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Archive By Year

January 2003

• Two Ghazal Poets by pottygok on January 4, 2003
• Amiri Baraka by Jamelah Earle on January 5, 2003
• Roger Richards and Claude Pelieu by Laki Vazakas on January 10, 2003
• Borges’ Ficciones by Matthew Landis on January 10, 2003
• Charles Bukowski and the Path of Masculinity by unnu on January 13, 2003
• Giacomo Leopardi by Mario on January 23, 2003

February 2003

• Robert Anton Wilson vs. the Bush Administration by meanhippie on February 14, 2003
• John King by Dutch on February 19, 2003
• Stepping Outside the Box with Catch 22 by kabadi on February 21, 2003
• E. E. Cummings (2 comments) by Caryn Thurman on February 21, 2003
• Cold War, Hot Films by Kerri on February 27, 2003

March 2003

• A Story Without a Moral, A Day in Dust by Levi Asher on March 7, 2003
• The Last Beat Writer Gets Published by Tom Lipsett on March 9, 2003
• Blyler, Kerouac, and Bohemian Roads by muse-maiden on March 12, 2003
• Ecclesiastes, A Book in the Bible (2 comments) by Bill Ectric on March 16, 2003
• Edgar Saltus’s Imperial Orgy by Grandma on March 18, 2003

April 2003

• W. B. Yeats: A Fool Amongst Wolves (3 comments) by Darran Anderson on April 1, 2003
• Hart Crane and The Bridge by Darran Anderson on April 3, 2003
• Gunter Grass and The Tin Drum (1 comment) by Darran Anderson on April 9, 2003
• Howard Waldrop And The Future Of Science Fiction by Pete J. on April 20, 2003
• The Little Folksinger That Could by Jolee Moffett on April 21, 2003
• Meet Me In the Dark Caverns, Crying: Discovering SARK by Kari Gunderson on April 24, 2003
• An Interview with Lyn Lifshin by Andrew Lundwall on April 24, 2003
• W.B. Yeats: An Examination of Civilization and Barbarity by John McGuirk on April 25, 2003
• Edward Abbey by shaun on April 29, 2003
• I Am Edith Wharton’s Muse by candiduke on April 30, 2003

May 2003

• Langston Hughes (1 comment) by eggnoize on May 25, 2003
• The Irony of John Beecher (2 comments) by honeydu on May 31, 2003

June 2003

• Gwendolyn Brooks by Caryn Thurman on June 7, 2003
• Buddha is a Sex Pistol by meanhippie on June 18, 2003
• Down With Hemingway by Steven H. Hill on June 20, 2003
• Cruelty, Revolution, and Deviance: Rimbaud and Artaud as Ideology Critique by Matthew Landis on June 21, 2003
• Gary Snyder and Environmental Activism by Jamelah Earle on June 22, 2003
• And The Piece Rolls On… recapturing Shel Silverstein by Kari Gunderson on June 29, 2003

July 2003

• Rhyme in Ghazals by pottygok on July 7, 2003
• The Litkicks Summer Poetry Shindig by Jamelah Earle on July 8, 2003
• Jim Morrison: A ‘Serious’ Poet? (4 comments) by William Cook on July 12, 2003
• Ray Bradbury by Jay Meija on July 20, 2003
• Madness and Mysticism in the Poetry of William Blake by Matthew Landis on July 21, 2003
• LitKicks Impromptu Party: July 20, 2003 by Caryn Thurman on July 23, 2003
• Beefheart: Shiny Beast of Thought by foolish-Paeter on July 27, 2003

August 2003

• An Absence of Villainous Villains by Will Burrows on August 4, 2003
• Tales From The Beat Hotel by Graham Seidman on August 7, 2003
• Opinion: Essential Elements of Haiku by pottygok on August 13, 2003
• The First of Many Wells by pottygok on August 13, 2003
• Ticket to America! Adventure 1: 2nd Avenue Deli with Graham Seidman by Judih Haggai on August 29, 2003
• T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land by John McGuirk on August 31, 2003

September 2003

• Brooklyn Lager at the Bowery Poetry Club by Judih Haggai on September 6, 2003
• Villanelles, Sonnets and Meter by Jamelah Earle on September 25, 2003

October 2003

• Garrett Caples by Andrew Lundwall on October 8, 2003
• Son of the South: William Faulkner by Dr. K on October 9, 2003
• Living in the ’80s and Beyond: Tama Janowitz by Andeh on October 9, 2003
• Saintly Visions or Blind Faith? by MKAT on October 11, 2003
• Banned! by Pieridae on October 21, 2003
• The Making of Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame by Zlatko Waterman on October 21, 2003

November 2003

• The 12th Planet: Tale of Man’s Creation by zen on November 2, 2003
• Daniel Pinchbeck: Breaking Open the Head by Lauren Agnelli on November 6, 2003
• Cerebral Cyanide by Warren Weappa by billiegirl on November 6, 2003
• I Sing the Body Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by blind-by-bangs on November 6, 2003
• Burroughs and Postmodernism by bohothug on November 10, 2003
• J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter Series by Lauren Agnelli on November 12, 2003

December 2003

• David Amram in Performance by Dan Barth on December 3, 2003
• Sebastopol Skitches (Prankster Book Tour) by Dan Barth on December 4, 2003
• Children’s Literature by Jamelah Earle on December 14, 2003
• The Themes of Faiz by Afzal Mirza on December 17, 2003
• The Game of the Name by fallerte on December 27, 2003
• Philip Roth’s American Pastoral by MKAT on December 29, 2003

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