The United Cinematic States of America
Guest post by Gareth Higgins “You have to be a stranger to the landscape to regard it as a view.” — Geoff Dyer “I wish I had your passion, Ray, misdirected as it may be. But it is still a passion.” —...
View ArticleYou Tell ’Em, Duke Porn Star
Like everyone else with a lick of moral sense, I was shamed and saddened by the news out of Duke University last February that a freshman student was paying her tuition bills by doing porn. Belle Knox,...
View ArticleI Am an American
I refresh the page, I refresh the page, I turn away for a few minutes, I teach a class for seventy-five minutes, I sit in a meeting for sixty minutes, and on the way to the meeting, on the way back to...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: “The Last Supper”
This poem is a meditation on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous painting, “The Last Supper.” But the meditation moves in an unexpected direction. The first stanza stays with the painting, though with a comical...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: “Prayer”
I used to collect poems that are prayers, so Sharon Cumberland’s “Prayer” immediately leapt out at me from the pages if Image. Leapt out—but then instantly grabbed me uncomfortably in the opening line:...
View ArticlePoetry Friday: “The Anxiety Offices”
Are any of us sleeping much lately? With such grief in the world right now, I suspect anxiety keeps a lot of us awake nights. What a rosary of sound and image Lisa Russ Spaar gives us to work through...
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