Tom Schultz, 12/2, acrylic on canvas, 2012.
Contents
Erlking, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translated by Okla Elliott)
Cast Away Illusions: Part 2, by Christopher Carrico
Cast Away Illusions: Part 1, by Christopher Carrico
Writers on the Writing Life: Steven Gillis
Interview with Mark Smith-Soto, 6/20/10
The Goddess, the Gush and the Circles by Billee Sharp, 5/25/10
Mouseheart by Andreas Economakis, 5/24/10
Outside the Bedroom by Sean Karns, 5/23/10
Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martin Espada, 5/22/10
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth, 5/21/10
Capitalism: Big Surprises in Recent Polls by Charles Derber, 5/20/10
Poisoned by John Unger Zussman, 5/19/10
To Sweat or Not To Sweat by Billee Sharp, 5/18/10
Jump by Andreas Economakis, 5/17/10
At Twenty-Eight by Amy Fleury, 5/14/10
How the Corporations Broke Ralph Nader and America, Too by Chris Hedges, 5/13/10
Vietnamese Agent Orange Justice Tour Finishes (excerpts) by Michael Uhl, 5/13/10
My Last Day in Harlem by Andreas Economakis, 5/10/10
Let x, by Chad Simpson, 5/9/10
Another Death to Brave by Mac Oliver, 5/8/10
A Conversation with Bryan de Roo About Painting by Gina Borg, 5/7/10
What I Know About Epistomology by John Surowiecki, 5/7/10
How I Died in Viet Nam by George Evans, 5/6/10
Kent State — 40 Years Later by Jim Dorenkott, 5/5/10
Space is the Place by Billee Sharp, 5/4/10
Karmic Cat Piss by Andreas Economakis, 5/3/10
Dance Me to the End of Love by Leonard Cohen, 5/1/10
Letter on Immigration (1910) by Eugene V. Debs, 4/29/10
Cockroach by Andreas Economakis, 4/26/10
This Be the Verse by Philip Larkin, 4/25/10
Last Night, As I Was Sleeping, I Dreamt Marvelous Error! by Antonio Machado, 4/24/10
Excerpt From “Letter to a Woman Painter” by Max Beckmann, 4/23/10
DOW Hijacks Live Earth Run or Do The Yes Men?, 4/22/10
Against Medical Advice by John Unger Zussman, 4/21/10
Book Signings & Washing on the Line by Billee Sharp, 4/20/10
Graceland by Andreas Economakis, 4/19/10
My Father’s Potato Death by Sean Karns, 4/18/10
Song of the Barren Orange Tree by Federico Garcia Lorca, 4/17/10
8 County by Charles Bukowski, 4/16/10
A Hidden Wholeness: Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King Jr. by Albert J. Raboteau, 4/14/10
King Mob by Billee Sharp, 4/13/10
International Party Turtles by Andreas Economakis, 4/12/10
Okla Elliott Interviews Christopher Higgs (and Marvin K. Mooney), 4/11/10
Selection from Helen in Egypt by H.D., 4/10/10
George Leonard (1923-2010): A Tribute by Gordon Wheeler, 4/7/10
One Side Or Two by Billee Sharp, 4/6/10
The Al-Marbid International Poetry Festival by Jack Hirschman, 4/6/10
Blundering Around, Pondering Aloud: On Becoming a Lacanian Analysis by Albert Herter, 4/5/10
Spending/Reading Politically: Curtis Smith’s Bad Monkey by Raul Clement, 4/3/10
I’m Prince of the Poem by Solomon Ibn Gabirol, 4/3/10
Liquefaction by L.S. Klatt, 4/2/10
A Man Under the Influence by Andreas Economakis, 4/1/10
At the End by Theodor Adorno, Translated by Dennis Richmond, 4/1/10
Inactivism and the Movies by Billee Sharp, 3/30/10
My Name is Mohammed and I am Undocumented, 3/29/10
Lami by Alden Van Buskirk, 3/28/10
Dust by Dorianne Laux, 3/27/10
The Infinite Current by Juan Ramon Jimenez, 3/26/10
The Democrats’ Health Care Bill: Defeat In Victory by Shamus Cooke, 3/25/10
