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to introduce
those who haven't been heard
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:: Jan Pankow 5:42 PM [+] ::
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From: Spokeface Records

To: VIP List

Press Release:

September 7, 2004

RE: Upcoming events, David Amram, Concerts

Hello Everyone. Frank Messina will be appearing at the following venues this week, part of the September 11th Memorials taking place in the New York City area.

Friday, September 10, 1PM. Exchange Plaza at Grand Street, Jersey City, NJ. A harborside vigil and memorial at the site where thousands gathered to volunteer their efforts during and after September 11, 2001. Readings by family members of 9/11 victims and city officials. Music, poetry. Presented by Jersey City Mayor L. Harvey Smith and Governor James McGreevey.

Saturday, September 11, FDNY Ladder 10, "Ten House", Liberty Street (at Ground Zero).

Saturday, September 11, River Edge, NJ, Benefit Concert and 9/11 Memorial presented by Let It Grow Construction, Co.


NEW ALBUM:

Spokeface Records is releasing a landmark album this fall featuring Frank Messina with musical legend David Amram. The album, "Long Road to Nowheresville", features 16 pieces by Frank Messina with David accompanying Frank on piano, percussion and french horn. More info and live dates in support of the album will be available soon at www.spokeface.com. Stay tuned.

Frank's eclectic band, Octopoet, returns to the Bowery Poetry Club on Saturday, October 2 at 10PM. Tickets are available at www.virtuous.com and the Bowery Poetry Club box office. This show will sell out. Get tickets early.

In November, Frank will be in europe for several dates in the UK and Netherlands. A tour with David Amram in support of the album is also being planned. More info will follow.


In the mean time, Take Care of each other!

Dawn,
Spokeface Records

:: Jan Pankow 1:42 PM [+] ::
...

check out the new Jeremy Hogan/James Walck NYC
Bowery Poetry Club & HowlFest C-Note Kerouac/Amram Tribute photos
at www.tappingmyownphone.com

:: Jan Pankow 1:39 PM [+] ::
...

hello everyone! due to continued health (heart & lungs) problems i'm heretofor henceforth forthwith and forevermore unfortunately cancelling INSOMNIACATHON 2005 which i'd scheduled for january 1st 2005 at my dear friend Bob Holman's Bowery Poetry Club. Bruce Weber's ALTERNATIVE NEW YEAR'S READING will GO on! I Thank ALL of You who already agreed to perform and I THANK Bob for agreeing for us to have the INSOMNIACATHON at his Club and I THANK Bruce for agreeing to share his event with us. I hope to see ALL of You somewhere on down The Road real soon perhaps at the London International Poetry & Song Festival or one of the other places Sarah & I will be performing (see Events Section of www.tappingmyownphone.com for updates).
i'm not dead yet!
All Blessings to All of You Always
Ron

www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org

"For in the hand of the LORD there is
a cup,
with foaming wine, well mixed;
and he will pour a draught from it,
and all the wicked of the earth
shall drain it down to the dregs."
PSALMS 75, 8

:: Jan Pankow 1:36 PM [+] ::
...

SUICIDE KID


water-pistol in hand
the kid
jumped out at us
from God knows where
clearly
he liked that water-pistol of his
shooting at us
until we pretended to panic
and ran away screaming
the kid laughed his head off
he looked like such a hero

later
we saw him again
at dusk
alone in the glow of the setting sun
sitting on the grass
pointing the pistol at himself
he put it in his mouth
with total concentration
no longer interested in us

there’s something strange about that kid
you said I knew
what you meant

but since he lived next-door to me
I knew what was really going on:
every time he went out to play
his mother would fill his water-pistol
with milk

however
I kept
this fact from you
just in case you were disappointed

YI SHA

Translated by Simon Patton

Poem of the week:
http://china.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/23436

Yi Sha page:
http://china.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/23430

:: Jan Pankow 1:32 PM [+] ::
...

DEAR FRIENDS AND READERS,
COLUMN 109 of THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST, dated September 1, 2004 is
now on the web with a new Index Page format. The index page contains
Page One of the COLUMN 109 index. To take a look, click on
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj

SECTION ONE:
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109.html
SLEEPWALKING TO FALLUJAH. Joe Bageant, a newcomer to THE BLACKLISTED
JOURNALIST, does what I've so far been unable to do. He ever so
eloquently describes what's wrong with America,

SECTION TWO:
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109a.html
HAS BUSH GONE LOONY TUNES?--SOURCES SAY HE'S USING DRUGS TO CURB
DEPRESSION AND HIS ERRATIC BEHAVIOR. From Capitol Hill Blue comes
another update on the mental condition of the man who thinks he talks
to God.

SECTION THREE:
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109b.html
I, ROBOT I, CORPORATION. The movie about robots turning against
humankind isn't just fiction---it's actually happening.

SECTION FOUR:
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109c.html
WHO BET THE 9/11 MARKETS SOMETHING THE 9/11 COMMISSION FORGOT TO
THOROUGHLY PROBE? Somebody scored a lotta money when the planes hit
the towers.

SECTION FIVE:
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109d.html
PISS NIGHT. Tsaurah Litzky will make you wet your pants laughing.
WARNING: IF YOU ARE NOT YET 18, YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO ACCESS THIS
PAGE!

SECTION SIX:
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109e.html
DO BUSHIES PLAN TO SUSPEND ELECTIONS?. Peter Coyote's email reminds
us that you can't put anything past this gang of Nazi corporate
crooks
in the White House.

SECTION SEVEN:
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109f.html
DID ISRAELI ASK $$ FOR SILENCE? MCGREEVY SHOULD NOT RESIGN!
HOMOSEXUALITY IS NO CRIME. EXTORTION IS! WHO IS GOLAN CIPEL?
WHAT ARE HIS LINKS TO ISRAELI INTELLIGENCE? IS HE THE G.O.P.'S
'OCTOBER SURPRISE?' WHY DID HE GO? WILL HE BE BACK? HOW DID AN
ISRAELI
GET INTO NJ'S STATE GOV'T? Amiri Baraka asks these questions,
pointing
out that the New Jersey governor's resignation undermines the fight
for Gay rights.

SECTION EIGHT:
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109g.html
ON THE ROAD INTRODUCTION. John Sinclair introduces a new column.

SECTION NINE:
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109h.html
LETTER FROM CHINA: WEN CHU-AN, CHINA'S BEAT SCHOLAR, REPORTS ON BG
CONFERENCE IN HIS HOME CITY OF CHENGDU. And he sends us photos of
David Amram's appearance there.

SECTION TEN: BOOK REVIEW
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109i.html
WHO THE HELL IS STEW ALBERT? By Stew Albert. Michael Simmons Reviews
the book.

SECTION ELEVEN: BOOK REVIEW
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109j.html
All Over Creation, By Ruth Ozeki. Lew Rosenbaum reviews the book.

SECTION TWELVE: POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE ONE
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109k1.html
PERFECT SPRING DAY. Steve Dalachinsky offers a poem honoring Allen
Ginsberg.

SECTION TWELVE: THE POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE TWO
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109k2.html
BY RON WHITEHEAD: PURPLE MONKEY WINE.

SECTION TWELVE: THE POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE THREE
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109k3.html
BY JOHN SINCLAIR: #75 "brilliant corners" for steve hager & paul
krasner

SECTION TWELVE: THE POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE FOUR
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109k4.html
BY ROBERT KLEIN ENGLER: LANDINGS and THE BLESSED LIFE.

SECTION THIRTEEN: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE ONE
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109l1.html
THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS AND THE GREAT CALIPHATE. My old friend,
Dirty Don Booker, a Texas Yahoo, emails a rightwing screed by Larry
Abraham that holds some truths, especially for those so far left that
they've fallen over the edge.

SECTION THIRTEEN: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE TWO
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109l2.html
UNPUBLISHED PHOTOS OF RAY CHARLES AFTER HIS INDIANAPOLIS DRUG BUST,
Paul Johnso; OUR COUNTERFEIT PRESIDENT, DUMB DUMBYA, CAN'T
DISTINGUISH
LIFE FROM SHIT, Khunrum, Peter W. Stolz; ABOUT THE VELVET
UNDERGROUND,
Olivier Landemain.

SECTION THIRTEEN: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE THREE
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109l3.html
'BOB DYLAN AND THE BEATLES' IS A 'GOOD BOOK!', Michael Lydon and
Ellen
Mandel; IS PAPA BUSH A MURDER AND TRAITOR?, Gary Stonecipher; WANTED
IN RIO, Gilson Soares Reis; FROM ANITA THE ASTROLOGER, Alvah Bessie;
'. . .YOU ENRICH MY LIFE. . .' George Toomer; COMMENT ON PAUL
CONANT'S
COMMENT ABOUT IMPROPERLY STACKED FUEL RODS , Guido Stempel; HUH? In
Sanious; BUSH'S ANSWER, Joel Roi; WHO BEHEADED NICK BERG? Pat Walker;
ZAL YANOVSKY'S COWBOY HAT, Martha in Kingston; GARY FROM MISSISSAUGA
ANSWERS MARTHA IN KINGSTON, Gary (Pig) Gold; THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
(A
SHORT, VERY FUNNY, VERY FAMOUS BUSH V. KERRY FLICK), Joel Roi; AND
GOD
CREATED THE JERSEY SHORE, John Lynch; ASKING ABOUT ALENE LEE, Jianda;
BUSH SUFFERS FROM FATHER ENVY? Jack Neworth; TO THE DEMOCRATIC
UNDERGROUND, Roberto Petrecca; BUSH SAYS HE NEVER STOPS THINKING OF
WAYS TO HARM OUR COUNTRY, Steve Schwartz.

SECTION THIRTEEN: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE FOUR
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109l4.html
THE ORIGINS OF 'JAZZ', Jerry Campbell, worldwidewords.org; RUSH
LIMBAUGH RINGS THE BELL, PD MAY.

SECTION THIRTEEN: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE FIVE
http://www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj/column109l5.html
SCOTLAND'S OLDEST COLLEGE HONORS BOB DYLAN, Khun Wayne; '64 ALL OVER
AGAIN? Ralph Jaccodine.

SECTION FOURTEEN: THE LITERARY LINKS SECTION: Links to THE ALLEN
GINSBERG ORGANIZATION, THE RITA DOVE website, THE PETER COYOTE
website; THE MCCLURE-MANZAREK website; the AMERICAN LEGENDS website
and a new addition: Anny Ballardini's POETS CORNER.

SECTION FIFTEEN: THE MOVIE SECTION: THE RITZ FILMBILL. Synopses of
foreign, independent and Hollywood movies.

