Monthly Archives: September 2011

Video Reportage from the Wall Street Occupation

Posted on September 28, 2011 by

______ M. E. “Spike” Allen is a filmmaker living in NYC. She has covered crime, politics, and fashion for Time magazine and The Village Voice. Contact: mallenorg@aol.com

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Landscape’s Influence: An Interview with Kathy Fagan

Posted on September 27, 2011 by

Landscape’s Influence: An Interview with Kathy Fagan by Sean Karns Kathy Fagan is the author of four books of poems: The Raft (Dutton, 1985), a National Poetry Series selection; Moving & St Rage (Univ. of North Texas Press, 1999), winner … Continue reading →

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Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the UN

Posted on September 26, 2011 by

Mahmoud Abbas’s Speech at the UN by Karim Abuawad Despite the fact that I was never a supporter of the Palestinian Authority, I have to say that I was very impressed with President Mahmoud Abbas’s speech at the UN last … Continue reading →

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Chasing the Hare

Posted on September 25, 2011 by

by Raul Clement [Author's note: This story originally appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of Blue Mesa Review. You can purchase the issue here.] The turnpike’s crowded come Thanksgiving, so at first Dylan doesn’t notice her, the new girl at … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: SARAH SHELLOW

Posted on September 24, 2011 by

by Sarah Shellow: FULL MOON IN THE SUBURBS For Gary Snyder The full moon announces itself to this night a specter chiseled by branches and leaves. And the honeyed air loiters in the dark particles of day’s exhaustion, remembering the … Continue reading →

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Andreas Economakis

Posted on September 19, 2011 by

Mean by Andreas Economakis I’m mean. I drop-kicked one stray cat, flipped off a dozen motorists in one ride, busted the tailight of a car, left garbage at the end of the Kalalau trail, pissed on the door of a … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: BILL RECTOR

Posted on September 17, 2011 by

BLACK BAG by Bill Rector Where, William Carlos Williams, are your patients? How in the world, the words, did you escape them? Erase them? In stanzas succinct as prescriptions wouldn’t a few more fit? Between curved blades of obstetric forceps, … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: JILLIAN WEISE

Posted on September 10, 2011 by

HERE IS THE ANGER ANDREW ASKED FOR* by Jillian Weise when he gave me the latest issue of P-Queue. “I want the poems where you’re angry,” he said. I read the magazine and I can tell I’m not his type. … Continue reading →

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Removed from Society: The Prison System and the Geography of Nowhere

Posted on September 5, 2011 by

Removed from Society: The Prison System and the Geography of Nowhere by Chase Dimock As the threat of Hurricane Irene loomed off the eastern coast last week, it was discovered mere hours before its arrival in New York that despite … Continue reading →

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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: EDGAR RINCÓN LUNA

Posted on September 3, 2011 by

THE ENCLOSURE By Edgar Rincón Luna Translation by Anthony Seidman At a certain moment after having left home you thought that you had forgotten something an object something uncertain and that it was necessary to turn back Once in particular … Continue reading →

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