Carrying a Backpack of Sorrow…Soldiers on the Edge of Suicide by Nadya Williams, 3/25/10
Mussolini on the Bay Bridge by Andreas Economakis, 3/25/10
Valentine’s Day by Gabriela Barragan, 3/25/10
Mad as Hell by John Unger Zussman, 3/24/10
The End of Bipartisanship by John Unger Zussman, 3/24/10
Ethical Shopping by Billee Sharp, 3/23/10
Undocumented and Unafraid: My Name is Gabriel and I am Undocumented, 3/22/10
Undocumented and Unafraid: My Name is Ashley and I am Undocumented, 3/22/10
Gubbinal by Wallace Stevens, 3/20/10
Selection from the Preface of “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman, 3/20/10
Anniversary by Dan Beachy-Quick, 3/19/10
National Coming Out Week for Undocumented Youth: My Name is Liz and I am Undocumented, 3/18/10
Joseph Brodsky Nobel Lecture December 8, 1987, 3/17/10
National Coming Out Week for Undocumented Youth by Dave Bennion, 3/16/10
Practical Cats by Billee Sharp, 3/16/10
Goodbye, Facebook, or Why I Quit You by Stephanie Vernier, 3/16/10
Blowfly by Andrew Hudgins, 3/14/10
I Took Off Petal After Petal by Juan Ramon Jiminez, 3/13/10
The Painter of the Night by James Tate, 3/12/10
The Tim Burton Activity Guide by Adam Benedetto, 3/11/10
The Huh-Huh Kid by Adreas Economakis, 3/12/10
Excerpt: The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 3/10/10
Fakecrack, Mice, Mathbooks & Miller by Billee Sharp, 3/9/10
Book Review of David R. Slavitt’s Re Verse by Okla Elliot, 3/7/10
Poem [Lana Turner Has Collapsed] by Frank O’Hara, 3/6/10
Writing Truth to Power? How the Guardian Let Progressives Down by G. Whitney Leigh, 3/4/10
Ralph Nader Was Right About Barack Obama by Chris Hedges, 3/4/10
Who Got It Right by John Halle, 3/4/10
Bay Area Friends of Sabeel event on Palestine, Israel & U.S., 3/3/10
Growing Up by Peace Pilgrim, 3/3/10
My Law Degree (Seriously) by Unknown, 3/2/10
The Futurist Universe (1918) by Giacomo Balla, 3/2/10
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Must Include LGBT Equality by Dave Bennion, 3/1/10
One Body by Sofia Starnes, 2/28/10
Red Brocade by Naomi Shihab Nye, 2/27/10
High Windows by Philip Larkin, 2/26/10
Analyzing the Obama Psyche by Paul Hogarth, 2/25/10
Ebullient Inhabitions: Jack Stuppin’s Exhilarating Landscapes by Mark Van Proyen, 2/25/10
Wandering with Robert Walser, January 3, 1937, by Carl Seelig, 2/25/10
Over the Mountains by Theodor Adorno, translated by Dennis Redmond, 2/23/10
I-5, Golden State Gulag by Matthew Hirsch, 2/23/10
The Tino Sehgal Show With Stranger by Adam Benedetto, 2/22/10
Quarter to Six by Dorianne Laux, 2/21/10
Exit Ramp Cowboys and Overpass Indians by Raul Clement, 2/21/10
A Pity. We Were Such A Good Invention by Yehuda Amichai, 2/20/10
Haiku by Judson Evans, Anita Virgil, Cor Van Den Heuvel and Raymond Roseliep, 2/19/10
Looking at Theophilus Brown: What the Other Is Not by Esteban Ortega Brown, 2/18/10
Far from the firing-line by Theodor Adorno, translated by Dennis Redmond, 2/17/10
Éxpo-See: A Memoir by Mark Van Proyen, 2/16/10
National Winter Garden by Hart Crane, 2/13/10
High Treason by Jose Emilio Pacheco, 2/12/10
Beyond Quirky Chic: A Review of Chris Adrian’s A Better Angel by Raul Clement, 2/8/10
One More Banana by David Bowen, 2/7/10
The Swan by Mary Oliver, 2/6/10
The Seige of the City of Gorky by Donald Revell, 2/5/10
Afflicted by Raul Clement, 1/31/10
