I Am Exploring the Distance: A Talk with Buddy Wakefield
Buddy Wakefield is the two-time Individual World Poetry Slam Champion featured on NPR, the BBC, HBO’s Def Poetry Jam, and most recently signed to Ani DiFranco’s Righteous Babe Records. He’s the author of Gentleman Practice and Live for A Living and he tours regularly. More here. *** UFR: Notably, in 2001 you quit your job [...]
Great Moments in Popular Music, in Motion: Justin Bieber, My World 2.0, “Baby” by Manjula Martin
Baby, baby, baby. All the twelve-year-old girls in France like this pretty young man’s pop song, but not Marie, because she’s too cool. The second day of my visit to her father, I give her a blank notebook and a tin box with pictures of bicycles on its lid, marooned items from my heavy baggage [...]
I Like to Overstay My Welcome: A Conversation with Jac Jemc
Jac Jemc lives in Chicago where she makes monsters and writes fiction and poetry. She is the author My Only Wife (Dzanc Books) and her chapbook of stories, This Stranger She’d Invited In, sold out at Greying Ghost Press in March 2011. Jac received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has completed [...]
“Nothing But Up” by Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet
This is the latest in Meg Tuite’s Exquisite Quartet. To go to the column page, please click here. “Baby, we need you. Your dad needs to be suctioned.” I blasted through the last of the pipe. Dad didn’t remember what happened. All we knew is that the ambulance, the cops and the fire truck [...]
Review: Madonna & Me
The Reviewed: Madonna & Me: Women Writers on The Queen Of Pop The Reviewer: Judy Clement Wall *** If you think you’ve read all you ever want to read about Madonna, I don’t blame you and, trust me, you’re wrong. Madonna & Me is a collection of 39 essays written by fierce, funny, insightful women, each reflecting [...]