SECTION SIXTEEN: THE MUSIC SECTION, features the usual links to
SONGSCENTRAL, PURR, POWER OF POP, all contemporary music e-zines; ART
ATTACK, all about jazz; THE CELEBRITY CAFÉ, all about celebrities;
the
BABUKISHAN DAS BAUL website; and EAR CANDY.

SECTION SEVENTEEN: THE ADVERTISING SECTION, offers 13 pages of ads
from Earwraps; Cleveland International Records; Richard X. Heyman;
Christopher Pick; J. Crow's Milled Cider; An Advertisement for
Myself;
Tommy Womack, Compliments of a Friend; Zoe Artemis invites you to
literary retreat in Greece; Richard Dettrey, who will help you with
your shopping; BABY ON THE WATER by Tsaurah Litzky; BOB DYLAN AND THE
BEATLES; and Arrogant Prick T-shirts.

Would you, too, like to help keep THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST on the
Internet? For a nominal contribution, you can have your own
advertising page in the Advertising Section of THE BLACKLISTED
JOURNALIST. Simply send us an email to find out about particulars.

There are links to friendly sites and we also feature MARK PUCCI'S
ONLINE REVIEWS, originally edited by John Williams.
Hope you read and enjoy.
Best, Al Aronowitz

:: Jan Pankow 1:30 PM [+] ::
...

Announcements Update (for www.tappingmyownphone.com)


believe what you must
it does not matter
for the white dove has flown
over my head for miles
as I drove my tractor
cross a coal barren wilderness
The Bone Man


We are now moving at light speed. There's no slowing down. We are busier than ever. We hillbillies have invaded and are bringing down the already dead ivory tower. Not through violence, we are non-violent warriors, but by creating an inclusive, rather than ivory-tower-exclusive, Global Literary Renaissance (see Global Literary Renaissance Section & Annalisa Papaleo interview at tappingmyownphone). No one no thing can stop us. The Global Literary Renaissance includes everyone, even the ivory tower.

News:

1) Al Aronowitz asked me to write a monthly poetry column for his brilliant Blacklisted Journalist ezine (www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj). This is it. I hope you check out my review of Al's important new book BOB DYLAN and THE BEATLES.

2) The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue Not Knowing Tour film is being edited by tappingmyownphone E-Media Director James Walck. It will be ready for world premiere at INSOMNIACATHON 2005 which we're producing at Bob Holman's Bowery Poetry Club NYC January 1st, 2005.

3) John Tytell and I got Lawrence Ferlinghetti, now 85, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I just wrote the Nobel Committee a letter updating them on Lawrence's recent accomplishments encouraging them to present Lawrence The Prize. No one on the planet has done as much for poetry as Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

4) The NYC Howlfest C-Note All-Star Old Angel Midnight Tribute to Jack Kerouac & David Amram, August 21st, was Amazing High Energy Poetry & Song Event featuring David Amram Trio, Adira Amram, Zoe Artemis, Casey Cyr, Ekayani, Sarah Elizabeth, Michelle Esrick, Steve Dalachinsky, Mike McHugh, George Wallace, & Ron Whitehead. There were six filmmakers documenting the event. A DVD will be available. Earlier the same day Sarah and I performed at The Bowery Poetry Club and visited with my friend Bob Holman. James Walck filmed both events. Sarah and I drove her 1988 Toyota pickup, gift from her Dad. We stayed with James and his lovely wife Janice and their son Sean.

5) I'm presently teaching Writing & Literature at Bellarmine University, home of The International Thomas Merton Center, www.merton.org . Merton, prolific writer, political religious activist, trappist monk, and one of a small handful of the world's spiritual leaders, died a supposedly accidental death in Thailand in 1968 (same year Neal Cassady died). Merton spent the last night of his life in America at Ferlinghetti's City Lights, San Francisco. Ferlinghetti and I have meditated at Merton's Abbey of Gethsemani grave, as has The Dalai Lama, another Merton friend. If you ever visit Kentucky be sure and visit The Merton Center at Bellarmine University then drive an hour south of Louisville to The Abbey of Gethsemani, one of the most beautiful and peaceful places in the world. Also, watch for Christopher Felver's soon-to-be-released new photo book which will include two Merton letters plus a photo of Brother Patrick Hart, Mer ton's secretary and editor, and me at Merton's grave. Plus, Kentucky's Campbellsville University is holding a Literature Conference, April 2005, focusing on the work of Thomas Merton and Wendell Berry.

6) The Chapman-Friedman Gallery, Louisville's premiere uptown gallery, is exhibiting paintings by David Minton, sculpture by Joan Jones, and my Published in Heaven posters Sept 3-25. There will be a reception Sept 3, 5-9pm, with music by Sarah Elizabeth and Andy Cook. Edvard Munch and David Minton are my alltime favorite artists. I have included many Minton paintings in publications over the past 14 years. We'll soon be adding a David Minton section, including a gallery of his art, to tappingmyownphone.

7) Sept 16th Sarah & I open Lenoir-Rhyne College's, Hickory NC, 2004-5 Arts Season (Series also includes Alice Walker, Sharon Olds, & others) with a show at The Museum of Art (see Events Section for more info on this & other upcoming shows).

8) The 3rd Edition of the award winning BEAVER DAM ROCKING CHAIR MARATHON (books 1 & 2) will finally be available in one week. You can order copies direct from www.tappingmyownphone.com.

Thanks for tuning in! See you all somewhere on down the road.
All Blessings
Ron Whitehead
September 1, 2004
Kentucky
AHA

www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org

"For in the hand of the LORD there is
a cup,
with foaming wine, well mixed;
and he will pour a draught from it,
and all the wicked of the earth
shall drain it down to the dregs."
PSALMS 75, 8

:: Jan Pankow 1:28 PM [+] ::
...

Beats, Dylan, Beatles, Stones

a book review



by Ron Whitehead

www.tappingmyownphone.com



BOB DYLAN and THE BEATLES

Volume One of The Best of The Blacklisted Journalist

by Al Aronowitz

1st Books Library

$25.00

615 pages

www.bigmagic.com/pages/blackj



“The two biggest laughs of my life were the first time I smoked marijuana and the first time The Beatles smoked it. The latter occasion was at the Hotel Delmonico on Manhattan’s Park Avenue on August 28, 1964. The Beatles and their manager, Brian Epstein, had just finished eating their room service dinner when Bob Dylan and I pulled up in Bob’s blue Ford station wagon…”



Every student and fan of The Beat Generation, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones will want to read this book. It is an insider’s view written by the person, legendary godfather of rock journalism Al Aronowitz, who changed pop culture by introducing Allen Ginsberg to Bob Dylan and Dylan to The Beatles and The Beatles to marijuana.



“I knew something great would come out of putting Bob and marijuana together with The Beatles. I knew the kind of influence they would exert on one another. The Beatles had become role models for the youth of the entire western world. To The Beatles’ audience, whatever The Beatles did was right. Whatever The Beatles did the world came to accept. For Bob and The Beatles to meet didn’t just change pop music. That meeting changed the times.”



Al Aronowitz, now 76, wrote for The New York Post, Saturday Evening Post, and other leading publications. He introduced the world to Bob Dylan, The Beatles, and The Rolling Stones, and other leading rock stars. He believed, and still does, that Dylan was and is a poet equal to William Shakespeare. He also believed that Dylan might be a Messiah. But Aronowitz drew too close to Dylan’s fire. He was nearly destroyed. BOB DYLAN and THE BEATLES is as brutally honest as Jack Kerouac’s masterful BIG SUR, the most gutwrenchingly self-deprecatory book ever written.



Unable to get into print since 1972, Aronowitz says he suffered through an insanity in which he was “exiled to a Devil’s Island of the mind…How I ended up a bankrupt BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST forced to publish his own books is a story I’ll tell in another place…”



Bob Dylan and Al Aronowitz, and their families, spent much time together. Dylan composed some of his greatest works while visiting Al including one of the 60’s anthems, “Mr. Tambourine Man.” Al wrote the following piece for The New York Sunday News of November 11, 1973:



“Call me a Dylanite. I don’t even know what the word means, but I’ll tell you this: of all the things I’ve ever done or failed to do in my life, what very often impresses me most about myself is the fact that Bob wrote “Mr. Tambourine Man” one night in my house in Berkeley Heights, N.J., sitting with my portable typewriter at my white formica breakfast bar in a swirl of chain-lit Camels cigarette smoke, his bony, long-nailed fingers tapping the words out on my stolen canary-colored Saturday Evening Post copy paper while the whole time, over and over again, Marvin Gaye sang “Can I Get A Witness?” from the six-foot speakers of my hi-fi in the room next to where he was, with Bob getting up from the typewriter each time the record finished in order to put the needle back at the start.”



In BOB DYLAN and THE BEATLES Al Aronowitz reveals first hand accounts of the real roots of electric poetry, Rock n Roll, which Dylan and The Beatles (post pre-rock Elvis) birthed. The Only writer there, Aronowitz moves from the birth to the present adding apocrypha along The Way. Yes this is The Tao the I Ching The Book of Changes The Way The Dead Sea Scrolls The Apocrypha The Missing but Essential Alchemical Text of Rock n Roll. Al Aronowitz burned to ashes in the Rock n Roll crucible and has been reborn to tell the story.



Aronowitz shows that Dylan and The Beatles are, like Mozart, human, more than human, spiritual saintly geniuses dwelling in animal, even monster, forms.



“Like I say, partying with Dylan and The Beatles is always fun, but the game of Hipper-Than-Thou amounts to psychic tug-of-war between two sides separated by a mud pit of paranoia. Whether meaning to or not, each side subtly tries to pull the other side into the pit.”



I’m not a book reviewer. I’m a poet a writer. If you are interested in The Beats, Dylan, The Beatles, and The Stones then Read This Important Book!!!! I believe that poetry, electronically married to music, transports us to exalted states of being to angelic realms. Bob Dylan and The Beatles are real life examples of Rock n Roll poets prophets lightning bolts who stood between God and humankind receiving messages and translating those messages for us. Al Aronowitz is the Ezra Pound divine scribe messenger connector who brings these mythical, yet real, figures, Dylan and The Beatles, together presenting them with the sacred herb that moves them to God realms enabling them, prophets all, to lift us out of the mire the mundane the profane into the spiritual the divine realms of experience known as Poe try as Rock n Roll.

Copyright © Ron Whitehead 2004

www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org
__________________________________________________

:: Jan Pankow 1:25 PM [+] ::
...

CACTUS


Thorns are my language.
I announce my existence
with a bleeding touch.

Once these thorns were flowers.
I loathe lovers who betray.
Poets have abandoned the deserts
to go back to the gardens.
Only camels remain here, and merchants
who trample my flowers to dust.

One thorn for each rare drop of water.
I don’t tempt butterflies.
No bird sings my praise.
I don’t yield to droughts.

I create another beauty
beyond the moonlight,
this side of dreams,
a sharp, piercing,
parallel language.

