The Other

This week, TheThe’s Infoxicated Corner will be hosting the essay panel All These Things Are True. This panel has been six months in the making, and I’m really excited to be able to share it with everyone. I will be publishing one essay per day, Monday through Friday, in which five panelists will share their [...]

/move/ We are the sum of our choices in a boxing gym. Open your sternum, autopsy style. His mesodermal layers boast, “I like to spoon.” Minute hands and low towel stock are enemies along with The 52nd hour of the Today Show. It isn’t today anymore when it’s thirty for thirty. Glide and Lift. Lift [...]

Treed 2. Watercolor, marker and pencil on paper, 9×12” 2014 with H. Deskins is an artist and writer who examines womanhood, motherhood, and the body in her work and others. She’s exhibited in galleries nationally and published her art and writing internationally. She is founding editor of Les Femmes Folles, and illustrated Intimates and Fools [...]

I Came Upon a Troll By Jason Pierre Every so often, I take these hour-long walks. I drift for miles at a time. It gives me a chance to look out at Los Angeles in a way I would never have done on the bus. One thing I’ve learned about this town is that it’s [...]

Oozing. Acrylic, ink on white paper, 18 x 24” 2014. is an artist and writer who examines womanhood, motherhood, and the body in her work and others. She’s exhibited in galleries nationally and published her art and writing internationally. She is founding editor of Les Femmes Folles, and illustrated Intimates and Fools (poetry by Laura [...]

The poems in Untying the Knot (Kelsay Books, 2014), by Karen Paul Holmes, detail her two-year journey through a gamut of trials that rival Job’s. As the title suggests, divorce is the over-arching disaster. With what Thomas Lux described as grace, humor and self-awareness, Holmes relates the year in which she learned that her husband [...]

A lifetime ago, I sat with some dear friends in their apartment discussing literature, music, and art as we drank wine. We gathered like this as often as we could. A small group of poets, novelists, painters, and musicians; we composed our own little salon. Elizabeth Bishop was the topic of conversation that night, and [...]