Poetry
Truth Be Told
Contributors
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein — In 2021, boundary 2 published Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences, edited by Paul Bove, which collected interviews as well as essays on his work from an international perspective. Neeli Cherkovski reviewed his Near/Miss in the November 2020 Brooklyn Rail.
Charles BernsteinCharles Bernstein is the author of more than twenty books. He teaches at UPenn.
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from “All this is a continuation of the lie, but . . . if I remain consistent, it comes close to the truth”
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Alina Stefanescu was born in Romania and lives in Birmingham, Alabama with her partner and several intense mammals. Recent books include a creative nonfiction chapbook, Ribald (Bull City Press Inch Series, Nov. 2020) and Dor, which won the Wandering Aengus Press Prize (September, 2021). Her debut fiction collection, Every Mask I Tried On, won the Brighthorse Books Prize (April 2018). Alina's poems, essays, and fiction can be found in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, World Literature Today, Pleiades, Poetry, BOMB, Crab Creek Review, and others. She serves as poetry editor for several journals, reviewer and critic for others, and Co-Director of PEN America's Birmingham Chapter. She is currently working on a novel-like creature. More online at www.alinastefanescuwriter.com.
Philip Guston Now—A Personal Meditation
By Phong BuiJULY/AUG 2023 | ArtSeen
It is good to remind ourselves that for every demagogue, tyrant, or dictator, their most fierce adversaries are the free thinkers, artists, writers, poets, and other creatives. We should also be reminded that painting, being the oldest form of human expression, long before the invention of language, has held an unusual and sustaining power to reflect directly or indirectly our perpetual struggles among ourselves while providing healing agencies through the artists’ inner impulses, guided by their ideals of truth that are opened to constant self-corrections without fear from others.
Playing with the Truth: Jonathan Jakubowicz’s Resistance and the Memory of Marcel Marceau
By Christopher AtamianJUNE 2021 | Dance
Christopher Atamian writes about the art and life of Marcel Marceau. He shares an interview with the renowned mime and choreographer’s daughter Camille, who sets the record straight on her father’s activities during World War II following Jonathan Jakubowicz’s film Resistance released this past year.
Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans
By Henry Hicks IVJUNE 2023 | Books
Brandon Taylor has a lot to say about truth. The characters in his new novel, The Late Americans, descend on Iowa City, home of the fabled University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop MFA program—an intentional setting for Taylor’s exploration of voyeurism, communication, and, yes, truth, in today’s America. In its opening, Taylor tosses the reader into a live workshop debate on the merits of poems that center trauma—its buried question being, “Whose voice is an authority? Whose experiences spur truth—yours or mine?”
