read more of her poetry at ashleymarespoetry.wordpress.com and follow her @ash_mares2. 

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Sin tu Retina

Sin tu Retina

Poetry By Gregory Crosby

May 24, 2017


We’re an elegy, if by elegy you mean
a motherfucker ready to light this place up.

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In Poetry & Prose Tags Poetry, Poet, Poems, Gregory Crosby
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Daria Nepriakhina

Daria Nepriakhina

In the Margins as a Sri Lankan Woman, Artist, & Educator

May 24, 2017

F. Asma Nazim-Starnes was born in Kandy, Sri Lanka and left her country at a young age to pursue a college education in Graphic Design. She studied for a BA in Graphic Design at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, FL, minoring in Art History, and took four years of painting in addition to studying digital design media. She decided to further her studies and attended Florida Atlantic University in Fort Lauderdale, FL to obtain an MFA in Graphic Design. 

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In Politics, Poetry & Prose, Art Tags women of color, art, poetry
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2 Poetry Books By Women to Read This Summer

May 22, 2017

Joanna C. Valente is the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Xenos,  and the editor of A Shadow Map: An Anthology by Survivors of Sexual Assault.  

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In Poetry & Prose Tags marisa crawford, Dallas Athent, poetry, books
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MAAT SUITE BY GARETT STRICKLAND

May 19, 2017

DOT


 

I.

 

[ The madness I make does it like ]

                          [ THIS ]

is where enters
the night’s worst phase                                                              walking on one’s mother

Remembering the encounter of the book the gestation of it as a blind object the potencies hidden
within herein lies mysteries     the impatience in that desire to know that deep loving want of to be
able to be known by it     and even in the un-understanding in the understanding of knowing it as
it was written     thru pores  →  an unstoppable train     this language as seepage a seepage of
language as the age sees its page in the page of disks sick reference bro you are my brother as
this word     the same the same this homonym this home breathing in in unity and then again
again to be untied and once then more united on and on and     [ a mother does her twin sons in
the steamroom and they are not shy of each other ]     read into a tape already looped it builds a
nest     ( wow mom wow mom wow )  and into another such womb are we all the more
enveloped     a deferment of form     cabin’d in ain soph     thirsty for the outside     the madness
of the day     the nonsense of the moment     [ a diagram of the essential mystification ]     reveals
nothing in the manner that one cannot measure momentum-slash-position     a concentric
cube,     this calendar

 

 

II.

 

"Nothing quenches my step."
André du Bouchet

 

Designer time signatures
for rent

for bread     light or bust

worry required to keep
hungry

and qualified

thoughtforms all lined up
and nailed to a board

to admire or play
another game of darts at

carve
tonight’s password

into the wood
of our booth because we’re sitting in it and sitting down

can be
a way of loving

something, us

let this be enough
desire
blown out

as an eyelash
into flame

so forceful
so majestic

certain
declarative & willing

to be wrong

 

"And nothing will be yours except a movement
toward a where that is whereless."
Alejandra Pizarnik

 

 

LINE

 

Ticket
processional

shame parsed
you

whittled person
reenacts

a holocaustian
or bad face

afternoon deprived
of pivot’s distance

yogic piss
on charred glass

piloting
scorched orchards

 

 


Savaging thru a
bag

it’s showtime
overtaken

with the
emoticon

of infinite intimacy
with abjection

& you other
havable joy

 

 


King size
unbarterable

delusion

a kindness
not yet

knock’d
up faerie folk

on cellar shelves
in middle basements

striking
off planet poses
drinking

all the best
potions we’d

forget     yet

 

 


Isle
engine

how you heard

longing
close      or on top

fathoms
from

yr hood

secret  ed
inside

tee shirt thin
lyrics

and the hum
of apt pipes

in the wall
we met

this for

 

 


Leashed
crickets

piston out blues

antenna turnt
to oblivion sis

caught lulling
forcing

to expression
a street

sign
full

of holes in a rut

we
made

out
in

all summers
from now

on

 

 

This slow out of tune
accumulation

of haircuts     of hedonism

and the shape a mouth makes
in sabotage

to our regularly
scheduled      desk&vessel

does a madness
so nice     so good

in the project our light cleans
of weekends

 


There is no approach
in presence

I am at the extreme
of this thing here    I am

& your dream makes
the pocket round

for echoing day


GARETT STRICKLAND is the editor of .PLINTH., ICHNOS, and other publications of the Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia. He is the author of a long-poem, WHOA DONT CARE (Jerkpoet, 2015), and UNGULA (forthcoming from Solar▲Luxuriance). He’s an ordealist.

In Poetry & Prose Tags Poetry, Poet, Garett Strickland, Poems
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