The Autumn Issue: Volume 1 Issue 3
Happiness, Sorrow, Joy & Deppression

Interview: The many prize winning poet Jack Gilbert talks with us on "having his life", being "a farmer of poetry", his views of getting older. Read the interview.

The Forum: The First appearence of the forum. People writing about their ideas, thoughts and experiences on this issue"s theme of, "Happiness, Sorrow, Joy & Depression"

Poets: Poems of Jack Gilbert, Jules Laforge, Eleanor Elbers, Susan Sandoe,

No Complaints: Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche

"What’s dangerous is that you learn how to do the thing. Maybe you finally find a way to make peace with God. I don’t want to make peace with God. I want to go on from there. If it’s awful, if it’s terrible, if it’s torture, I want to know. And I don’t want to be content". - Jack Gilbert from the interview

The Winter Issue: Volume 1 Issue 4
Things to Come

Interview: The Thinker/Writer Richard Heinberg talks of a future with less oil. Read the Interview .

Poets: William Butler Yeats, Naomi Shihab Nye, Timothy Steele , Tim Mayo and more...

An Essay: "After Tomorrow" by Peter Demenocal.

Fiction by: Sushma Joshi.

Book Review:Suzanne Orlando writes about the book Incidents in the Life of a Salve Girl by Harriet Jacobs.

Film Review:Teresa Podlesney writes about the film Born in Flames, a 1983 movie by Lizzie Borden.  
   "Most likely we’ll see oil wars for control of the world’s remaining resources, because oil is a strategic material. We have had many oil wars before, even when oil was quite abundant. As it becomes scarcer, it is very likely that we will fight over what is left. Then we will see a collapse of the economy, because we won’t be able to sustain easy economic growth.". -Richard Heinberg from the interview.

The Spring 07 Issue: Volume 2 Issue 1
The Faces of Love

The Interview: With poet and writer Naomi Shihab Nye

An Essay: "The Trip " by Steve Bernstein

Fiction: My Stories: Eric Webb

Selections from
The Confessions of a Child of The Century
by Alfred Mosset

Poetry from: David Sapp, Naomi Shihab Nye, Rabrindranath Tagore , Andre Breton and more...

Book Review: What is the What, Dave Eggers' powerful book about Achak Deng's boyhood in southern Sudan

Film Review:Teresa Podlesny writes about the French film , Baise Moi.
Read the uncensored version here

The Summer 07 Issue: Volume 2 Issue 2
The Good Life

The Interview: With writer, thinker, author of Radical Simplicity, Jim Merkel: "What's my Share" Read the Interview.

The Birth Place: Noah Elbers

Notes from Afghanistan: Dennis Eaton

Poetry from:. Gloria T.H. Cassabooni, Abdul Mateen, Peter Simoneaux, Barbara Davis

Book Review: Robert Graves' Watch the North Wind Rise

Film Review:Teresa Podlesny writes about the
documentary by Agnes Varda The Gleaners

"Americans use about 24 acres, on average; Europeans on average use about 12; Mexico is half again, about six acres. The earth has 4.5 acres per person. We use on average six acres which means we’re using 23% more than the earth generates each year. That means were overshooting the earth’s capacity. China’s footprint is about 4 acres per person and in India the average person uses about two acres. I’m not worried about China or India. I’m worried about the 24 acre footprints of the Americans. We can use more than the earth can handle for short periods of time. The price of overshooting the earth’s carrying capacity is seen in the rising CO2 levels, forest reserves being depleted, fisheries collapsing, various systems are being exhausted to the point where they can’t bounce back".                     -From the interview with Jim Merkel

The Autumn 07 Issue: Volume 2 Issue 3
Chaos and Order

The Interview: Abraham Awolich;
Sudanese refugee and founder of NESEI

The Mandelbrot Set: Rees Acheson

The Seeds in Chaos: Akihiko Matsumoto

Poetry from: Kelvin Corcoran,
Edward Bartok-Baratta, John Wimont, Betsy Snider

Book Review: Yumiko Ito reviews
The Famished Road by Ben Okri

Film Review: Chaos and the New World Order:
Teresa Podlesny writes about 'Hyperlink' Films

"The wheel itself, as a mathematical model, is a paradigm of order. Order has come to mean a process that is either static or periodic, regularly changing in a cycle. In short, according to the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, Tiamat (chaos) was killed , ripped to pieces to create a new world order by the hero of Babylon, Murduk."                    -Ralph Abrahams

The Spring 08 Issue: Volume 3 Issue 1
The Artist as Activist

The Interview: Alice Lovelace;
Poet and oragnizer of the U.S. Social Forum

After this War: Howard Zinn

Dowser: New fiction by Eric Webb

The Critical Art Ensemble : Amniel Alcalay

Poetry from: Leigh Marthe, Kenneth Patchen,
Yumiko Ito, Gary Snyder, Betsy Snider

Ken Saro-Wiwa: The Goldman
Environmental Prize

The Forum: Dancer as Activist by Kate T. Morgan

Film: Teresa Podlesney writes about
Art and Activist Cinema:

     The emotional life that Horace tended was a small Victory Garden that, were it not for a cause, would produce no harvest. Horace was deeply spiritual in a primitive way, but what emotional juices he produced he reabsorbed and transformed through a personal alchemy into gold. A radical without emotion is a very sharp and precise instrument. - The Dowser by Eric Webb