Review: Why Photographers Commit Suicide

August 14, 2019.Reading time 17 minutes.

“my child asked me if I knew who I was. And I said, yes, I am the speed at which particles collide.”
All of a Sudden

Poetry Rec: Moon in the Windiow by Dorianne Laux

August 13, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

I wish I could say I was the kind of child
who watched the moon from her window

A Message from the Void

July 23, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

In this darkness it didn’t matter who they were, or where they stood. Only that they were human.

Poetry Rec: Medlars and Sorb-Apples

July 22, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Medlars and Sorb-Apples BY D. H. LAWRENCE I love you, rotten,Delicious rottenness. I love to suck you out from your skinsSo brown and soft and coming suave,So morbid, as the Italians say. What a rare, powerful, reminiscent flavourComes out of your falling through the stages of decay:Stream within stream. Something of the same flavour as Syracusan […]

Poetry Rec: Ozymandias

July 21, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

I met a traveller from an antique land

Poetry Rec: Love Songs by Mina Loy

July 20, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

Spawn of fantasies

Poetry Rec: The Garden by Moonlight

July 18, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

The garden is very still, /It is dazed with moonlight, /Contented with perfume, /Dreaming the opium dreams of its folded poppies.

Poetry Rec: Venus Transiens

July 16, 2019.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Tell me, was Venus more beautiful than you are?

Summertime Sadness: Lana Del Rey didn’t prepare me for this level of misery

July 16, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

I know that I should remain positive and motivated and remember that everything will turn out okay–but damn it feels good to just wallow sometimes.

“Unmarked”: A Photography Series Reexamines True Crime

June 23, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

Stephen Chalmer’s photography series “Unmarked” provides a refreshing breath of empathy into the unbelievably popular and macabre genre of true crime. Not the misplaced kind of empathy that leads people to stupidly sympathize with and idolize serial killers–it’s the good kind that brings light to the victims. In describing his work, Chalmer’s website describes these […]