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Gambier · GambierPoet Travis Chi Wing Lau opens his new poetry collection, What’s Left Is Tender (Small Harbor Publishing), with a series of deeply revealing verses centered on his experiences growing up with a scoliosis-related disability, writing of the various ways the tendrils extending from these chronic pains wormed into every facet of his existence. In the opening “Ars Poetica,” Lau writes of being born with a back “bent by a mother’s womb,” later addres…Read Article
Travis Chi Wing Lau and the radical act of remaining tender – Matter News
Health Care · OhioIn March 1929, George Orwell, sick with pneumonia, spent two weeks in Paris’ publicly funded Hôpital Cochin. He documented the experience in his essay “How the Poor Die,” musing that for the poor people in the hospital with him, death was lonely, painful, and bleak. He meditates on the kind of health care provided to those without resources, the experience of neglect, the loss of humanity. “As a non-paying patient, in the uniform nightshirt,” Or…Read Article
How the poor die – Matter News
Columbus, Ohio · ColumbusArtist Julia Barrett began work on the painting that would become “Not That It’s Your Business” not long after Republican legislators began passing the first round of so-called “bathroom bills,” which require people to use the public restrooms that corresponded with the sex listed on their birth certificate. Completing the painting – a vulnerable portrait of Columbus artist Briden Schueren – was a two year process, and Barrett remains struck by…Read Article
