This film in question is Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and its aesthetic failures seem to be a direct result of its ethical failures. Continue reading
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An Emergency Issue: Art and Engagement
Starting on September 15th we’ll be releasing a special issue of The James Franco Review: Art You Engaged/Are you engaged? Writers, editors, and artists around the country explored what it meant for them to be politically or consciously engaged in their work and to also examine literature’s relationship to safety. Every time I read … Continue reading
Poetry by Andrew K. Peterson
Thirty Soul Mates Today we’ll likely witness the first Norton Poetry Lecture partially delivered by keytar. Quiz: considering prior recipients— (a) Eliot, (b) Hancock, (c) Cage, (d) Kentridge— who might’ve said, there are no wrong notes, just better choices? My point being, recent thinking on the state of the soul mate has been … Continue reading
Poetry by Tina Mozelle Braziel
Allure Song Allure 1. Suede Nude before the mirror, she scrutinizes her sapling legs and the ant-bite swell of breasts, searching for some allure there. She fingers the gold sequined thong, then steps into it the way she’d cross a low wall. Sliding into heels, she grasps her hips. Sashay, she thinks, sashay like the … Continue reading
Two Poems by Patrick Fontes
Two Poems by Patrick Fontes Mi Primo’s Stain The Dust Blower’s Dream Mi Primo’s Stain Mi primo’s canvas painted body monochrome India ink on brown skin blurred scribble on his forearm faded into prison cell walls at juvie 1983 then Corcoran, Wasco, Tracy, Quentin “Damn primo, this is my second strike” he scoops more of … Continue reading
Poetry by Chelsey Weber-Smith
Three Poems by Chelsey Weber-Smith One day someone important will say this is not a poem Walking up and down the same strip of land Li Po, I heard your drunk ass tried to embrace the moon and drowned One day someone important will say this is not a poem so I’ll join … Continue reading
Poetry by Yasmin Belkhyr
Four poems by Yasmin Belkhyr Ars Poetica Swim Good Single Exposure Jackson’s Island Ars Poetica the shadow of a thigh on a cream wall // your father’s name or your father’s throat // the things we only do past 11 // a forest of brown legs and feet // a belly green as gold, soft … Continue reading
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