Jose Padua: On the Realization that Miracles are the Result of Hard Labor
“I’m not having one of those things coming out of me,” my six year old daughter says, meaning babies, “No way!” She pokes her head up from the back seat … Continue reading
Video: Alan Watts animated by South Park creators
Here is a compilation of a few of Alan Watts’ non-corporeal appearances animated by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the television show South Park.
Video: America’s 5 Favorite Ways to Ignore Jesus
America’s Best Christian, Mrs. Betty Bowers, announces American Christians’ fondest ways to thumb their noses at Jesus and any of the pesky things He may have told them. Mrs. … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Avenue Banana
Living on Avenue Banana in the 1990s is not a lot like drinking tea. I look up to the sky. You shout at people driving by in limousines. We eat … Continue reading
Video: When the FBI knocks on your door, you should handle it just like this woman.
An Austin, Texas woman, who is a peaceful antiwar activist, was visited by the FBI. They wanted to know if she knew of “any plans to destroy property.” Here’s how … Continue reading
Jose Padua: A poem in which chocolate is a metaphor for the great power hidden inside us
When my daughter asks why we are eating chocolate when we’re supposed to be eating just healthy food now that we’re on diets I explain to her that chocolate contains … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Socialism
In the town of Front Royal where I live I am a socialist. I live there with my socialist wife and my socialist daughter and my socialist son. We think … Continue reading
Wendell Berry: The Contrariness of the Mad Farmer
From Wendell Berry: Poet and Prophet, an interview by Bill Moyers. http://
Lewis Turco: Thoughts from the Boston Post Road
[ed. note: I often like to read the early work of an established poet in order to see where he or she started. This poem about automobile pollution was written … Continue reading
Rob Cantor: “Shia LaBeouf”
Featuring The Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles, The West L.A. Children’s Choir, The Argus Quartet, aerial artists, dancers wearing masks, and a “real live cannibal.” Oh yeah, you need … Continue reading
Jose Padua: Then I Will Tell You a Story about Blue Butterflies…
Then I Will Tell You a Story about Blue Butterflies That Fly Higher Than Your Heart Rises Just Before a Great Fall These are the towns in Pennsylvania … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: Best New Poets Under Three
A Review Peter Patenaud, who at one, has produced two volumes that hearken to a shadow life before his soul, dipped in Lethe, came clean into this world as the … Continue reading
Arlene Weiner: An Oven Bird (with apologies to Robert Frost)
We’d eaten quite as much as we were able of the brown bird that stood mid-meal, mid-table. We’d carved and passed it. Some had taken seconds, and when we pushed … Continue reading
