May 2013
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Makoto Fujimura
posted by Hatty
Beautiful paintings by Makoto Fujimura. I am usually pretty critical of Christian art, but I find these absolutely lovely.
From our Founding Editor and former Artistic Director Lana Choi! Beautiful indeed.
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Out of the archives | Movements and Moments →
posted by Molly
In my other persona, I’m a libraries person with a love of Asian American Studies and the intersections of access, discovery, and technology. So happy Asian American Heritage Month, I combined all my interests into one project, called Out of the Archives.
Out of the Archives highlights digital archival material from collections and archives that focus on Asian America. The...
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Paul Williams -- Architect to the people at the... →
posted by Hatty
Better late than never: a piece of Black History Month and architecture and love for the city of angels all in one post!
Living in and loving cities for me has always meant to see more, wider, longer, higher and deeper— under the surface, behind what people have said and sometimes off the shelves of dusty cupboards in your downstairs neighbor’s overcrowded kitchen. Los Angeles...
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posted by Hatty
A somewhat random chance—I...
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posted by Emily
The time comes for dismantling
a unison of chair legs
folds to idle din deflates
eventually to a sense of
exhalation.
empty hall though,
frothing full
of old intonations.
Swiftly,
A twang of epiphany.
The numb weight of a cusp.
and either a premature
or preemptive feeling of aftermath.
but still,
in this hall,
and under this froth,
still,
insistent and amorphous...
April 2013
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Gorgeous Cave Paintings and Sculptures from Tens... →
posted by Hatty
Speaking of patterns—it’s fascinating that after thousands of years, we still recognize beauty in repetition.
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For Mike
posted By Emily
after the rain is
a lapse of indefinite—
wherein contours
let
from their corsets
and in a deft
slip,
pantonesslick
past pedagogy
leaving old tomes
in the dust.
But inklings,
seeping
my greyscaled gaze
towards Your infinite
wherein colors
unseen by extant irises
refuse gradation.
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March 2013
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Data Clarity: How Racism is Bad for Our Bodies →
posted by Molly
Journalism is just another form of storytelling. You’re telling a set of factual truths, hopefully, but data is just data. As a journalist, you get to decide what story to tell. The article from “The Atlantic” above tells a very clear story with some very clear data (I must be on a clarity kick.). Here’s the money quote of data:
“The scale and scope...
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How to Write an Artist Statement →
posted by Molly
Talk about your inspiration. Talk about your vision for the piece and its power to communicate.
Use vocabulary that clarifies the piece. Make it accessible to a wider audience.
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one gift →
posted by Hatty
I don’t own a TV, so watching a certain (inter)national phenomenon of fashion faux pas and one too many politically incorrect speeches involving some golden statues and generally white, uniform casts is not the highest priority on my mind. But I do own a Twitter account, and come February, there will be some snarky remarks on the Oscars whether I like it or not.
Maybe you’ve all...
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aph sic
posted by Emily
vital letters were rent
to speech pat_o_ogy
a bald tooth gap dark
too discern
we could make a pate
of all the neglected letters,
and spread them
thick
over the naked lapses
of our daily fictions
and eat them
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February 2013
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http://www.theuselessweb.com/ →
posted by Molly
Sorry all. This is what I’m feeling like right now.
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DREAMer →
posted by Molly
See the way the video stretches across the whole screen, and serves for the background for the navigation panel? How cool is that?
Reminds me of print book jackets, the way that the title is incorporated into the design and how the best designs incorporate clearly connected visuals for the back, spine, and front.
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we like prints →
posted by Hatty
Remember our friends at the ReWrite? Their anthology of poetry from the Bay Area writers and spoken word artists is finally here in paper form! You know that we at Peel Pages are a huge fan of prints. So please go check out this release party packed with readings and live art and food happening in Oakland on February 23rd!
Tickets are $18 for one entry plus the anthology or $5...
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Creeping on the PDA couple sitting just outside...
posted by Emily
this couple nibbling
on their fat pile of
yogurt and dithering
affront
this thin-silled-false-slip-a- erasure,
Cracks,
accosted by
realization.
HI.
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Going off pattern
posted by Molly
Why do I like patterns? They give form to my thoughts. This saves me time (sometimes). They place me in a larger tradition of art. This gives me a wider range of meaning to pull meanings from (to some readers at least).
But most of all, when I work in a framework, I think harder. Having a set of limitations forces me to choose words more carefully because they need to fit within...
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"you're gonna feel horrible at times." →
posted by Hatty
If you haven’t noticed, I’m a little obsessed with process: the process of making something beautiful be it a song or a novel or a photo exhibit. Here’s an old band talking about years of ups and downs in recording studios, jam sessions and a van driving away from Nashville. And what just blows me about processes like these (25 years!) is that the artists,...
January 2013
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tending
posted by Emily
tending
creature,
always i’m trying to mend
your macroscopic with
my increments
listening for plinking
moments of requital—
You murmur
heart
bending,
plink.
I requite.
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you're a writer →
posted by Hatty
If you’ve ever stopped, started and stopped again, only to start anew, scribbling on a piece of paper — napkin, legal notepad, back of your “work” document, anything — simply because you know you must write, because you’re a writer, because there’s a story inside you, then this may be of comfort. It comforts me, knowing that yes writing is...
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On Editing
posted by Molly
In regards to academic papers, I’ve never been one of those students who performs under pressure, one of the lucky students who proclaim I’ve got a paper due in 12 hours, I guess it’s time to get started. So it was a definite ego bump to talk to a friend this week and have her declare “No one can write a paper in 12 hours and leave it unedited. We...
