Issue 106: 19 March 2020

/Issue 106: 19 March 2020

Whiteness in Bloom

By | 2020-03-15T14:56:44-07:00 March 19th, 2020|Categories: Issue 106: 19 March 2020|Tags: , |

By Jill McDonough Thinking about whiteness, what it is and what it does, we go to the MFA to see Art in Bloom. Groups of white suburban women, garden clubs, look at art, arrange some flowers to look like the art. Or something. Lilies scattered over scaffolding: the Rape of the Sabine Women; a column [...]

To Face Ourselves

By | 2020-03-15T14:13:51-07:00 March 19th, 2020|Categories: Issue 106: 19 March 2020|Tags: , , |

By Claudia Wair   Most people keep their masks in a kitchen drawer or hang them up on a rack next to their keys. The masks are then easily accessible in case of visitors and when you’re on the way out of the house. My mother is different, though. She keeps hers in the top drawer [...]

Elongation

By | 2020-03-15T14:57:48-07:00 March 19th, 2020|Categories: Issue 106: 19 March 2020|Tags: , , , , |

By Annette Januzzi Wick    Liz Warren drops from orbit Venus still lit but out of reach Back to the old man in the moon Hope doesn’t float when scorched   Annette Januzzi Wick is a writer, teacher and community connector. She makes her home in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine, with her husband, who calls her the “worst [...]

Women’s Day

By | 2020-03-15T14:12:20-07:00 March 19th, 2020|Categories: Issue 106: 19 March 2020|Tags: , , , |

By Cooper Gillespie   Cooper Gillespie is a writer and musician. She was raised in the wettest parts of the Pacific Northwest but escaped to California as soon as she was able and was overjoyed to discover the sun actually exists. She plays bass and sings in LANDROID and is an MFA candidate at UC Riverside-Palm [...]