Home for Now: Michelle MacKinnon’s A Rendering of the Once Familiar
BY Patricia Gora
Michelle MacKinnon’s career as an artist and educator has taught her to quickly shift perspectives from the unfamiliar to the familiar. Using pencil and graphite powder on paper, MacKinnon creates…
NQ Event: Sharing the Stage
Join us for a conversation between some of the characters behind the initiatives, including Andy Jones, Greg Malone, Pam Hall, Melissa Barbeau, and Ian Sutherland as they discuss community university collaboration in the arts, today, yesterday, and into the future.
Bingo
BY Maggie Burton
Girls night out, we’ve been here for days trying to win at Bingo. The fog so thick on the smoking side of the hall we swim in it: we’re swans…
Recipes
BY Maxine Lewis
I have not finished sorting the recipes. There are literally thousands of them. As her memory became less sharp she no longer picked out good recipes with a discerning eye. Instead, she indiscriminately saved every recipe she came across. It was as if by losing herself in that old familiar action, she could somehow be back in the day when she would actually use them.
Roxanne
BY Ryan Clowe
A woman stands at a gas pump outside Circle K, fueling her black hatchback. I am drawn to her pink zip-up jacket, a bright fashion statement against the dreariness of…
Three poems
BY Molly Clarke
Uncle My uncle slumps against the doorframe, his cigarette a sixth finger. He is a night of amber whiskey and…