K. SATCHIDANANDAN

Translated by the poet

Poem of the week:
http://india.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/23287

K. Satchidanandan page:
http://india.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/23263

:: Jan Pankow 1:24 PM [+] ::
...

for Immediate Release:

Literature & Art
Posters Paintings Sculpture
Whitehead, Minton, Jones

at Chapman Friedman Gallery
624 West Main Street
Louisville, Kentucky 40202 usa
Contact: Cheryl Chapman, 502 584 7954
Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Saturday
10am to 5pm or by appointment

September 3rd 1st Friday Gallery Hop Opening, 5-9pm
music & poetry by Sarah Elizabeth, Andy Cook, Ron Whitehead
Exhibition runs September 3rd to 25th, 2004

JOAN PAINTER JONES:
Recent Findlings; Assemblage

DAVID MINTON:
Presences; Paintings

RON WHITEHEAD:
Published in Heaven; Posters


www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org

:: Jan Pankow 1:23 PM [+] ::
...

I WRITE HEBREW


I write in the Hebrew language
which is not my mother tongue, to
lose myself in the world. He who doesn’t
get lost, will never find the whole.
Because everyone has the same
toes. Left big toe
by right heel.

And sometimes I write Hebrew
to cool the blood that spurts
endlessly from my heart. It’s always like that.
There are many treasures
in the coffer I have built in my chest.
But the colors of the night that was spread
over exposed walls, peel
without ever knowing what
all this wonder is.

And I write Hebrew, to
get lost in my words, and also to find
a bit of interest for my footsteps.
I have not stopped walking. Many paths
have I traveled. Engraved by my hands.
I shall take my feet in hand
and meet many people. And make them all
my friends. Who is foreign? Who far, who near?
There is no strangeness in the ways of the world.
Because strangeness, mostly,
lies in man’s heart.

SALMAN MASALHA

Translated by Vivian Eden
Poem of the week:
http://israel.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/23342

Salman Masalha page:
http://israel.poetryinternational.org/cwolk/view/23444

:: Jan Pankow 1:18 PM [+] ::
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check out Ginsberg/Whitehead HowlFest Tribute (including photos)
3 pieces by Ron Whitehead
at www.tappingmyownphone.com (Ron's official website, now receiving 60,000 hits per month)

once on site go to Events Section then click on C-Note

thanks! &
hope to see you there!



www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org

:: Jan Pankow 1:15 PM [+] ::
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TOTALITARIAN DEMOCRACY, A NEW POEM BY LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

The first fine dawn of life on earth
The first light of the first morning
The first evening star
The first man on the moon seen from afar
The first voyage of Ulysses westward
The first fence on the last frontier
The first tick of the atomic clock of fear
The first Home Sweet Home so dear
The sweet smell of honeysuckle at midnight
The first free black man free of fright
The sweet taste of freedom
The first good orgasm
The first Noble Savage
The first Pale Face settler on the first frontier
The last Armenian and the last Ojibway in Fresno
The first ball park hotdog with mustard
The first home run in Yankee Stadium
The first song of love and forty cries of despair
The first pure woman passing fair
The sweet smell of success
The fir st erection and the first Resurrection
The first darling buds of May
The last covered wagon through the Donner Pass
The first green sprouts of new grass
The last cry of Mark Twain! on the Mississippi
The First and Last Chance Saloon
The ghostly galleon of the half-moon
The first cry of pure joy in morning light
The distant howl of trains lost in book of night
The first morning after the night before thinking
The last new moon sinking
The last of the Mohicans and the last buffalo
The last sweet chariot swinging low
The first hippie heading for the hills
The last bohemian in a beret
The last beatnik in North Beach with something to say
The last true love to come your way
The last Wobbly and the last Catholic Anarchist
The last paranoid Lefty
The last Nazi
The first bought vote in the first election
The last hand c aught in the last cookie jar
The last cowboy on the last frontier
The last bald eagle with nothing to fear
The last buffalo head nickel
The last living member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
The last Mom and Pop grocery
The last firefly flickerng in the night

The first plane to hit the first Twin Tower
The last plane to hit the last Twin Tower
The only plane to ever hit the Pentagon
The birth of a vast national paranoia
The beginning of the Third World War
(the War Against the Third World)

The first trip abroad by an ignorant president
The last free-running river
The last gas and oil on earth
The last general strike
The last Fidelista the last Sandinista the last Zapatista
The last political prisoner
The last virgin and the last of the champagne
The last train to leave the station
The last and only great nation
The last Great Depression
The last will & testament
The last welfare check for rent
The end of the old New Deal
The new Committee on Unamerican Activities
The last politician with honest proclivities
The last independent newspaper
printing the news and raising hell
The last word and the last laugh and the Last Hurrah
The last picture show and the last waltz
The last Unknown Soldier
The last innocent American
The last Ugly American
The last Great Lover and the last New Yorker
The last home-fries with ketchup-to-go
The last train home at midnight
The last syllable of recorded time
The last long careless rapture
The last independent bookstore with its own mind
The last best hope of mankind
The lost chord and the lost leader
The last drop of likker
The cup that runneth over quicker

The last time I saw Paris Texas
The last peace treaty and the Last Supper
The first sweet signs of spring
The first sweet bird of youth
The first baby tooth and the last wisdom tooth
The last honest election
The last freedom of information
The last free Internet
The last free speech radio
The last unbought television network
The last homespun politician
The last Jeffersonian
The last Luddite in Berkeley
The last Bottom Line and the last of Social Security
The first fine evening calm and free
The beach at sunset with reclining nudes
the lovers wrapped in each other
The last meeting of the Board
The last gay sailor to come aboard
The first White Paper written in blood
The last terrorist born of hate and poverty
The last citizen who bothered to vote
The first President picked by a Supreme Court
; The end of the Time of Useful Consciousness
The unfinished flag of the United States
The ocean’s long withdrawing roar

The birth of a nation of sheep
The deep deep sleep of the booboisie
The underground wave of feel-good fascism
The uneasy rule of the super-rich
The total triumph of imperial America
The final proof of our Manifest Destiny
The first loud cry of America über alles
Echoing in freedom’s alleys
The last lament for lost democracy
The total triumph of
totalitarian plutocracy

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"...the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the
soul." (J. G. Ballard)

www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org

:: Jan Pankow 7:26 AM [+] ::
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Kid Congo writes:
....sad news: Hubert Selby Jr. died yesterday (†04-26-04 ed.).
I LOVED his books. Last Exit to Brooklyn most notably..I once saw him do a reading in Los Angeles and he read a story he had wrote about Billie Holiday and i was weeping at it's beauty..That's my kind of ART!.....

jan pankow: A Little Respect, ma fav. Selby( Eulogy by Nick Tosches )

:: Jan Pankow 7:18 AM [+] ::
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Poem of the week

BARS

If you want
a cage, my dear
you do not have
to travel far.
If you want to feel
hemmed in, you’ll be hemmed in.
Look for scars
you’ll be full of scars.
Even light can turn
into a cage.
The cage of light
has seven bars.

KEKI DARUWALLA

Keki Daruwalla page

:: Jan Pankow 7:03 AM [+] ::
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P.I. newsletter:
Editorial:
MAY 1, 2004
These central pages of PIW will be on a light publishing schedule all through May, but to compensate, we present to you the biggest, fattest issue yet of our monthly magazine: ninety poems by thirteen poets from seven countries, including a brand-new one: India!

New country: INDIA

Poem of the week: BARS

New Poets of the quarter:
TATJANA GROMAČA
MARIO SU?KO

MANOLIS ANAGNOSTAKIS
NIKOS FOKAS
HARIS VLAVIAN?S

VASANT ABAJI DAHAKE
KEKI DARUWALLA

SHIMON ADAF
AVOTH YESHURUN

NURIT ZARCHI

FATIHA MORCHID

BRANE MOZETIČ

IVAN MALKOVYCH

Extra work from:
LE?N DE GREIFF

SERHIY ZHADAN

Latest poetry news:
Nikos Stangos, 1936-2004
Thom Gunn, 1929-2004
Bryce wins National Poetry Competition
Queen?s Gold Medal for Hugo Williams
?Poets die younger?
Sa?di celebrations in Shiraz
Poetry from new EU members
Thomas?s love letter sold
Hughes-Baskin letters in British Library

:: Jan Pankow 7:00 AM [+] ::
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Tuesday Night Reading Series
April 20, 2004 8:00 - 11:00 PM
SYNCHRONICITY Art Gallery
56 Adams Evansville, Indiana
Host: William Sovern

The award winning Tuesday Night Reading Series celebrates it's move to
a new venue, SYCHRONICITY Art Gallery, by featuring the internationally known
music & poetry troupe the Viking Hillbilly Apocalpse Revue ( Ron Whitehead, Sarah
Elizabeth, Andy Cook, Michael Pollock & Dean Mclean ). Artist/Writer, David Minton
will be on hand to Document the performance as part of the Viking Hillbilly
Apocalpse Revue's Not-Knowing Tour. Also performing are Vincent Boren, Allen
Johnson, Susan Stark & Shakespeare's Monkey.

Catering by the Alley Savant

P.S. For all you Kentucky Derby fans on May 1 when the horse come
thundering down the back stretch it will be yours truly, William sovern, operating
the camera. Although thousands have seen my art exhibitions, PBS
documentaries and poetry performances, this will be my biggest audience to date.

Poetically yours, William Sovern

:: Jan Pankow 5:16 PM [+] ::
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YOU HAVEN'T MET HER


Of course, you have not met her,
Loveness, the sunshine of the city,
once the honey-pie of the ghetto,
the sugar-loaf of the township
and now the ice-cream cone itself.

The white mini-skirt clung to her figure
like icing on a cake.

her breasts plunged ram-horns
in the hearts of men.

Her fried eggs broke a marriage contract
now Tito’s home is a village wound
that babbles with the gossip
and the bitter cries of a mother.

Tattered, the children’s bottoms
have taken the hue of ash-earth.

Sam, the little one
has a head the size of two footballs
his bones and ribs
cry for an enumerator.

MUSAEMURA ZIMUNYA

P.I. Poem of the week:
Musaemura Zimunya page:

:: Jan Pankow 5:10 PM [+] ::
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love on a rainy day


fogged windows wet floorboard
the red 67 mustang winds us

down flooding kentucky backroads
lincoln country heart of the world

redbuds dogwoods blooming
love on a rainy day


Ron Whitehead
april 13, 2004
kentucky

:: Jan Pankow 5:04 PM [+] ::
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COURAGE

The kitchen is a promontory. The pans are reefs eaten by a wolf-wind that blows and runs
in circles on the island. The railing is a grey gust, his mate our sharp sister. Just awaken
we are the birds bent over the sink, tired of the nightly migration, confused by the rockets
that pelt our dreams.

