* * * Yesterday, rain brushed every window white, locking us deeper inside. Today, birds mouth mats of mud. In crevices under the deck, the robin is too obvious a…

Egress: On Mourning, Melancholy and Mark Fisher by Matt Colquhoun Repeater, March 2020 301 pages / Bookshop / Amazon   The past few months have seen much speculation on what…

It is time to get a little personal. It is time to talk about feelings. Silence about feelings. It is time to disrupt this problem with silence that Cathy Park…

Elizabeth Metzger Sampson is a poet, essayist, and frequent collaborator with visual artists. Publications include interviews, essays, and poems, in Adroit Journal, Temporary Art Review, Hypertext Magazine, and at poetryfoundation.org. Their collaborative visual and written work has…

WOVEN is an Entropy series and dedicated safe space for essays by persons who engage with #MeToo, sexual assault and harassment, and #DomesticViolence, as well as their intersections with mental…

Dathomirror Doors creates a soundtrack for nightmares on the pitch-black beauty of “Dathomirror Doors I”. Uneasy alliances are forged between the natural and unnatural. A truly surreal whirlwind of styles…

A hard-edged, no nonsense sound defines Play Center’s powerful “Tragic & Misunderstood”. They cut right to the bone featuring a no-frills approach. With an outsized style they tap into a…

Ordinary Girls by Jaquira Díaz Algonquin Books, October 2019 336 pages / Bookshop / B&N / Amazon   “All my life I’d been waiting for this book.” Ashley Perez from…

You undressed And I undressed   Truth in its first state   That water is a synonym of orchid Of street Of leaves, the sort that adorn ruins Levity’s protest…

I listened to Ewreckage’s “Eccentric” right in the beginning of the gorgeous Californian summer and it was the perfect soundtrack. So much passion overflows throughout the whole of the album…

Westlin Grey Sullivan is someone I’ve been following online for a number of years, whose uncompromising attitude and strong preferences and tastes in general are something I’ve loved witnessing turn…

On Lighthouses by Jazmina Barrera, translated by Christina MacSweeney Two Lines Press, May 2020 174 pages / Bookshop / Amazon    I wanted to know the lighthouse to its very…

  A perfect blend of old school and new school house, Shaun Williams sculpts an infectious dance mix with “Rocket to the Moon”. The sound design here feels flawless from…

The Untapped Gold Mine of Taco Bell That Virtually No One Knows About “Grilled chicken burrito, no ranch avocado sauce. Substitute Fritos in for the avocado sauce.” The front of…