Jolene Nolte

Jolene Nolte currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia where she revels in the innumerable shades of green and the fact that she does not have to choose between mountains and the ocean. She works

May 2021 Playlist

May 12, 2021 4 min read Monthly Editor Playlists Music & Performing Arts

[Listen to our May 2021 playlist on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1PRAxKRcHgpPLEhKOAfXM7?si=bb8cd698bdd947e3].] Songs for the Road Road trips are a great time for music, and I tend to love

Why Celebrate National Poetry Month in 2021?

Apr 5, 2021 3 min read Poetry The Curator Celebrates

Christian Wiman’s question reverberates in my mind: “What is poetry’s role when the world is burning?” If 2020 and 2021 have taught us anything, it’s brought us face-to-face with the

Concert A

Dec 17, 2020 1 min read Poetry

Smell of resin and my musty clarinet case, my reed’s wood taste on my tongue as I assemble my inherited instrument: mouthpiece, barrel, body joints, bell. Behind me, brass section’s spittle

Easing Into Loneliness with Aoife O’Donovan’s EP Bull Frogs Croon

Dec 7, 2020 4 min read Music & Performing Arts Prose

Aoife O’Donovan’s Bull Frogs Croon sets three of Peter Sears’ poems to music. I didn’t know this when I heard the album (I eventually learned from this review [https://americansongwriter.

10 Songs / 10 Poems

Dec 31, 2019 1 min read Music & Performing Arts Poetry

10 songs I can only listen to on repeat, paired (for no particular reason) with 10 poems I memorized because I love them so much: 1. “Jupiter [https://open.spotify.com/track/6O25O6Bc1ndfV7CyoBICK3?