If you’re looking for something worthwhile to read this weekend, look no further.
Lorraine Comanor’s essay, “The Carnevale Masks,” is online at The Raven’s Perch: http://www.theravensperch.com/the-carnevale-masks-by-lorraine-commanor/
Agatha French interviewed the publishers of the new L.A. press X Artists’ Books, and yeah, one of them happens to be Keanu Reeves: http://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-keanu-reeves-artists-books-20170719-story.html.
Emily Mohn-Slate’s essay, “The Colossal”—about Iris van Herpen, Girls Write Museum and the way art and poetry makes our worlds larger—is in At Length’s art section: http://atlengthmag.com/art/the-colossal-iris-van-herpen-and-girls-write-the-museum/.
Jennifer Stewart Miller has two great poems in The Green Mountains Review: http://greenmountainsreview.com/two-poems-28/. Here’s a small taste from her poem, “Thirsty Birds:”
You don’t have to believe,
to think there’s something about
the flicker’s up-stretched profile
that’s like a shaft of sunlight
piercing an old church.
Barrett Warner reviewed Keith Lesmeister’s book, We Could’ve Been Happy Here, for Atticus Review: https://atticusreview.org/life-rattling-review-couldve-happy-keith-lesmeister/. Barrett also has new poems online at Verse Wrights: http://www.versewrights.com/warner-barrett.html, including one called “Rainbow Pig.” Here’s a few lines from “All the Latest Talk in Paradise Concerning Butterflies:”
This we know: butterflies need milkweed–
their only food—and its poison, their only defense,
and we are pitchfork lonely for connection,
the piercing tines make five holes in our lungs.
Fiction lovers won’t want to miss Tiffany Williams’ new short story, “Murmuration,” in Appalachian Heritage: http://appalachianheritage.net/2017/05/26/murmuration/.
And if you haven’t seen it yet, check out the new issue of The Tishman Review: http://www.thetishmanreview.com/.
Denton Loving 