In the entire painting it is winter.
In the music on the radio hail tolls.
Its white vibrates on the antennas and the balcony.
With its compassionate cloud muzzle
dawn drives us to life.


ANTONELLA ANEDDA

Translated by Gabriele Poole

Poem of the week
Antonella Anedda page

:: Jan Pankow 5:03 PM [+] ::
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For Immediate Official Release:

4 (four) new Published in Heaven Audio CDs released today - April 7, 2004

THE VIKING HILLBILLY APOCALYPSE REVUE
produced by Ron Whitehead and Michael Pollock
Ron Whitehead and The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue (including Iceland's Michael Odin Pollock, Sarah Elizabeth, Andy Cook & others) is an eclectic blend of American Heartland Music (bluegrass, folk, jazz, blues, alternative) and Spoken Word that supercedes all borders geographically and ideologically.
The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue weaves a magical blend of song, spoken word, world musicality and affirmation with a down home sensibility encapusalating a truly Global message.
No music/spoken word group on the planet is doing what VHAR is doing!

12 Tracks: 1) Never Give Up, 2) I Will Not Bow Down, 3) The Dance, 4) Loa Loa Loa, 5) Lost and Found, 6) Desert, 7) The Apocalypse Rag, 8) Snake Bite,
9) Raven Hair & Turquoise, 10) Searching For Abraham Lincoln, 11) Great Spirit, 12) Long Journey Home

WORLD CITIZEN by Michael Pollock
produced by Ron Whitehead and Michael Pollock
Legendary Iceland musician, founder of The Outsiders, releases his first solo project in 22 years. The CD is an exciting amalgamation (punk, blues, rock, spiritual) of the musical styles which have influenced and inspired Michael all his life. WORLD CITIZEN also includes the first ever english translation of a song by Iceland's greatest living poet, Megas.

13 Tracks: 1) Great Spirit, 2) Loa Loa Loa, 3) Squeeze, 4) Youth, 5) Our Town,
6) Lost & Found, 7) Desert/Dream Vision, 8) World Citizen, 9) No Expectations,
10) It's a Shame, 11) 4U, 12) Dreaming, 13) Great Spirit Chorale


the shape of water by ron whitehead & james walck
produced by Ron Whitehead and James Walck
Ron Whitehead (Kentucky) combines poetry forces with brilliant composer musician James Walck and the Mind2hands Symphonia (Philadelphia, New Jersey, NYC). This CD is unlike anything Ron has ever done. It includes many of his zen meditation prayer poems accompanied by amazing musicians providing sounds from nature, middle east, jazz fusion, electrifying guitar, and beyond.

7 Tracks: 1) bell and drum - antigua, 2) plowed earth - back to tibet,
3) the string in my hand - trippytrain, 4) no more fingers pointing to the moon -
starless, 5) the shape of water - blood in the snow (tears in the rain),
6) as long as space endures - thoughtful, 7) listen - epiphany


SWAN BOATS @ FOUR, Paul K and Ron Whitehead
Produced by Paul K
Controversial genius composer songwriter musician Paul K joins forces with
bone man poet Ron Whitehead for a recording unlike any other. The CD is a force of Music and Nature. You have to hear it to believe it.

3 Tracks: 1) Crying All the Time Now/Soul to Keep, 2) I Will Not Bow Down/Wake Up One Day, 3) Swan Boats @ Four/Reality is Just Another Scam

all CDs are available in Kentucky at Ear Xtacy Records and on the web at
www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org

:: Jan Pankow 5:01 PM [+] ::
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Editorial:
APRIL 1, 2004
The hotel restaurant closed tonight
at 10 o’clock for lack of guests.
I watched the news at the bar and drank a beer.
Isn’t it Thursday? When everyone goes out?
These lines, taken from ‘September 2001’ by new German poet Uwe Kolbe (though it could equally well be titled ‘March 2004’) illustrate perfectly what is not only a major theme for Kolbe, but also for most other poets published on PIW this month: the political implications to be found in everyday life.
poetry international

Poem of the week:
FURIES

Poets of the quarter:
JORGE GAITÁN DURÁN
UWE KOLBE
ANTONELLA ANEDDA
SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN
MUSAEMURA ZIMUNYA

Latest poetry news:
POETRY NEWSLOG APRIL
Pulitzer Prize poetry
Ted Walker, 1934-2004
US National Poetry Month
Griffin shortlist

:: Jan Pankow 4:55 PM [+] ::
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Issue # 7 of "Zygote in my Coffee" is now LIVE online!
You can check it out at: Zygote in my Coffee
Sound the trumpets & roll out the red carpet for the brand spanking new Zygote in my Coffee COMICS SECTION. We figured everyone's funny-bone could use a good tickling every once in a while. So in order to fill this need, we have assembled a kick-ass crew of cartoonists. All for the sake of your entertainment. I'd like to extend a very special "THANK YOU" to each & every cartoonist who contributed to Zygote in my Coffee. Their work is great & I'm proud as hell to have them aboard. So click on the COMICS link & prepare to be mesmerized by all the pretty little drawings with their dirty little punch lines. I guarantee you're gonna dig 'em!

Ever find yourself wondering what goes on in the daily life of a poet? Or maybe what dark, secret incidents might feed & fuel his/her muse? Or, like me, do you just get-off by peeking into other peoples' diaries & journals? If so, then we have just the thing for you! Immerse yourself in the misery & madness of a real life poet by clicking on "THE RAMBLINGS OF MS. RANDELL" located on the front page of Zygote in my Coffee.

What's in store for issue #7:

SPECIAL FEATURES:

POET OF THE MONTH: J. Watters

THE ART GALLERY: "Face it" by Donna Kuhn

POEM OF THE WEEK: "Watching A River Flow" by Charles P. Ries

ZYGOTE IN MY COFFEE COMICS:

STOOPID PIGEON by Neveu & Sparks
STRANGE BREED by Steve Langille
GOFF: THE MEANINGLESS LIFE: by Darwinian Theory Design
HAM'S HALLUCINATION: by Johnny Hamm
JOSH COMICS: by Josh Sullivan
CRANIAL FLATULENCE: by Brian Fugett

ISSUE #7 (APRIL 5th, 2004):

PROSE by:
Doug Draime
Deborah Rothschild
Philip Hoffman
Christopher Woods
Rob Rosen
Dennis Vannatta
Matt Smith

POETRY by:
Dan Provost
Clint Newton
Brian F. Hartz
Charles P. Ries
John Sweet
Andrew Lundwall
Aryan Kaganof
Pushpa Tuladhar
Brian Rosenberger
Bradley Mason Hamlin
Rochelle Hope Mehr
Adrian Manning
Gary Charles Wilkens
J.J. Campbell
Glenn Cooper
Shane Allison
Nancy Allard
A.D. Winans
Karl Koweski
Owen Roberts
John Dorsey
Debbie Kirk
Christopher Major
Justin Barrett
J. Watters
Chris Waugh
Charles Nevsimal
Keith Berry
ames Quinton
Jacob McArthur Mooney
Sean Hogan
Jude Richards
t.k.splake
Rob Hill
John Birkbeck
R.C. Edrington
Christopher "Beef Burgundy" Robbins
Michael Dean Odin Pollock

Adios amigos. See ya' April 20th for Issue # 8. ~Brian Fugett & Allison Wentland (Editors)

:: Jan Pankow 4:49 PM [+] ::
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FURIES


Banished from sin and the sacred
Now they inhabit the humble intimacy
Of daily life. They are
The leaky faucet the late bus
The soup that boils over
The lost pen the vacuum that doesn’t vacuum
The taxi that doesn’t come the mislaid receipt
Shoving pushing waiting
Bureaucratic madness

Without shouting or staring
Without bristly serpent hair
With the meticulous hands of the day-to-day
They undo us

They’re the peculiar wonder of the modern world
Faceless and maskless
Nameless and breathless
The thousand-headed hydras of efficiency gone haywire

They no longer pursue desecrators and parricides
They prefer innocent victims
Who did nothing to provoke them
Thanks to them the day loses its smooth expanses
Its juice of ripe fruits
Its fragrance of flowers
Its high-sea passion
And time is transformed
Into toil and the rush
Against time


SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER

Translated by Richard Zenith

Poem of the week
Sophia de Mello Breyner page

:: Jan Pankow 4:39 PM [+] ::
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DEAR FRIENDS AND READERS,
COLUMN 104 of THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST, dated April 1, 2004, is now on the Internet and its index page can be accessed


SECTION ONE: NADER RUNS AGAINST BOY EMPEROR IN RACE TO BE THE 'MORE DESPICABLE'. Ralphy has his head up his ass.
Also embedded within SECTION ONE is an announcement that we will celebrate publication of BOB DYLAN AND THE BEATLES, VOLUME ONE OF THE BEST OF THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST with a giant multicultural jam session featuring that sizzling
Bengali Baul, Babukishan Das, master musician David Amram, saxophone virtuoso Hayes Greenfield and others yet to be named at the Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery (212-614-0505), in New York at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 27.

SECTION TWO: WHISTLEBLOWER REVEALS: BUSHIES TRIED TO 'PLANT' WEAPONS OF MASS
DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ. This is stuff you won't find in America's muzzled mainstream media.

SECTION THREE: ASHCROFT TRIED TO BRIBE HER! INTERPRETER REVEALS BUSHIES KNEW MORE THAN THEY SAID THEY DID PRIOR TO 9/11 ATTACK. More stuff you won't find in America's muzzled mainstream media.

SECTION FOUR: OUR DECEITFUL BOY EMPEROR HE WAGGED THE DOG, WE GOT A NEEDLESS WAR AND NOW HE'S WAGGING OBL.
Freelancer Margie Burns discusses the Osama manhunt.

SECTION FIVE: BRIAN WILSON'S 'SMILE'. Jules Siegel, one of the pioneers of rock journalism tells how he came to write about the Beach Boy leader.

SECTION SIX: FUEL RODS, 'LEAKS,' VOTE MACHINES, AND THE CIA. Paul Conant writes
about the whole mess created by the Bushies.

SECTION SEVEN: BOOK REVIEW:
PHIL STERN: A LIFE'S WORK. Lionel Rolfe reviews Phil Stern's book of photojournalism.

SECTION EIGHT: THE POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE ONE BY BOB HOLMAN: DUSKUS INTERRUPTUS, 3 DeKoonings, and KULAFASO!
CELEBRATION FOR THE FEAST OF FEASTS!

SECTION EIGHT: THE POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE TWO BY AMIRI BARAKA: THE INSIDIOUS DR. FU MAN CHU.

SECTION EIGHT: THE POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE THREE BY JOHN SINCLAIR: #101 "bluehawk".

