Literary Arts

What Joan and Marie Tell Me by Mayzie Sattler

What Joan and Marie tell meAfter “Merci” (oil on canvas, 1992), one of Joan Mitchell’s latest works before she succumbed to cancer in October of the same year.Joan only paints the...

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“Her”: Future Awe by Mark Lieberman

In writer-director Spike Jonze’s Her, Joaquin Phoenix plays the man some of us might turn out to be in twenty or thirty years. Burdened...
Poetry

Four Poems by Reg Ledesma

These poems were commissioned by Day Eight within a project funded by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's Office of AAPI Affairs, directed by Regie Cabico. model...
Literary Arts

Street Scene by Vincent Casaregola

Street Scene Early evening heat rises frompavements, from cement and asphalt,carrying a scent slightly sour,slightly acrid—oily and tar-like. Outside the café, beyond its fenced-intables, a large...
What is Art?

Beau Finley: What is Music

Beau Finley, electronic musician and record producer answers "What is Music?"
Issues and Ideas

Jon Gann: Why Should Government Support the Arts?

"A society is only as strong as it allows for its arts to flourish."
Poetry

Three poems by Regie Cabico

These poems were commissioned by Day Eight within a project funded by DC Mayor Muriel Bowser's Office of AAPI Affairs, directed by Regie Cabico. Asian...
Poetry

Ads by Theo Luce

Ads “JOIN THE DMV! BUY OUR ORGANIC SALSA!” Burning on filthy subway walls Jerking back, muttering “it’s too bright,” Train coming, train coming A long silver bullet blasting through...
Poetry

Three Poems by Shakti Sackett

Give Me More Stretching open I feelexactly how I want to.The fear makes me tremblebut want feverishly. The moon is not full.I am not wild now.I...
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Remembering Those Who Lived These Lives by Joe Baur

I’m in Bardejov, Slovakia with my camera, looking for a link to my past. Photography has never been my primary trade, but rather a...

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