Divagations : Literary Journal

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Interview with Ivy Ney

a professional photographer living in Los Angeles

I was one of the early Chili Peppers enthusiasts. I photographed them and went to many of their shows, during the 80’s. But it was actually the Wallflowers, Jakob Dylan’s band, not the Red Hot Chili Peppers, who rented my basement as their rehearsal space in 1990.
read the interview + see photos by Ivy Ney

Watch Ivy Ney videos created by Fred Munk + Derek Banner. /////

Watch Ivy Ney videos created by Fred Munk + Derek Banner. /////

Watch Ivy Ney videos created by Fred Munk + Derek Banner. /////

Watch Ivy Ney videos created by Fred Munk + Derek Banner. /////

Watch Ivy Ney videos created by Fred Munk + Derek Banner. ///// Watch Ivy Ney videos created by Fred Munk + Derek Banner. ///// Watch Ivy Ney videos created by Fred Munk + Derek Banner. ///// Watch Ivy Ney videos created by Fred Munk + Derek Banner. /////


*Our friend, Fred Munk, allowed us to share these videos on the site. We thank Derek Banner & Fred Munk for creating these informative + perfectly directed Ivy videos. To view more videos, please visit @StoneSkipFilms via YouTube.

John Randall

A Holdover in Wasp Country.

“I’ve never wanted to manage rental property, to be a landlord, to have tenants ... Yet I have appointed myself caretaker of an old farmhouse in rural Missouri.”

photos + writing

divagations vol. 2 is now AVAILABLE

winter 2024: poetry + prose issue

read the vol. 2 here

The Champions Suite

by Cal Freeman

read here

John Randall

Hunt & Peck: Birding at Farm, Spring 2024

photos + writing

see here

Quick travel notes from the island of O’ahu

Take a minute to enjoy photos from Hawaii

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND

New “bird blurb” from John Randall.

Roadrunner in Repose

“Then later a roadrunner huddled on top of a rock, not quite perched but resting, waiting. In the huddle, its neck had been recalled into its body which left, as I viewed it from the front, the plump, round body of a bird that in such a pose looked more like…”

read here.

Feeding My Dead Ancestors.

Spooky personal essay.

based on true events.

click if you can handle it.

Toronto + Montreal + Ottawa Restaurants:

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Travel Clips from South Korea: Autumn in the Garden 

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“You Don’t Know Jack!”: Jack Gilbert and Me

an essay by Chris Banks

This book has traveled with me for over twenty years. It has gotten me through three different moves, four pet deaths, and one marriage.
Read here.

Interview with a private dealer living in Vancouver, CA, specializing in Japanese, Canadian, and Korean ceramics.

Read the interview with Nathan Tichenor here.

Travel Essay: Detroit River & Western Lake Erie

The Stacks

“This essay is set Downriver, an industrial set of suburbs just south of Detroit; it engages with questions of ecology of the Detroit River’s Trenton Channel, some industrial and ecological history of western Lake Erie, and it also highlights the work of Trenton, MI writer and poet Peter Markus”

- Cal Freeman

Read this essay here.

New Travel Photos: Japan’s Art Island and more.

Naoshima & Teshima Island

photo gallery

Gray Heron

My wife would see the bird by itself, that bird always by itself. And she’d say, “Look, a gray heron.” I’d see the bird she was talking about. Maybe we’d be driving down the long driveway that leads to my parents’ house, which sits on a lake, and the bird would be standing watch on the point, looking out at the flatness of the water, keeping a vigil unto itself.

by John Randall

continue reading HERE

Book review:

Life Sentences: Literary Judgments and Accounts by William Gass

“Life Sentences might well have been called Live Sentences: William Gass’s sentences are among the liveliest being written today.”

- Troy Jollimore

Read more book reviews HERE

Verve, Tériade’s Legendarily Beautiful Art Magazine

Verve’s legendary run began in 1937 with a striking cover by Henri Matisse. The first issue contained Dora Maar’s famous photos of Guernica …

- James Moog

Read this article HERE

Previous articles

“Joe Henry is Madonna’s brother-in-law, but he isn’t what you’d call famous. Although he was raised in Michigan, Joe Henry is not a Michigan songwriter in any quintessential sense.”

by Cal Freeman

Read this MUSIC article HERE

Photo Gallery: Birds Around the World

“Crows are NOT bad birds! They are actually quite nice. Magpies are the nasty ones who bully all the migratory birds!"

— Quote from a taxi driver (translated from Korean)

by Emily Choi

Is it worth the hype?

Food Articles

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