Poetry
Evel Knievel
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Jamey JonesJAMEY JONES is from Pensacola, FL where he has long been an active proponent of all things poetry. His works include the book Blue Rain Morning (Farfalla, 2011), and the chapbooks the notebook troubled the sleep door and Twelve Windows, both from brown boke Press.
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Like Being In Your Head Not Mine
By Bianca StoneNOV 2022 | Poetry
It is radical to comprehend the importance of the simple act of naming something in front of another person. Yet, poetry engages in this particular kind of conversation all the time, naming what is, to make possible what might be.
A Reimagination of the Bimbia Slave Port
By Sada MalumfashiNOV 2022 | Critics Page
I imagine a slave port to be a port: A harbor where ships load and unload humans, connected to a coast, to a river, to a large body of water. But this wobbly bus drives upward not to a seaport, but up and up a hill, with our bodies rocking.
Shana Hoehn: Basket Toss
By Alexandra DrexeliusMARCH 2023 | ArtSeen
Inhale deeply and try to hold your breath. A thin trace of air propelled from the groin to the belly to the lungs to the nostrils lingers; a tight sensation suffuses the chest and head. How long can the body endure the dense emptiness that anticipates an exhale? This is the tension embodied in Shana Hoehn’s sculptures now on view at Prairie in Chicago, Illinois.
Robert Janitz at the Anahuacalli
By Suzanne HudsonOCT 2022 | ArtSeen
These last works especially bait other kinds of readings, not least in their figuring of semiotic becoming: the shapes suggest a human form seen from behind against a monochrome or gradient ground, with the orb standing in for a head and its base then legible as shoulders.
