Category: criticism
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New Jerusalem Rising – poem submission by E Sade
Eboni Sade’ is a Jersey City, NJ native with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from Howard University. She has been published in This Old House Magazine, St. Maarten’s Guide to Writing Handbook, The Amistad Journal, ImageOutWrite and Blackberry: a magazine. She is also the author of Skin to Skin. New Jerusalem Rising Mercury…
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PRESS: When You Write It, Put it In Parentheses
When You Write It, Put It In Parentheses By debuting a new literary magazine, the Boston University duo of Phillipe Chatelain (CAS ‘13) and Michael Pitter (CAS ‘12) are attempting to preserve their generation’s artistic and literary impact post Post-Modernism.
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Societal Vermin – Prose Submission by CM Gabbett
C. M. Gabbett is a Communications major at Ramapo College of New Jersey. Presently, he works at the George Potter library and at Barnes and Noble. In addition to writing, he is very active in the New Jersey political world. He lives in Raritan, New Jersey with his family Societal Vermin The term “vermin” represents an…
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On the Unpopularity of Republican Foreign Policy in a Debate by M. Pitter
After the first debate, after President Obama’s slip from and Governor Romney’s pivot into appeal, this second debate would further shape the American people’s opinion on which is the most eligible political party to occupy The Office in November. Critics strewn all over the media web devoured the showdown between Congressman Paul Ryan and Vice…
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Alleen Maar Nette Mensen: The Netherlands and the continued dehumanization of black people – a Film Review by Q. Gario
Quinsy Gario is a film and television scholar, focusing on gender, race and culture. He’s also a poet, award winning theater-maker and the performance artist behind the Zwarte Piet Is Racism art project for which he was arrested in November 2011. You can find more of his work on www.nonemployees.com or look him up on…
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Flying Lotus: Until The Quiet Comes – a Review by M. Pitter
Flying Lotus’ highly anticipated forth album, Until The Quiet Comes, emits psychedelic elegance, effervescing introspective majesty. Lotus’ experimental music oftentimes presents obstacles for a mainstream audience to approach and connect to it. Though one could surely meet a distance between themselves and an engagement with the Flying Lotus’ art, one also has the invitation to…
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G.O.O.D Music’s Cruel Summer: Not Everyone is Loving the Crew – a Review by M. Krenek
For almost a decade Kanye West and his team have proven their ability to utilize amazing samples from Chaka Khan’s “Through the Fire” to Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness,” and G.O.O.D Music’s Cruel Summer is no different. This collective album has a good balance of street songs versus quasi poetic numbers; unfortunately only some…
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Good Looks, Romney by M. Pitter
My Fellow Americans, We ought to be grateful that some double agent of The People captured footage of (Willard) Mitt Romney at that clandestine swanky-danky millionaire dinner party. Think hypothetically, for a moment, of Mr. Romney in the presidency: Imagine how much more appalled most would be towards him and the government if he put…
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Just a Glimpse of the Political Situation in Kingston, Jamaica by M. Pitter
Kingston, Jamaica has indeed provided a battleground upon which political opposition exploded into cinder block warfare, at certain times connected to a larger network of wars popularly considered Cold in our history books. Loyalty to either one of the two political parties in Jamaica, PNP and JLP (the ones that receive the most votes) places…
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Autobio of Ben Franklin – Thematic Analysis by P Chatelain
Upon reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and further discussing it in class there were a few tidbits of information that truly resonated with me. It gave me some deeper insight as to why we write, why it’s important to write, and how printing begins to change the whole playing field for written word. Literacy is in…
