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“I’m here for the show” the man said looking under Frank's shirt for the door “I’m no theater” Frank...
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- By Frank X. Walker...walk into a bar in America. Butterworth says, I’m being repackaged. Ben says, I’m being rebranded...
- By John MurilloFor me, the movie starts with a black man Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons Catching the sheen...
- By David RoderickI wear a flower in my lapel. I like the sweetness of its lie in my nose. A carnation, the fool’s flower...
- By Josh Bell“You can’t kiss a movie,” Jean-Luc Godard said, and this is mostly true, in that you cannot initiate...
- By Sally Wen MaoIt is natural to live in an era when no one uttered–– and silence was glamour so I could cast one glance...
- By Amy ClampittThe lit night glares like a day-glo strawberry, the stakeout car beside the hydrant is full of feds,...
- By Cyrus ConsoleRotor wash, or the downward-flowing Air by which our helicopters formed Imprints in the jungle grass beneath ...
- By Lynn EmanuelLove is boring and passé, all that old baggage, the bloody bric-a-brac, the bad, the gothic, retrograde...
- By Maurya SimonDelirium in the downtown mall today: Burt Reynolds! All the henna-haired girls sneer, while their mothers...
- By Adrian MatejkaSpike Lee is so small I didn’t even see him at first, surrounded by Black Expo goers like a gumdrop ...
- By Shanta LeeHunger like her mama Most strong in White gaze as in a Cowbird’s flirtation Sprouted in eyes to tongues to bellies...
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- By Patricia LockwoodHow many sets of her parents are dead. How many times over is she an orphan. A plane, a crosswalk, a...
- By Bruce SniderShe lip-syncs “Hello God,” then “9 to 5.” She struts. Or does she fly? Like the soul, a rhinestone, ...
- By Chad Bennettyour only teachers are the movies and lovers and lovers are like movies only old ones stir desire
- By J. Estanislao LopezThis century is younger than me. It dresses itself in an overlong coat of Enlightenment thinking despite...
- By Derrick Austinlordly lantern tall neon doyen dear to orated tenderly on art or a trend learned (Eden Tyndale Lear ...
- By Patti Smithpicture this. I’ll play the killer. 16 millimeter. ebony and ivory. the purest contrast. iris closed...
- By Haki R. MadhubutiFrequently during my mornings of pain & reflection when I can’t write or articulate my thoughts or locate...
- By Barbara Claire FreemanDear Necessity, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country has called...