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Hurrah for Euphony
Dedicated to Young Poets“Hurrah for Euphony” was written during the semester Ronald Johnson taught creative writing at UC-Berkeley in 1994, a position that allowed him very temporarily to move back to his beloved Bay Area from Topeka, where he felt he had been exiled, much like Ovid before him (though RJ’s was a financial rather than political exile). […]
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01.01.02
We’ve got new poems this month from Philip Jenks, Devin Johnston, & Peter O’Leary. New images from Kevin Bradbury, Szu Burgess, & Jay Cox, should be posted by mid-month. Our third Miniside will be a poem by Devin Johnston. We’ll have them in hand in a couple of weeks. Best wishes to all of you […]
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Influence
Smoke gets into everything: bitter honey, autumn’s distillation, bears an aftertaste of cats and muscatel. When privet dominates, hives disperse in sparks through private darkness, filling cells with evidence of elsewhere: spores of cockle, rush, and dock; contraband, perfume, and punk. Even you (asleep and breathing deeply) open from the core to all that you […]
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Zach Barocas, contributor
Suggested Reading Circles of Confusion, essays, mostly on photography & film, by Hollis Frampton Light Up the Cave, essays by Denise Levertov He Sleeps, fiction by Reginald McKnight Reasons for Moving, poems by Mark Strand Negative Blue, poems by Charles Wright Suggested Listening Gula Matari LP, Quincy Jones New Favorite CD, Alison Krauss & Union […]
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Congruities
Al-din means religion in the vastest sense as the sacred norm into which the whole life is to be molded. It is the total way of life grounded in teachings that have issued from God.These teachings reach humanity through revelation, which means the direct conveying of a message from Heaven…. Revelation, moreover, must not be […]
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“who the burn marks…”
who the burn marks nettled and hatched his shadow label ecstatic. and recompense, a tiny infallible legion born midday, listen. youre no oxygen five hundred of you stare back at you. look the conversationalist has no hair and there a fraction of yr crevice lurches forward because the jesusline revalated “all is dust” or alternately […]
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12.10.01
It’s time for the (roughly) mid-month images update. This round finds new contributors Kevin Bradbury & Patrick Whalen offering up photos & a drawing respectively. So take a look. the Cultural Society extends its continued well-wishes to the First String, especially the Johnsons & L.J. Thanks.