She said nothing of course she sent me soon after (after what?) After she saw me a poster of a girl: wrote over:Doesn’t she look like you? Hunger not in the mouth whistles through teeth cravings carved holes of a
Wonder Stranger
Michelle Ruiz is a native Chicagoan with a degree in Interactive Multimedia & Video from Columbia College. Previously, she has worked in both Chicago and New York in the Post Production and Television industry while working on various independent video
For Lorca
The body replicates the body unfolding tomorrow I’m going to put on my green dress the light will taper me a pale green parchment all thirst, all thirst and shadow, all shoulder under the cold lemonade sun. I came to dance
1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim
Citations for this work may be found at bit.ly/1700projectcitation. Performance artist, writer and global agitator, Anida Yoeu Ali is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. Utilizing video, installation, sound, and performance. Her works
Heavy Skirt
My childhood was spent in Prey Veng province of Cambodia in the early seventies in a time of war. My mother talks about having very few clothes at that time, and only one skirt, which she patched over and over
Voices
Somehow I feel the bleeder, and so I soak myself in disrepair This is the American genius, and I can tell her now softly that I magazined my way to France for Hershey was wiling away in his factory creating
The Devil and John Malkovich
THE PARATEXT May 3 JM: There is something I’d like you to change in the interview. On page two there is my line, “I never watch my movies.” I’d like to change that to “I don’t watch all my movies.”
from Antidepressant Anagrams: Prozac (Fluoxetine)
operate in union O union of union O uproar core force at center cocoon uproot faux tulip lip preen upon panic frozen force of root a net of tin opera of poor flux net of a next craze preen upon
from Antidepressant Anagrams: Cymbalta (Duloxetine)
men melted you into a leaden ball you named your doll blue eyed blond and bland lamb you named your doll one day You moan but you can’t duet can’t bleed out I can’t calm you coax you I call
from Antidepressant Anagrams: Effexor (Venlafaxine)
fever eve far leaning vile flavor veil of olive leave O live in an eon of rain offer five favor one: fix fear, offer fine oxen for no fee never far off or even learn fife, a riff leave evil