Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood is an indulgent romp through bygone Hollywood, reaching its climax on August 6, 1969, night of the Manson family’s infamous Sharon Tate…
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That first menstruation was a shock. Bleary eyed, I woke up in the middle of the night and saw the blood, spotty and sticky and dark—yet undoubtedly from my own…
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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…
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Netflix Original Something in the Rain (or Pretty Noona Who Buys me Food) is a Korean drama that was released in March 2018. Critically acclaimed and boasting some of the…
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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…
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It’s the tail end of January, which means we are approaching the most dreadful time of the year. With every February comes a whole panoply of perils: record-low temperatures, flu…
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In a photograph taped to the wall of my room, my mother is running through sand, emerging from water. Her left arm is lifted, blurred, as she sweeps hair from…
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Snow Days. They’re legendary. Mythical. Great, white unicorns or whales we chase in our sleep, wake up wishing we had caught or had caught us in the eye of their…
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In 1992, a twelve year old boy rented a movie from his local Blockbuster which featured a blonde cheerleader who also happened to be a vampire slayer. I had fantastic…
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Those who do not move, do not notice their chains. —Rosa Luxemburg I do believe there might be ways in language to express the extreme, the fleeting, the fugitive states that…
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Judy Garland’s ruby slippers as Dorothy Gale in the 1939 Wizard of Oz. Photographed by Kevin Burkett. When my niece was eight, I took her shopping to buy new…
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Featherbone by Erica Mena Ricochet Editions, 2015 56 pages, 2015 – Ricochet / Amazon What is your interpretation of the Icarus myth? Do you see it as a tragedy of…
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Transitory Poetics is a monthly review series by Toby Altman focused solely on current and upcoming chapbooks. You can read the introduction here. This month I reviewed three chapbooks from Projective Industries: Kate Schapira’s Someone…
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