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Prose Excerpt, Corina Bardoff
Corina Bardoff’s Birthday Cake Tigers is featured in the upcoming issue of Side B Magazine, due out on DECEMBER 1st. You can find the rest of her poem, along with several other works of poetry, prose, art and photography by ordering the PDF or print version of the magazine available on our website starting this Wednesday!
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Issue #2: Poetry Excerpt, Andrea Janov
Andrea Janov’s Single Second is featured in the upcoming issue of Side B Magazine, due out on DECEMBER 1st. You can find the rest of her poem, along with several other works of poetry, prose, art and photography by ordering the PDF or print version of the magazine available on our website starting this Wednesday!
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A Slice from the Library of Congress Archives
The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States, and since it’s beginning in 1800, it has held some of the nation’s most priceless books, documents, and after the civil war, photographs. Possessing 142 million items that stretch over 650 miles of bookshelves, it is the world’s largest library. One ...
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“There was a Child Went Forth,” Walt Whitman
There was a child went forth every day; And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years. The early lilacs became part of this child, And ...
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Spotlight on Michael Arndt
“Whether writing for lost and striving souls traveling in the “Little Miss Sunshine” van, or runaway toys coming to terms with loss and change, Arndt has a gift for writing emotional payoff. Which helps explain why he’s risen so high on the strength of just two films.” - Michael Cavna of The Washington Post A full-time ...
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Alan Lee
Alan Lee is best known for his thorough illustrative work of JRR Tolkien’s books and mythology. Their works make quite a wonderful combination – Lee’s art evokes a delicate depth and attention to detail that Tolkien shares – but the spirit behind Lee’s works leaves its own unique impression of mythical grace.
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Special Topics in Calamity Physics
He said you couldn’t pretend the terrible things in life didn’t happen. You can’t clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It’s how you learn. And try to make improvements – Marisha Pessl, Special Topics in Calamity Physics Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics (2006) was named one of the “Top ...
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“Hip-Hop Saved My Life”, Lupe Fiasco
Musical Mondays: Hip-Hop Saved My Life by Lupe Fiasco He said, I write what I seeWrite to make it right, don’t like where I be,I’d like to make it like the sights on TV,Quite the great life, so nice and easy,See, now you can still die from thatBut it’s better than not being alive from ...
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On money and art
Pola Oloixarac, a young writer honored by the recent Granta publication Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists, brilliantly described herself as “political with a little p.” She’s interested “everyday politics” and “micropolitics” which place the individual against society. As an Argentine writing in the context of Latin America, she is inherently, if not purposefully, political. I ...
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Hobo
Riding freight is like riding in the back of a pickup truck down a washboard dirt road in Mexico while smoking two hundred Camel straights and eating fifty hard-boiled eggs like Cool Hand Luke. Most of all it feels like getting the piss kicked out of you in a stone-dark dungeon. I had black hands, ...
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Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (1923-2004) is mostly known for his black and white photography, but I personally adore the fashion photography he worked on for much of the 1950’s. When his obituary was printed in the New York Times it contained the following quote: “… his fashion and portrait photographs helped define America’s image of style, beauty ...
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“Populist Manifesto No. 1,” Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed-up too long in your closed worlds.Come down, come downfrom your Russian Hills and Telegraph Hills, your Beacon Hills and your Chapel Hills,your Mount Analogues and Montparnasses, down from your foothills and mountains, out of your teepees and domes. The ...