The CultSoc is proud to take part in Erika Howsare & Jen Tynes’ Don’t You Have a Map?, a sort of epistolary exchange appearing at various websites & blogs. We’re hosting No. 6 here & encourage you to connect w/the previous five installments. Our next full update will feature work from Burt Kimmelman, Robert Murphy,Michael […]

Among the pleasures of being an aggregate quarterly is that it gives time for contributors to gather their goods. While putting this update together, I thought it might be best to hold a few things back as insurance, sleeved aces for the summer update. But my enthusiasm got the best of me & so this […]

This year marked our arrival at The Cultural Society’s sixth postal addres in its third United State in just over four years. All I can say is that it pleases me to have finally joined the mighty ranks of the Great Midwest. Though, you know, I kind of miss Brooklyn. One must keep one’s eye […]

This is actually a sort of half-update to let you know that AMONG OTHER THINGS, the first collection of poems by Zach Barocas, is now available. You can buy one without delay by clicking here or you can order via phone by calling 888 625 9258. If a more scenic & informative route appeals to […]

Well, we’ve officially been doing this for four years; whatever such a duration might or might not mean, I’d like to thank all of you for sticking/coming around. Hopefully we’ll continue to bring you texts & images you enjoy. On which subject, we’ve got poems from newcomers Derek Coyle & David Hickman; a few from […]

We’ve got some very exciting material for you this update: poems from Norman Finkelstein, newcomer Faye George, Joseph Massey, & Jen Tynes; photographs from Barney Kulok; & the usual assortment of picks & kicks. So dig in! Shouting: Team (version) NYC (+ Kristina & Kate); PBNY; NJNY; JP & E Philly; Team IJ; Syl; The […]

Is there any excuse for my newfound level of update-delay? There is, dear readers, not. Hands to the heavens, I thank you & this round’s contributors thusly for your inexhaustible patience & support. This update features poems from Jon Curley, Norman Finkelstein, Peter O’Leary, & CultSoc newcomer Jen Tynes; I provided the picks myself. Power […]

My goodness it’s been awhile since the last update. Your humble editor & his loving wife have returned to NYC, a move that has not only seemed the most natural & wonderful such thing, but one that left the CultSoc in a state of relative disarray. But we’re settled (more or less) & therefore have […]

We’ve got for you this update: poems from Eric Elshtain, Joseph Massey, & Pam Rehm; prose from Michael Heller; a final Postcard & Picks from Peter O’Leary; photographic bodily variations from Cary Conover; to say nothing — or little — of the new links page. What more could you ask for to better cool these […]