Poets:
- HD
- Ronald Johnson
- Joseph Donahue
- Pam Rehm
- Robert Creeley
- Robert Duncan
- Gustaf Sorbin
- Ezra Pound
- Basil Bunting
- Louis Zukofsky
- Joel Felix
- Thomas Meyer
- Anne Carson
- Han Shen
- Susan Howell
- Emily Dickinson
- Nathaniel Mackey
- Audra Lorde
- Iraqi
- Charles Olson
- Lorine Niedecker
- Jack Spicer
- Robin Blaser
- George Oppen
-Gustaf Sobin
Stuff we love:
- Poetry
- Apocalypticism
- All the Abrahamic Mysticisms
- All the east-Asian Mysticisms
- (Actually, all the non-new agey Mysticisms)
- (And hence:) Unity of Being
- Sincerity
- Farming, specifically the growing of vegetables
- The Occupation Movement
- Tea and coffee
- Vegan cooking and especially baking
- Anarchism and Autonomism
- Bicycles and riding them
- Independent literature, small presses, etc.
- Outsider art (i.e. Adolf Wolfli, Vivian Maier, Henry Darger, Harry Partch, Moondog, Joseph Cornell)
- Independent music (esp. DIY Hardcore Punk)
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy (most especially Ursula K. LeGuin and China Mieville)
- Animals
- Fairy Tales
- Martial Arts
- Graphic novels and comics (favorites: Theo Ellsworth, Charles Burns, Alan Moore, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Dash Shaw, and Shaun Tan)
- Overcoming the ego
that creates: separation-alienation
that leads to: Capitalism / institutionalized hierarchies / oppression based on gender, race, religious
or spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation, etc. / coolness / irony / nihilism-indifference / rock n' roll /
pessimism-optimism-realism
that: all need to be destroyed
- Apocalypticism
- All the Abrahamic Mysticisms
- All the east-Asian Mysticisms
- (Actually, all the non-new agey Mysticisms)
- (And hence:) Unity of Being
- Sincerity
- Farming, specifically the growing of vegetables
- The Occupation Movement
- Tea and coffee
- Vegan cooking and especially baking
- Anarchism and Autonomism
- Bicycles and riding them
- Independent literature, small presses, etc.
- Outsider art (i.e. Adolf Wolfli, Vivian Maier, Henry Darger, Harry Partch, Moondog, Joseph Cornell)
- Independent music (esp. DIY Hardcore Punk)
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy (most especially Ursula K. LeGuin and China Mieville)
- Animals
- Fairy Tales
- Martial Arts
- Graphic novels and comics (favorites: Theo Ellsworth, Charles Burns, Alan Moore, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Dash Shaw, and Shaun Tan)
- Overcoming the ego
that creates: separation-alienation
that leads to: Capitalism / institutionalized hierarchies / oppression based on gender, race, religious
or spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation, etc. / coolness / irony / nihilism-indifference / rock n' roll /
pessimism-optimism-realism
that: all need to be destroyed
Blogs/Presses/Publications:
- The Volta
- Verge Books
- The Henri Corbin Project
- The Rumpus
- 50 Watts
- Booktryst
- Press Press Press
- Skysill Press
- Book by its Cover
- BibliOdyssey
- The Chapbook Review
- Apex of the M
- The Cultural Society
- Flood Editions
- Her Royal Majesty
- Soft Skull
- Nobrow
- Fantagraphics
- Mcsweeney's
- Top Shelf
- First Second
- Secret Acres
