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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Roberto Carlos Garcia
Down these mean streets, 2017, Roberto Carlos Garcia from Mixtape for City Kids from Dysfunctional but Happy Families, Kids Like Me (a new form )by Roberto…
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Jim Cummins Takes a Noir Detour
We date the “classic” noir period from 1941's The Maltese Falcon (or even Orson Welles' 1940 Citizen Kane, itself a mystery about Fate) to the 1959 Welles tour-de-force Touch of Evil. But noir wasn't noir until the French got…
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“Lost” [by David Wagoner]
Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside youAre not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,Must ask permission to know it and be known.The forest…
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Richard Deming on “A Touch of Evil” as BFI Film Classics Return
BFI Film Classics – books commissioned by the British Film Institute, published by Bloomsbury in the United States — make a welcome return with Richard Deming’s excellent study of A Touch of Evil. Orson…
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Reading Poetry to Ward off the Covid Blues [by Nin Andrews]
It’s another day and soon it will be another month in this miserable COVID summer. The sunlight is streaming through my window, and outside, the goldfinches are swooping through the meadow that is so…
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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
we the dancing millionsby Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes (after Omar Sakr’s Where I am Not) I ask the driver if he likes New York. we have not yet established I speak his…
