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Forget This Good Thing I Just Said

One of Aji's past contributors, Colin Dodds, is proud to launch Forget This Good Thing I Just Said. It's a new experience, based on an old kind of book – the collection of short sayings, or aphorisms. By combining several hundred original aphorisms with the ring-oscillator software used in random-number-generating technology, Forget This Good Thing I Just Said offers up a completely unique experience every time you open it.

It’s free for your phone here. 

Beyond

"I have been visually impaired since early childhood, first with with glasses as thick as portholes.  I was lucky to not be called ‘four-eyes,’ but just ‘owl, owl,’ as well as ostracized from the regular activities of childhood and adolescence.  I then progressed to hard lenses which barely corrected my vision, but I learned to adjust and simply live with it."  READ MORE ON OUR BLOG

Constellations : Projections of Light & Shadow (Issue 15)

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 "As you read through our feature interviews and the prose and poetry in this issue, and take in the graphic images, I invite you to consider the inner constellations implicit in each work, projections of light and shadow exquisitely shaped by our contributors.  Presented together, these works do not compete or conflict.  Rather, they offer us alternate ways of viewing or experiencing our shared reality. " -Erin O'Neill Armendarez
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Featured Artist : Helen Fukuhara
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"Helen Fukuhara began her visual arts education at the Braille Institute in 1987. While being blind from birth, Fukuhara has pursued the fine arts in earnest, dedicating her university studies to music. Today, she remains a prolific and passionate artist who works in ceramic, mosaic, printmaking, and fiber arts.  In addition, her print Dancing Fingers was recently awarded an honorable mention in the American Printing House for the Blind’s (APH) annual art competition InSights."

Listen to the interview by clicking the player below or read it in our latest issue.
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Heaven, Hell, Loss, Laughter and the Waffle House : An Interview with David Kirby ​
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​David Kirby’s collection The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. Kirby is the author of almost forty books. A Johns Hopkins PhD, Kirby teaches at Florida State University, where he has taught for over fifty years, won five major university teaching awards, and is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English. Kirby has won fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Recently, the Florida Humanities Council presented him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in Writing. He lives in Tallahassee with his wife, Barbara Hamby, a poet and fiction writer who also teaches at FSU. 
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In this interview we discuss his latest poetry collection, Help Me, Information, as well as his new book on writing poetry, The Knowledge: Where Poems Come From and How to Write Them, along with heaven, hell, loss, laughter, and the Waffle House.

-excerpt from William Nesbitt's interview; read the interview on our blog and selections from David Kirby in our most recent issue! 

Spoken Silence:  Abstract Art & the Poetry of Simon Perchik
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Soos hails Perchik as a “national treasure whose work has appeared in over 700 magazines, including The New Yorker, Poetry, Partisan Review, The Nation, [and] North American Review. He is 97 years old (born December 24, 1923) and over 30 of his books have been published since his first book of poetry, Bomber’s Moon, in 1949.”

According to Library Journal (Nov. 2000), “Perchik is the most widely published unknown poet in America….”  All these years, he has been relentlessly honing his craft, and his goal? From the poet himself, of The Family of Man Poems, to testify to humanity’s “overriding need to comfort one another.”
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Maybe that’s what I was experiencing that day when I paused for a careful reading of Perchik’s submission, comfort in recognizing that these poems, while they refuse to speak of anyone in particular, spoke of us all, of things that, while almost inexpressible, are possibly more important than anything else. Interested? If so, we invite you to read on. 

Small but Mighty: The Vision of Kaya Davis

From the start, Aji’s art reviewers were intrigued by the unique, compelling creations of Kaya Davis.  How, they wondered, could she fashion anything so tiny?  Thanks to staff from Ability Now and to Davis herself, their questions were answered.

It’s clear that Davis is deeply focused on her craft, and on reaching a wider audience that will appreciate her work.  Her drive is an inspiration.  She has followed her own imagination and intuition into a pursuit that can only grow as she devises her own miniature tools and aspires to learn animation one day.  Are you wondering whether your own wild idea could ever become a reality?  Ask Kaya Davis. She has an answer for you.

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