The David Mayfield Parade: A Review
Criticism can be just the projection of the critics’s preferences onto someone else’s art. That said, the best critics are…
Dual Purpose: Poems by Ivan Jenson
Dual Purpose You think you know me better than I know my shelf of self-help books and you have already…
All the People Say: Portugal. The Man is Back
Having recovered their van and equipment after it was stolen earlier this year at Lollapalooza, Portugal. The Man was back…
Soaring Angels: Poems by Henry C. Smith
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UCWbLing: An Interview with John W. Whitehead
Gadfly founder and editor-in-chief John W. Whitehead was recently featured on DePaul University’s podcast for aspiring writers. Listen to the…
Photographers Snip, Snap
Five years ago, I gave my first autograph. On an average Tuesday, I had ventured into the Chicago rain, black…
Occupy America and Friendly Fascism: Life in the Corporate Police State
“Law is no longer what it was intended to be – a set of rules equally binding everyone to ensure…
Every Available Space by Nat Whilk
A doctor in a white coat enters a crowded press conference as lights flash and cameras click. Television cameras are…
A Father’s Advice from Yeats, Jay-Z, and Kanye West
As fate would have it, this August I was reading a collection of William Butler Yeats’s poetry around the same…
Hidden Divinity: Poems by Sonnet Mondal
Hidden Divinity I have been waking up each midnight, each dawn, at the end of each passing hour to see…