Bryce Dessner's #BLACKMOUNTAINSONGS for the BROOKLYN YOUTH CHORUS :: #THEKIDSAREALRIGHT
[superquote] "Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen." - Walter Gropius, 1919, Bauhaus Manifesto and Program "All the interviewing of former students and faculty are but shallow reminders,
FIELD NOTES :: CLARINDA MAC LOW :: MARCHING AS METAPHOR
[box] For this special edition of our long-running FIELD NOTES series, Clarinda Mac Low (performance and installation artist, journalist, Culture Push director, and all-around making-happen-er of things) adds her voice to the chorus of questions seemingly never far from the
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: SABINA IBARROLA on LEAH LAKSHMI PIEPZNA-SAMARASINHA
When I think of Leah Lakshmi’s poems, I think about femme. I think about hustle, and I think about love. I think of words like pussy and glitter and plum and open. I think about that pretty brown brown. I
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 17 :: SPARROW on PHILIP WHALEN
[line] I met Philip Whalen in 1976 at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, where I was a student (22 years old). Philip co-taught a class with Allen Ginsberg called "Visiting Poetics." At that time Philip was a Zen monk, with a
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 9 :: MAIGA MILBOURNE on NAZIM HIKMET (1902-1963)
[Editor's Note: Maiga Milbourne comes to us via our favorite model: the person to person relay-style hand off from former participants (in this case, frequent OS contributor, and all around badass inspirational mama Caits Meissner). I was overwhelmed with gratitude
3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 5 :: EDWARD TONEY on LOUIS REYES RIVERA
Are You With Me? (Louis Reyes Rivera 1945 - 2012) from ivarad on Vimeo. [Thanks to 30/30/30 2013 participant, JP Howard, for bringing us Edward Toney for this year's series! Here's JP's wonderful piece on Pat Parker. We love person to
2nd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 27 :: BENJAMIN WIESSNER on HARRYETTE MULLEN
I am going to start with an admission—I have a deep and varied past with the poetry of Harryette Mullen. Her masterpiece, Sleeping with the Dictionary, opened my eyes to so many possibilities in poetry. The experience I had is described best by her line, “I’ve been licked all over by the English tongue.”
COMMUNITY :: LAUNCHPAD BK :: Women Love The World Festival
Women Love the World: A three day festival and fundraiser celebrating women artist-activists and their contributions to bettering our world community. We are proud to announce Women Love the World (WLTW), a festival co-curated by Caits Meissner, Karla Rodriguez and Lehna
AWESOME CREATORS :: 100TPC & Revolutionary Poets Brigade Join in Protest and Poetry : Los Angeles
"Camerados . . . will you come travel with us? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?" –Walt Whitman from the Revolutionary Poets Brigade Mission Statement A little over a month ago we shared with you the story of
AWESOME CREATORS :: THEATRE :: THE (ANYTHING BUT) BASiC THEATRE PROJECT INSPIRES AND SHINES
Especially once you learn that its humble misnomer stands for "Bringing Art and Social Change into Collaboration," it should come as no surprise that not long after meeting its charismatic, driven artistic director, Zi Alikhan, I invited the BASiC Theatre Project to be Exit
