The Maker of Mulan’s Mushu Speaks
Aaron Belz: Tom, nice to meet you. As the 15th-anniversary Blu-ray release of
Mulan and Mulan 2 is about to come out, and you led the team that invented one
of its most
Aaron Belz
Aaron Belz has published four poetry collections—Soft Launch (2019), Glitter Bomb (2014), Lovely, Raspberry (2010), and The Bird Hoverer (2007)—and holds a Master’s in Creative Writing from NYU and a
To His Bunny
You’re slightly odd-looking:
neither as pretty as you imagine
nor even as normal-featured.
Your permanent eyebrows arch
significantly when you lol
followed by snort and nasal flare,
your ears sloping unevenly
down
New Values and a New Quest
On Sunday, Pixar’s Brave won a Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature Film. We
recently had a chance to talk with its producer, Katherine Serafian
[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0764780/]. Here’
At Least I Author My Own Disaster
“The past is a grotesque animal,” begins the eponymously titled Of Montreal song
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2p9fDJsHNo]; “and in its eyes you see / how
completely wrong you can be.” What
The Baddest Girl Around
Maybe Canadian-born rapper Drake has never read Rainer Maria Rilke’s advice in
Letters to a Young Poet: “Do not write love poems; avoid at first those forms
that are too facile and