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Read MoreEverything Breaking/For Good
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The poems in Everything Breaking/For Good swerve through the world as they ache for something better, something that might be but isn’t…at least not yet, and maybe never. Matt Hart’s newest collection asks can a creative life really make it alright? Does imagination make the world? Is paying attention to what’s right in front of our faces the key to empathizing with a universe that isn’t? How do we find our feet with each other when everything seems to be breaking for good? How can we not?Hart reveals in his skillful sixth book the instability in experiences and interactions with remarkable craftsmanship and command of imagery [and] revels in the impossibility of his own rhetorical situation, suggesting that poetry affords a testing ground for ideas and speculations, and seemingly implausible models of the world around us. This book stands as an accomplished addition to Hart’s innovative body of work.
Cover Photo: Erika Nj Allen Cover & Interior Design: Alban Fischer Paperback,102 pagesSeptember 16, 2019, ISBN 978-1-936919-66-6 
Nic Cacioppo: “Beginning to End”
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Drummer/Musician Nic Cacioppo has had the distinct honor and privilege of working with Jazz Legends including Slide Hampton, Johnny Oneal, Gene Perla, Wallace Roney, David Murray, and has most recently joined JD Allen's band. Cacioppo's Debut Record under his own name "Beginning to End" releases on 4/12/19. Subsequently, he plans on releasing music (varying in genre/styles)on a regular basis! To Be Continued!
*(artist profile photo courtesy of Erika Nj Allen)
“Flyover Country” at the Xavier University Art Gallery, September 29-October 27, 2018
“Flyover Country” at the Xavier University Art Gallery, September 29-October 27, 2018
October 8th, 2018 | Published in *, September 2018
There is nothing ordinary about Erika NJ Allen’s photographs of downtown Cincinnati. Taken with a pinhole camera set at an exposure of nine days, the city looks as if it has been underwater for a millennium. We are not likely to take the pictures’ minimal suggestions of color for granted. It is unsettling how they look like they are both underexposed and overexposed, but they emanate mystery and magic. “Silent Serenade” interrupts the look with a huge bright yellow streak that races through the sky, perhaps soaring, perhaps plummeting. However it got onto the print, it adds pent up vitality, exploding into the atmosphere. Is something apocalyptic on its way? Is the city releasing something indescribable into its airspace?
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