—Notice To The Membership & Interested Parties— The Society would direct your attention to the menu bar above. Conditions of Parole have been revised to reflect new guidelines for submissions to Parole. Note as well new menu categories have been added to facilitate a more direct access to posts by specific as well as general subject types. Volume I, Number 2 —FEATURE— IN THE BLACK Bob Kaufman, The Collected Poem of Bob Kaufman, City Lights Books, 2019 Upfromsumdirt, Deifying A Total Darkness, Harry Tankoos Books 2020 John Keene. Punks, Selected Poems, The Song Cave 2021 Will Alexander, De ..read more

IN THE BLACK by Pat Nolan Bob Kaufman, The Collected Poem of Bob Kaufman, City Lights Books, 2019 Upfromsumdirt, Deifying A Total Darkness, Harry Tankoos Books, 2020 John Keene. Punks, Selected Poems, The Song Cave, 2021 Will Alexander, Divine Blue Light (for John Coltrane) City Lights Pocket Poets Series #63, 2022 There are numerous ways to navigate the tangle of a National literature dependent on diverse regional voices and make one’s bones as a poet. Among them, legitimacy in the trappings of the academy where the poet is sanctioned by peer prizes and institutional chairs in prestigious cu ..read more

Prose and The Poem Max Jacob, The Dice Cup, (trans. By Ian Seed) Wakefield Press, 2022 In 1974, David Meltzer’s Tree Books published Andrei Codrescu’s à Max Jacob, a chapbook of original prose poems and a few visceral translations of Jacob’s own prose. Max Jacob’s prose poems were of great interest in certain corners of the US poetry world around that time. Ashbery had published some translations. Michael Brownstein’s versions were talked about. The prose poem was coming into its own as a viable alternative form, and some of the foremost examples were from French poets active half a century o ..read more

The New Censorship, The Monthly Journal of The Next Savage State The New Censorship as the Monthly Journal of the Next Savage State was published from 1990 through 1997 from Denver, Colorado by the inimitable Ivan Suvanjieff, world peace ambassador, co-founder of Peace Jam, film producer, Quanta Dada artist, rock and art critic, friend of Elmore Leonard, Desmond Tutu, and HH Delai Lama. Anselm Hollo provided the name and Andrei Codrescu came up with “the journal of the next savage state.” The contributor’s list for The New Censorship reads like a who’s who of radical American poets and artists ..read more

Should I Stay Or Should I Go Bob Arnold, Faraway Like The Deer’s Eye, Longhouse, 2022 Red Pine, Bob and Susan Arnold Faraway Like A Deer’s Eye is a memoir catalog of texts and a photo album of a life lived as a poet carved out of a northeastern wilderness as a grounded simplicity, an “if you build it they will come” Thoreauvian  lifestyle in the original neck of the woods as the achievement of a scholar poet in nature. Bob and Susan Arnold’s Longhouse Publishers & Booksellers has long been known for the breadth of their all-inclusive author’s list published as books, broadsides, and ..read more

The indefatigable Carl Wendt, not quite Charles Baudelaire, not quite Charles Bukowski, poet of all ages, private eye to the gods, lands in the hospital after a violent confrontation with an angry husband. An earlier close call had foreshadowed the eventual ass-kicking by way of illustrating his legendary good luck which apparently had run out. Or had it? from Ode To Sunset, A Year In The Life Of American Genius a fiction by Pat Nolan The biggest surprise was that Roy Banks, the jazz pianist, had dropped by to check on him in the hospital. They had become better acquainted after he’d made a ha ..read more

Clifford Burke, The Academy of Accidental Art, and Desert Rose Press Clifford Burke, poet, master printer, baritone sax man, wrote the book on printing poetry, Printing Poetry, A Workbook of Typographic Reification (Scarab Press, 1980) He was an influential force in renewing interest in the letterpress arts and exquisitely crafted limited editions in the 60s and 70s of the San Francisco Bay Area. He was the founder of Cranium Press in the late 60s as well as publisher of the poetry magazine Hollow Orange and included the work of Richard Brautigan, Steve Carey, Bill Bathurst, Andrea Wyatt, Mary ..read more

Reading & Writing Gloria Frym, How Proust Ruined My Life & Other Essays (Blaze Vox, 2020) Published at the beginning of the pandemic and ensuing lockdowns, How Proust Ruined My Life missed out on the promotional opportunities that would have afforded the essays a wider appreciation. Although the great modernist cornerstones are the foundation of this collection of essays, Frym’s focus, in large part, is the American tree, a genealogy of misfits, mavericks, and outliers. Frym makes her living teaching literature and writing as a professor at the California College of the Arts, one of t ..read more

Outlaws & Outliers Ted Berrigan, Get The Money, The Collected Prose, Nick Sturm, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Alice Notley, eds. City Lights, 2022 Ted is back. Ted is what has been missing from poetry. And it’s exactly what is needed right now (more than ever before). Get The Money, The Collected Prose presents another piece in the unfinished mosaic of Berrigan’s contribution to AmLit. As iconoclast king of the irony age, his impish irreverence (pookah like) and no nonsense built-in bullshit meter was a refreshing attitude, one that could be aspired to. It’s the audacity of approach ..read more

Monsters of Vanity by Pat Nolan Art is selfish, obsessive, self-centered, monstrous egotism. It exalts as well as devours the artist. For those in the artist’s orbit, family, close friends, the unpredictable mania of creation takes its toll as an often unconscious indifference to the emotional needs of others. It is a familiar story painfully depicted many times over by the partners and/or children of the artists. Not surprisingly it is usually a wife or a daughter who has suffered the neglect from these ogres and is obliged to come to terms with the absent presence by setting the record stra ..read more