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Why We Should Read Poetry - BOMB Magazine

Photo courtesy of Brooke Matson.
Brooke Matson is a Spokane-based poet and book artist whose latest collection, In Accelerated Silence
, explores the intersections of Big Science (think astrophysics) and Big Feeling (think grief and resilience). Both philosophical and grounded in the elements and the body, these poems read like missives from a starry night, when the body feels alive and the mind contemplative.
Hum by Jamaal May: Maybe because I read it on my first writing residency, May’s first full collection showcases his talent for word choice, rhythm, and creativity on the page. You can almost feel him pushing the boundaries of each poem in terms of structure, perspective, imagery, or all of them at once. The word choice is so spot-on that many of the poems take on a texture or resonant quality (as the title of the book implies). Needless to say, these poems inspired me to experiment during my residency and I still return to the poems often. Some have become do ....

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Jonathan Kay: Michelle Latimer saga shows that DNA can make or break your career

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Three years ago, I signed up for Ancestry.com’s AncestryDNA service, having been drawn in by the company’s TV ads. You might remember the most famous one, in which a white-appearing woman named Kim burbled about how she’d learned she was 16 per cent Native-American.
Alas, when my own test results came back, they showed I was about as multicultural as the appetizer list at Snowdon Deli. The included Ancestry.com map showed a bunch of orange dots clustered densely in Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Hungary basically a map of pre-Holocaust Jewish Europe each corresponding to an “ancestral community” statistically associated with my DNA. To the south, my most exotic ancestors were Romanians. In the north, the farthest my forebears made it was Denmark. Turns out I was exactly who I thought I was: a boring white guy descended from Ashkenazi Jews. ....

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The Indigenous Brilliance Podcast - Episode 1 (February 27, 2020): Creation Story

The Indigenous Brilliance Podcast – Episode 1 (February 27, 2020): Creation Story
Stories hold the incredible power to heal wounds, connect people, and bridge generations. This is an incredibly important time to be centering the brilliance of our communities through Indigenous storytelling across diverse mediums. The Indigenous Brilliance Podcast is an important project of the larger Indigenous Brilliance Collective, and features innovative and exciting episodes, highlighting the multi-disciplinary voices of Indigenous women, Two-Spirit, and Indigiqueer artists as we discuss cultural resurgence in Indigenous arts. Hosted by creatives jaye simpson and Karmella Benedito De Barros, the Indigenous Brilliance Podcast carves out space for the celebration and witnessing of this beautifully visionary community. ....

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