THE SWITCHEROO: We've got TWO broadsides for you this year. And a review of Martha Silano's "Gravity Assist." Happy May!
Collaborators’ Q&A: Poet Margaret Noodin: The image of the rollers fascinated me because they are so thin and consist mostly of a round skeleton used to put air and motion into hair. Artist Meghan Keane: As a solo portrait that I had always viewed as playful yet having fairly massive and megalithic properties (like Carnac on someone’s head, a curler topography of sorts), I am fascinated that while each vision is so evidently distinct, they both hold something in common that I myself didn’t see.
Artist Meghan Keane is a painter and printmaker. She is the founding director of meghan.keane.studio. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Poet Margaret Noodin is the author of Weweni and What the Chickadee Knows: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English, and is co-creator of www.ojibwe.net.
Collaborators Q&A: Artist Meghan Keane: this colorful piece isn’t just a compelling abstract composition of shapes and colors, but has the capacity to function as a portal to communal memory and ties between humans, is an element of the work I now see, thanks to this “Como Una Vela.” Poet Michelle Moncayo: “Rollers” was striking in that it instantly took me through a tour of several very specific, very vivid places in my life–-from the island of Domincan Republic, to Brooklyn, to Newark. The bold purples, pinks, and blues of the hair rollers combined with the curving movement of the shapes created a powerful, layered narrative.
Poet Michelle Moncayo is a Dominican/Ecuadorian poet. She received a 2020 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, SPACE at Ryder Farm, and Vermont Studio Center. Artist Meghan Keane is a painter and printmaker. She is a visiting alumni artist at Brooklyn College art department printshop.
Gravity Assist Martha Silano Saturnalia Books, 2018 $16.00; ISBN 978-1-947817-00-5 Purchase at Bookshop.org Reviewed by Deborah Bacharach As a person whose only knowledge of astrophysics comes from watching The Martian, I’m going to miss layers in Martha Silano’s book of…
Not for Luck Derek Sheffield Wheelbarrow Books, Michigan State University Press ISBN: 978-1-61186-389-5, 90 pages Get at Bookshop.org Reviewed by Kali Lightfoot “Surprised by joy”—the title of a poem by William Wordsworth, a book by C.S. Lewis, and a phrase…
Look Alive, winner of the 2019 Cowles Poetry Book Prize by Luiza Flynn-Goodlett Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2021 Perfect Bound, $15.00, 60 Pages, ISBN: 9781732039988 Purchase at Bookshop.org Review by Risa Denenberg Luiza Flynn-Goodlett’s new collection, Look Alive, is…
