tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49606720986595453882024-03-28T09:04:56.567-07:00GAS: Poetry, Art and MusicVideo Variety Show and Journal with Interviews, Reviews, Performances, and Readings Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.comBlogger284125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-34685934236408232272024-03-28T09:03:00.000-07:002024-03-28T09:03:57.580-07:00GAS Featured Poet: Jane Downing Australian poet Jane Downing’s work has appeared in journals at home and internationally, including Meanjin, Cordite, Canberra Times, Rabbit, Not Very Quiet, Social Alternatives, Otoliths, Live Encounters, e.ratio, Last Stanza, and Best Australian Poems. Her collection, ‘When Figs Fly’ (Close-Up Books) was published in 2019. She can be found at&Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-57312295397050365712024-03-21T07:02:00.000-07:002024-03-21T07:03:53.265-07:00Su Zi's Review of DOMESTIC BODIES by Jennifer Ruth Jackson The lineage of modern American poetry is now a century of voices, some of which have been levitated into the canon—the voices we find most anthologized, most taught to students. As scholars find perhaps marginalized voices from history and that work is seen anew, out of its time of creation, certain aspects of the canon gain in wider recognition. Our cultural sense of Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-64646729901095250162024-03-14T08:13:00.000-07:002024-03-14T08:43:07.471-07:00GAS Featured Poet: Jim Murdoch Jim Murdoch lives down the road from where they filmedGregory’s Girl which, for some odd reason, pleases him no end. He’s been writing poetry for fifty years for which he blames Larkin. Who probably blamed Hardy. Jim has published two books of poetry, a short story collection and four novels. The Ship of Theseus There are many kinds of Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-53916093790495195492024-03-07T14:56:00.000-08:002024-03-28T09:04:25.963-07:00Featured Poets/Artists: Jerome Berglund & Marjorie Pezzoli Jerome Berglund has worked as everything from dishwasher to paralegal, night watchman to assembler of heart valves. Many haiku, haiga and haibun he’s written have been exhibited or are forthcoming online and in print, most recently in bottle rockets, Frogpond, and Modern Haiku. His first full-length collections of poetry Bathtub Poems and Funny Pages were just released by Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-15975988425647864282024-02-29T07:02:00.000-08:002024-02-29T07:07:19.512-08:00Su Zi's Review of Valois J. Vera's I, THE REVOLUTION The personal library is a testament to an individual’s intellectual life, and the volumes curated sometimes have individuality as entities in that collection. Sometimes the rarity of the edition is more than a volume’s history, sometimes the edition is signed or acquired from the author. Upon the release of his book (2023), Valois Vera had a swag bag that was of higher qualityBelinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-65304997645863086462024-02-22T09:01:00.000-08:002024-03-21T07:05:08.059-07:00Su Zi's Review of BEAST BODY EPIC by Amanda Earl The narrative arc occurs often enough in individual poems, and is not utterly rare in an entire volume of poetry, but what stories are being told? The reader will be familiar with a narrative poem that offers a protagonist, and the position of the protagonist as a hero is an established one. The hero takes a journey and the literary work that reports this journey is generally Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-45821741473904761782024-02-15T05:09:00.000-08:002024-02-15T06:36:03.810-08:00GAS Featured Poet: Michael Lee Johnson Michael Lee Johnson lived ten years in Canada during the Vietnam era. Today he is a poet in the greater Chicagoland area, IL. He has 298 YouTube poetry videos. He is an internationally published poet in 45 countries, a song lyricist, has been nominated for 7 Pushcart Prize awards, and 6 Best of the Net nominations. He is editor-in-chief of 3 poetry anthologies, all available on Amazon, and Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-2575351041618726612024-02-08T07:52:00.000-08:002024-02-08T08:00:15.856-08:00GAS Featured poet: Kushal PoddarKushal Poddar has eight books to his credit including Postmarked Quarantine. He is a journalist, father, and the editor of Words Surfacing. His works have been translated into twelve languages, published across the globe. Twitter-https://twitter.com/KushalpoeBlack MonkNight plays with the outer walls.Black acts rebellious, defies gravity's reign.The monks who fed us a dozen Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-1576495359956275652024-02-01T09:35:00.000-08:002024-02-01T09:35:23.352-08:00GAS