Book Reviews, CD Reviews, DVD & Video Reviews and Interviews
BELLE OF THE BALL

BELLE OF THE BALL

July 16, 2018
Interviews
Suzanne Lummis tells all about the Los Angeles Poetry Festival Suzanne Lummis resides in Los Angeles, where she is director of the Los Angeles Poetry Festival, award-winning teacher with UCLA Extension, and advocate in various Southern California movements and literary uprisings. She combines her background in Poetry writing and theater in the language-driven performance group Nearly Fatal Women. Her plays "October 22, 4004 B.C., Saturday" and "Night Owls" have received Drama-Logue Awards for Playwriting, and she sometimesappears in local…
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Carlye Archibeque

Carlye Archibeque

June 22, 2018
Reviews
Bio A Los Angeles native, Carlye Archibeque has been writing, hosting and publishing poetry since her early 20s. In her time on Earth she's held many jobs that provided inspiration for a career in poetry: weapons and tactics trainer for the Navy, casino waitress, fry cook, postal carrier and visual effects coordinator for Spider-Man 2 to name a few. A long time contributor to the LA poetry scene she has hosted numerous readings starting at the Iguana Café and…
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GENE RODDENBERRY’S ANDROMEDA

GENE RODDENBERRY’S ANDROMEDA

June 5, 2018
Reviews
Television, Dramatic Series Majel Roddenberry, Executive Producer  It has been many years since we saw the idealistic Federation dreamed by Gene Roddenberry. At last, with Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, idealism is again the motivation for a captain and his ship. I have been picturing Roddenberry turning over in his grave at the "edginess" (read pessimism") of Deep Space Nine and Voyager, but now he can relax. Captain Dylan Hunt's Commonwealth is hope come back to life. I have found most…
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Book Reviews Poetry

Book Reviews Poetry

June 5, 2018
Poets
THE BAD THING S.A. Griffin Phony Lid Press Poetry In Griffin's THE BAD THING, one of Unborn Again's poetic realities, MacArthur Park's Lim's Oriental Restaurant becomes as haunting as a scene written by Charles Willeford. Willeford, who has been called "The Pope of Psychopulp," in the liner notes to THE DIFFERENCE, is comparable to Griffin with one distinct difference: Griffin's uplifting sliver of humanity, as evoked in the works final piece, "There Is A River," which he finds present…
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A CROSS AND A STAR: MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH GIRL IN CHILIE

A CROSS AND A STAR: MEMOIRS OF A JEWISH GIRL IN CHILIE

June 1, 2018
Books
Marjorie Agosin Feminist Press (Memoir) Poets seem to have a knack with memoir. There's already something very baring about much contemporary poetry that is similar to what many memorably brave and direct memoirs possess. There's also something even more immediate about translation. Works translated into English often have a stunning directness, which can owe itself to the difficulty of effectively bringing the idioms and cadences of another language into our own. These tendencies, like any elements of writing, can…
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