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“Whether it’s a museum gallery or with your new Macbook, it’s important to...”
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posted by Hatty
What counts as art, and exactly who in that process of making art counts as artist(s), is a question repeated. I don’t care so much for the recognition and acceptance part, but I do hope for making art more accessible to the masses.
Next time you attend an exhibition or a...
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This is a collection of poetry about love,... →
posted by Hatty
Just in time for those post-holidays-get yourself-something-you’ll-appreciate days, our friend and one of the first Peel Pages contributors Jacqulyn has her chapbook out. It’s a beautiful anthology of words precious and fiery. I’m excited to read it, and you can find out for yourself by heading over to her Etsy website above.
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cork
posted by Emily
naked doors are proteal grounds for local purport
lacquer for growing glands
and resin on palms
poring for lore
in hoards upstream city bream lead by convection
to their innumerable unknown atria
therein allowing only migrant
glances
but lingering seems as appealing as listening
to Rod Stewart’s new single on itunes
December 2012
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The Art Spirit and on selfishness, part deux
posted by Hatty
I’m feeling quite literary as I sit with three “art” magazines, a museum exhibition leaflet, some old newspapers and my own writings. They’re scattered across this coffee shop table for me to browse through and critique at my leisure. Being a writer and a fresh art & culture magazine editor/curator, it feels only natural that I read and evaluate where the art world is today. I...
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“You’ve said, “Graffiti art has the power to change the world.”...”
– Aerosol Poetic
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November 2012
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Prayer
posted by Molly
Prayer is beautiful. Across religions, traditional prayers position the petitioner in a cultural tradition hundreds, if not thousands of years old. In Western culture, Christian prayers are imbued not just with religious meanings, but also lend a sense of gravity to cultural productions like movies (The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not be in want... do you feel like you’re...
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wall
posted by Emily
paint pills
over prior grains
fresh lacquer
over old lead
but licked lingers
over polyps
never do
to level the
residual
spackle belched
turn granite under
strata
of condensate
and white washes can never be
ahistorical
my fresh obliteration seems
all of the sudden
stale.
After all,
nothing can be anything but all of what it was.
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This lot
posted by Emily
Rearranging your closet,
I caught you in a half conceived attention
eyes agape
and mouth unblinking
and your brimming pause just for me,
the fire-shorn lot behind the impromptu chain link, full of debris and so delightfully vacant,
like this new left-leering second floor,
that has been thoroughly scored by previous chairlegs
that I pour marbles and grapes down
that must...
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Daddy/home
posted by Hatty
A little late, but I wanted to share a poem from my very first public reading:
like a thirst after a sugary drink that sticks to the back of your throat parched like nerves cut off missing the end receptor neurons firing chemical shapes unable to find its fit connection like phantom limb itching to scratch something that hasnt been there ethereal corporeal but we dont know dont...
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October 2012
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bart is too bodily
posted by Emily
I can smell the salt n peppa dandruff on the head in front of me,
bobbing to the liminality of,
click and glide
shoop shoop pe doop pe doope doop shoop
and click and
,Destination.
then departure
but somehow still more scalps.
This one now,
cudgels of untrimmed crop, furrying the back of a liver-mottled neck,
fresh powder on its shingles,
Destination.
but still winter
I avert my...
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Pick a Pattern
posted by Molly
I’m Goldilocks-ing my way
through the women’s bathroom —
This stall is too stinky
This one too clogged
— Trying to find
I’ll know it when I see it,
Somewhere
I can piss in peace
Without holding my breath
The purpose of this poem/scrap is not to overwhelm you with its beauty and meaning, but to illustrate another type of pattern, the...
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Get Out the Vote? There's an app for that →
posted by Hatty
Not everyone believes in, or has the right to, casting a ballot that determines the future of one’s community. Whether you go to the polls only for local measures and could care less about who takes seat in the White House, or have been following every presidential debate and tweets about the debate — and please, let’s all keep the nasty comments to ourselves...
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posted by Emily
that warm,
(that warm thing beneath the bed thudding)
sounds semi-unrequited,
recalling in my sonambuliss
tic stagger,
some half-woken
somewhat,
thing (thudding) through my floor…
glottal
(blur) oiling eyes open
behind leaden lids…
…but to under-conscious
… too pick at semantics…
believing instead in
the bleary beckoning lull beckoning...
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“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
...”
– posted by Molly
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“You’re opening it up, a slice of life, and transforming it: undergoing an...”
– posted by Hatty
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The Sestina
posted by Molly
Forget the sonnet, we’ve all heard of that one. Maybe you’ve heard of the sestina, too. The difference is that I can think of a sestina I really, really, really like off hand. Mohja Kahf’s “The Skaff Mother Tells the Story.” You can find it in her book Emails to Scheherazad.
When done well, a sestina is one of those wondrous forms that forces the...
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Merch Store is Up →
posted by Molly
Check it out. Now instead of going through Pay Pal, you can purchase Peel Pages Merchandise directly through our Big Cartel Store. What does that mean? Hopefully, a more aesthetically pleasing experience for you, buyers.
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Babel
posted by Anthony
This weekend marks the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park. It will be (or already is as it has been for so long) a bastion of celebration for lovers of folk music everywhere. But in mentioning folk music, I cannot help but in the same breath highlight this year’s biggest album debut — “Babel,” the second offering from Mumford &...
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Discipline
posted by Molly
I like writing. It’s the artistic expression I feel most comfortable in. And I avoid it most of the time, because it’s hard. It takes discipline. Like exercise or eating healthy, it demands time and repetition. And like exercise or eating healthy, it’s always easier to be lazy about it, even when I know that the dedication pays off.
If you want to be serious...
