Alienation of Affection
Thumb traces thumb, lines flat and forgotten until the lazy sun stretches to her highest and the past burns white hot — smooth as satin. Indifferent, a toaster hums through […]
Events:
A Christmas Carol
Everyone’s favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, is back! The humbug’s wrenching, covetous, and cares more for money than all else. When the clock strikes midnight one fateful Christmas Eve, the ghost
November 23 - December 29Violin River
Acoustic sounds of the Grateful Dead. Isn’t there already too much violins in our society?
November 27 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe Schemers
Annual Thanksgiving show.
November 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmMystic Dead
Music of the Grateful Dead.
November 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmOrnament
Trans-Siberian Orchestra tribute.
November 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmJames Montgomery Blues Band
A unique journey from Detroit to the Delta by this originally-RI musician. Hear the stories while he captivates you with his masterful harp.
November 29 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmEverybody Wants Some
Van Halen tribute.
November 30 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pmRoomful of Blues
A blues and swing revival big band that travels the world from RI.
November 30 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe Agents/ Nick and the Adversaries
Traditional ska, reggae, swing and surf.
November 30 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pmJabbawaukee
Psychedelic jam.
November 30 @ 9:00 pm - 11:30 pmThe Four Horsemen
Metallica tribute
November 30 @ 9:00 pm - December 1 @ 12:00 amAudiofields
Bass music & DJ.
November 30 @ 10:00 pm - December 1 @ 2:00 am
Washington
i. ShearEighteen spans, massive Trembling softlySoothing and rocking, murmuringForgetfulness, abnegating the airThe space beneath The commuters hung aloft Steel and concrete, manmadePiles driven deep, riverbed anchorsTowering to braceHis vertebraeCooling drops […]
Motif’s 2024 RI Spoken Awards: And the winners are…
A poet, a comedian, and a storyteller walk into a bar… it sounds like the beginning of a joke, but on Tuesday, April 9, it was a beautiful reality manifested […]
Journey of Snowflakes
You can determine the shape of snowflakes by surrounding conditions, the symmetry of dust particles frozen into crystals that sprout arms and legs different directions off one central core based […]
Harlem Nights in Pawtucket
The Langston Hughes Community Poetry Reading is about more than poetry, and more than Langston Hughes – it is about the impact each force has had, and continues to have, […]
Pics & Poets 2023
Motif put out an open call for visual artists and poets to submit work for an experimental new event: Pics & Poets. Artists and poets were randomly paired. Each participant […]
UNDONE: New poetry collection by Jeff Danielian
For many years, death wasn’t something poet Jeff Danielian had to face, but in recent years he has experienced multiple losses and found himself dealing with situations he had only […]
On the Beauty of Aging
I’ve never understoodthe glamorization of youth,the glorification ofthe unfinished brain,When every yearstretches itself out,longer than a decade feelsjust a decade or two later.I’ve never understoodthe nostalgia fornot knowing howyour life […]
2023 Pics & Poets
Visit this post to see the 2023 entries! When: Thursday, November 9, 6 – 9pm (Gallery Show) Where: WaterFire Arts Center, 475 Valley St, PVD Why: Exchange the submitted work […]
a brief chat with ryk mcintyre
Photo: Thomas Cizauskas. Growing up outside of Boston, Ryk McIntyre first thought about becoming a poet during high school when he read Anne Sexton’s The Awful Rowing Towards God. McIntyre […]