The Poetry Foundation by Sivan Butler-Rotholz, 1/30/10
Excerpt from the Preface to the 1855 Edition of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1/29/10
A Hot Minute by Okla Elliott, 1/24/10
The Glass by Sharon Olds, 1/23/10
Corruption by Srikanth Reddy, 1/18/10
Hover by Andrea Scarpino, 1/17/10
Commercials? by Sivan Butler-Rotholz, 1/16/10
Living in the Dollar-Amount Democracy by Okla Elliott, 1/14/10
Book Review: Notes on Robert Bolano’s 2666: Part 1 by Christopher Higgs, 1/11/10
Circus Circus by Jason Gray, 1/10/10
First Snow, Kerhonkson — For Alan by Diane Di Prima, 1/9/10
Book Review: The End of the Circle by Walter Cummins by Duff Brenna, 1/6/10
This Ocean, Humiliating in its Disguises by Jack Spicer, 1/2/10
How To by Aaron Burch, 12/27/09
The Widow’s Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams, 12/26/09
Wandering with Robert Walser, July 26, 1936, by Carl Seelig, 12/24/09
On the Marionette Theatre (1810) by Heinrich von Kleist, 12/23/09
The Last Loosening Manifesto (1918) by Walter Serner, 12/22/09
Letter to His Father, April 10, 1920, by Federico Garcia Lorca, 12/21/09
Writer Repents by Heather Kirn, 12/20/09
No Second Troy and On Being Asked for a War Poem by William Butler Yeats, 12/19/09
Af-Pak War Racket: The Obama Illusion Comes Crashing Down by David DeGraw, 12/18/09
Telegram to Martin Luther King by Malcolm X, 12/17/09
The Swig About the Axis Manifesto (1919) by Walter Serner, 12/16/09
I am a Charity! by Cindy Sheehan, 12/15/09
The Confessions of Fofi Littlepants (part 10), 12/14/09
Charles Aznavour’s Got Soul Like A Motherfucker by Leonard Kress, 12/13/09
Three poems by Martin Camps, 12/12/09
Boy from the heath by Theodor Adorno, translated by Dennis Redmond, 12/11/09
Why I Voted No by Dennis Kucinich, 12/10/09
Marrakech by George Orwell, 12/9/09
Liberals Are Useless by Chris Hedges, 12/8/09
The Confessions of Fofi Littlepants (part 9), 12/7/09
Black Dog’s Bedside Manner by Robert Archambeau, 12/6/09
Love Sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda, 12/5/09
Above all one thing, my child by Theodor Adorno, translated by Dennis Redmond, 12/2/09
An Open Letter to President Obama on Afghanistan by Michael Moore, 12/1/09
The Confessions of Fofi Littlepants (part 8), 11/30/09
President In My Heart by Mark Smith-Soto, 11/29/09
As Remembered by Tsering Wangmo Dhompa, 11/28/09
The Art of Noises by Luigi Russolo, 11/27/09
A Letter to G.S. Fraser by Veronica Forrest-Thomson, 11/26/09
Time Exchanges: Share Your Life Energy by Mira Luna, 11/24/09
Open Letter to the Chancellor by 40 Geography Graduate Students, 11/23/09
The Confessions of Fofi Littlepants (part 7), 11/23/09
Paris by Black — A short fiction by Adam Benedetto, 11/22/09
A Supermarket In California by Allen Ginsberg, 11/21/09
What Is Surrealism? by André Breton, 11/20/09
In Berlin for the Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Adam Benedetto, 11/18/09
The Confessions of Fofi Littlepants (part 6), 11/16/09
Nearly Forgetting the Anniversary of Your Leaving by David Gibbs, 11/15/09
Three poems by Dorothy Parker, 11/14/09
A Long History to Pizza… by Adam Benedetto, 11/11/09
The Confessionions of Fofi Littlepants (part 5), 11/9/09
If by Rudyard Kipling, 11/8/09
The Way to Keep Going in Antarctica by Bernadette Mayer, 11/7/09
Why I Write? by George Orwell, 11/4/09
