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.
Book: Letter from Brooklyn Author: Jacob Scheier Genre: Poetry Publisher: ECW Press Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship?but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. – Sylvia Plath I don’t normally like postmodern confessional free verse, but this tome caught my attention because of the sheer density of… Read more »
Film: Mark Maron: Thinky Pain Director: Lance Bangs The weird thing about being an American Jew is that underneath all of it . . . is this drumbeat that says: ?You will go to Israel. You will love Israel. Israel was built for us. You will go there and love it and send it money… Read more »
Album: A Playlist Without Borders Artist: Yo-Yo Ma with the Silk Road Ensemble The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village. -Marshall McLuhan Does the state of the world today sometimes get you down? Does the quest for world peace look more and more like a dark tunnel sparked… Read more »
Movie:The Vivian Maier Mystery Director: Jill Nichols If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern. – William Blake In a time when photography has become so ubiquitous that cameras… Read more »
Album: Illusions Artist: Ibrahim Maalouf Consécration de la classe du virtuose franco-libanais . . . synthèse du voyage intérieur et de l?élan vers les sommets du jazz. – So Jazz, Novembre 2012 From the first sweetly thoughtful tones of the title track, Illusions manages to express a complex range of concepts with a mountain of… Read more »
You would be hard pressed these days to find a major movie release that does not have a VFS connection … – Marty Hasselbach, Managing Director at Vancouver Film School What do The Avengers, Iron Man 3, The Dark Knight Rises, Monsters University, District 9, Forrest Gump, The Vampire Diaries, Elysium, and countless other popular… Read more »