SECTION EIGHT: THE POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE FOUR BY ROBERT KLEIN ENGLER: EPITHALAMIUM IN WINTER (A Long Poem).

SECTION NINE: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE ONE FROM KHUN WAYNE: SEXY PICTURE POSTCARD FROM ROCKY THAILAND.

SECTION NINE: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE TWO IS THIS A REPUBLICAN SPEAKING OUT AGAINST RALPHY?, DOWN WITH NADER!

SECTION NINE: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE THREE EMAIL FROM BEAR IN AUSTRALIA: 1. BUSH CAN WIN WITH RIGGED VOTING MACHINES; 2. JANET JACKSON'S TIT; 3. CRUCIFIXION IN TRUE ROMAN STYLE [Mel Gibson had it all wrong].

SECTION NINE: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE FOUR DR. JOHN'S FAMILY TRAGEDY, HE WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT BIG DADDY NORD, FOUL PLAY, GEORGE HARRISON INTERVIEW, FROM DANIEL MCCARTHY AGAIN, IN SEARCH OF SUSIE ROTOLO, THE SCRAP BAR.

SECTION NINE: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE FIVE AARP NEEDS NEW INVENTORS!, JOHN ASHCROFT WANTS TO KNOW WHAT YOU READ, AMATEUR JOURNALISM OR AMATEUR EMAIL WRITING?, PAGING DONALD LEV, HAITRED, LEGISLATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, INSULTING AMERICA.

SECTION NINE: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE SIX OUR GREAT NUYORICAN POET, EL REV. PEDRO JUAN PIETRI APONTE, 60, IS DEAD, THE TEXAS SWAGGER, CAN SOMEONE HELP DICK NICK?, ANOTHER PERSON NEEDS TO KNOW ABOUT DEVON WILSON, BEAT HAPPENINGS, COLUMNISTS AS REPORTERS.

SECTION NINE: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE SEVEN FROM THE HILL TO THE VALLEY, LUNCH IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, WHAT POEM DID OLIVIA READ?, THE MUSIC BUSINESS!, RON WHITEHEAD WEDDING.

SECTION TEN: THE LITERARY LINKS SECTION: Links to THE ALLEN GINSBERG ORGANIZATION, THE RITA DOVE website, THE PETER COYOTE website and the AMERICAN LEGENDS website and we add THE MCCLURE-MANZAREK website.

SECTION ELEVEN: THE MOVIE SECTION: THE RITZ FILMBILL. Synopses of foreign, independent and Hollywood movies.

SECTION TWELVE: THE MUSIC SECTION, features the usual links to SONGSCENTRAL, PURR, POWER OF POP, all contemporary music e-zines; ART ATTACK, all about jazz; THE CELEBRITY CAFÉ, all about celebrities; the BABUKISHAN DAS BAUL website; and we add a new music magazine website, EAR CANDY.

SECTION THIRTEEN: THE ADVERTISING SECTION, offers eleven pages of ads
from Earwraps; Cleveland International Records; Richard X. Heyman; Christopher Pick; J. Crow's Milled Cider; An Advertisement for Myself; Tommy Womack, Compliments of a Friend; Zoe Artemis invites you to literary retreat in Greece; and Richard Dettrey, who will help you with your shopping. A new addition is an ad for BABY ON THE WATER by Tsaurah Litzky.

Would you, too, like to help keep THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST on the Internet? For a nominal contribution, you can have your own advertising page in the Advertising Section of THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST. Simply send us an email to find out about particulars.

There are links to friendly sites and we also feature MARK PUCCI'S ONLINE REVIEWS, originally edited by John Williams.
Hope you read and enjoy.
Best, Al Aronowitz

:: Jan Pankow 4:35 PM [+] ::
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Special Thanks to James Walck for Beautifull Updates on the website.
I hope all of You get a chance to check it out. especially the
new Audio, Video, and INSOMNIACATHON sections.
Thanks James! & Thanks to all of You for checking it out!
all blessings always
Ron Whitehead
spring 2004
kentucky

www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org

:: Jan Pankow 4:19 PM [+] ::
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MANDELA'S SERMON

Blessed are the dehumanized
for they have nothing to lose
but their patience

False gods killed the poet in me. Now
I dig graves
with artistic precision


KEORAPETSE KGOSITSILE

Poem of the week
Keorapetse Kgositsile page

:: Jan Pankow 4:16 PM [+] ::
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Historic PENN'S STORE presents

KENTUCKY WRITERS DAY
A Celebration of the Written Word
Honoring Kentucky Writers

Sunday, April 25, 2004
Noon to 6pm
Bring your chair and join us

Penn's Store
257 Penn's Store Road
3 miles S.E. of Gravel Switch, Kentucky
859 332 7706 or 7715
PennsStore@aol.com
www.pennsstore.com (for map & more info)

Emcee - Terry Ward
Terry is Chair of the Humanities Division at St. Catharine College, Award winning writer, Historian, Free lance journalist.

Noon-12:30pm Registration for Writers and Open Mic.
Songwriter Glenn Metzger & Combo perform original music.

12:30-1pm Welcome, Announcements, Intro of writers and notables.
James Spragens - member of the Marion County High School English class that drafted the Kentucky Writers' Day bill.
David Hourigan - Former State Representative who introduced the bill to the Kentucky State Legislature.

1-1:30pm Frank X. Walker, Poet, Author, Vice-President of the Kentucky Center for The Arts, Executive Director of The Governor's School for The Arts, on tour debuting his latest volume, BUFFALO DANCE: The Journey of York, a book about the expedition of Lewis & Clark from the perspective of Clark's slave York.

1:30-2pm Lisa Williams - A native of Nashville, Tennessee, Assistant Professor of English, Centre College, currently a finalist for The Rome Prize in Literature, Williams has won numerous writing awards.

2-2:30pm Poets Supper, a Washington County based poetry group, members read with members statewide.

2:30-3pm Ron Whitehead, Award winning and internationally renowned poet and writer, scholar, professor, editor, publisher, organizer, founder and director of The Global Literary Renaissance.
Sarah Elizabeth, Recording and performing artist praised by Jean Ritchie, David Amram & others. She will be performing with Whitehead on a 2004 Tour of Europe, USA, and China.

3-4pm H.R. Stoneback - Poet, scholar, author, professor of English and director of graduate studies at State University of New York, New Platz.
Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society members, professors, writers, poets, scholars from New York, Massachusetts, California will read.

4-4:30pm Katherine Orton - Danville, Kentucky native, degree in journalism from the University of Kentucky, writes a regular column, "On the Lightside," for the Danville Advocate Messenger, playwright.

4:30-5pm Yolantha Harrison-Pace - Missionary to Haiti, perorming artist specialist, dance poet.

5-5:30pm Grass Roots Writers - Writers Group composed of members from Boyle, Garrard, Lincoln, Pulaski, Madison, and Fayette counties.

5:30-6pm or later Open Mic - For anyone wishing to share writings.

Books & CDs for Sale.
Food available.
Steve's Plants, Herbs, Flowers for sale.

www.tappingmyownphone.com
www.insomniacathon.org

:: Jan Pankow 4:12 PM [+] ::
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Can Art Matter?

Jeremy Hogan's Blood Filled Vessels


by Ron Whitehead



The older I get the more I realize I don't know anything, no one does. We're all guessing, feeling our way, grappling for answers. But every day I have encounters with the spirit world. We are all in perpetual motion, in transition, even when we are still, silent, listening. Listening is the greatest art of all. Not-knowing is the fundamental plowed earth of our being, not-knowing. It is our life source. Embrace the wind. Embrace my heart. Born to die, there is no safety, all is demanded. Expose yourself completely. Accept the consequences of your successes, and your failures, as no other dare. Enlightened mind is not special, it is natural. Present yourself as you are, wise fool. Don't hesitate, embrace mystery paradox uncertainty. Have courage. Through fear, and boredom, have faith. Be compassion. Embrace the wind. Embrace your heart. Not-knowing is the fundamental plowed earth of our being. It is our life source. Not-knowing.

Can art matter? Who is Jeremy Hogan?

Today 'Specialization' is sold on every corner, fed in every home, brainwashed into every student, every young person. We are told that the only way to succeed, here at the beginning of the 21st Century is to put all our time, energy, learning, and focus into one area, one field, one specialty (math, science, computer technology, business). If we don't we will fail. We are subtly and forcefully, implicitly and explicitly, encouraged to deny the rest of who we are, our total self, selves, our holistic being. The postmodern brave new world seems to reside inside the computer via The Web with only faint peripheral recognition to the person, the individual (and by extension the real global community), the real human being operating the machine. The idea of and belief in specialization as the only path, only possibility, has sped up the fragmentation, the alienation which began to grow rapidly within the individual, radically reshaping culture, over a century ago with the birth of those Machiavellian revolutions in technology, industry, and war. And with the growing fracturing fragmentation and alienation comes the path - anger, fear, anxiety, angst, ennui, nihilism, depression, despiar - that, for the person of action, leads to suicide. Unless, through our paradoxical leap of creative faith we engage ourselves in the belief, which can become a life misssion that regardless of the consequences, we can, through our engagement, our actions, our loving life work, make the world a better, safer, friendlier place in which to live. Sound naive? What place does the Antinomian voice, the voice that, though trembling, speaks out against The Powers That Be, what place does this Visionary Outsider Voice have in the real violent world in which we are immersed? Are we too desensitized to the violence, to the fact that in the past Century alone we have murdered over 160 million people in one war after another, to even think it worthwhile to consider th e possibility of a less violent world? Are we too small, too insignificant to make any kind of difference? The power-mongers have control. What difference can one little individual life possibly make possibly matter?

Jeremy Hogan's photographs make a difference. They are blood filled vessels racing to the heart.

Today the X and microserf generations are swollen with young people yearning to express the creative energies buried in their hearts, seeping from every pore of their beings. They ache to change to heal the world. Is it still possible? Is it too late? Is there anyone (a group?) left to show the way to be an example? To be a guide? A mentor? James Joyce, King of Modernism, said the idea of the hero was nothing but a damn lie that the primary motivating forces are passion and compassion. As late as 1984 people were laughing at George Orwell. Today, as we finally move into an Orwellian culture of simulation life on the screen landscape, can we remember passion and compassion or has the postmodern ironic satyric deathinlifegame laugh killed both sperm and egg? Is there anywhere worth going from here? Is it any wonder that today's youth have adopted Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Herbert Huncke, Gregory Corso, Neal Cassady, Lawrence Ferlinghe tti, Amiri Baraka, Robert Creeley, David Amram, Diane di Prima, Ed Sanders, Anne Waldman, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Sonic Youth and all the other Beat Generation and related poets, writers, artists, musicians as their inspirational, life-affirming antinomian ancestors? These are people who have stood and still stand up against unreasoning power/right/might, looked that power in the eyes and said NO I don't agree with you and this is why. And they have spoken these words, not for money or for fame, but out of life's deepest convictions, out of the belief that we, each one of us, no matter our skin color our economic status our political relious sexual preferences, all of us have the right to live to dream as we choose rather than as some supposed higher moral authority prescribes for us.

