by Rebecca Bacon Ehlers When he was a child, Joshua’s hands, though strong, were very sensitive. Despite his father’s patient lessons, he was never able to learn to play the guitar. A deep paper cut reduced him to tears in the middle of Mrs. Phillips’s fourth grade art class. The handlebars of his bicycle blistered…
Read More
“Hooks and Stones” embroidery piece by Mazzie Interview by Marina Murayama Nir Last Winter, the Culturework team featured Hartford, Connecticut-raised, Oberlin-based, Puerto Rican experimental pop band, Xango/Suave, and their song, “Rituals,” on our Matriarchy Playlist. Their 2017 album, Equis, rich in varying musical styles, examines “colonial resistance in Puerto Rico and explores personal negotiations of…
Read More
By: Sarah Cook for JN small seed like a fossil, a bitemark, a name: until she grows tired of laminating goodness, planting signatures in the garden of public request finite, historic, lamentable photo of her looking like Joan of Arc if Joan of Arc had hair for miles,…
Read More
A universe of stars came together when I found the Broken Boxes podcast. The interviews of various artists I admire and the mission driving this collection is dear and impressive to say the least. Recognizing how small and interconnected the world is, a collaborative force of a friend, Cougar Vigil, brought my attention to the…
Read More
Your binary mind couldn’t figure out if I was type B or A and so you turned me into a blood test and found there’s often more options than not, such as deciding when to type “Oh”, the most harrowing reply in the English language. These might be slow burns, caused by cigarette butts extinguished…
Read More