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How Operatic is Your Poet? by Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein
So, I was wandering the interwebs for mentions of Barthes and coenesthetics, and stumbled onto a few paragraphs from an essay by Peter Brooks: Body and Voice in Melodrama and Opera. This snippet in...
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Driftsaid by Peter Milne Greiner
Learning to talk was not easy for me because, amongst other aberrances, I famously pronounced the color of the sun “lellow”. There was no “Y”. I remember the impediment but not the therapy my mother...
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Language Play by Leah Umansky
I’d have to say that some of my favorite things are poetry and music, though it wasn’t until the last few years that I recognized the roles they play in my life. I’ve been seeing concerts my whole...
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How to Read a Poem Aloud by Donald Dunbar
First, read the poem out loud, word after word, pausing a little at the minor punctuation and perhaps at the line breaks, pausing longer at the major punctuation. Read it as you would read a poem....
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The Music of Life & Death by Lisa Marie Basile
Photography, Alison Scarpulla My relationship to poetry is akin to my relationship to the world: everything exists as a separate force, a moment, an image, a memory—making up the whole. Everything...
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The Necropastoral Song: Joyelle McSweeney in Translation by Sabrina Salómon
Et in Arcadia ego by Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (Guercino) Joyelle McSweeney defines the term ‘necropastoral’ as a reworking of classical notions of the separation of the rural and the urban, the...
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