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A new book illuminates the haunting black-and-white portraits that have captured the eyes of visitors to a legendary Missoula bar for decades.
âA Corner of Space and Time: Lee Nyeâs Eddieâs Club Portraitsâ presents the stories and frames the art in a way thatâs equal parts historic preservation and art book.
Longtime Missoulians likely know a lot already â an art photographer tended bar at whatâs now Charlie Bâs, where he shot portraits of regulars, whether local literary icons or retired blue-collar workers. To younger visitors and recent transplants, it might be limited to even more shorthand.
Darren C. Demaree is the author of fourteen poetry collections, most recently
Unfinished Murder Ballads, (Backlash Press, 2020). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from
Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the
Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of
Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.
INTRODUCTION
Developing a writing practice and a reading practice takes time. There are so many little things that have gone into my own routine to make it challenging, to make it inventive, and to make me feel like taking chances on language, on subject, on different poetic forms is worth all that time spent not knowing if it’s actually being successful. I think being a confident writer comes not with production or success, but by being unafraid to fail. It’s so damn hard to look at it this way, but th
WE ARE HONORED to present to you the very first
Massachusetts Review issue focused on Native American writing. We are thankful to Associate Editor N. C. Christopher Couch and the rest of the MR team for dreaming up this issue and for asking us to be guest editors, and we are especially thankful to the writers and artists whose work we’ve chosen for this special issue. Their words and images are a gift.
This issue, as it was first imagined, was set to coincide with and push back against Massachusetts’s planned celebration of the four hundredth anniversary of the
Harper’s, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Poetry, and
The Best American Poetry. He has been a Bread Loaf Fellow, a Lannan Foundation Marfa Residency Fellow, and writer-in-residence at George Washington University and the Richard Hugo House. He is a coordinator of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Writers Week and co-hosts, with novelist J. Robert Lennon, the podcast Lunch Box, with Ed and John. He has been a visiting writer at the University of Montana, and lives in Portland.
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