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Jungle Writers David P. Kronmiller, Editor-In-Chief
Notes from the Jungle
Matthew Tullman, Current Events Editor
On current events.
Joyce Chen
Blogging from New York.
Tharuna Devchand
Blogging from South Africa.
J Lampinen
Our resident comic strip, Congo & Steve
Joanna Lord
Blogging on life, art and spirituality.
Jeremy Olsen
Director of Development emeritus and occasional commentator.
Dan Rickabus
On things musical.
Nicky Schildkraut
On poetry.
Plus guest writers and past staff, including Zach Fehst, Amy Reynolds, Aaron Vaccaro, Jae Day, Sarah Jawaid, Scott Martin, and Bronson Picket.
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January 22, 2011, at 11:39 pm — Poetry — Creative writing / Poetry
“Control is like four fingers pressed together to form the tip of a chrome .66 … “
January 2, 2011, at 11:56 pm — Poetry | Writing —
I’m hungry, – so feed yourself – , But you know what I need instead? My hand to my heart and a gun to my head, No fear, just a rumble growing louder, In the tunnel of my belly, Kick-starting the engine into gear, Fist to cuff, I roll up my sleeves, Wipe the beads […]
September 27, 2010, at 11:41 pm — Poetry — Joanna Lord / Poetry
There’s a third player in this game, I’ve never met him, And I don’t know his name, But I do know that he is a man, With hands like a woman, And breath like Southern Comfort, And a voice like Billy the Kid, And a white-pearl smile, And he’s got kid gloves, And light brown […]
July 17, 2010, at 11:47 pm — Art | Poetry | Writing — Joanna Lord / poem / Poetry
When you begin to dissect your fever / You begin to direct your pain / And thrive in marginal regions …
I know what you’re planning, / Tonight, on scamming, / And frightening me…
One can’t help but think of the Cold War “red terror” reign of fear and the subsequent post-9/11 fear that triggered a rash of xenophobia against immigrants coming into the U.S. Many scholarly critics—the most recent, Jodi Kim, in her new 2010 book Ends of Empire, have traced a history of U.S. imperialism in Asia […]
…Around the hinges and around the bend, / Of the corner, / The coroner of all things foreign…
“once i sat and watched the summer
sun set on a cactus…”
Heretics are everywhere …
ADULT LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT MATTER
It was never hysterical. She had fled the border, into a different border. The professor referred to her as his only power, the flower of her torso spreading a stemmed shadow across his floor.
Listen to Nicky’s own reading of this last of five movements in her “Subaltern Series”. ADULT LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT MATTER.
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This week in the Jungle we are searching for the truth about wealthy—what it means to be wealthy, how that differs around the world, and if and when wealthy people deserve to be treated differently than everyone else. Last week: poverty. Next week: big government.
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