The Johnsonville Press Daily Edition
Today’s Submission by: Matia Guardabascio
1. Recommendation of the Day: Bon Iver
If you are depressed, recently broke up with someone or are generally miserable all the time, then you would like Bon Iver. His music is a perfect unity of melody and lyrics. He says so much in so few words, that I can’t help but marvel at his use of metaphor.  If I had to describe his sound to you, I probably wouldn’t, I’d just tell you to listen to it. So on that note, listen …

Having spent a semester studying abroad in Paris, France, French Literature major Matia Guardabascio brings you to some of her favorite spots in the city of lights, including Montmartre and Sacre Coeur, Rodin’s “Thinker” and the Statue of Liberty (in Paris), and of course, the Eiffel Tower . Paris, Je t’aime, as they say…Enjoy.

I live my life as it comes to me—instantaneously.

Poem by Michael Coughlin
Critique by Matia Guardabascio

“Silent Voices”

It was the coldest night in August. No not August,
but a much later time, oh wait, it was August.
I remember that night like I remember my road
back  home after a barrel.  No I think it was in August.
The wind chilled your bones to brittle lyrics, in an empty echo
verse.  So it was a cold night?  Yes the coldest night in August.
I remember, i felt so alone in a sweltering chill.  No sun
to warm the throat.  I felt my hand turn black. Frostbite in …

The Johnsonville Press would like to introduce a new column in the Creative Section: The Pound-Eliot Exchange. Every week two artists will team up: one submits a work while the other offers stylistic commentary and contextual analysis. This column is dedicated to artistic collaboration and peer critique among artists of all kinds. Enjoy!

Scatter, Rain, Fascious, Butterfly, Waterfall, Ostensible, Fuck, Voluptuous, Friend, Perspective, Ergo, Perhaps, Periphery, contradiction, Hypocrisy, Gentle, Poet, Universe, Insidious, Intention, Deconstruction, Conspicuous, Imagination, Prudence, Persuasion, Bustle, Seduction, Observation, Ridicule, Collision…

When I received my absentee ballot to vote in the special election to replace the late great Ted Kennedy, I felt an immeasurable disappointment with the names I saw on it. The choices, as I saw them, were these: a giant douche, a cold-hearted woman, a babbling hypocrite and a space for me to waste my vote. To be honest, no candidate on the ballot seemed capable of filling the position. Over the course of several days I deliberated and resolved that I simply could not make a decision. And …

Photo series by Matia Guardabascio. All Rights Reserved by the artist.
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A reaction to Claude Monet’s Le Soleil Levant, 1872

A photo series of various parts of New Brunswick under snow. Some of these photos depict the lack of organized snow maintenance in New Brunswick. Others are just nice to look at. Enjoy and stay warm this Winter season. All rights reserved by the artist.