2015 — The Monarch Review — Page 2
Sweet Amy Nicole: An Interview With Benefits
Monday, November 30, 2015 10:52 — 0 Comments
For lack of a better term, some might say Sweet Amy Nicole is a business woman, a working girl, or even a professional, but professional or no, she made me feel like a pro… I’m a Journalist, for an arts & entertainment magazine and my contemporaries might ask that I defend contacting a woman with Amy’s expertise, but I’m also a Gonzo Journalist, possessed by a demon. “Go for it-” it says, “Have another drink. Talk to her. The power of Journalism compels thee!” After a little foreplay, not only did Amy agree to an interview, but looked forward to […]
Prose Poem for Ardent Stamp Collectors – Melina Papadopoulos
Monday, November 30, 2015 10:21 — 0 Comments
Nobody knows why Tom collected only stamps with flowers on them. Perhaps he spent his final lucid days in his sunroom, penning letters to women who once courted him with their silence. When they spoke, their voices came in wispy penmanship, the ends of their S’s tucked meekly into the letters preceding them, like smooth legs folded under sheer camisole. Maybe he never wrote to anyone at all but simply mused over what it would feel like to gaze on, upward and unblinking like a sunflower and still get lost in the mail. Tom’s collection was abundant but not exhaustive. […]
The Seeker – Peycho Kanev
Monday, November 30, 2015 10:18 — 1 Comment
Looking for a word to describe the world tonight, the way the dark takes hold of the candle’s halo and declares its victory, or a word for the densest darkness oozing oily out of the chimney like the one in Dachau and a third word for the gloomy man standing at the doorway of a dilapidated house and humming a tune for morning to come.
Curiouser and curiouser – Bryan Merck
Tuesday, November 17, 2015 10:56 — 0 Comments
I am become. I am becoming. I cannot not be outside of the field. I travel through an inescapable ether. Around and through my body. The Kingdom of Heaven supercedes and suffuses fundamentally the spinning structure of my elements. My conflagration of cells. My point of being. My now. My life now is as brilliant as a welder’s arc, an amazing basic moment of contact, joining. I live within it and I help it maintain. (Lay your words down, brother. Tell about it. It. Work it out. Lay down your righteous word. Change reality. Loose your fate to a Spring […]
In the Streets with Craven Rock
Friday, November 13, 2015 12:01 — 0 Comments
Last year was a high watermark for Seattle’s anti-police brutality movement. Catching the wave of resistance that started in Ferguson over the murder of Michael Brown, and continuing in New York, over the killing by asphyxiation of Eric Garner and what came to be known as Black Lives Matter, Seattle activists took over the Westlake Center Shopping Mall in protest of police violence everywhere. Disrupting business as usual, the mall was closed three hours early, enraging of lot of Americans camped out with a hard-on for bargains. Steam had already been building in 2014, as Seattle activists attempted to take […]
What Seattle Could Learn From Vietnam Dining
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 11:35 — 2 Comments
Driving into Hanoi, the capitol of Vietnam, after passing banana trees and people sitting under the overpasses having tea, you immediately fix your eyes on the sidewalks teaming with life: small food carts with sandwich fixings, little cauldrons steaming with soup, people sitting on low plastic stools around small, kid-sized plastic tables all while thousands of motorbikes zoom by. At night the streets team with people drinking bottled or keg beer (what they call “fresh biaâ€), eating bowls of stir-fried noodles with vegetables and beef or plates of spring rolls before walking to the frantic night market to get tapped […]
It’s Not Good for Anyone to Have a Body of Work Denied: An Interview with Stephen Wood
Tuesday, November 10, 2015 10:47 — 0 Comments
Stephen Wood is a Vancouver-based musician who spent a good portion of this new century, as well as the end of the last, leading a band called the Battles, which he later renamed Giantess (for more on the Battles/Giantess – grab a comfy seat and read this). Wood also served as a sideman, playing guitar in the classic, pre-Merge Destroyer lineup that gave the world City of Daughters, Thief and Streethawk: A Seduction. His latest project, which serves as the jumping off point for this interview, is an instrumental duo called Kensington Gore (named after the famed recipe for fake […]
Capitol Hill Season 2
Wednesday, November 4, 2015 1:01 — 0 Comments
The spiral of subversion suffused in the Wes Hurley creation known as Capitol Hill manifests itself mostly in two topics: the treatment of Portland, Oregon, where NO ONE SHOULD GO WATCH OUT IT’S A TERRIBLE PLACE OH MY GAWD! and in Marc Kenison’s acting, which is superb, as a rube gender-matrix. The ever-manipulated interplay between masculine and feminine, between sex and novice, between understanding and disbelief that runs through the Capitol Hill storyline and its characters pushes the webisodes forward with such a, well, thrust that it’s impossible not to want to watch more to try and understand what’s at the […]
Football Anger: Why The NFL Is Evil
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 12:22 — 0 Comments
The image of a crumbled Ricardo Lockette on the field during Sunday’s Seattle Seahawks game crystalized – yet again – the disgustingly violent nature of football. It’s a game that puts its workforce in peril every single week, a workforce that’s nearly 70% black. But the NFL’s teams, it’s no surprise, are owned and coached by whites in the vast majority (in fact there is no black majority NFL owner). It’s a league that values the strongest and the fastest, caring little about the result of those two forces meeting in collision on the field. With Lockette’s unconscious body laying […]
Fine Prince at Timbrrr!
Tuesday, November 3, 2015 7:59 — 0 Comments
Jamie Henwood plays in a band you’ve never heard of, until now. He’s a quiet fellow who prefers, above all things, to sit on his porch contemplatively, sipping a mug of coffee or a pint of beer (depending on the hour of the day) but he’s also the sort of person to pick up a guitar (he plays a hollow body Epiphone ES 339) and write a song rich with electricity and synths with his new band, Fine Prince. The group, which will be playing Timbrrr Winter Music Festival this year, got together in 2014 when Henwood, who has been […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
