“The functionality of the piece is quite remarkable as the back of the sculpture is carved on an angle allowing for the melting wax to flow through the opening of the eyes.” Will you be in Boston on April 25? Better get your tickets to the Punk Singer‘s single East Coast date now! The To […]
Witness the moving gesture that crippled Ben Schachtman‘s ability to by cynical. It’s found its form: Inception in concert in Vienna. “[Ebert’s] father called Champaign-Urbana ‘the greatest university in the world,’ a Burnham-designed neoclassical oasis with a first-edition Audubon open on display in the library. It was a place that attracted minds from all over […]
In “Washing in the Sangam,” Joshua Robbins writes, Son, through faith you’ve found this hunger answered even as I turn away in our ordinary house from the look of wonder in your face, the expression Christ must have had seeing Lazarus raised. His debut collection, Praise Nothing (University of Arkansas Press, 2013) is populated by this type of […]
Before you spend, some money matters: The University of Houston’s creative writing program hasn’t increased graduate student stipends since 1993 and there are consequences. What’s made a $54.5 million impact on the bleary sub-metropolis of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania? Art. In solidarity with furloughed workers, the president will give up five percent of his salary: “Obama, whose […]
Does a Classic Tomato Soup Cake sound delicious to you? It did to Sylvia Plath. Plath Profiles vol. 5 is online now and features the tremendous j/j hastain! Coming soon: a documentary on New York City’s storied Barbizon Hotel. Not every biography of Plath makes much of her humanity, but it looks like her writing […]
