The Journal
Celebrating 20 years of innovative writing and art
with the publication of
issue #20
special feature: ephemera
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Joe Brainard |
from A Happy New Year Scrap Book |
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Kenward Elmslie |
Card for Barbara Guest |
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Miho Nonaka |
An-Pan Man |
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Barbara Duffey |
Gone |
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Nancy Kuhl |
Day By Day: Phylum Press, Poetry, & Ephemera |
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Phylum Press |
Outstanding First Sentences |
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Logan Esdale |
Gertrude Stein Citings (Numbers are the Only Words) |
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Buzz Spector |
Errata |
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Julie Carr |
Mirage |
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Cathy Eisenhower |
Blank Document |
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Richard Deming |
Winter 2000 |
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Cameron Gearen |
Widow’s Menu |
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Lara Odell |
from Opiate of Words |
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| Cover Art Nancy Kuhl |
Widow's Menu |
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Poetry & Prose: Cristiana Baik • Elaine Bleakney • Karina Borowicz • Ian Brand • Joseph Campana • Patty Crane • Jordan Davis • Joe Francis Doerr • Tyler Flynn Dorholt • Haines Eason • Robert Fernandez • Lea Graham • Amira Hanafi • Carolyn Hembree • Christine Hume • Kristina Hummel • Catherine Imbriglio • J.L. Jacobs • Pierre-Albert Jourdan • D Sprung Kurilecz • Jason Labbe • Eric Linsker • Camille Martin • Eugenio Montejo • Trey Moody • Kelly Moore • Rachel Moritz • Kirk Nesset • Bob Nickerson • Simon Perchik • Michelle Naka Pierce • Emma Ramey • Joan Retallack • Frank Rogaczewski • Christopher Salerno • Jason Schwartz • John Taylor • G. C. Waldrep • Josh Wallaert • Jonathan Weinert • Sue Hammond West • Elizabeth Winder • Jordan Windholz |
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The Book Imprint
AL&C is proud to inaugurate its new book imprint
with the publication of
Frank Rogaczewski's
The Fate of Humanity in Verse
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Straight from the near west suburbs of Sandburgland, Frank Rogaczewski explodes the less than brave new world we’ve unfortunately arrived at. The Fate of Humanity in Verse sears through the vast gaps of capitalism and pop culture in multi-page paragraphs of pure invention. It is quite simply, to borrow two of Rogaczewski’s titles, an “Arse Poetica” for “The Day They Outsourced America.” — Mark Nowak |
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With wit and modesty, Frank Rogaczewski’s The Fate of Humanity in Verse enacts the mundanely beautiful flowing current of everything—the personal, the political and the aesthetic; High Modern poetry and television shows; Marxist economic theory and the particular details of goods exchanged—through the channel of the mind, demonstrating exactly how ideas exist in things.
— Amy England |
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There is an uncanny sense of play in Frank Rogaczewski’s poetry and a quick, speculative intelligence that holds nothing to be either sacred or uninteresting. Movies, philosophy, television, literature, literary theory, comics, and classic rock, they’re all engaged here, banked and bangled into each other like balls in a three-dimensional billiards game.
— Michael Anania |
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Frank Rogaczewski holds a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and teaches in the MFA Program at Roosevelt University in Chciago. He lives in Berwyn with his wife Beverly Stewart. They are at this very minute walking their dogs—Sam and Jasmine.
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Cover Photo Credit: Teagan at Four ©2005 by Trey Downey |
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Poetry $14.95 • ISBN: 978-0-9825647-0-7
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American Letters & Commentary, Inc, is an independent not-for-profit corporation 501(c)(3). For twenty years AL&C has been dedicated to publishing a literary annual promoting innovative and “difficult” writing. We are immensely grateful to the Oppenheimer Foundation of Houston and to both the English Department and to The College of Liberal and Fine Arts at The University of Texas at San Antonio for their generous support of the journal. This volume constitutes our first forray into book publishing. The views expressed in this book (and in the journal) are not necessarily those of UTSA, its administration, its employees, or its students, nor are they necesarrily the views of AL&C’s editors, its volunteers, or its donors. |
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