Featured Poet: Duane Anderson Duane Anderson currently lives in La Vista, Nebraska. He has had poems published in Fine Lines, Cholla Needles, Tipton Poetry Journal, and several other publications. He is the author of On the Corner of Walk and Don’t Walk, The Blood Drives: One Pint Down, and Conquer the Mountains.The Shoe Enthusiast The only mail from today’s delivery, a flyer addressed to my Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-39724520838453272892024-01-25T08:19:00.000-08:002024-01-25T08:19:25.139-08:00GAS Featured Poet: Holly Day Holly Day’s poetry has recently appeared in Slipstream, Penumbric, and Maintenant. She is the co-author of the books, Music Theory for Dummies and Music Composition for Dummies and currently works as an instructor at Hugo House in Seattle and at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Outside If I try hard enough, I can see Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-43773510121896944472024-01-11T07:26:00.000-08:002024-01-11T07:26:38.677-08:00GAS Featured Poet and Translator: El Habib Louai El Habib Louai is a Moroccan poet, translator, musician and assistant professor of English at Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco. His research focuses on the cultural encounters, colonial discourse and postcolonial theory and he worked the Beats’ archives at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Fulbright grantee. He took creative writing courses at Jack Kerouac School of Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-37713104699341375842024-01-04T08:18:00.000-08:002024-01-04T08:28:41.877-08:00GAS Featured Poet: Jay SimpsonJay Simpson was born in Sydney, Australia. She worked as an English,Drama and Music Teacher for many years in schools, TAFE and theUniversity of Newcastle. She moved to Perth, Western Australia in2011. She is recently published in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, TheAlien Buddha LovesYou, Masticadoresindia, Fevers of the Mind, Voicesfrom the Fire Anthology, Dumpster Fire Press, The Writer’s Club,HorrorBelinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-60518884876403371562023-12-28T07:14:00.000-08:002023-12-28T07:15:50.332-08:00GAS Featured Poet: Arvilla Fee Arvilla Fee teaches English Composition for Clark State College and is the poetry editor for the San Antonio Review. She has published poetry, photography, and short stories in numerous presses, and her poetry book, The Human Side, is available on Amazon. For Arvilla, writing produces the greatest joy when it connects us to each other.Time Out I remove myselffrom shoulders Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-88117368110455548912023-12-21T06:44:00.000-08:002023-12-21T06:44:38.872-08:00GAS Featured Artist and Poet: Ivan Jenson Ivan Jenson is a fine artist, novelist and popular contemporary poet who lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His artwork was featured in Art in America, Art News, and Interview Magazine and has sold at auction at Christie’s. Amongst Ivan’s commissions are the final portrait of the late Malcolm Forbes and a painting titled Absolut Jenson for Absolut Vodka’s national ad campaign. His Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-76190510095805018262023-12-14T08:07:00.000-08:002023-12-14T08:08:37.158-08:00GAS Featured Poet: Wendy Webb Wendy Webb (she): Born in the Midlands, home and family life in Norfolk, keen gardener and photographer. Published in Indigo Dreams, Quantum Leap, Crystal, Envoi, Seventh Quarry, The Frogmore Papers, The Journal) and online (Littoral Magazine, Wildfire Words, Lothlorien, Atlantean, Radio: Poetry Place), Writing Magazine 1st Prize (Pantoum). Wrote her father’s Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-29911379392877087562023-12-07T05:31:00.000-08:002023-12-07T05:31:29.287-08:00GAS Featured Poet: Richard Vargas Richard Vargas was born in Compton, CA. He earned his B.A. at Cal State University, Long Beach, where he studied under Gerald Locklin and Richard Lee He edited/published five issues of The Tequila Review, 1978-1980, publishing early works by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Alberto Rios, Nila Northsun, Dennis Cooper, Michael C Ford, Ron Koertge, and many more. His first book, McLife, wasBelinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-6228798231763125542023-11-30T08:28:00.000-08:002023-11-30T08:29:31.278-08:00GAS Featured Poet: Stephen MeadStephen Mead is an Outsider multi-media artist and writer. Since the 1990s he’s been grateful to many editors for publishing his work in print zines and eventually online. Recently his work has appeared in CROW NAME, WORDPEACE