The Critical Flame

Issue 74 is out and it's a banger criticalflame.org

For the criminal photojournalist Weegee (the so-called “Official Photographer for Murder, Inc”) creating sublime visual art and taking a useable journalistic photograph blended seamlessly. Why is he so much less appreciated today than his peers? criticalflame.org/weegee-art-cra…

“When you change your body in any way, I think it often becomes more you.” A conversation between @AllisonWyss and @crowserowser from the new issue: criticalflame.org/conversations-…

The Irish and their relationship with language .@CriticalFlame criticalflame.org/why-the-irish-…

#JudithHarris on #TedKooser, a good citizen of the #poetrycommunity whose work I don't dislike, but I don't love either: criticalflame.org/ted-koosers-ce…

Joseph Conrad, usually a rather sombre figure, indulges in drunken juvenile japery with the Glaswegian author Neil Munro—a popular writer then, little-read today, but due for a reconsideration—and the experience rescued Conrad's career: criticalflame.org/a-stone-in-the…

All I really want is for @Motherfocloir / @theirishfor to tweet about this new essay. criticalflame.org/why-the-irish-…

Here's the edited discussion between Xu Xi (Monkey in Residence and me ( Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Communication), two different ways of writing in discussion and reconciliation. criticalflame.org/conversations-…

Natalia Goncharova: Life and Art (an Excerpt) | The Critical Flame criticalflame.org/natalia-goncha…

@CriticalFlame - John Wieners, Allen Ginsberg and William Blake, Allen Ginsberg and psychiatry - Friday's Weekly Round-up on the Allen Ginsberg Project -allenginsberg.org/2023/01/f-j-6/

Check out this conversation between @JudithBaumel and #CarolyneWright in @CriticalFlame: criticalflame.org/conversations-… The writers discuss Judy's new book of poetry #Thorny, the #UkraineRussianWar, the #BabynYarMassacre, and everything in between. Judy's book: arrowsmithpress.com/preorder/thorny

Finding Toussaint Louverture, Spartacus Of The Haitian Revolution.- criticalflame.org/finding-toussa…

"Poets reframing, repurposing, revising, and revisioning fairy tales and tropes from folk traditions are producing some of the most inventive and dynamic work in English-language poetry today." criticalflame.org/on-the-fairy-t…

Thanks @CriticalFlame for giving #CarolyneWright & me space for a serious conversation about our new books. We asked & answered some difficult, painful questions. THORNY from @arrowsmithpress MASQUERADE from @losthorsepress

Still cannot believe they gave Robert Allen Dylan the Nobel Prize.

ICYMI, Issue 72 dropped. Virginia Konchan, Carolyne Wright with Judith Baumel, an anatomy of freedom, and more. criticalflame.org

The Critical Flame features an incisive review of The Well-Earned. criticalflame.org/an-anatomy-of-… @alkabalain @Shikhandintweet @Tabish_Shajar @NikitaParik @HawakalP @plabonphotoart @Satchida @CriticalFlame @pritchard33 @maniraopoem

#Writers! We are in need of review and literary essays for the upcoming issue. Submissions are open and free. Send us your work! criticalflame.submittable.com/submit

Insightful by Daniel Rabuzzi @TheChoirBoats in @CriticalFlame 'History is at the heart of the endeavor. Poets dissecting fairy tales aim to rewrite how we tell the story, specifically to surface and celebrate the history of the oppressed and marginalized' criticalflame.org/on-the-fairy-t…

@nadmussen "Six Proposals for the Reform of Fiction in the Age of Climate Change" @nadmussen in @CriticalFlame criticalflame.org/six-proposals-… "the English language is choked by metaphors of possession and exchange, and sorely lacks metaphors of membership and interrelation."