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Plaster [“A shallow depth of field produces flames”]
By Nathanael Jones

A shallow depth of field produces flames in a dimmed distance, harlequin patterned jit or juke, footwork…
- Arts & Sciences
- Photography & Film
From the magazine:Carolee Schneemann—Interior Scroll (1975)
By Rochelle Hurt
[all my exes agree i’m too sensitive. inside i’m keeping track of slights on one long receipt, a diaristic…
From the magazine:
CODEX©
By Nick Makoha

SAMO© first appears as a tag on a New York
City wall in 1978 two blocks down from Aswad
bookstore…
From the magazine:After “Killers of the Flower Moon”
By Elise Paschen
Lily Gladstone confides she wore my great
grandmother Eliza’s blankets in three scenes.

I don’t remember…
I Know a Silent Movie Star
By Michael Palmer
I know a silent movie star named Jane.
She speaks without moving her lips.
She once starred in a film …
Double Feature
By Robert Hayden
At Dunbar, Castle or Arcade
we rode with the exotic sheik
through deserts of erotic flowers;
held in the…
Meditation on Insomnia
By Josh Bell
Kung-Fu, a couch, and I might reach
emptiness tonight, stuck on that Midwest
hoo-doo, counting cemetery…
Dear John Wayne
By Louise Erdrich
August and the drive-in picture is packed.
We lounge on the hood of the Pontiac
surrounded by the slow…
Movies
By Langston Hughes
The Roosevelt, Renaissance, Gem, Alhambra:
Harlem laughing in all the wrong places
at the crocodile …
Fellini in Purgatory
By Jean Valentine
He was shoveling sand
at the edge of the water, his heavy black glasses
glittered with rain:
"Don't you…
After Riefenstahl
By Major Jackson
The screen's fabrications remain. A film
shot never fails, sailing through the century
like a black V …
Just Wanna Be Like
By Douglas Kearney
Was Him, once fini, on the beams,
prior, He's hewer of thorntree.
Could stretch tilapia and ewer,
dole …
What Is Real
By Timothy Donnelly
And though we had fed long and well at the table
the talk always turned to whether to go on
regardless…
Hattie McDaniel Arrives at the Coconut Grove
By Rita Dove
late, in aqua and ermine, gardenias
scaling her left sleeve in a spasm of scent,
her gloves white, her…
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Jacob Riis Beach
By Madeleine Cravens
Behind the decrepit hospital,
next to the jetty, you paced the shore
with your camera. Red gym shorts and Nike
slides, your dark hair in a low bun.
It was your job to document the beach
before its demolition, and once, in a fit of...
From the magazine:
The Photographer
By Madeleine Cravens
We sat in the narrow plaza filled
with metal tables by the construction site.
It was warm, around 5 pm, one of those
evenings after a long winter where
the city seemed to be anxiously flowering.
Several acquaintances rode by on bicycles.
There was a line...
The Bug Wrangler
By Mike Doughty
He was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in the cell all night, pictures jumping around his head of the cops and the blowdryer they took as evidence. He used...
Enter the Dragon
By John Murillo
For me, the movie starts with a black man
Leaping into an orbit of badges, tiny moons

Catching the sheen of his perfect black afro.
Arc kicks, karate chops, and thirty cops

On their backs. It starts with the swagger,
The cool lean into the...
Intimacy
By Paisley Rekdal
How horrible it is, how horrible
that Cronenberg film where Goldblum’s trapped

with a fly inside his Material
Transformer: bits of the man emerging

gooey, many-eyed; bits of the fly
worrying that his agent’s screwed him—

I almost flinch to see the body later
that’s left its...
Self-Portrait as David Lynch
By David Roderick
I wear a flower in my lapel.
I like the sweetness of its lie in my nose.
A carnation, the fool’s flower,

its heart a wilting empire.
In late-night editing sessions,
I imagine I’m planting flowers

in the sockets of eyes. Whatever helps
me reach our rigor...

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Plaster [“A shallow depth of field produces flames”]

From the magazine:Carolee Schneemann—Interior Scroll (1975)

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CODEX©

From the magazine:After “Killers of the Flower Moon”

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Jacob Riis Beach

From the magazine:
The Photographer