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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 … “
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…
…Around the hinges and around the bend, / Of the corner, / The coroner of all things foreign…
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.
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
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”.
An old woman sat on a foot high wall;
her wisdom etched wrinkles into my youth
as her hand called. …
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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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