This piece ran on 2/12/2014 in Poets & Writers Speculative fiction writer Bonnie Stufflebeam is shaking writers and visual artists of their respective comfort zones with a twist on the traditional art show. From March 1 to April 1, submissions will be accepted for the third annual Art & Words, Stufflebeam’s collaborative exhibit of art…

This piece ran on 1/1/2014 in Poets & Writers Within two weeks of meeting poet Todd Boss, in the fall of 2008, filmmaker Angella Kassube had created a forty-second animated exploration of Boss’s poem “Constellations” that featured twined hands, star maps, and excerpts of the text in motion, all set against the audio backdrop of…

This story ran 4/12/2013 on Dane101.com There’s a concept in Spanish called duende that we used to talk about a lot in my college poetry workshops. It is, to summarize in far too few words, a heightened emotional state that is connected to death, irrationality, struggle, darkness. Duende might be why a certain note of the blues, or the…