J. Marcus Weekley has lived in Gulfport, Mississippi for the past seven years. He has exhibited quilts at venues ranging from The Gulf States Quilting Association Show in Louisiana to The National Quilt Museum, among others. He teaches college English at William Carey University, enjoys watching movies, and has published collections including his poems, stories, and photographs. For more about him, check out www.whynottryitagain.blogspot.com or www.flickr.com/people/whynottryitagain2.
A poem by J. Marcus Weekley
A poem by J. Marcus Weekley
The Grafted Willow: My Poetry Family Tree
On poetic forebears.
Get (Emotionally) Naked? Three Films and Nudity
In great (lasting, challenging, beautiful, truthful, skillful) art – great film, great painting, great quilting, great photography – prurience has little place. However, nudity for a great filmmaker relates to film’s sense of time: it focuses on the impermanence of the body, while at the same time reveling in the beauty of the same body, as in each of these films.
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