On Courage

On Courage

“Courage is the great enabling virtue that allows one to realize other virtues like love and hope and faith. To have courage is to be willing to look unflinchingly at catastrophic circumstances and muster the will to overcome the fear, never to fully erase and...
J=o=u=i=s=s=a=n=c=e Knows Best

J=o=u=i=s=s=a=n=c=e Knows Best

J=o=u=i=s=s=a=n=c=e Knows Best PS: I misread “you” instead of the “I” you have. How does this change the tone of the text? How does this change the idiomatic expression itself: “I break for strangers” or “I will rock you like a...
FJORDS!

FJORDS!

This weekend, Chicago’s Poetry Foundation plays host to FJORDS, an exciting multimedia adaptation of Zachary Schomburg’s book of poems of the same name. A collaboration between Manual Cinema and the Chicago Q Ensemble, the production features all manner of...

A Few Instructive Interviews

Bad at Sports first came on my reader radar for the interviews. Or, more precisely, the conversations. Beyond the accessibility of the medium, podcasting’s greatest contribution to broadcasting is the reintroduction of elastic time. Without the constraints of...
Episode 180: Stephanie Brooks and Mess Hall

Episode 180: Stephanie Brooks and Mess Hall

http://media.libsyn.com/media/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_180-Brooks-Mess_Hall.mp3 download This week: Duncan acts like a lunatic in the intro, Richard gets annoyed. Duncan talks to Stephanie Brooks about poetry, her work and her show at the Rhona Hoffman...