13-year-oldAddie’s storyis told completely in narrative poetry that poignantly captures the turmoil and confusion she faces about issues. She helps organize the Gay and Straight Alliance in support of her openly gay friends and dares to hold a Day of Silence even when it's nixed by the pr...
s child at the moment of his birth and infused with the poetry of Wordsworth, Keats, and the Quran, Radiant Fugitives is an operatic debut from a bold new voice, exploring the tensions between ideology and practicality, hope and tradition, forgiveness and retribution for one family navigating ...
Sixteen-year-old Nate is a GEM—a Genetically Engineered Medical Surrogate—created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population. As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive and into the Withers—a quar...
For all that Barry Jenkins' stunning Oscar-winning drama is deeply cinematic,Moonlightis perhaps as close as narrative film comes to poetry – incredibly lyrical in its imagery, dialogue, and characterisation. Told across three distinct time periods, it tells the story of Chiron – a young, bla...
July 4, 2022poetry,queer,review,sex,Shar Steiman,StageQuest,Ty Stover By John Lyle Belden “Bed Play,” by Shar Steiman, presented by Stagequest Indy, and directed by Ty Stover at the District Theatre, is a unique theatrical experience. But it also resonates with something universal in all...
He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1947 long poem The Age of Anxiety, the title of which became a popular phrase describing the modern era. From 1956 to 1961 he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford; his lectures were popular with students and faculty, and served as the basis for...
May 1, 2024 esteemfeedback Comments Off on July – Dec 2024 Arts & Culture, Literary Events, Book Signings, Open Mics & Poetry Slams Updated November 9 Starting with Artists in The Afternoon 4: Writing For Our Lives scheduled to take place on August 31, check out this list of LGBTQ+ ...
“Gay-hustler indie” may now seem like a Sundance cliché, but until Gus Van Sant’s third feature dropped audiences into the insular world of Portland’s street culture, no one had made a movie that addressed the subject with such a mix of poetryandblunt honesty. River Phoenix is Mike ...
You are the F-word. We like football and dreaming of fast cars. You like music, theater and poetry. They were following the playbook that the late German historianGeorge Mossehad described. Mosse taught that every culture defines its own sense of what it means to be a man, and then uses...
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