Wanda Waterman
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.
“Allan Pinkerton . . . saw the way the police went about their work, and he didn’t like it, so he came up with a new methodology for solving crime. My writing partner Kevin Abrams and I are the same way. We looked at the way television was created and developed, and wanted to do… Read more »
Film: The Congress Director: Ari Folman Adapted from the novel The Futurological Congress, by Stanislaw Lem “For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system… Read more »
The quintessential Chazz. This one narrowly beat out the very first comic The Voice Magazine published in 2014, and that’s because students said they liked Chazz. And then immediately had to clarify they meant the comic, not Chazz himself. I don’t blame them.
Film: Nebraska Director: Alexander Payne Writer: Bob Nelson DAVID: Hey, Dad, how about we go see Mount Rushmore? WOODROW: We don’t have time to see that! DAVID: It’s just 30 minutes off the interstate. And we’re right here. WOODROW: It’s just a bunch of rocks! – Dialogue from Nebraska Woody wants to go to Nebraska… Read more »
Film: Cargo Cult Director: Bastien Dubois “The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.” – John Berger “Avarice is fear sheathed in gold.” –… Read more »
William Susman is Chicago-born composer of film, chamber, and orchestral music, with a thorough education in both jazz and classical piano. His work is notable for its human concern as well as for his use of technical innovations, based on the science of sound, like Shepard Tones and isorhythms. (Read the Voice review of his… Read more »
Album: Next Spring Artists: The Mehmet Polat Trio “Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” – Martin Luther Once winter has commenced, It’s never too early to allow one’s mind to leap… Read more »