The Coming Crisis of Western Food by Liam Hysjulien, 11/3/09
The Confessions of Fofi Littlepants (part 4), 11/2/09
What Will We Do With You? This Bone Has Almost No Flesh Protecting It… by Shaindel Beers, 11/01/09
Who Says by Kristen Holden, 10/31/09
Letter to Susan Owen — October 31, 1918 by Wilfred Owen, 10/30/09
I’m gay and I’m married!…Now how do I get divorced by Ask Lady Esq., 10/29/09
Dada Manifesto by Hugo Ball, 10/27/09
The Confessions of Fofi Littlepants (part 3), 10/26/09
Object by Jonathan Monroe, 10/25/09
Parachutes, My Love, Could Carry Us Higher by Barbara Guest, 10/24/09
Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955), 10/23/09
Shooting An Elephant by George Orwell, 10/22/09
Apropos of ‘Readymades” by Marcel Duchamp, 10/21/09
Memento by Theodor Adorno, translated by E. F. N. Jephcott, 10/20/09
The Confessions of Fofi Littlepants (part 2), 10/19/09
Three Poems by Jürgen Becker, translated by Okla Elliott, 10/18/09
Station by Sharon Olds, 10/18/09
Rome by Beth Mattson, 10/17/09
Memorial by Eve Toliman, 10/16/09
A Hanging by George Orwell, 10/15/09
“Spoiler Theory” Spoils Democracy by Jeff Rock, 10/14/09
War and Peace Prizes by Howard Zinn, 10/13/09
The Confessions of Fofi Littlepants (part 1), 10/12/09
Tableau a la Rousseau by David R. Slavitt, 10/11/09
Poet’s Work by Lorine Niedecker, 10/10/09
Minneapolis: Indian Summer by Jack Spicer, 10/10/09
Sick Man Detained at the Huwwara Checkpoint by Anna Baltzer, 10/9/09
Coming Clean About Mrs. Robinson by Ask Lady Esq., 10/8/09
Separated-united & Table and bed by Theodor Adorno, translated by Dennis Redmond, 10/7/09
Layin’ Dead by Rachel Hoiem, 10/6/09
The Inborn Authority by Yahya T. Ali, 10/5/09
President Obama: Give Peace A Meeting by Cindy Sheehan, 10/3/09
Critical Legal Studies as a Spiritual Practice, Part Three by Peter Gabel, 10/2/09
Taking Refuge In the Brazilian Embassy by Jim Dorenkott, 10/1/09
Critical Legal Studies as a Spiritual Practice, Part Two by Peter Gabel, 9/30/09
Letter to Susan Owen — April 25, 1917 by Wilfred Owen, 9/29/09
Critical Legal Studies as a Spiritual Practice, Part One by Peter Gabel, 9/28/09
Just Now by Eve Toliman, 9/25/09
U.S. Census — Why I Won’t Cooperate by Nativo Vigil Lopez, 9/24/09
Don Fucking Steele (1971-2009) by Charles Gonzalez, 9/23/09
Antithesis by Theodor Adorno, translated by Dennis Redmond, 9/22/09
The Art of Failure: Poetry in Translation by Okla Elliott, 9/21/09
Planting Trees with “the Palestinian Gandhi” by Anna Baltzer, 9/18/09
Is Infidelity the End of the Marriage? by Ask Lady Esq., 9/17/09
The Lies About Honduras We Believed by Jim Dorenkott, 9/16/09
Diversions by Michael Lasher, 9/15/09
Remembering Peter Camejo by Matt Gonzalez, 9/14/09
Always more slowly ahead by Theodor Adorno, translated by Dennis Redmond, 9/14/09
Black on White: Reading Fanon Against Mapplethorpe by Mishana Hosseinioun, 9/11/09
No exchanges allowed by Theodor Adorno, translated by Dennis Redmond, 9/10/09
If You Are a Progressive, The Resignation of Van Jones Should Scare You by Matt Sullivan, 9/8/09
Nader-Gonzalez Would Never Ditch Van Jones by Jim Dorenkott, 9/8/09
All Power to the People: Changing the Economic Power Structure by Heather Young, 9/7/09
Conversation with Hamas Supporters by Anna Baltzer, 9/4/09
A Standing Ovation: My Lai Redux by George Evans, 9/3/09
