Courage, Please
...Robert Ashley died today. In memory of one who believed that the "technique of profound collaboration is essential." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xza2GCF74lo ...
The Anti-Family
...example: “Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage”). All of this comes on top of the routine discriminations against single parents—higher insurance and tax rates, difficulties in obtaining housing and...
Sunday Reading
...for a reason: things cannot go on as they are." University examiners stage mass resignation over pay offer Chilean students disguised as tourists crash presidential palace "It was in the...
Have you read Stendhal?
...They were pleased when cramped, muzzled, and famished [these counter-activities took place at S-52]. Development image of a segment of magnetic tape 11. The signals were examined and compared to...
African Poetry: Hope Wabuke
...Image | Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com The Table of Contents to Hope Wabuke’s The Leaving anatomizes: the first poem is titled “Mind” and the final word in the...
A Country Torn: The Cicero March, 1966
...respond with vitriolic jeers as the police struggle to prevent a riot.' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGH5IyKQn98 Elsewhere: Rashad Shabazz, 'Black Militancy: Notes From the Underground' For a generation of young activists, the...
An old man and an older woman battle to the death in an ancient manner
...Remix)”. This is a rough approximation of that mix, although the "Extended Death Match Remix" has a longer, woozier, beatless opening. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scZeaErWVCY Damn, Snake’s bristly mind raced, she may be...
African Poetry: Kayombo Chingonyi
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com Since I’m remembering this, or making it up, there is only darkness; our bodies speaking. Eat, your pelvis tells me. I eat—savoring your...
As crazy, as crazy, as crazy as I am /
...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SZBLAovd28 / nothing can parallel the very non-parallel fact of those pants and that floor...
African Poetry: Gbenga Adesina
...Image | Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com form(alism) Writing about Ngwatilo Mawiyoo’s poetry was easy: I’ve been reading her work for close to ten years and she’s a friend....
African Poetry: Chielezona Eze
...Image| Jerry Riley | http://www.jerryrileyphotography.com When I started reading poetry scholarship as an undergraduate, I struggled to figure out how critics were doing what they were doing. My...
Silten wares
The assembly line / It coughed And Thick was / The resultant silt It huffed / The silt thick And The trucks / Stunting like...
Field Notes on Fashion and Occupy (Part One)
...that even Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae broke off their relations with the Baum firm. Less than a month after the Times reveal by Nocera, the company shut down, and...
Jihad Against Jihad Against Jihad
...framework of “terrorist” to carry out an irreligious decision. In a painful twist, he realizes with his final line that whether he dies as a result of his bomb or...
It Gets Worse
...– shatters the wall between, drawing a straight line from unrequited puppy love to rape, from compulsory schooling to suicide. Odd Future aren’t the only artists to tackle this disturbing...
if these adjectives are synonyms of ‘enemy’
From a friend who translated this endlessly contemporary work: "One shouldn’t be too generous with certain adversaries. Against those who without disgust tolerated reading or listening to...