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The Blue Word
Laura Christina Dunn summons memories of a beached whale and a lost love, wondering how much of how we live can be sustained.
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selections from Holding Company
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Major Jackson uses a repeating form to make room for a roster of desires, as well as the craft they foster and fill.
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Notes on Aura Portraits
Anna Von Mertens walks us through her hand-dyed and stitched interpretations of the Mona Lisa, Caravaggio’s Bacchus, Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe, and others guided by the principles of aura photography.
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Direction Nowhere
Forty years ago this month, Neil Young and Miles Davis shared a bill at a theater in New York City. Nate Chinen looks at two stars whose orbits passed tantalizingly close.
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4D
At Length talks to musician and composer Matthew Shipp about his new record 4D, his influential work as curator of the groundbreaking and genre-smashing Blue Series for Thirsty Ear Records and his often difficult relationship with the jazz establishment.
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The Residue of God & After the Waiting Room
In two new poems, Kimiko Hahn talks to one of Elizabeth Bishop’s best-known works and traces a history of beauty, investigation, authority and error reaching to the present.
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Dark Adaptation: Milan, 1510-11
Da Vinci’s sketches of his stillborn child, still in utero, frame an expectant father’s thoughts on the desire for knowledge and the persistent expectation that something closer to the center remains to be seen. By David Hawkins.
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James Pomerantz
Photography inspirations, the Caucasus and treading the halls in school, are the subject of photographer James Pomerantz’s discussion with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery in their latest feature for At Length.
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Owl Wolf Ghost
A host of creatures stalks the outer reaches of intimacy as Paula Bohince conjures human and inhuman, natural and supernatural wills.
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Finch (Original Soundtrack)
At Length joins novelist Jeff Vandermeer and rock band Murder by Death’s Adam Turla in a conversation about the latter’s haunting soundtrack to Vandermeer’s darkly fantastic detective novel, Finch, the third and final volume in his award-winning Ambergris Trilogy.
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Ruins
Antique processes, collaboration and the art of Ruins, are the subject of photographer Beth Dow’s discussion with Darren Ching and Debra Klomp Ching of Klompching Gallery in their inaugural feature for At Length.
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The Whole Tree Gone
Dynamic pianist and composer Myra Melford talks to At Length about her new record, The Whole Tree Gone, and pushing the boundaries of geography, genre and gender.
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Layoff
Craig Morgan Teicher responds to a lost job with a wide-ranging meditation on money, family, poetry, and responsibility, as well as the relationships that threaten to slip through the cracks.
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Marcela Silva’s Galactic Objects
Artist Marcela Silva corresponds with At Length about sculpting and painting her “celestial peculiarities,” and discovering the “profoundly huge expanse” of both science and art.