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.
Rachid Taha, Zoom ?Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don’t speak bird.? Kurt Cobain Arab Exile Punk Any fresh work from Rachid Taha is newsworthy. Reports of his lapses into drug and alcohol abuse have… Read more »
Album: Wayne Shorter, Without a Net Artists: Wayne Shorter on tenor and soprano sax, with pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade Here’s to Weaving Your Own Net Robert Frost wrote, ?Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.? I adore Robert Frost and really don’t think he was… Read more »
Film: Kumaré Director: Vikram Gandhi Genre: Documentary ?She’s a phony. But She’s a real phony. You know why? Because she honestly believes all this phony junk she believes in.? from Breakfast at Tiffany?s ?And they took him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, ?May we know what this new teaching is which you are… Read more »
Film: Putin’s Kiss Director: Lise Birk Pedersen Cast: Masha Drokova (as herself), Oleg Kashin (as himself) Genre: Documentary ?If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face? forever.? George Orwell An Instance of Amity Between the Left and the Right in Putin’s Russia we’re treated to visions of… Read more »
Album: Idir, Adrar Inu (2013) ?He is a good storyteller who can turn men’s ears into eyes.? Berber saying A Voice from a Precipice Idir’s is a voice perched on a cliff, tremulously intense, leaning forward slightly to see how far it has to fall. A well-rounded and easily recognized persona with a strong individual… Read more »
Film: Booker’s Place Director: Raymond de Felitta Genre: Documentary ?I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.? . . . ?To understand the world,… Read more »