Jeremy Hogan is an antinomian warrior. His passion and compassion are revealed through his documentary art.

Can art matter? Is it merely a gold exchange for the rich? The crucible of Jeremy Hogan's alchemical art blends the terrible beauty of the natural world with questions of global social conscience. His photographs defy categorization. He is an original.

What is involved in the process of artistic creation? And how is that process related to space and time? What makes it possible for a handful of Nabi, of Druidhs, to maneuver in a molecular universe, where immersion at will into things and being other than self is readily accomplished, rather than the dreary chore of drudging through the thick cellular world? The answers are simply complex and like truth, time and water they constantly slip through fingers away, away but the past recalled becomes present again and in a sense when we look anywhere including back into the past we are looking with some for of anticipation which is an attribute of future time so where are we really? How do how will writers, artists, musicians, inhabitors of the creative realms of the 21st Century respond to these questions? Some respond with ironic, comic faith, some with passion, with compassion, without which the intelligent sensitive creature will inevitably travers the Valle y of The Shadow of Death encountering Angst, Despair, Ennui, and possibly Suicide. The sensitive individual poet artist musician filmmaker prophet, the empath whose natural ability is negative capability, ineluctably chooses the life-game quest of self-creation in the possibly infinite probability of possible realities in the self-contained inter-connected Ocean of Consciousness.

So, where are you going? Please answer the question. Can art matter?

There are no answers, only questions.

My argument for The Ocean of Consciousness reaches back to the early experiential understanding of holy while reaching forward beyond the limits of dialectical gnosticism to an alchemy that also transcends divisions inherent in the alienation the fragmentation of Deep Modernism and the superficial chaos of postmodernism. I agree to a point with Turkle's argument that "The goal of healthy personality development is not to become a One, not become a unitary core, it's to have a flexible ability to negotiate the many - cycle through multiple identities." Having multiple identities, being legion, may lead to the apparent conclusion that we are walking on quicksand, that there is no solid ground that all is chaos. Even if you are a cryptanalyst and are able to turn into "plaintext the coded messages of Lacan but also the utterances of French existentialists, deconstructionists, poststructuralists, and all the other sibilant schools that flowed out of postwar Fran ce" (McCormick) what leads you to believe that the deadlyseriousegocentrichumor of postmodernism where theory is lauded as more important than text (whatever text might be: book, painting, song, life, etc) can possibly be the final word? Deconstructing a text does not designify does not make the text less than what it was before you playfully surgically took it apart and, if you're a good mechanic, put it back together again even if you gave it new features. No matter how much taking apart, deconstructing you do there will always remain something, a meaningful essence that cannot be destroyed.

Jeremy Hogan's passion compassion filled art matters.

The poet painter photographer prophet deconstructs realism. She employs the innovative technique of intercalation: the juxtaposition of scenes in time. She is Elus Cohen, Elect Priest of Expressionism, Cubism, Modernism, Dada, Surrealism, postmodernism but she is more. She is Master Alchemist, Master Magician. Her long slender hand reaches towards me, grabs my throat, and pulls me into the text, the book, the photo. Manger du Livre indeed! I not only consume the book, the photo: the photo consumes me. Now I, with her, am Elus Cohen juxtaposing scenes in time and space in her, in me, in Jeremy Hogan's Blood Filled Vessels Racing to The Heart. Being Blood Filled my original perception, awareness, and senses are fractured, fractalled, and exiting Jeremy's Blood Filled Heart photos I find I am rearranged. I now have new perspective, awareness, senses. I look at others. Are their expressions different as they look at me? I must look different. I feel different. I am different. Me. And me now. I,I. Ha. Aha! Now as my hand moves this pen across this page I change. I am transformed. I am never the same. My molecules jump, sway, swoon, dance across the page, giggling, laughing, singing, happy to be new! It's spring again! They shout Yes Yes Yes!!!

Mythopoet documentary photographer Jeremy Hogan is creating newly resonant myths.

Knowledge, from the inception of Modernism (& through postmodernism to The Ocean of Consciousness), is reorganized, redefined through literature, art, music, film. The genres are changing, the canons are exploding, as is culture. The mythopoetics, the privileged sense of sight, of modern, contemporary, avant-garde poets, musicians, artists, filmmakers are examples of art forms of a society, a culture, a civilization, a world, in which humanity lives, not securely in cities nor innocently in the country, but on the acocalyptic, simultaneous edge of a new realm of being and understanding. The mythopoet, female and male, returns to the role of prophet-seer by creating myths that resonate in the minds of readers, myths that speak with the authority of the ancient myths, myths that are gifts from the shadow.

Ron Whitehead
march 9, 2004
kentucky

copyright c Ron Whitehead 2004

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TYRONE COTTON - brief bio - by Ron Whitehead

Singer, songwriter, guitarist Samuel Tyrone Cotton, born 1965, grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. His grandfather's rough, beautifully arresting singing grabbed the young Tyrone's full attention. His grandfather was a baptist preacher. He sang with a near illegal charm. He cast a spell. There was always music around. Tyrone's mother loved gospel and R&B. She loved to sing. Tyrone heard it all. His first concert experience was
BB King. His parents took him. King thrilled and captivated Tyrone with his playing his tale weaving.

At 13 Tyrone took up the guitar. It became the central focus of his life. By 15 he was playing in garage bands. He learned hot flashy licks, rock and blues with Jimi Hendrix muse of unrestrained fire. Tyrone began to realize that the music within him was making him feel emotions that he could share and communicate with others. Music became his vehicle of _expression.

After high school Tyrone studied classical guitar in college. He earned a B.A. in performance. During college he also started playing blues and folk blues in coffee shops and small venues. He began mixing blues with classical. He employed classical techniques such as right hand classical finger style. He played arpeggios of chords instead of strumming. He also began to sing. He developed a love for words and began to realize their power. The desire to play music, to sing, and to tell a story was born. He began to set poems to music. He loved Langston Hughes and blues and jazz poems. He loved to sing them against nylon strings and finger picking. He loved to sing them in a blues style. He bonded with the songs like they were old, even ancient, friends.

For Tyrone the blues was a point of departure. He mixed it with folk, rock, jazz, and pop. He explored. He assimilated the sights and sounds of his ever-expanding environment and made them his own. He found his voice. A new blues was born.

There is no other performer, no other sound or voice or style, in the world like Tyrone Cotton. He is an original. He performs his amalgamated blues, solo, on classical guitar. He also goes electric with a full band. He is comfortable with solo and ensemble performance. He improvises. He mixes melancholy with joyful laughter.

Tyrone has moved audiences in every size venue from New York University to the Kyoto International Folk Festival in Japan. He has toured Japan three times. He honed his skills in Japan. He has played across the USA. After opening for Rahn Burton, former pianist for jazz legend Rasahn Roland Kirk, Burton said "Tyrone can play his music anywhere in the world. It it were not true I would not say it." Beat legend Lawrence Ferlinghetti said "he's the best blues singer in the USA." Historian Douglas Brinkley was blown away by Tyrone's performance at an INSOMNIACATHON. He was astonished that Tyrone wasn't signed to a major label. Brinkley said "the world will know his work. He's one of our all time best." Legendary composer, musician, author David Amram has heard Tyrone perform several times. Time and again David has stated "He's amazing! He's one of our Best!" Legendary Iceland musician Michael Pollock, founding member of Utangardsmenn, voted Iceland's Best Rock G roup of the 20th Century, said "it's time the international community, the world has the chance to hear this man. I consider Tyrone Cotton to be right there with Son House, Big Bill Broonsey, Skip James, Mississippi Fred McDowall, all the Greats. Yet Tyrone has his own unique style."

Tyrone Cotton has a playing style, a songwriting ability, and a voice that are captivating, one of a kind. He will stand the test of time.

Ron Whitehead, Director
The Global Literary Renaissance
Kentucky
spring 2004

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Attention: Poets, Writers, and Photographers

A new Louisville literary magazine has been created called Churches, Banks and Bars. The second issue is open for submissions and will be out in stores around the beginning of April. The goal of the magazine is to promote complete _expression by exploring new grounds in poetic style, tone, form and perspective. It will be free and distributed monthly to local stores around Louisville. A major aim of the publication is to provide an outlet of _expression for all the talented writers in Louisville, as well as outsiders somehow connected in spirit, who go unnoticed and unpublished. Now there will be a printable medium that poets, writers and photographers of all styles can contribute. The magazine will include poetry, prose, short stories, and various other forms of writing. Copies of the first issue are available at Carmichael's and Twice Told book stores. For more information, contact Phillipzimbardo@aol.com or call 502-584-5599.

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hello everyone! ok. here's The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue core group for
6-week Not-Knowing Tour which includes stops in Kentucky, Indiana, North Carolina, Colorado, New Mexico, California. more gigs being added.
others will join us for one or more events.
Sarah & I will carry the Tour on to China/Tibet/Mt.Everest from California.

Michael Pollock, Andy Cook, Sarah Elizabeth, Ron Whitehead.

that's it. looking forward to all of it!
any questions let me know. thanks!
all blessings
Ron

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THE 50 LOVERS THAT LIVE IN MY BODY

the 50 lovers that live inside my body
go out nightly in search of another 50 lovers

just like 50 windows
each one concealed behind 50 pairs of eyes

50 different outcomes
each representing owners of 50 different colours

50 love-letters carried by 50 pigeons
permutated in the plazas of 50 modern city buildings

the wind disappears from my 50 dreams
leaving 50 nights, while my 50 passions
are asking:

why can there only be 50?

1997
CHEN KEHUA
Translated by Simon Patton

Poem of the week
Chen Kehua page

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From:Amnesty International
Reply-To:ai-news@amnesty.org
Subject: China: A moratorium on the death penalty is urgently required
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 03:28:01 -0800

News Release Issued by the International Secretariat of Amnesty International

AI INDEX: ASA 17/012/2004 22 March 2004

China: A moratorium on the death penalty is urgently required

The Chinese government routinely abuses national laws and international standards in the course of executing thousands of people each year, says a new report by Amnesty International. The report Executed "according to law"? – the death penalty in China comes a week after a senior Chinese legislator suggested China executes 10,000 people a year.
(View the full report online )

"In spite of positive developments in criminal procedure law, in practice the Chinese criminal justice system is in no condition to offer fair trials, impartiality, or justice. It is unacceptable that thousands more people will be executed this year by a dysfunctional criminal justice system", said the organization.

