Cavalier Literary Couture

Featuring new interviews with an open-source photographer and a Bollywood dance choreographer, plus a stirring look into the darker side of Nathanial West’s Depression-era fiction.

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"Are we in Irwindale, Shonda? I’m gambling not, though you might beg to differ—you beg often enough...."

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A sampling of off-beat and irreverant Haikus, including: "The granddad would curse the hirsute miss, daily, still bearded at his hearse." "Thankfully your dress Is the epitome of ina...

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"...In the dark, the bed sighs and moans, the pillows slip from their cases like the heads of hostages and while she sleeps the moon and I stare at each other."

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"If it does not slacken soon, I shall be crazier than a rat in a shit house. I shall have bats in my belfry, be as nutty as a fruitcake, as mad as a morbidly obese woman at a salad bar, be pushin...

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"When the sky is no longer just sky, the buffeted debris of wind and light, sucking black holes and colliding galaxies, and we are ready to improvise ragged visions on the bottomless up ...

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Timothy Kercher is a contemporary poet of Eastern European origin, and it shows in his suprising take on the classic Grimm tale. "What sound do beers clinking in a forest make when no one’s aro...

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CLC's own Yoon.Ji KIm continues her series of graphic renditions of classic poetry with Marie de France's narrative poem of courtly love, 'Laustic.'

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What happens when the words of 19th century melancholia meets the preferred medium of 20th century escapism? 21st century art. Check out Yoon.Ji Kim's art-deco rendition of a Poe classic.

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In "A Supermarket in California" Allen Ginsberg insured we would never look at grocery store cucumbers the same way again; now renowned poet Pui Ying Wong revives the poetic shopping experience, ...

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Salvidor Dali may have mutilated clocks, but Francine Rubin chooses instead to coronate one. Beautiful bunnies, six horses and King Pisces join in the timeless poetic ritual.

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Demotivational Speaker Murph Murphy Addresses the Cast of the Henry David Thoreau Middle School Production of "West Side Story."

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