September - 2022

G. Kieffer

Like Ocean Vuong, I caved

I first heard of Ocean Vuong two years ago. My cousin asked if I was familiar with this book, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, the first...

Emily Barber

I Tried Book Journaling and You Should Too

I’ve recently gotten really into tracking the books I read. I’ve always used GoodReads and just started using Bookly. Both are apps you...

Kate Coli

“Hey Louie!” - Kenny Beats’ Louie Revives 90’s Mixtape Magic

Donned in his signature cap and collared shirt, Kenneth Charles Blume III swivels around in his desk chair with a can of Yerba Mate...

Ashlee C. Smith

Tommy Bogo & the Evolution of NYFW

Many today are familiar with the very popular New York Fashion Week. A series of fashion shows and events that take place in New York...

Safyque xRichardson

An Open Mind is the Best Look: More than an Ad

Winter early 2019. It’s the calm before the storm of 2020 and company’s are being shouted at from all different directions to embrace...

Will Schrant

En Plain Air Painting, Life Through the Eyes of an Artist

En plein air painting is a French term that means out of doors painting. In other words, the act of painting outside in the open. This...

Parker Morris

James Patterson's Great Big Book Machine

If you’re even a moderate reader, chances are good that you’ve run into James Patterson – the word prolific doesn’t even do it justice,...

Grace Turner

How to Farm Content from Your Dreams

Whether you are a poet or a prosaist, your next great work could be hiding in a dream cloud. You might say that you don’t dream, or that...

Josh Ward

Poet Spotlight: Pablo Neruda

Pablo Neruda, born as Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto in Parral, Chile, to a rail-worker father and school-teacher mother (who...

Josh Ward

Poetry Through a Poet's Eyes

Tides by Mary Oliver Everyday the sea blue gray green lavender pulls away leaving the harbor’s dark-cobbled undercoat slick and rutted...