The miscarriages of justice cited in the report are just the tip of the iceberg. Given the potential for executing the innocent revealed by this report, it is incumbent upon the Chinese government to impose a moratorium on executions as a matter of urgency.

"This would be a first step towards the total abolition of the death penalty that the Chinese government has signalled to foreign diplomats is its ultimate goal," Amnesty International said.

The organization believes that given the potential for miscarriages of justice revealed by the report, a moratorium is urgently required. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases on the grounds that it is the ultimate cruel and inhumane treatment, and violates the right to life. The organization believes that execution in the absence of justice ranks among the ultimate failures of humanity.

Executed "according to law"? - the death penalty in China traces the ordeal that a person in China goes through from being suspected of committing a capital crime through to execution.

The report demonstrates the failures in China's criminal justice system by using cases researched by Amnesty International, and cases gathered from China's official media. These include:

- Chen Guoqing and three co-defendants accused of murder in 1996. They have now been re-tried and re-sentenced to death four times. They have so far successfully appealed three times, because the appeal court recognized that there was little valid evidence linking them to the crime, they had reliable alibis, and that their convictions were largely based upon confessions extorted through torture. They remain in prison awaiting a final verdict.

- Zhao Fenrong, a woman accused of murder in 1998 and sentenced to death at her trial and two subsequent re-trials, also on the basis of scant or fabricated evidence, and upon a confession extorted through torture. She is currently in prison on a suspended death sentence possibly awaiting a further appeal.

- Tenzin Deleg Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist cleric who was given a suspended death sentence following a blatantly unfair trial and a summary appeal procedure which saw his co-defendant Lobsang Dhondup executed on the day the sentence was passed.

- Gong Shengliang, a Christian pastor who was subjected to a blatantly unfair trial and sentenced to death, only to have his sentence reduced to life on appeal. He remains in prison, and there are serious concerns for his health following allegations of repeated and sustained beatings in prison.

Executed "according to law"? - the death penalty in China includes specific recommendations to the government of the People's Republic of China for bringing its criminal justice system into line with international standards.

"China must implement the international treaties it is already party to - such as the Convention Against Torture - and it must do everything possible to ratify and implement the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) as a matter of urgency," said Amnesty International.

Background

China applies the death sentence for the "most serious" crimes, which under Chinese law include corruption and numerous other non-violent crimes, despite an international standard which states the death penalty should be "a quite exceptional measure".

When detained on suspicion of committing a capital crime, no one has the absolute right to immediate legal counsel - it is usually only after a person has been interrogated by police that they can engage a lawyer. Even then, this right is often denied or interfered with in practice. However, it is often during the first interrogation that people are tortured and forced to 'confess' to the crime under investigation. Their 'confession' can then be used as evidence against them in court, and used towards sentencing them to death.

Additionally, contrary to international standards, there is no presumption of innocence in Chinese law. Political interference can intrude upon the judicial process at every stage of proceedings. China's notorious 'strike hard' campaigns put courts under extreme political pressure to pass speedily ever more and ever heavier sentences.

People's Republic of China: Executed "according to law"? The death penalty in China. Read the report

People's Republic of China: Appeal Cases CHEN GUOQING, YANG SHILIANG, HE GUOQIANG, ZHU YANQIANG

For more information on the death penalty in China please visit

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From: Kevin Ring
Subject: NEW BEAT SCENE/SATORI BOOKS SITE
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 15:24:07 -0000

I have a brand new site for my BEAT SCENE magazine and for SATORI BOOKS. Credit card facilities are in place.
It is a work in progress and will be filling up over the near future. Have a look.
BEAT SCENE magazine

Kevin Ring

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MAZE – YOU ARE HERE (1)


tracks, trips, rumble rimmed
in steel rails and grey, ties
continuous course of ballast
rolling and unwinding on curves
its rubbing, with muffled sound
and approaches, imminent to signal
switching, where steeled in
rails in steel branch off
traced grounded, a single stretch
in slow motion, the mechanical pull
runs out the rhythm and lower
slowly to its destination, screeches
at the town’s curtain, scenery
edges, sliding signals
that display, icons around
words, stamped archives
wherever, from an ordinary place
without any distinctions, except
waiting, at the stop announcing
moment, glimpses, that, unique
known name indicating the trip
when this way it ends and begins
produced from the distance
geographical space, exile
by graph, x-axis, position
placed on platform, arrival station

MICHÈLE MÉTAIL

Poem of the week
Michèle Métail page

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DEAR FRIENDS AND READERS,

COLUMN 102 of THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST, dated February 1, 2004 can
be accessed.
SECTION ONE: WHO WANTS TO RECORD FUSION MUSIC WITH A SIZZLING BENGALI BAUL? Sort of a help wanted ad.

SECTION TWO: RETROPOP SCENE: THE BENGALI BAULS AT BIG PINK. My liner notes for that album.

SECTION THREE: THE ART PAGE: TATTOO ART: MOUTHTRAP! Another spectacular bit of apparent body painting.

SECTION FOUR:
INTRODUCING THREE NEW WEBSITES TO OUR INDEX. You'll find them invaluable.
THE POETRY SECTION
SECTION FIVEPOETRY PAGE ONE
BY AMIRI BARAKA: PREFACE TO A TWENTY
VOLUME SUICIDE NOTE.

SECTION FIVE: THE POETRY SECTION POETRY PAGE TWO BY MICHAEL DEAN POLLOCK: NORTHERN KOAN/BOOK OF LIES.
SECTION FIVE: THE POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE THREE BY TULI KUPFERBERG: SEPTUAGENARIAN IN
LOVE.
SECTION FIVE: THE POETRY SECTION
POETRY PAGE FOUR : SCHMAIKU #11: HEADLESS RALPHY.
SECTION SIX: THE EMAIL SECTION
EMAIL PAGE ONE
HELP SAVE OUR GREAT NUYORICAN POET, EL REV. PEDRO PIETRI! Three appeals for funds to help rescue Poetry's favorite Nuyorican wordsmith.
SECTION SEVEN: THE LITERARY LINKS SECTION: Links to THE ALLEN GINSBERG ORGANIZATION, THE RITA DOVE website, THE PETER COYOTE website and the AMERICAN LEGENDS website.
SECTION EIGHT: THE MOVIE SECTION: THE RITZ FILMBILL. Synopses of foreign, independent and Hollywood movies.
SECTION NINE: THE MUSIC SECTION, features the usual links to SONGSCENTRAL, PURR, POWER OF POP, all contemporary music e-zines; ART ATTACK, all about jazz; THE CELEBRITY CAFÉ, all about celebrities; and the BABUKISHAN DAS BAUL website.

SECTION TEN: THE ADVERTISING SECTION, offers eleven pages of ads from Earwraps; Cleveland International Records; Richard X. Heyman; Christopher Pick; J. Crow's Milled Cider; An Advertisement for Myself; Tommy Womack, Compliments of a Friend; Canadian singer-songwriter Annie Goodwyne, who plugs her recording, PASTEL; and Richard Dettrey, who will help you with your shopping. A new addition is an ad for BABY ON THE WATER by Tsaurah Litzky.

Would you, too, like to help keep THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST on the Internet? For a nominal contribution, you can have your own advertising page in the Advertising Section of THE BLACKLISTED JOURNALIST. Simply send us an email to find out about particulars.

There are links to friendly sites and we also feature MARK PUCCI'S ONLINE REVIEWS, originally edited by John Williams.

Hope you read and enjoy.
Best, Al Aronowitz

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*****The latest from mundoblaineo.com.******

The site that would be a man, this man.
Mundoblaineo news, February 3, 2004

Well, dear friends, I have been beating the dead horse that is mundoblaineo, flirting with carpal tunnel syndrome with the sheer determination of ….um…a determined thing. (it is late and verbal niceties escape me.)
Since I suffer from an increasingly prevalent condition in today’s world, Digital Camera Picture Glut, most of these new links are photo galleries. Viz (love that, viz.)


3 NEW GALLERIES AND AN ORACLE

THRILL! to Tuxedomoon’s summer adventure, 2003.

My pix of us in PARIS! BRUSSELS! AMSTERDAM! In the recording studio! On a bus! At a table! No performance shots, though, I was busy performing and I don’t trust anyone else with my camera.
SEE! The enormous documentation of my time in cologne, performing “ten greatest rock songs in history” by Albrecht Hirche.
GASP! At the sheer esthetic brilliance of my recent photoshoppage. Art, my dear, art.
THE I CHING
Last, but not least by a long shot, I have realized an old dream of mine. I have managed to find and cobble together a functioning means of consulting the I Ching on a computer and reading the commentary from the Wilhelm translation of this ancient classic.

Since I discovered the I ching back in the 60’s, man, it has been a constant feature of my life. I have consulted the book of changes at every stage of my adult life, using coins, yarrow stalks and even cards. I have not always understood the results, but more often than not the I ching’s advice was frighteningly accurate and too damn honest.

If a list of droppable names is required for fellow devotees of the ching, try Carl Jung, Phillip K. Dick and John Cage on for size, bubba.
Enough o’ my yakkin’. Here’s thelink.


And that, as they say, is that.
Until next time, campers
Blaine

Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we wipe it on our sleeve.
Let a smile be your umbrella and you get a mouthful of rain.

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official Press Release for InKY Reading Series

Frank X Walker, Leatha Kenrick, Ron Whitehead & Sarah Elizabeth

Friday, February 13, 2004
7pm
the Rudyard Kipling
422 W. Oak Street, Louisville, Kentucky
usa

featuring music by
Bryan Hurst

plus readings by Winston Farrell (recipient of The Caribbean's top prize for literature), Troy Teegarden, Mark Rudolph, Pam Steele, Erin Keane, Amanda Johnston, Jude McPhereson, Andrew Coleman Wilson, Brenda Jones, Michele Rudy, K. Nicole Wilson

produced by First Harvest
Louisville, Kentucky
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Events Update (with nearly 50 shows in The Works we're adding continually so please stay tuned to website Events Section):

February 6: Ron Whitehead & The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue with Scaramongo at
Uncle Pleasant's
Louisville, Kentucky

February 13: Sarah Elizabeth & Ron featured with Frank X. Walker at
MFA @ Spalding University Music & Poetry Event at
The Rudyard Kipling
Louisville, Kentucky

March 5: Sarah & Ron with Tina Bayne at
The Coffee House
Carrollton, Kentucky

March 12-21: Sarah & Ron with Hilmar Orn Hilmarson, Michael & Marlon Pollock, and Megas at Thingvellir then
Sarah & Ron at Shakespeare & Co.in Paris
Reykjavik, Iceland
Paris, France

April 20: The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue with Dean McClain at
The Jungle
Evansville, Indiana

April 29: The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue with Elizabeth Jasper at
federal penitentiary
LaGrange, Kentucky

May 14-16: The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue featured at
The Talking Gourds Festival
Telluride, Colorado

May 19: Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue with Jordan Green at
The Oasis Cybercafe
Espanola, New Mexico

May 27-28 The Viking Hillbilly Apocalypse Revue with Dan Barth at
The Saturday Afternoon Club & City of 10,000 Buddhas
Ukiah, California

June 25: Sarah and Ron featured at Runcible Spoon Poetry Series
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana

September 16: Sarah & Ron open Arts Season at
Lenoir-Rhyne College
Hickory, North Carolina
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Subject: new world short order

*****The latest from mundoblaineo.com.******

The site that would be a man, this man.
Thursday January 22, 2004

Howdy. I neglected to tell youse about a rather amusing event that transpired the other day. Some bozoes of my acquaintance, musicians for whom I did a session came out here to bourgeois land Sunday to take me to a video shoot for their cd. They came in a beat up red car (important later). Also important to remember is that I decided to dress in my Matrix-influenced baddest drag for the occasion. I sported my long black leather overcoat, a pair of blue mirror shades, black turtleneck. Couldn’t have done better had I consulted “Osama’s Secret” terrorist wardrobe catalogue. We hadn’t travelled more than 500 meters down the road when a pair of newly-minted fascist cops from the olympic brigade decided this was our lucky day. Beat up red car in a posh neighborhood? Scowling mafioso in the back seat? It’s them, stavros! Oh, the arrogance. The leather lad in charge pulled us over by standing in the middle of the road and pointing his finger. You.

