April — 2019 — The Monarch Review
Three Poems – Richard Kenney
Saturday, April 13, 2019 15:30 — 0 Comments
The Arcturan Vivisectionist Explains This specimen’s common name is Mirroreye. Observe (retractor, please) just here—a rare non-adaptive anomaly in the so-called “third lidâ€â€”common enough, of course, in lizards, birds, sharks, et al., all perfectly unremarkable, save that the nictitating membrane is silvered inside, enabling these creatures to see themselves reflected everywhere: in wood-grain, in moon, in clouds, in others of their kind, even; also imparting an odd, not uncrabwise aspect to their gait, backing hell-bent, headlong, as it were, into what’s already happened. Global Citizen, I think my sins are mostly only mostly just ridiculous. Ridiculous I am to […]
HUMP, SPLIFF, Love And Advice: A Conversation With Dan Savage
Friday, April 12, 2019 17:36 — 0 Comments
Dan Savage, bestselling author and nationally syndicated sex advice columnist, likes to laugh. The pleasant outbursts were sprinkled throughout our conversation. He laughs when praised and he laughs when asked to offer up his thoughts on a grand idea like love. His is a comforting laugh, not one of nervousness or deflection. Rather, it’s a laugh of largess and enjoyment. A laugh in response to the very real, very odd world looming all around us. I recently caught up with Savage to talk about his touring amateur pornography festival (HUMP), his new cannabis-inspired film festival (SPLIFF) and to ask, yes, […]
Lavender Country’s Patrick Haggerty On Music, Love And Life, Itself
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 19:19 — 0 Comments
I didn’t have the heart to tell Patrick Haggerty, front man and songwriter for Lavender Country, the first openly gay country band to release an “out” album, that I wasn’t gay, though he lovingly assumed I was during our conversation. But not telling Haggerty about my sexuality is beside the point, of course. As you’ll see in the interview, it doesn’t take sexual orientation to make for kinship. By the end we were saying “I love you” to one another. Haggerty’s is a story of artistic success devoid of financial gain. But, later in his life, after a series of […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
