Laughing Tiger
By Sue-min Agnes Jung
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Three Songs from ‘Pacifica’
By Peter Maybarduk
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Pacifica is the fourth album by Washington, DC singer/songwriter Peter Maybarduk. Peter’s introspective songs include post-punk and symphonettes, sometimes bridging classical and rock music. He writes about transience, justice, dignity and meaning, and he arranges field recordings into his music. The Mid-Atlantic Song Contest (1300 entries) has just recognized Pacifica‘s third track, “Discontents” (Honorable Mention in the “Open” category). Pacifica features stellar musicians of the Washington, DC scene (Shawna Potter of War On Women, Kate Rears of Ladygod, Sriram Gopal of The Fourth Stream), with J. Robbins producing. You can find lyrics to the songs below here.
“Killer Clown,” “Pain,” and “Butterfly Effect”
By Edward Supranowicz
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In Bloom: A Review of Jessy Randall’s ‘How to Tell If You Are Human: An Illustrated Addendum to Nirvana’s “Nevermind”’
By Paul David Adkins
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Jessy Randall’s 2018 poetry release How to Tell If You Are Human contains 29
black-and-white, grayscale, or full-color diagram poems, encompassing a
dizzying range of personal experiences. By calmly exploring and analyzing mental
illness, isolation, and multiple facets of human relationships, Randall’s
speaker helps to raise our understanding of the bewildering set of interactions
a person must navigate on a daily basis to function in American society.
Commendably, she accomplishes these observations, all the while touching upon
the spirit of the iconic 1990s Nirvana album Nevermind. In a brief 78 pages of verse, observations, and
illustrations, the reader is left with a humming sense of his own disconnected
state, coupled with the realization that this unique predicament is universal
and, in fact, entirely disconcerting.…
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Lattice Butterfly/Overgrown
By Adam Biggs
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Facing Forwards / Tree Dance
By Sarah Deckro
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The Sitting
By George L Stein
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