Susan Bright
Susan Bright, previously the assistant curator of photographs at the National Portrait Gallery (London), is an accomplished freelance curator and writer. She talks with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching about her second book Auto Focus: The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Photography.
Art in the Airport
Tyler Meier and Joyelle McSweeney open up the terminals, concourses, and gates of two American airports, where Lichtenstein and Smithson loom large.
The Cuddler
Is perfect sex on the perfect piece of furniture really too much to ask? A new story from Trillium Book Award finalist Emily Schultz.
Solos
Matthew Friedberger, one half of the sibling nucleus of The Fiery Furnaces, talks about about his new recording series, Solos, in which he uses six different instruments to create six different albums, and his perversely scrupulous compulsion to leave audiences unsatisfied.
Explanatory Notes and Bios
Meena Alexander I was moved by the poem by J.P.Dancing Bear (though I did not know the poet’s name then)–the lyric grace, the sweet snout […]
A Lover’s Recourse
In this breathtaking sequence of ghazals, Jee Leong Koh explores the infinite variety of love: “Take heart and sing of love’s recourse: the river/is running from the river and still is the river.”
Miss Emily’s Voyage
An Edwardian drawing-room drama, with laser guns, robots, hardcore pornography, and Faith Hill. By Mac Rogers.
Shale and Sandstone
Jack-of-all-trades Douglas Kirby takes us on a trip through time, space and Shale and Sandstone, his new solo release under the name From a Fountain.
Three Poems
“The end of love will be what we become” writes Rachel Hadas, reflecting on the pending loss of a husband and her need to speak as dementia begins to silence him.
Splendid Derelicts
Poet Anna Journey follows “a kind of Elysian Ur-tricycle” through Catedral vegetal, Mexican Surrealist Remedios Varo’s sepiascape, finding the place where canopies establish, fracture, and slip for the willing traveler.
Black Sun Crown
Brian Teare enacts the haunted logic of dreams in an inventive and arresting new sequence, tracing a state in which it’s possible to “lie down in/the river where my mind meets the sea.”
Mario Tama
Mario Tama talks about his five years spent photographing post-Katrina New Orleans and his newly released book, Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent, in a conversation with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery.
Oh and O
Markus Popp’s sonic project Oval has been credited with pioneering the influential genre called “glitch.” Now, after nearly a decade of silence, Oval has returned with a decidedly new musical direction. At Length speaks with Popp about this metamorphosis and previews a new track.
from None Other
In the first section of a vital new book, Allan Peterson writes of the natural world: “There is no other/To explain where it came from is speculation like reading/water from a faucet. Beyond what we think/in our dreams or ideas it is still there/even the island of walruses.”
Amistad
Elizabeth Alexander recounts a key moment from the history of slavery in a sequence whose variety and force ask what it means to live with a brutal legacy in which “Many things are true at once.”