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Reading Aloud in Kidjail

By | 2020-11-13T12:02:37-08:00 November 12th, 2020|Categories: Issue 122: 12 November 2020|Tags: , , , |

By Jill McDonough   The boys in my local juvie want to work one on one, write stories, poems, mark up the stuff I give them. More than one kid at a time’s less fun: more fussing, more holding back to show how tough they are. When one of them writes on the other’s paper the [...]

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 [...]