Wanda Waterman is a poet, spoken word artist, blogger, cultural journalist, and digital nomad. She’s been writing regularly for The Voice Magazine since 2004, not long after she began studying psychology at Athabasca. Her poetry has been published in Descant, The Talking Leaves, Chizine, Our Times, The Best of Tigertail, and Pottersfield Portfolio and her articles in Design is Political, Rawckus Magazine, Coastal Life, The New Internationalist, This Magazine, and in her blog, The Mindful Bard. She grew up in Nova Scotia, but after having lived in New Hampshire and North Africa she’s now settled in Montreal.
Film: The Wolfpack Director: Crystal Moselle “Hide away folk family Or else someone’s gonna get ya (someone’s gonna get ya) Someone’s gonna get ya Hide away folk family Better hide away Better hide away . . .” – They Might Be Giants Oscar Angulo is a Peruvian who met his American wife, Susanne, while he… Read more »
“Of all the trade’s that’s going, sure begging is the best For when a man is tired, he can sit down and rest He can beg for his dinner, he has nothing else to do Only cut around the corner with his old rig-a-doo.” – Irish folk song “The Little Beggarman” Every country has them…. Read more »
Film: Red Knot Director: Scott Cohen “But once the realization is accepted that even between the closest people infinite distances exist, a marvelous living, side-by-side, can grow up for them if they succeed in loving the expanse between them, which gives them the possibility of always seeing each other as a whole and before an… Read more »
Album: Covered Artists: The Robert Glasper Trio (pianist Robert Glasper, bassist Vicente Archer, and drummer Damion Reid) “I missed the piano. I didn’t want to go back to trio and just play a bunch of standards or original jazz compositions, because then I would lose the big fan base I just built from mainstream R&B…. Read more »
Film: Wild Tales Director: Damián Szifron “If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?” – William Shakespeare Are moral lapses forgivable? Of course they are, in a universe wherein love… Read more »
“Yogi hippiography, sell us immortality, PhD without a gig, dirty, broken drill rig, Bible basher black belt, bankers buck a short sell, Kurzweil on a pill-kick, handing down a pink slip, Missionaries at the door, bleeding out at every pore, Democratic fail safe, Money gets you in the game, Money gets you in the game,… Read more »
