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Lauren Berry: The Lifting Dress
As award-winning poet Lauren Berry takes us through the after-effects of the sexual trauma experienced by her young narrator, the reader is chilled by the depth of the girl's vulnerability. But then...
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Is Writing Poetry Akin to Taking a Shamanic Journey? Interview with Ruth L....
"After having personally practiced shamanism, shamanic healing, and shamanic journeying for more than half a century, I can say that there is nothing I have encountered in reports of the spiritual...
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The Primordial Dreams of Aron Wiesenfeld
Many artists enter the dream world, but few can so inhabit it as to give us not only its semblance but the meaning of the dream. Wiesenfeld’s genius lies both in the interiority of his figures and in...
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Censorship in the High School: Missing the Point About What We Deem Offensive
This was no student vandal...much worse. This was the work of one of my colleagues. The post Censorship in the High School: Missing the Point About What We Deem Offensive appeared first on Combustus.
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Postcard From Pakistan: Cross-Cultural Friendships Drown Out the Silencing
Many American friends might be even surprised to know that despite a big public outcry about US drone attacks and high civilian casualties, a large number of Pakistanis don't blame or hate the American...
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Censorship and the Sins of Omission: The Plight of the Independent Presses
But there is another type of book banning – a banning by omission, rather than commission – that goes unnoticed. Marketplace censorship, the de facto banning of books by independent presses that don’t...
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The Place for Unhappiness: Interview with Bulgarian poet, Peycho Kanev
I am part of the Balkan tradition. All of these dark memories are part of me, they are inside my blood, inside my mind. They dwell inside me. And, of course, they become part of my poetry, too. The...
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Penelope Scambly Schott: “It is the human condition to be in love with language”
More women than you might think have turned to prostitution to survive; sometimes it’s called marriage. The post Penelope Scambly Schott: “It is the human condition to be in love with language”...
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John L. Stanizzi, Poet: “Teaching didn’t do anything for my soul. It gave me...
"Teaching didn’t do anything for my soul. It gave me a soul." The post John L. Stanizzi, Poet: “Teaching didn’t do anything for my soul. It gave me a soul.” appeared first on Combustus.
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Sam Roxas-Chua, Eugene, Oregon: “Poetry is a Raft”
"Poetry is a raft for me. A safe raft that allows me to go into great depth and explore all the scary stuff. To make sense of what happened. Because if I wasn't able to make sense of what happened, I...
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