Music and the Page: Writing Soundtracks

As readers, we are often stunned by the prose of the page, but how many of us think about the author toiling away to get their words in front of us? Writers do. I sometimes sit in front of a poem, or sentence dazzled.  I think, “How could a writer do this?”  I then begin […]

Dream of the Unified Media: Jory Mickelson on The Cure’s Disintegration

Check out my mini-essay on music over at Charles Jensen’s blog Kinema Poetics! Dream of the Unified Media: Jory Mickelson on The Cure’s Disintegration: “Coming Out & Coming Apart”     Plainsong I can feel the heavy wash of synthesizers vibrating their way out from the scratchy…”

Against “A Room of One’s Own”

I have great respect for the writings of Virginia Woolf and her stake in the feminist movement, but the title of her book sprang to mind when I started to think about the writing life. There are innumerable books that discuss the writer’s life, the long and lonely journey on the page, and ultimately the […]

On Sound and Vision: David Wheeler as Guestblogger!

David K Wheeler is the author of Contingency Plans: Poems, from TS Poetry Press, and the album There There. He writes for two web magazines: The High Calling and Burnside Writers Collective. His essays have been featured at The Morning News, as well as in The Pacific Northwest Reader, an essay collection from Harper/Delphinium. On […]

Singing Out the Notes: An Interview with Author Alyx Dellamonica

Alyx Dellamonica writes novels and short fiction. Her work has appeared in Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, SciFi.Com, and Realms of Fantasy. Her first novel Indigo Springs was released in October 2009. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her wife Kelly Robson and is hard at work on the sequel to Indigo Springs. Jory […]