Co-founder Okla Elliott served as the managing editor for As It Ought To Be from its inception until his unexpected passing in 2017. We remember Okla as a brilliant writer and an intellectually generous editor who delighted in providing platforms for others to shine. Collected below is a bibliography of his writings and remembrances of his extraordinary life. Because he was so prolific, it is nearly impossible to catalog all of his work If you have a favorite Okla Elliott piece that isn’t linked below, feel free to contact us at inquiries.asitoughttobe@gmail.com
Remembrances
AS IT OUGHT TO BE MOURNS THE LOSS OF OUR FOUNDER
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES REMEMBERS OKLA ELLIOT WITH JOHN GUZLOWSKI
REMEMBERING OKLA ELLIOT WITH MICHAEL YOUNG
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES REMEMBERS OKLA ELLIOT WITH PAUL CRENSHAW
SATURDAY POETRY SERIES REMEMBERS OKLA ELLIOTT
“Some testimonies to Okla Elliott, 1 May 1977 – 19 March 2017” – Days and Memory
“Requiescat in pace: poet, novelist, translator Okla Elliott, 1977-2017” – Book Haven
“Go Read Okla Elliott’s Stuff, Please. (A Remembrance)” – Great Writers Steal
“Remembering Okla Elliott” – Mildred Barya’s House of Life
Okla’s Articles on As It Ought To Be
The Social and Spiritual Possibilities of Lent
The New Era of Engaged Literature
Five Thoughts on Cecil the Lion—Or: How the Internet Really Botched This One
Notes toward a Writerly Education—Or: Can We Please, Please, Please Have a Different Debate
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Existential Echoes: Toward a Genealogy of Ideas in Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Incomplete Thoughts on Wisconsin and Political Enthusiasm
Sin’s Fatal Taint: the Felony Murder Rule and its Discontents
Living in the Dollar-Amount Democracy
Okla’s Books
The Doors You Mark Are Your Own (co-authored with Raul Clement)
Bernie Sanders: The Essential Guide
Blackbirds in September: Selected Shorter Poems of Jurgen Becker (translator)
The Other Chekhov (with Kyle Minor)
Okla’s Editorial Work
Okla’s Poetry Online
“That the Soul Discharges Her Passions Upon False Objects” (from The Literary Review)
“Where We Are” (from Swamp Ape Review)
“Think of a House” (from Nashville Review)
“Possibility of Erasure” and “The Courses Are Buried in Them” (from Plume)
“Strange Root” (from Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry)
“The Patience of Landmines” (Virginia Quarterly Review)
Okla’s Fiction Online
“The Earth in Its Devotion” (from Tupelo Quarterly)
“The Boiling Glass” (from Tupelo Quarterly)
“Lonely Tylenol” (from Contemporary World Literature)
Okla’s Essays Online
“Lent is About More than What You Give Up: It’s About the Wisdom You Acquire” (from Penn Live)
“The Unseen Jury: The Ideology and Psychology of Covert Racism” (from Stir Journal)
“Is It Time for Ranked Voting Choice in National Politics?” (from The Hill)
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