Why Can’t We Be Friends? by Ask Lady Esq., 9/2/09
Organic Intellectuals and Counter Hegemonic Theoretical Discourse by Anthony Torres, 9/1/09
The Paucity of Hope by Horacio Guernica, 8/31/09
Super Powers by Gabriela Barragan, 8/28/09
A Memoir: Diplomacy by Jim Dorenkott, 8/27/09
Thieves in the Night by Anna Baltzer, 8/26/09
Breathe and Be Sung by Eve Toliman, 8/25/09
Photography and Other Modes of Crying at Your Own Funeral by Mishana Hosseinioun, 8/23/09
A Memoir: Eve of Destruction by Jim Dorenkott, 8/22/09
The Limits of Cultural Relativism by Okla Elliott, 8/21/09
Her Bottom Line? by Ask Lady Esq., 8/19/09
Warnography by Cindy Sheehan, 8/18/09
From Jericho to Hebron by Anna Baltzer, 8/17/09
A Memoir: Boot Camp by Jim Dorenkott, 8/16/09
Woodstock Nation, Viet Nam by George Evans, 8/15/09
Towards a Democratic, Cooperative, and Caring Economy by Heather Young, 8/14/09
I Want to Be Better by Eve Toliman, 8/13/09
A Half Mast Rebel by Gabriela Barragan, 8/12/09
Jacob Lawrence Ironers 1943 by Nathan Birnbaum, 8/11/09
The Holy Trinity of Ineligibility? by Rod Ciferri, 8/10/09
Powder to the People? Yes. by Jack Freeman, 8/9/09
A Memoir: My Generation by Jim Dorenkott, 8/8/09
Watch What You Say Because … Someone Might Hear You! by Diana Cristales, 8/7/09
The Olive Harvest by Anna Baltzer, 8/7/09
Us vs. Society? Relationship Advice from a Divorce Lawyer by Ask Lady Esq., 8/6/09
Agnes Martin, Wittgenstein, and the Quality Without a Name by Felix Macnee, 8/5/09
People Power Pushed the New Deal by Sarah Anderson, 8/5/09
The Painter on the Road to Tarascon by Matt Gonzalez, 8/5/09
I Dreamt of My Father Last Night by Eve Toliman, 8/4/09
When Johnny Comes Limping Home by Horatio Guernica, 8/3/09
Obama Immigration Enforcement More Efficient Than Bush’s by Nativo Lopez-Vigil, 8/2/09
John McCain’s Natural Born Problem by Rod Ciferri, 8/2/09
An Argument for a Core by Nathan Birnbaum, 8/1/09
In Defense of Babel by Okla Elliott, 7/31/09
The Return of the Repressed: Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man by Anthony Torres, 7/30/09
The Big Lie of Afghanistan by Malalai Joya, 7/29/09
Archaeology of the Good Life by Paul Occam, 7/29/09
Prodding Baudelaire by Eve Toliman, 7/28/09
Desert Winds by George Evans, 7/27/09
A Grand Tour: Walking Los Angeles by Sesshu Foster, 7/26/09
A Memoir: George by Jim Dorenkott, 7/25/09
Beneath the Damage and Apology by Eve Toliman, 7/24/09
The Personal is Political by Anthony Torres, 7/23/09
Heckuva Job, Arne by Horatio Guernica, 7/22/09
Tilt at Windmills, Slay Giants by Adriel Hampton, 7/21/09
My Musical Corkage Fee by Gabriela Barragan, 7/21/09
A Memoir: Leary by Jim Dorenkott, 7/20/09
Art Review: A Blogage Plane by Jack Freeman, 7/17/09
A Memoir: Disneyland by Jim Dorenkott, 7/17/09
War is Over! by Rod Ciferri, 7/17/09
Art Review: Theophilus Brown: Recent Abstract Collages by Anthony Torres, 7/16/09
The Undividing Line Between Literary and Political by Okla Elliott, 7/15/09
“A New Era of Engagement”, But for Whom? by Nathan Birnbaum, 7/15/09
Technical problem: the Shooting an Elephant / Orwell link is broken. I understand they require very large bullets.
I think it’s because its url has spaces in it.
Thanks….it’s fixed now.
i wish matt would get back into politics. i can imagine any number of reasons why he’d prefer not to. still, that would be more relevant…