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Music for Desks: “Hearing Muted Music”
Posted on April 30, 2021 Leave a Comment
Shakira: “It’s not her fault that she’s so irresistible/ But all the damage she’s caused isn’t fixable.”
This brings quite the smirk to my face: the idea of a Latina pop superstar singing about two white titans of American art
Worn Stories is out!
Posted on April 3, 2021 Leave a Comment
I’m excited and honored to be part of the Netflix series Worn Stories, based on the books by Emily Spivack.
On continually learning from Audre Lorde
Posted on March 19, 2021 Leave a Comment
For the embattled
there is no place
that cannot be
home
nor is
On CYRRCA’s eponymous debut album
Posted on February 23, 2021 Leave a Comment
Originally published in Quip Magazine Type in “CYRRCA musician” into Google and you won’t find much by way of a biography. From the thirteen-tracks in this eponymous debut, which drops February 26, 2021, one can assume that CYRRCA is Russian and goes by he. There’s deliberate privacy curated around the artist CYRRCA, which seems in line with […]
Dennis E. Staples’ debut novel This Town Sleeps
Posted on April 5, 2020 Leave a Comment
Originally published in Lambda Literary The writer Dennis E. Staples’ debut novel This Town Sleeps (Counterpoint Press) takes place on a 667-person Minnesota reservation town named Geshig. In a sparse and beautiful page-long prologue, we encounter a violent act against Kayden Kelliher, a 17-year-old Geshig High School basketball star. His death, brought on by gang violence and […]