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Gary Lindorff: What is poetry VS prose and advice on writer's block
once the unconscious unfreezes and our dreams begin flowing and there is more consciousness or lucidity in our dream-life, the unconscious becomes more like a spring. . . |
 Mike Rivage-Seul: Pope Leo: Please Go to Gaza; Celebrate Mass in Khan Yunis! SUNDAY HOMILY: Imagine if Pope Leo celebrated Mass in the ruins of the refugee camp in Khan Yunis? No one could ignore it.The Zionist and American perpetrators of genocide would be completely humiliated. 4  |
Gary Lindorff: If it please the hills (Glendalough, 2019)
if the man is carrying something /
Too heavy for the valley to comprehend, / Something that keeps his head down / And his eyes on the path . . . |
 John Hawkins: Don't Mess with the Zohran (poem) A reactionary poem about the ascension of Zohran Mamdani to the roof of taxi cabs in NYC. He's a Muslim! |
 John Hawkins: Scrimshander scratched his way to the top An article from my daily reorter days at the New Bledford Stand-Times back circa late 1989. Nostalgia. | |
 Thomas Farrell: Thomas J. Farrell's Life and Work -- and Walter J. Ong's Life and Work (REVIEW ESSAY) In the present wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 9,500-word OEN article, I succinctly highlight my life and work, especially some of my recent OEN articles. I also succinctly highlight the life and work of the American Jesuit Renaissance specialist and cultural historian and pioneering media ecology theorist Walter Jackson Ong, Jr. (1912-2003; Ph.D. in English, Harvard University, 1955) of Saint Louis University |
 John Hawkins: Film Review: Gaza: Journalists Under Fire Here is a documentary that describes and sometimes shows the unprecedented murder of journalist in Gaza. They are targeted. What they are and would be covering is the erasure of a people. |
Gary Lindorff: Irish seals
We descended / Around the orange-lichened ledges / To the rocks above where, / If the seals are there, they are going to be, |
 John Hawkins: Sonnet for Trump the Peace Bringer Trump bombs Iran -- illegally -- and whinges aloud about how he won't win the Nobel Prize for Peace. And to think we elected him again. Maybe. |
Gary Lindorff: What do we do with brilliant old damaged men?
if he does this again, I'm finished with him./ I honestly don't know what to do / With these brilliant old damaged men |
Gary Lindorff: Vignettes from Monhegan
Manana, Monhegan Island's little sister/ Is a hulking blur./ The ocean, a great becalmed lake |
 Philip Kraske: Reasons Galore for Attacking Iran! Can't keep track of all the reasons Israel has started a war with Iran? Here's the list, and it's long. |
 John Hawkins: The Glitter Is in Everything (fiction) Short story to celebrate Jubeteenth. And it's not early to put together your Kwanzaa gift list. |
Gary Lindorff: No Mr Eliot, this is how the world ends
Let me be king!/ He reviews the toy soldiers / And their mighty tanks,/ But that won't end the world. |
 Thomas Farrell: Thomas J. Farrell's Postscript Reflections on His Life and Work (REVIEW EESSAY) The present OEN article is a deeply personal postscript commentary on my 2,627-word OEN article "Thomas J. Farrell's Further Reflections of the Tragic Anti-Body Heritage of Christianity" (dated June 14, 2025). In it, I referred to the archetype of the Self as the source in my psyche of my experience of feeling mildly euphoric for about ten weeks in the fall of 2024. The present OEN article is about the necessary Ego-Self axis. |
 Gary Lindorff: Once and for all -- who are our ancestors? (and what I mean by "wisdom field") Ancestors includes everyone who lived before us, / They include guardian spirits I have never met. / But the hard part for most folks to wrap their heads around is, |
 John Hawkins: Pomp and Circumcision (poem) A paean to DJ's power and might and extraordinariness. Let's hope he bombs as president again. He's a wake up call. |
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Thomas Farrell: Thomas J. Farrell's Further Reflections on the Tragic Anti-Body Heritage of Christianity (REVEW ESSAY) In the present 1,627-word OEN article, I further extend my inter-related thoughts in twenty inter-related OEN articles in recent months by reflecting further on the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity. For Americans today to counter and combat the tragic anti-body heritage of Christianity in their psyches, I advocate body-positivity and sex-positivity. |
Gary Lindorff: Goodbye ghosts
Some familiar, some not. / Ghosts in letters, ghosts next to new old cars. / Young cocky men with cigarettes |
 Meryl Ann Butler: An Artistic Alternative to Marching on "No Kings" Day An artistic alternative to marching on "No Kings" day! |
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Thomas Farrell: David Brooks on Trumpism versus Abstractions, and Walter J. Ong's Thought (REVIEW ESSAY) In the present wide-ranging 5,996-word OEN article, I discuss NYT columnist David Brooks' column "I'm Normally a Mild Guy. Here's What Pushed Me Over the Edge" in The New York Times (dated May 29, 2025). A certain pronounced tendency in Trumpism is to avoid abstractions pushed Brooks over the edge. So, I discuss abstractions in the American Jesuit scholar Walter J. Ong's media ecology account of our Western cultural history. |
 Thomas Farrell: Maia Szalavitz on Love as a Drug, and Walter J. Ong's Thought (REVIEW ESSAY) In the present wide-ranging and, at times, deeply personal 5,796-word OEN article, I review some of my OEN articles from the past to establish the cultural matrix with which I am working in the present OEN article. Then I turn to addressing Maia Szalavitz's guest op-ed titled Love Is a Drug. A.I. Chatbots Are Exploiting That" in The New York Times (dated June 3, 2025). |
 Philip Kraske: Will I Survive Two Weeks in Kiev? Thinking it over now, maybe I should have gone to Peoria. |
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Gary Lindorff: Something you need to see for yourself
Aren't you coming? we asked /
As we noticed him drawing us a map. / Oh, no, he said. /This is something you need to see for yourself. |
Gary Lindorff: The fate of the Selfie Yacht
Their boat will be seized,/Its rainbow sails will be cut up / And repurposed as tent patches / For traveling circuses. |
 Dan: Breaking Free: Reclaiming Your Authentic Self in a High-Speed World In a world caught in "high-speed living" and defined by external labels, how can we reclaim our true selves? This article explores the societal pressures on individuals and calls for a conscious slowing down and authentic self-expression to restore inner balance. 4 |
 John Hawkins: Review of Genocide Bad by Sim Kern This is a review of Sim Kern's controversial book, Genocide Bad. Lively language from a free-minded Jewish opponent of Zionist policies in Israel. |
 John Hawkins: An Elon Musk Sonnet Musk has been looking crazed lately; more than usual. Has he gone full mad scientist? Is he dripping digital neurons? 2 |
Gary Lindorff: Advice to Israeli pacifists
In 1967,the things that were going on in this country
Remind me of what Israel is doing to Palestine / Gaza. /But we couldn't stop the juggernaut / Of righteous cruelty and terror that was Raining down on Vietnam in the name of democracy.. |
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