Unsplash Utah-based poet Jacqueline Balderrama explores identity and family history in her new collection “Now In Color.”
What makes up a person’s identity? That’s a question Utah-based poet Jacqueline Balderrama wrestles with in her recent poetry collection “Now In Color.” It’s a meditation on her own family’s history and her Latina identity.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Caroline Ballard: How did this collection come about?
Jacqueline Balderrama: I began writing this book roughly the time I was moving to Arizona for my MFA at Arizona State [University]. I was thinking a lot about my relationship to language and not being a native speaker.
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Though
was always a show about the Avengers’ Sokovian juggernaut confronting the stifling grief that’s been plaguing her since she first showed up in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the series was also the world’s introduction to Teyonah Parris’ Monica Rambeau, the now-adult daughter of Maria Rambeau who first appeared in
Captain Marvel. The promise of her role loomed large over the Disney+ series, but by the end, it turned Monica’s second debut into a haphazard crash landing that’ll be hard to shake off for the comics’ first female Captain Marvel.
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Though Monica’s frequently fought alongside and led the Avengers in Marvel’s comics, her relatively thin canonical history with Wanda Maximoff in particular made the character’s presence in
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In Living in Harmony, a 1967 episode of The Prisoner, viewers already baffled by the show’s various mysteries were further flummoxed by what seemed to be an entirely different iteration of the series. That week, Number Six (Patrick McGoohan) was not a retired spy in the cosily sinister Village but a troubled sheriff in a western town called Harmony.
At the end of the episode, it transpired that the protagonist was in a virtual-reality simulacrum of the sort of TV western that was already going out of fashion. McGoohan and company were evoking a behind-the-times genre for one episode… though there were no prizes for being ahead of the times, not least in doing a virtual reality story decades before the term was coined.
WandaVision’s “Agatha All Along” gets the trap remix it deserves
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To be honest, we all kinda saw it coming but that didn’t make the big
WandaVision reveal about Katherine Hahn’s character any less fun when it played out with an Agatha theme song on Friday’s episode of the Disney+ series.
A quick recap for those of you who either don’t watch
Wanda or have been under the mind control of a certain Sarkovian: In episode seven, “Breaking The Fourth Wall,” it’s revealed that Agatha (Katherine Hahn) has secretly been pulling a lot of the strings behind the scenes in Wanda’s (diss-track survivor Elizabeth Olsen) oasis of mind-controlled domestic bliss, Westview. We now know nosy neighbor Agatha is actually Agatha Harkness and that she sabotaged the talent show in “Don’t Touch That Dial” and put Herb (David Payton) under her spell in “Now In Color.” She’s even responsible for Fake Pietro’s (Evan Peters) a
Wanda (Elizabeth Olsen)’s dream life has become a nightmare. Her kids, Billy (Julian Hilliard) and Tommy (Jett Klyne), complain that their video game controls have turned into a deck of UNO cards. Wanda’s bottle of almond milk changes to dairy, which I consider an improvement, but I respect Wanda’s dietary choices. The house itself begins a spontaneous remodel, as if the series
WandaVision’s spoofing this week is the
Property Brothers. That damn stork from “Now In Color” has even returned. Everything’s falling apart around her, and she can’t fix it.
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After expanding the boundaries of the Hex in “All-New Halloween Spooktacular,” Wanda is now overwhelmed with guilt, and she struggles to even get out of bed. This doesn’t seem like the superpowered terrorist S.W.O.R.D. Director Haywood (Josh Stamberg) is convinced he’s battling. Wanda has sentenced herself to a day of house arrest in schlubby clothes as “punishment for her reckless behavior.