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Depeche Mode Gets Political
Depeche Mode really get it. With their latest, and 14th studio album Spirit, they go back to their goth punk roots and get political. This comes at a time where we need to be political, both with what we say and definitely with how we act. The album is a clear reaction to Trump and Brexit, especially with their song "Where's the Revolution?"
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Poetry by Monica Rico
Monica Rico is a second generation Mexican American feminist who writes at www.slowdownandeat.com. Her chapbook “Twisted Mouth of the Tulip” is available from Red Paint Hill Publishing.
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'Salem' Is the Bad Netflix Show You Need to Watch
A lot of people don't like to admit the "bad" art or music or movies or TV shows they enjoy. I personally don't care (because entertainment is entertainment and we all need to take a break sometimes). One of mine is the Netflix show "Salem," a show that was cancelled after three seasons, airing its last episode in January 2017 after starting in 2014.
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Is It OK To Make Fun Of Instagram Poets?
"Here ye, here ye, we, the EXPERTS of poetry, therefore judge you cliche and hackneyed."
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A Daughter of Hemingway
My mother once told me that young girls who live without their fathers always seek a father. First we seek our real father, sometimes we seek our spiritual father second, but always we search for a father. I have learned that you cannot pin the word father to a man’s jacket and expect him to remember to answer to the title or even to wear the jacket. Uncles and grandfathers have stood in line for me to pin a title to and all have failed. So why not pin the title to a man I never met? One I’ll never meet.
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5 Poets Whose Performances Will Make Your Bones Shiver
Button Poetry is one of the best and most innovative presses and organizations around right now. They run a video/reading series of poets performing their work, and it's so amazing.
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Pan’s Labyrinth (2006
8 International Films About the Terrifying Magic of Girlhood You Must Watch
Thus, these films below present young women creating an alternative reality to the limited structures or paths enforced upon them. These protagonists often find themselves willingly entering a rabbit hole, so to speak, to freely explore the nuances of their selves. Through magics within the self, these protagonists return to the familiar world ready to assert their narrative.
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Creeper Crate: Campy Fun Box for Horror Babes
...fun and camp and glamour and a whole lot of anticipation.
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Poetry by Kai Coggin
Kai Coggin is a queer Filipino-American poet living in the valley of a small mountain in Hot Springs National Park, AR.
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5 Love Witch Inspired Items to Help You Wait Patiently for Anna Biller's next Release
So, basically, she had me at "Bluebeard." But since films, especially those created with the deliberate artistic and critical intent that Biller is known for, can take lots of time, here’s a list of items to tide you over until the big release.
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Natalia Drepina
Collaborative Poem by Alexis Bates & Logan February
pomegranate
with a neck bent / like prayer
I clung to the fruit as though I was
a part of it / a seed needing to be cut
away / I stared at food the way
murderers look / at their victims
the way God looks upon his creations
a single pomegranate
holds hundreds of decisions inside
its skin & eating was always
the wrong one / but it was sacred
sliding pulped flesh past my lips
spitting out seeds / just like it is
holy / to claim the self:
sickness / success /
I am hundreds of little / red decisions
scattered on the kitchen floor
& so what / if they don’t all taste good
I stare in the mirror / take a knife
to these delicate ideals
split them open wider
& wider / avoid the body
grip the fruit tight
it does not taste killer
I do not feel victimized
this is still progress
Alexis Bates is a poet and writer that uses words to become intimate with an audience. You can read her words in Luna Luna Magazine, Five:2:One, Vagabond City Lit, and elsewhere. Her micro-chap, When Cars Touch, is forthcoming from Ghost City Press.
Logan February is a happy-ish Nigerian owl who likes pizza & typewriters. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in (b)OINK, Wildness, Vagabond City, and more. His chapbooks, Painted Blue with Saltwater (Indolent Books) and How to Cook a Ghost (Glass Poetry Press) are forthcoming. Say hello on Instagram & Twitter @loganfebruary.
In Order To Write Poetry, Don't Treat It Like Poetry
Poetry isn’t a grand mystery. It can be, and there are certainly moments where you want ambiguity, but it doesn’t have to be confusing, for either the writer or reader. Writing poetry, like fiction (and really, making any kind of art), is about utilizing all aspects of your brain, your body, your craft. I regularly teach poetry workshops (and I used to be a high school English teacher), so I'm constantly thinking of new ways to challenge myself and others—and finding ways to keep pushing myself to explore the nuances of poetry.
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Elisa Scascitelli
On Fortune Telling
When I was little someone told me that only the devil could tell the future. Anyone who claimed to be a fortuneteller, anyone who seemed to know things before they happened, were that of the devil. I wondered if I would go to hell because I always knew things before they actually happened. My mother said that she didn’t know of such a verse and she said I was just lucky: She said I had a lucky "gift" of knowing possibilities and knowing truths before they materialized. It never felt lucky: it felt like rocks in the pit of my stomach dragging me closer to hellfire. I could ask myself is this really going to happen? And I would always know the answer. I felt guilty for having the gift of knowing.
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Video Reading: Marosa di Giorgio's I Remember Nightfall
A new video series over at Luna Luna. First up, Marosa di Girgio.
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