Year End Recommendations from The New Black Bart Poetry Society; noir fiction and Black poetry. thenewblackbartpoetrysociety.wordpress.com/2025/12/29/y...

Remembering Jerome Rothenberg BOTD in 1931 thenewblackbartpoetrysociety.wordpress.com/2018/09/04/r...

'On Capitalism’s Endless Busywork.' davidgraeber.org/articles/is-...

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We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe. Here is the piece and an extract. davidgraeber.org/articles/bun...

Remembering Joanne Kyger BOTD in 1934, from the Smoking Poets series, lino reduction print, 5x7

@xileinparadise.bsky.social - Remembering the great Joanne Kyger on the anniversary of her birth - allenginsberg.org/2025/11/t-19....

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Neo-Liberalism, Trickle-down economics, Thatcherism or whatever you call it really has more in common with fundamentalist religion than anything else.

The Fall of America (after Larry Rivers and Bruegel, the Younger)

Something for the "spirit" of the day: "Every time I catch one the other two getaway."

it is characteristic of American genius that the casual eye does not easily distinguish it from charlatanry. Purity of intention lies at the center of American achievement. Modern American writing is about honesty. The American tradition is to offer discovery, not virtuoso performances. H Kenner

Back in 2010, David Graeber wrote, Against Kamikaze Capitalism This is a quote from that piece.

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Raymond Chandler, Raymond Queneau, Raymond Roussel walk into a bar.

Modern capitalism has more in common with Feudalism and the oldstyle slave-system than most people realize. From: davidgraeber.org/articles/tur...

“For a taste of today’s finest pulp – a blend of the West Coast-immediacy of Raymond Chandler, the irreverence of Groucho Marx, the gonzo of Hunter S. Thompson, the imagination of Philip K. Dick, the profound wit of Mark Twain – dive into Ode To Sunset, A Year In The Life Of American Genius.

"The colonized is indebted to the colonizer for being colonized." David Graeber speaks about the brutality of Debt in history.

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In 2011. David Graeber wrote the book: Revolutions In Reverse. A lesser known book than his other books, but still a good source to teach us about how the system works.

Terrific poems & remembrances of Alice Notley at The Brooklyn Rail by Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos, Eileen Myles, Brenda Coultas, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Evelyn Reilly, The Friend, & Lee Ann Brown. brooklynrail.org/tribute/alic...

Look what come my way today. Can't say I'm disappointed (didn't think I would be).

“Pick your picaresque heroes; Pat Nolan’s Carl Wendt stakes his claim on the streets and in the clubs, libraries and bedrooms of SF. Ode to Sunset is many things, not least of which a hilarious send-up of Bay Area poetry’s poseurs.” —Dan Coshnear, author of Occupy

“Raymond Chandler, Raymond Queneau, and Raymond Roussel walk into a bar.” —Keith Kumasen Abbott, author of Mordecai Of Monterey, and The Next Thing Coming

Neo-liberalism cannot have its biggest victims being politically active.

Hopelessness is an important element of Neo-Liberalism

It is good to remember this every time when logging into Twitter.

So much of this economic system now resembles Feudalism.

The Buk, BOTD in 1920, from the Smoking Poets series, 5x7 lino print

"Any system that reduces the world to numbers can only be held in place by weapons, whether these are swords and clubs, or nowadays, smart bombs from unmanned drones.” - David Graeber

Philip Whalen

David Graeber always mentioned work is mostly about caring and helping. Caring and helping others.

"My own conclusion was psychologically it’s not that people want to work, it’s more people want to feel they are transforming the world in a way that makes some kind a positive difference to other people. In a way, that’s what being human is all about." #BullshitJobs

When you are in poverty and in debt, life is tough.

We have all endured this experience. #UtopiaOfRules

In 2009, David Graeber wrote, Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World. You can read the full work there: davidgraeber.org/articles/neo...

Will Alexander

excerpt from the houngan's space capsule

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It's always important to understand the knock-effects of economic policies. Especially the policies of the Neo-Classical economists.

Everything the media are doing to Zohran Mamdani, they did to Bernie Sanders, to Jeremy Corbyn & to Jean-Luc Melenchon. Demonise him, lie about him, smear him, create fake scandals & misrepresent his policies. It's the textbook process for anyone who dares to challenge Neo-Liberalism.

Lucille Clifton, born OTD in 1936, from the Women Poets Postcards Series (lino block & stencil on repurposed carboard inserts, 4x6)