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REVIEWS
"Bill
Dodd reviews Bill Pearlman's important new collection of poetry, BRAZILIAN
INCARNATION." CLICK HERE TO
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COMMENTARY
In American Life and Letters, Peter Marin
and Bill Pearlman discuss American writers, including Thomas Pynchon,
whose new book, Against the Day, Bill is reading. American writers as
puers, eternal boys is discussed, along with other matters... CLICK HERE TO READ
In
AN ONGOING DIALOGUE, Peter Marin and Bill Pearlman discuss relevant
issues for our time and attempt to set a new direction for RRR... READ ENTIRE ARTICLE
The
free press is under attack from the radical right. But is the attack
really a case of shooting the messenger who delivers the bad new? READ ENTIRE ARTICLE
In Ritualized
Stupidity, Kevin Keating explores the breakdown in modern education
and offers some serious critical thinking about its genesis and possible
remedies. READ ENTIRE
ARTICLE
Bill
Dodd quarrels with the Washington Post on how Saddam Hussein
should be viewed, particularly in light of America's own sins. READ ENTIRE ARTICLE
Bill
Dodd explodes the myth that cars can only run on a tiny percentange of
ethanol in George Bush Joins the Greens. READ ENTIRE
ARTICLE
Al
Galves offers his take on the failure of government to protect New Orleans from
predictable disaster and the ineffective response to Hurricane Katrina. READ ENTIRE ARTICLE
Gary
Priester asks what is it about reality that these conservatives don’t
understand. READ THE
ENTIRE ARTICLE
REPETITIONS
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editors have been scouring the web to find the best quotes and snippets
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In
Trying Time, Bill Pearlman retraces some of the wrong (and left) turns
from the 60s, and ruminates on where we've been all this time 'trying to
make a difference.' CLICK HERE TO
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Roger
Federer, nine major tennis titles into the bargain, is the subject of
Bill Pearlman's Roger Federer: An Appreciation CLICK HERE TO READ
In
Red Fridays, Larry Goodell responds to a relative's proposal about
wearing red in support of troops with his own take on the troops and Mr.
Bush's troubling war in Iraq.
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INTERROGATORIES
A
Moral Values Test: How do you rate your sense of moral values? Click here to take the
test.
POETRY
& FICTION
In John Seeley at 94, Peter Marin celebrates the
ongoing life of a dear friend, reminding him and us of the treasury of
visions still available to a living being, no matter his age. CLICK HERE TO READ
In Bill Pearlman´s ´Wild America,` we revisit the set of the
1960 film, The Misfits, and watch the unfolding of a great (if troubled)
shoot, starring Marilyn Monroe and her supporting cast: John Huston,
Arthur Miller, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. CLICK HERE TO READ
Wim
Coleman´s translation from Life is A Dream by Pedro Calderon gets the
Spanish master´s final touch of
dreamwork in this late speech from the play. Click
here to read
Bill
Dodd doesn't take kindly to the cynically plotted execution of Saddam,
thinking it has a mean and shoddy distant, as well as current, history. Click here to read
In My
Father's Room, by Ramblin' Rose, we find the
subject of man's ongoing life in the midst of divorce
and memories of his father, who spent his last days
with the writer (who is also a painter) in the room in
his San Miguel house now full of traces of former (and
often haunting) times... Click here to
read
In
Paul's Diary, Bill Pearlman re-imagines the inner life of the apostle
Paul, and some of his difficulties, desires, and doubts... Click
here to read
Bill
Pearlman's Camino Abierto celebrates a bus ride from the Yucutan to Mexico City with
many questions asked... Click here to
read
Beneath
Terrance Huiskens poems' dramatic simplicity inheres love and the issue
of universal insanity; and remember what liars we all are...and how
melodramatically stupid as to not even know our true roots... Click here to read
Robert
Bohm remembers another poet in a kind of vivid resonant light in
Afternoon Following Night and Morning Storm Click
here to read
Peter
Marin's new poem, For Bill, addresses our faithful co-editor, and
attempts affirmation amid the difficulties of a life. Click
here
to read.
Beyond
the glow from the fire of the Radical Right's deconstruction of
government, the wolves of chaos prowl in Bill Dodd's poem, 2006. Click here to read.
Neil
Nelson's Behind Dark Glasses pays wonderful homage to the memory of
Robert Creeley. Click here to read.
Veteran
poet Rochelle Ratner offers up some fresh prose poems from around the
world... Click here to read.
Rebecca
Lu Kiernan continues to explore erotic and relational frontiers in her Rummy Park series... Click here to read.
Jim
Willems addresses a family member about the meaning of a theater
performance. Click here to read.
Ordinary
Things - A new poem by Lenore and Larry Goodell Click
here
to read.
Italian
poet (a Venetian!) Davide Trame explores the poetry of the seaside in
Rope, Sails and What After... Click here to read.
In
DIGGING, Kyle Cushman watches a homeless man and finds a vast empathy and
poem of the street.... Click here to read.
Keith
Keller introduced a memory of the city of Guanajuato,
Mexico
in Honey and Pain. Click here to read.
Halvard
Johnson's goes lyrical/satirical with his own brand of cosmic comedy in
three poems sent from New York
via San Miguel to Rough Road Review. Click here to read.
Santa Barbara poet Charles
Whitt remembers his first great love and celebrates the archetypal
splendor of physical and archetypal rapture... Click here to read
George
Freek’s The Garden Before Dawn
Neil
Nelson's Creeley Remembrance takes us back to Albuquerque in the early 60s, when
Robert Creeley was instrumental in 'giving young poet Neil a life.' Neil's
is the first of the pieces that will remember Bob Creeley (1926-2005),
who lived in Placitas for several years, and who died in Texas recently. Click here to read
ANYWAY
LIKE THEY SAY Bill Pearlman and Bill Dodd remember Bob Creeley Click here to read
Jonathan:
Enero, 2005, a
short story by Perry Robert Wilks. Click here to read
Rodney
Nelson explores his own journey as well as Norwegian shipping in his poem
Rounding Third... Click here to read
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