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Every day, hundreds of thousands of us are preoccupied with keeping up a civil if not loving relationship with our parents. In this poem, Mark Irwin (who lives in Colorado) does a beautiful job in portraying, in a dreamlike manner,more…
American Life in Poetry: Column 412
Mark Sanders, who lives in Texas, is not only a good poet, but he’s an old friend to the poetry of my home ground, working hard as teacher, editor, and publisher to bring Great Plains poetry to the attention ofmore…
March 8, 2013 | 7:30 pm | $12
Sam Lipsyte’s “The Fun Parts” Launch Party w/ Mike Doughty
On March 8th InDigest is going to help welcome Sam Lipsyte’s newest book, The Fun Parts, into the world with a reading at (Le) Poisson Rouge. Joining in the fun will be singer-songwriter (and author) Mike Doughty, who will bemore…
The Lyric Sheet: Cloud Cult – “Good Friend”
Good Friend by Cloud Cult Oh this life is so strange, you need a sense of humor. The maker is half caretaker and half joker. We are not broken ones…just shattered pieces of the same bright sun, trying to figuremore…
American Life in Poetry: Column 411
It seems that love poems have a better chance of being passed around from person to person than other poems, and here’s one by Richard M. Berlin, who lives in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts, that we’d like tomore…
Grand-Guignol: Creativity and Fear, part 2 of 2
If you missed Tanja’s post from last week, shame-shame! You definitely owe it to yourself to check it out — Grand-Guignol and the people who made it famous are uniquely and unbelievably interesting! Here is part 2 of Tanja Jurkovich’s featuremore…
InReview: Colson Whitehead’s ZONE ONE
Normally I don’t go for zombie fiction. I have to admit; I was a little hesitant about picking up Zone One by Colin Whitehead. At least it isn’t vampire fiction, right? I f*#%ckin’ hate vampires. Of course, I do gomore…
Books InReview: Lovelylady Road
Somewhere between Mark Twain’s sardonic wit and William Faulkner’s unfettered pathos lies Lovelady Road, C. Robin Jordan’s novel about Ruth Anna, a young girl growing up in Tennessee in the 1980s. Set in the land of moonshiners and Pentecostal holymore…
Film InReview: ‘Blancanieves’
Director: Pablo Berger (Spain, 2012) Runtime: 104 minutes If we confirmed one old suspicion in 2012, it was this: Hollywood cannot be trusted with a fairy tale. They’re too busy accommodating various groups—Publicists, corporate sponsors, the MPAA—to do a storymore…
Dorian Wood’s Rattle Rattle Trailer
Dorian Wood has been working on his latest album, Rattle Rattle, for over four years, and within the InDigest Offices it’s highly anticipated. We’ve talked about him a number of times, whether it was us loving his cover of Tommore…
Grand-Guignol: A Dwelling Place for Creativity and Fear, part 1 of 2
Fear is an emotion, which appears during moments of anguish and unreal emotions of danger. “The real fear is something like a reminiscence of fantastic terrors of the past.” We constantly ask ourselves: why do we allow ourselves to bemore…
American Life in Poetry: Column 410
If you’ve followed this column through a good part of the seven years we’ve been publishing it, you know how hooked I am on poems that take a close look at the ordinary world. Here’s a fine poem by Eamonmore…