Perhaps I erred in not concealing my utter contempt for these morons better. I spoke no nasties but I have encountered scabrous mongrel dogs with open boils for whom I have had more respect. What began as a routine “control” of drivers’ license, car papers turned into a 3 hour funfest. We turned out pockets, stood still to be frisked, all of that. We then were escorted by these hell’s angels on wheels to the local cop shop. Me was fuming. Lot of good it did me. Seems that the pair who hauled our butts in were city boys. The barney fife brigade at the local station house were not allowed to use their computer. This meant that my dodgy looking american passport had to be faxed to central HQ on a Sunday when there was a football game on tv. My muso friend asked the desk jockey how long this might take the reply to which “Three to four hours” finally sent me flying off the handle. Oh well, another day in new world order ville. Is this a police atrocity on a par with the Rodney Ki
ng beating? I guess not. Major pain in the butt, though.

This is what the olympics bring to this town. Driving down the new freeway with its english road signs, stopping for a coke at the rest stop, plunking down my 2 euros for the toll, I realized that we are the absolute cutting edge american empire town. English spoken here. American franchise restos popping up everywhere. My friend Chris and I had burgers in a diner downtown that he first encountered in Oklahoma. “Appleby’s” He says there is absolutely no difference between the one here and the one there. Starting to look like los angeles more and more. All this and bands of thugs in leather speaking berlitz english lining every thoroughfare should make this THE town to avoid this summer. Sure hope I got somewhere better to go.

What the hell was I on about?

Oh yes, today I did a voice-over for a toyota commercial out in the afore-mentioned LA looking zone. I was the voice for a talking mirror.

Before I forget, here are some anagrams for "Blaine L. Reininger" included only for amusement.

Nina reel in gerbil
relearning in bile
I be relearning nil
Blair in Green Line
linin in lager beer
inner Liberian gel
Benin gel airliner
nill Nigerian beer
ne'er Nigerian bill
I an iller beginner
biennial lingerer
I enlarge bin liner
Ali green bin liner
nill brainier gene
I err enabling Nile
grill inner beanie
reline benign lair
e'er ill benign Iran
liar in benign leer

Love
guido
Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we wipe it on our sleeve.
Let a smile be your umbrella and you get a mouthful of rain.

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hope u appreciate
netatworkus
in peace
ciao,
--rinaldo

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American Guts
by John Rocco

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
I’m a Wretch.
But I love love. - Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris

Ron Whitehead’s poetry reminds me of the way WWII vet and renegade American filmmaker Sam Fuller described Omaha Beach on D-Day: “Lined with the intestines of men.” Guts everywhere. And Fuller’s thoughts on depicting war on film is reminiscent of Whitehead’s poetic voice: Fuller believed the only way to authentically depict warfare would be to fire live ammo over the audience and maybe even wound someone. Whitehead’s words – on the page or as live salvo – have these sort of guts: two-fisted, hard-hitting, sans nonsense, and they often go right through you. His new collection, The Declaration of Independence This Time: Selected Poems 1996-2000 (Hozomeen Press), is a concentrated display of his arsenal of Beat Guts, Rock and Roll Swagger, and American Sweat.

1) Beat Guts. You have to be tough to write poetry in America. It is a tough place. The dark streets are crowded with something more than night. You have to be tough to write. Whitehead knows this and he’s proud of his filled-with-guts-lineage; this tough pride runs throughout all his writing and makes his poems essays on poetic theory, Beat tradition, and his hard-boiled American soul. Not hard-boiled in the sense that nothing can get in. Hi s guts are packed with it all: Kentucky, Kerouac, Joyce, Rock and Roll, Ferlinghetti, Elvis, injustice, justice, the Big Bang Epiphany, the pandemonium moon, rocking chairs, coal miners, toads. He tells us he “believes in non-violent fighting which creates new forms new voices.” He is a violent non-fighter in a series of Kentucky haikus:

In Kentucky
always
I go too far

Kentucky is his home base but he goes too far across the globe promoting the Beats (he’s the P.T. Barnum of the evolving Beat Celestial Circus he calls Insomniacathons), teaching the Beats (he writes about them, publishes books On them, and crosses the planet to talk about them), celebrating the Beats (he writes poems). Guts everywhere.

Whitehead talks hard-boiled American as he tackles despair in “Death on My Left Shoulder” or uses a kind of Beat Calculus to chart the ethereal in “The Shape of Water” or rewrites The Declaration of Independence and Yeats’s “The Second Coming” to struggle with the past for a new world. His fight against a brutal America of poverty and greed is combined with a genealogy of heroic American rebels in “Calling the Toads” The Antinomian Fire This Time,” a kind of Burroughs cut-up of Beat scholar John Tytell’s description Of the antinomian tradition and Whitehead’s exuberant riffing on it:
The antinomian legacy of Whitman, Pound, Miller, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Ferlinghetti, and so many other poets, writers, artists, musicians leads to our door and in this final moment having stood in the shadows for too long we step out and now we stand on the brink on the edge at the ending of time

Time was, Time is, Time will be no more
and it’s The Big Bang Epiphany
in the gap between thought and image
voices streams racing
whispering through our blood
pleading through our bones
strange activities of our nerves
the unconscious life of our minds
a tetrameter of iambs marching
shouting voices without restraint
alchemically transmutative symbol decipherment
the book as sacred elixir
manger du livre eat the book

Eat the Book and deny the straw men Thoreau saw living in quiet desperation.
Deny quiet desperation and embrace loud exuberance. Eat the Book and turn up the volume.

2) Rock and Roll Swagger. Anyone who has ever heard Whitehead read his poetry knows that he’s one of those rock and rollers, one of those 50s rockers combing back his slick hair and one of those 60s experimenters with surreality and one of those 70s punks pleasing Burroughs with their antinomian chants of BUGGER THE QUEEN. He’s a rock poet. Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and the blues are as influential upon Whitehead’s verse As Jack Kerouac, Walt Whitman, James Joyce, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
But it is the same tradition. Rock is Whitehead’s America. Rock culture emerges out of Beat culture. Kerouac’s spontaneous bop prose was a declaration of fierce independence for the American writer. Rock became the battle music for the American revolution in consciousness. Corporate monsters may tap into the life force of rock but they can never suck out the Beat guts. Fiery baby-chewing Moloch, because his mind is pure machinery, doesn’t listen to the Grateful Dead (Neal Cassady was practically an honorary early member), the Doors (Ray Manzareck has said that without On the Road
"the Doors would never have existed”), Dylan, Tom Waits, the Velvet Underground, the Soft Machine, the Rolling Stones, David Bowie, the Clash, Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, the Beastie Boys, Nirvana, R.E.M., Ron Whitehead. Kerouac knew this when he wrote that “Beatles is spelled Beatles and not Beetles.” Dylan and the Clash knew it when they went on tour with Allen Ginsberg. Kurt Cobain knew it when he recorded “The Priest They Called Him” with Burroughs. Whitehead knows it throughout his words.

The music began in the tough, beat, lonesome American cry called the blues and Kerouac, high on words and drunk on jazz, gave it a subject matter. He gave it his life. Whitehead celebrates this in the music of his writing, his affirmative swagger in the face of guilt, decay, despair, suffering. In “Bell and Drum” he brashly solves Stephen Dedalus’s problem with a punch of American enthusiasm:

agenbite of inwit goodbye
remorse of conscience farewell
go beyond
go beyond
go beyond

This is the traveling advice in On the Road. This is the glow at the center Of all Kerouac’s work, especially in the dark confessions of Desolation Angels and Big Sur. Kerouac is still the most critically underrated, overlooked, neglected writer in American literature. And yet his work is everywhere in American culture. His books are just too tough to die. His gentle hard-boiled soul grows today in rock, in Hunter S. Thompson’s tough talk about the American Dream, in Whitehead’s poetry of guts.
His presence remains and reminds us: Tough poets are the unacknowledged explorers of the guts of the world.

3) American Sweat. In 1961, Kerouac described On the Road in a letter:
Dean and I were embarked on a tremendous journey through post-Whitman America to FIND that America and to FIND the inherent goodness in American man. American Man and Child…
It was really a story about 2 Catholic buddies roaming the country in search of God. And we found him. I found him in the sky, in Market Street San Francisco (those 2 visions), and Dean had God sweating out of his forehead all the way. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY OUT FOR THE HOLYMAN: HE MUST SWEAT FOR GOD (Kerouac’s emphasis).

It is tough to be a writer in America. You have to be tough to write, to survive, to roam, to live. You have to sweat. It takes a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger to save the world. Whitehead is in the ring, pounding away at the flab of the universe, punching his way out, sweating poems. He is a non-violent fighter looking for a fight. Whitehead sweats for God and the Beats in post-Whitman, post-Kerouac America.

Dr. John Rocco teaches English and Humanities at State University of New York Maritime. His published books include Dead Reckonings: The Life and Times of The Grateful Dead, The Nirvana Companion, The Doors Companion, The Frank Zappa Companion, The Beastie Boys Companion, all for Schirmer Books. He co-edited Another E.E. Cummings for W.W. Norton and Co. A James Joyce scholar, he has published many academic articles on modern literature, music, and film.
A freelance rock journalist he has contributed to a variety of publications from High Times to The Stranger. He also reviews books for American Book Review.
He lives in New York City.

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