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Reading Meret Oppenheim The iconic Surrealist sculptures produced by Meret Oppenheim in the 1930s have the unmistakable stamp of feminist imagination…
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I used to beat my dolls. I’m not sure why. Perhaps I was compensating for my overly-good behavior, my endless bid for approval from parents and…
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Mashinka Firunts Hakopian South Pasadena: X Artists Books, 2022
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February 2023

I was ten when my family took an eight-week summer vacation driving across the country. We car-camped most of the way, belongings efficiently packed in…
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Barbara Heritage and Ruth-Ellen St. Onge, (Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2022)
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January 2023

Gouache and water color painting by J.D. 2023 My Father’s Ruler My father made his living as a commercial artist in the era when all production was…
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The resonance of material in the collages of Deborah Krall
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December 2022

He is a hideous little thing, my prince, an unfortunate monster with unnatural features. The deep red pockmarks that puncture his cheeks rhyme with the…
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Think of a poet’s library and an idyllic scene comes to mind, right? We conjure a private quiet room, walls lined with neatly arranged shelves, others…
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My Unread Bible On my first day of kindergarten my mother took me only inside the door to the classroom. We stood together for a moment and I hesitated…
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November 2022

I was twelve the year I wrote The Letter. At ninety-six pages, the manuscript barely qualifies as a novel, but with unlimited adolescent humility, I put…
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A new edition of Ardengo Soffici’s Simultaneities
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