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Tag Archives: Okla Elliott
Our Neighborhood in Revere, MA
Our Neighborhood in Revere, MA By Bunkong Tuon . Editor’s Note: This is the first of a series of poems about the immigrant experience in America. Our late Managing Editor, Okla Elliott, featured Bunkong Tuon’s work on As It Ought … Continue reading
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Tagged American Poetry, Bunkong Tuon, Cambodia, Immigration, Okla Elliott, Poetry, Revere
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In the Mental Architecture of the Deceased
In the Mental Architecture of the Deceased By Chase Dimock . Five years ago, my father, grandfather, and I remodeled the bathroom in our family cabin. This was no luxury ski chalet or time share condo masquerading as a cabin. … Continue reading
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Tagged Chase Dimock, death, Editing, Memory, Obituary, Okla Elliott
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The Social and Spiritual Possibilities of Lent
The Social and Spiritual Possibilities of Lent by Okla Elliott … Editor’s Note: Our late Managing Editor, Okla Elliott, originally posted this article one year ago. It was his final post before he passed away. We are republishing this article … Continue reading
A Growing Bibliography of Okla Elliott’s Work
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 … Continue reading
REMEMBERING OKLA ELLIOT WITH MICHAEL YOUNG
By Michael Young: Okla Elliott died in his sleep last night. I still haven’t fully comprehended this reality. His absence hasn’t filled the days to make me believe it. But the news is everywhere echoed through FB. There are a … Continue reading
Posted in Michael Young, Okla Elliott
Tagged death, loss, Mourning, Okla Elliott, Tribute
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Kelly Cherry: Three Poems and an Interview
[The following poems appear in the limited edition hardback chapbook, Physics for Poets (Unicorn Press 2016), and are reprinted with permission of the author publisher. The interview was initially published in Inside Higher Ed.] *** DNA We scale a winding … Continue reading
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Tagged Kelly Cherry, LSU Press, Okla Elliott, Poet Laureate, Poetry, Unicorn Press
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To Turn with Joy and Hope: A Conversation Between Okla Elliott and Sonya Huber
SH: So, Okla, you recently wrote Bernie Sanders: The Essential Guide, and are now working on a similar short book for Squint Books on Pope Francis. In the Bernie book, you manage to work in cool departures into sci-fi … Continue reading
Gordon Massman: An Interview and Four Poems
Gordon Massman is the author, mostly recently, of the companion volumes Death and Love, both out from NYQ Books this year. His work has appeared in Antioch Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Georgia Review, Harvard Review, The Literary Review, and RATTLE, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Poetry, Gordon Massman, NYQ Books, Okla Elliott, The New York Quarterly
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The Doors You Mark Are Your Own
[The following is an excerpt from the novel-in-progess by the same title. It originally appeared in Surreal South 2009.] *** The Doors You Mark Are Your Own by Aleksandr Tuvim (translated by Okla Elliott and Raul Clement) April 12 Katya … Continue reading
Posted in Literature
Tagged Curbside Splendor Publishing, Dark House Books, Joshua City, Okla Elliott, Raul Clement, sci-fi
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Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre loom over twentieth-century thought. It is hard to imagine feminism, leftist politics, literature, philosophy, or queer studies in the twentieth century without these two giants. Their work has been the topic for hundreds of … Continue reading
Posted in Okla Elliott
Tagged Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Okla Elliott, Simone de Beauvoir
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