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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.
January 22, 2011, at 11:39 pm — Poetry /

Control

“Control is like four fingers pressed together to form the tip of a chrome .66 … “

September 27, 2010, at 11:41 pm — Poetry /

How the West Was Won

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 / /

Poetry: “Flu Season” by Joanna Lord

When you begin to dissect your fever / You begin to direct your pain / And thrive in marginal regions …

June 18, 2010, at 8:27 pm — Arts and Culture | Poetry | Writing /

Poetry: “James Dean” by Joanna Lord

I know what you’re planning, / Tonight, on scamming, / And frightening me…

May 12, 2010, at 12:18 am — Arts and Culture | Poetry | Writing / /

Poetry: “Slave Owner” by Joanna Lord

…Around the hinges and around the bend, / Of the corner, / The coroner of all things foreign…

April 20, 2010, at 3:00 pm — Arts and Culture | Poetry | Writing / / /

Poetry: “Spinal Chord” by Joanna Lord

Heretics are everywhere …
ADULT LANGUAGE AND SUBJECT MATTER

April 20, 2010, at 7:30 am — Arts and Culture | Audio | Poetry | poetry reading | Writing / / / /

Poetry: “V. Chigop Yosong: Fallen Woman” from Nicky Schildkraut’s Subaltern Series

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.

April 19, 2010, at 3:00 pm — Arts and Culture | Poetry | Writing / / /

Poetry: “Human Torture Device” by Joanna Lord

Sick demon,
You try to stick me,
With ideas about,
How that man over there,
Will dare to try and make me tremble …
ADULT SUBJECT MATTER

April 19, 2010, at 7:30 am — Arts and Culture | Audio | Poetry | poetry reading | Writing / / / /

Poetry: “IV.The Defector” from Nicky Schildkraut’s Subaltern Series

It was never rhetorical. After the only tractor in the village died and the last weeds were gathered for dinner, she fled across the frozen Tumen river, across the border into yet another border.
Listen to Nicky’s own reading of this fourth of five movements in her “Subaltern Series”.

April 19, 2010, at 6:00 am — Arts and Culture | Poetry | Writing / / / /

Poetry: “goodbye regrets” by Tharuna Devchand

An old woman sat on a foot high wall;
her wisdom etched wrinkles into my youth
as her hand called. …