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Chiwan Choi is the author of two poetry collections, The Flood and Abductions. He is also Co-Founder and Editor of Writ Large Press, a downtown Los Angeles based literary small press. Peter Clothier is...
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JOIN OUR CONVERSATIONS. SHARE YOUR CREATIVE EXPERIENCES! Welcome! Our Conversation page is a new feature of the Cultural Weekly experience. Here you can post and read messages, and find others who are...
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When the Small Vanish, the Large Grow Weak
There is a disturbing trend in academia and society at large: In a nation that is becoming more diverse, the information available to us is becoming less so. Those driving this shift use two main...
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Was It An Earthquake?
I first saw Rinde Eckert in Slow Fire at the Mark Taper Forum sometime in the mid-1980’s. Having gone to graduate school in theatre and having spent the six years since then working in Los Angeles and...
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Learning Not to Curse in Arizona
The Arizona State Senate is considering a proposal to fire teachers who swear. SB 1467 bans their use of any words that would violate FCC regulations against obscenity, indecency, and profanity on...
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America Loves a Bully
Joan Graves, head of the MPAA’s ratings board, writing to defend the R rating for the film Bully, has said, “Our ratings reflect how we believe a majority of American parents, not just from large...
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Grammar Freaks Really Are Strange
It used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people’s grammar were just plain annoying. Now there’s evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of...
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Anyone With Nothing to Say Can Say It
One of the things that really irks me as a writer is the increasingly careless use of language — often because it is used to say so little of value, most of the time because it is simply used badly,...
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Hecate and the Three Fates, William Blake Credit Wikipedia The next person you meet could be a spy. On a sunny spring day, a man was walking toward me. What caused me to take notice was that he had...
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TIFF, Terror, and the International Language of Film
TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival, is my favorite film festival of them all. It is well-curated, precisely run, and always has an exceptional mix of big Hollywood movies that will soon open...
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Preparing for An Interplanetary Future
Preparing for an Interplanetary Future: Life After Birth mby Carol Green The post Preparing for An Interplanetary Future appeared first on Cultural Weekly.
View ArticleThe Silence of Kenneth Goldsmith is Overrated
By R.D. Wood with Joseph Beuys As many readers will be aware conceptual poet Kenneth Goldsmith was recently embroiled in a scandal about presenting an autopsy report of Ferguson teen Michael Brown as...
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The tongue is a bridge
If you want to get to know yourself better, take up a new language. You’ll never feel more Southeast Asian than when you’re learning how every Arabic verb morphs 28 times according to each pronoun....
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The Writer’s Meme
Re-posted with permission from The Web of Language. The post The Writer’s Meme appeared first on Cultural Weekly.
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Learning Not to Curse in Arizona
The Arizona State Senate is considering a proposal to fire teachers who swear. SB 1467 bans their use of any words that would violate FCC regulations against obscenity, indecency, and profanity on...
View ArticleAmerica Loves a Bully
Joan Graves, head of the MPAA’s ratings board, writing to defend the R rating for the film Bully, has said, “Our ratings reflect how we believe a majority of American parents, not just from large...
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Grammar Freaks Really Are Strange
It used to be we thought that people who went around correcting other people’s grammar were just plain annoying. Now there’s evidence they are actually ill, suffering from a type of...
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Anyone With Nothing to Say Can Say It
One of the things that really irks me as a writer is the increasingly careless use of language — often because it is used to say so little of value, most of the time because it is simply used badly,...
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