Polari Journal - Issue 1 - April 2010
Issue Editor: D. J. Baker
Showcase
Featuring an Interview with Edmund White, poetry by Pam Brown, the short fiction of Dallas Angguish and the writing of Staceyann Chin.
Staceyann Chin is a poet, writer and performer. Staceyann was born in 1971 in Jamaica of mixed Jamaican and Chinese descent. Her memoir The Other Side of Paradise was published in 2009. She has won numerous prizes and competitions and spoken or guest lectured at New York University, Harvard University, Cornell University and Yale University, among many others. Her work is profoundly lyrical, breathtakingly forthright and unflinchingly real. Here we are honored to include three poems: Tonight I Want to be Elsewhere, Trini Girl: for Lynne and Jazz.
Museum
Ruins - Icons - Desire
Featuring the art of Bill Travis.
Bill Travis is a Manhattan based photographer. He has a Ph.D. in medieval art and has taught at the University of Michigan. His photographs of medieval sculpture and architecture have appeared in a number of prestigious journals. More recently, Travis' subject matter has included the male nude. His series 'Icons of Desire' are innovative photographic transfers on gilt boards. Travis has shown his work internationally and has had many exhibitions in cities including: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Atlanta, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Castel Gandolfo, Mexico City, and Buenos Aires. His work is featured in the Bibliothèque Nationale of France, Portuguese Center for Photography, Yale University, Dumbarton Oaks, The Kinsey Institute, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Photography Collection of the New York Public Library, and the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan, among others.
