NAPALM HEALTH SPA : REPORT 2006

 

Table of Contents

 

 

Anne Waldman

from Matriot Acts

 

Andy Clausen

            Insurgency

 

Ali Zarrin

            To Whom Do We Owe Our Freedom and to Whom Do We Not?

 

Jeff Poniewaz

            Point of No Return at Noah's Ark

 

Eliot Katz

Global Warming

            Which Way Does This Bird Fly?

            Sitting to Praise

            The Morning After

            Full Moon Over Falluja

 

Antler

Doesn’t Have to Believe to Be Born

Firing Squad vs. Jack Off Squad

            Blind Boy Braille Daydream

 

Eileen Myles

            Fist

 

Jim Cohn

            from The Book of Ololon:

            Olonon Visits Fenced-Off American Borders

Ololon Visits The Flag Draped Coffins

Ololon Visits The Cabinet

Ololon Visits Guantanamo Prison

Olonon Visits Nuclear Dread

Ololon Visits These Waves Arousable To Fury

Ololon Visits Thug Love

Ololon Visits Lobster Gal

Ololon Visits Leverage Neutralized

Ololon Visits The Sadness Of Children

 

Carmen Bugan

            Making the hay mattress

            Note to a suicide

            Padua train station

            Gleanings

 

David Cope

Haditha

Trumpets, please

Hostas

Five Singers on the Ends of Night

 

Vivian Demuth

            Big Easy Ride

 

Andrei Codrescu

            Weird 1 (Cool)

            Weird 2 (real cool)

 

Marc Olmsted

            Blue-Haired Junkie Boy

            Old Ghoul Thoughts

            Medicine Buddha Menu

            Fresh Lotus Rehab

 

Joel Lewis

            Portrait in Jew: Superman

 

Kevin Hayes

            Because The System Is Closed

            Breaking The Code

 

Holly Jones

            Untitled

Before…

Too Tired To Kneel

A Walk to a Pier

I, like a lunatic

 

Michael Pingarron

            this isn’t a nightmare

 

Randy Roark

            from the Santa Monica Notebook

                        Arriving in Santa Monica

                        Midnight

                        What I Wrote When I Reached Home

                        Happiness

            from the Washington D.C. Notebook

                        Winter

                        12/19 Dear Anne

                        Dear Anne 12/21

                        Near Death by Drowning

                        [Untitled]

                        My Fascination with Her Is Enormous and Intricate

                        My Statement of Purpose

            from the Seattle Notebooks

                        I Don’t Really Mind

 

Suzi Kaplan Olmsted

            Emergency Room, (redux)

            Things I Cannot Write About, Even If They Are True:

            Every Weekend They Run In Marathons

            On Leaving Rehab in San Diego January 2006, Cured

 

 

Peter Marti

            Every Winter

 

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