and DuckuckMongoose. Currently he is resident artist/curator for The Chroma Museum, artistic renderings of LGBTQI historical figures, organizations and Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-63261619810871852432023-11-22T06:03:00.000-08:002023-11-24T00:41:18.053-08:00GAS Featured Artist: JD Moffitt Themes include independence, solitude, threads of small town life, family and nature. My practice includes predominantly pencil drawing and watercolor on paper. Day to day observations, focus in drawing and painting from plein air, life studies, photographic sources and the imagination.Midwestern small-town Hoosier, I have worked in surveying, drafting, cartography, graphic design, and fineBelinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-92229976571092122402023-11-16T07:44:00.000-08:002023-11-16T08:11:51.670-08:00GAS Featured Poet: George Wallace
George Wallace is a NYC based poet and spoken word artist with 42 chapbooks to his name, four albums of spoken word poetry streamed worldwide, and an active schedule of appearances in NYC, nationally and internationally. Recent national appearances include the St. Augustine Poetry Festival, National Beat Poetry Festival, Lowell Celebrates Kerouac, and a poetry soiree in San Luis Obispo Ca; Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-64411057875972871662023-11-09T06:29:00.004-08:002023-11-09T06:31:38.711-08:00GAS Featured Poet: Linda Bratcher Wlodyka Linda Bratcher Wlodyka is the Massachusetts, Beat Poet Laureate, 2023-2025. In the summer of 2023, Linda was chosen as a contributor to WordxWord a summer poetry festival in the Berkshires where she collaborated with a team of poets creating a very large poem that was read aloud for the audience at The Mount. She also has held the position as a docent at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s summer Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-78509263727260931532023-11-02T06:40:00.003-07:002023-11-02T07:25:41.840-07:00GAS Featured Poet: Nicole Kimball Nicole Kimball is an emerging poet from SLC, UT. Her pieces are published in Sunspot Lit, Mom Egg Review, Sky Island Journal, 12 Mile Review, or are forthcoming. A four-time Best of the Net Nominee, her artwork is featured in downtown Salt Lake.Burdens I am the burden of life– the sound of night breaking into two, beading into fine firelight.My worry of things that will never Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-62380959317119177012023-10-26T07:10:00.007-07:002023-10-26T07:11:26.967-07:00GAS Featured Poet: Bart SolarczykBart Solarczyk is a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, PA. Over the past forty years his poems have been published in print & online in a variety of magazines, journals, anthologies, broadsides & chapbooks. He is the author of three full-length collections of poetry including his most recent book, Carried Where We Go, available from Redhawk Publications on Amazon. An Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-47826885281861665042023-10-19T06:01:00.003-07:002023-10-19T06:12:23.836-07:00GAS Featured Poet: Jeff WeddleJeff Weddle grew up Prestonsburg, a small town in the Appalachian foothills of eastern Kentucky. He has lived, worked, and/or studied in New Hampshire, Maine, Tennessee, Mississippi and, for almost twenty years, Alabama, where he teaches in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alabama. Over the years he has been a newspaper reporter, a radio disc jockey, a fry cook, Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-43695843236896814682023-10-12T05:26:00.002-07:002023-10-12T05:26:33.581-07:00GAS Featured Poet: Tom Lagasse Tom’s writing has appeared in numerous literary journals, both in print and online, and in anthologies, including Border Beats. He lives in Bristol, CT. Social Media:www.tjlagasse.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/tjlagasseTwitter: @tomlagasseInstagram: @tom_lagasse SalinasDriving to make my pilgrimage to Steinbeck land, I pass the valley.Wall-to-wall carpet of Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4960672098659545388.post-26795441969037030602023-10-06T13:38:00.002-07:002023-10-06T13:42:49.570-07:00GAS Featured Poet: Andrew WeatherlyAndrew Weatherly lives in Asheville, North Carolina where he hears inspiration from dying trees, Hawaiian shirts, fires, and other poets. He is blessed to teach kids to think for themselves, dance in the streets, and slip off to pilgrimages to sacred mountains. He’s been published in Belle Reve, Axe Factory, Former People, Danse Macabre, Visitant, Cordite, BlazeVox, the Literary Belinda Subramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17800645446901863680noreply@blogger.com0