Jake Uitti — The Monarch Review — Page 3
Poems & Short Stories: Telenova, Thinking Twice, Sarah, Hubcaps Were Shiny, Indiana, The Women With No Legs, Fart Date, Plans For The Night, In Need Of Help, Famous Magazine, Memory
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 18:01 — 0 Comments
Telenova Telenova has lied to me. She smiles while she would have me believe in love. She has sent me notes to tell me how she likes my stride, how I walk across a room like an elephant. She has spent the night. I have found a hair of hers on my jacket more than once. She has borrowed my books and taken my magazines. She says she is in love with poetry but I have never seen her write. She keeps a trunk locked in her small apartment and I have never seen inside. Telenova. She has only one […]
‘The Story Of A Shooter: Two Weeks In Phoenix’ & ‘The Rat Collection’
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 15:03 — 0 Comments
The Story Of A Shooter: Two Weeks In Phoenix  by Jake Uitti  May – June 2007  2003 Honda Civic  For deadly heat, alien cacti and the freeway.    The flowers of death grow purple mournful melancholy  a moon dangles like a pendulum as a man falls into water      It’s been weeks since I’ve seen you I hear you’ve been sick in bed, small and frail broken as if you lost someone, but now, I hear, you are feeling marginally better? there has been lots to think about and I am somewhere here in Phoenix with my 73 […]
Opportunities To Succeed
Friday, February 8, 2019 16:39 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in February 2019 San Francisco Mayor London Breed knows the importance of community support at the right time. A native of the Bay Area, Breed grew up in the Western Addition housing project in San Francisco. However, an internship with the nonprofit Family School when she was a teenager helped change her life. Breed, who was elected mayor in June 2018, is partnering with Alaska Airlines and other businesses to give that same opportunity to thousands of low-income young people in the San Francisco area. The mayor’s new initiative, Opportunities […]
Artists In Residence: Macklemore Helps Seattle-Area Youths Gain Experience In The Music Industry
Monday, January 7, 2019 17:41 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in January 2019 WHEN BEN HAGGERTY WAS 7 YEARS OLD, he already knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. The Seattle-based emcee/rapper, now better known as Macklemore, was aware even at this young age that he wanted to be onstage with a microphone, hearing his voice boom through speakers as he shared his music with an audience. Now, 28 years later, in the midst of his Grammy-winning career, Macklemore is helping to make similar dreams come true for young musicians through The Residency, a music-education […]
LOVE OVER HATE
Thursday, December 20, 2018 15:13 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in July 2018 Talking about the Holocaust is difficult, especially if you’ve lived through it. Yet, that’s precisely what 92-year-old survivor Sonia Warshawski does every day. She talks with people about the details of her time in concentration camps and being freed. It’s one of the many remarkable aspects of her vibrant daily life, which includes running a small tailor shop in Kansas City, Kansas, and, more recently, advocating her message of “love over hate” to the U.S. Congress. It was seven years ago that Sonia’s granddaughter, Seattle-based filmmaker Leah […]
Spin Doctors Front Man, Chris Barron, Talks Comfy Sweaters, Befriending John Popper And Writing Songs
Monday, December 3, 2018 18:18 — 0 Comments
Growing up in Princeton, New Jersey, residents heard a lot about Chris Barron, the fun-loving, golden-voiced front man for the famed 90s rock band, Spin Doctors. From rumors spreading about the blond singer crooning from his window atop Farrington’s music shop near the library to hearing about his myriad poems depicting odd characters and indelible, quirky turns of phrase. Barron, whose band has been making music for thirty years, has seen and done a great deal in the business. Of course, everyone knows Spin Doctors from their two hits, “Two Princes†and “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong,†from the 1991 […]
A Changing Of The Guards
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 18:25 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in May 2018 In the final home game of the 2017 season, the WNBA Seattle Storm caught a promising glimpse of its future. Although the Storm lost that game to the Phoenix Mercury, the Storm’s young star guard, Jewell Loyd, scored a career-high 33 points and raised many eyebrows, including those belonging to teammate and shoo-in Hall of Fame point guard Sue Bird. “Jewell had an epic game that night,” recalls Bird, a two-time WNBA champion and the league’s all-time assists leader. “There were times when she had these moves […]
Springtime with the Decemberists
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 18:18 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in March 2018 For their new album, I’ll Be Your Girl, released in March, the members of Portland-based rock band The Decemberists set out to challenge themselves. The group hit No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with its 2011 LP The King Is Dead and has built a following for creative sounds and lyrics. But fresh tactics, says frontman Colin Meloy, had to be taken to keep making invigorating music. “I just had this suspicion,” Meloy says, “that we were falling into some old habits. I felt like I was […]
Traveling Musician
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 18:12 — 0 Comments
Below is a story that appeared in Alaska Beyond magazine in Feb. 2018 While visiting nashville, Tennessee, singer-songwriter Aloe Blacc found something he did not expect. Inside the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Blacc stood before a large mural depicting the origins of the museum’s central genre. The painting showed a cultural mashup of players with West African banjos, as well as fiddles and other harmonic and melodic elements that originated in Europe. “It was a wonderful visual to capture the spirit of country music,” Blacc says. The artwork, by painter Thomas Hart Benton, speaks to the kaleidoscopic […]
Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard on the “Home Shows”
Thursday, September 20, 2018 16:20 — 0 Comments
It isn’t every day one of the world’s most famous and powerful rock ‘n’ roll bands takes a stand publicly and loudly on an important social and political issue. But that’s exactly what Seattle’s Pearl Jam is doing. On Aug. 8th and 10th, the Hall of Fame grunge band will perform two sold out shows to benefit the Emerald City’s homeless community. Partnering with many prominent local businesses and celebrities – like Alaska Airlines and Seahawks QB, Russell Wilson, respectively – the band has raised over $10 million dollars along with a great deal of awareness for those living in […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
