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Welcome to JACK Magazine, Issue 1
Go Moan For Man (film review) and
Interview with Director Doug Sharples
by Dan Barth.
Grandfather Wisdom, by Mary Sands
A review and discussion of Gary Snyder's book
The Practice of the Wild
Dan Barth
Jack Kerouac's CatsTom Clark
Prince Passes
Farewell Sweet Prince
PaintingNeal Dwyer
Un Commencement
The I Ching after a Frat Party
It's What You Believe—May, 1666Coral Hull
Collection from The Straight Road Inland:
Lightning Receptive in the Wet Season
Adelaide River Jumping Crocodile Cruise
Tropical Garden in Conversation
Lee Point, Darwin, Northern Territory
Dog, Tap and Watertank
Water Buffalo at Bachelor
The Snake WomanJane Joritz-Nakagawa
life thru a mirror
poem on a mondayPaul Marion
Sunday Morning in Canada
San Diego Freeway
Strawberry Fields
Capistrano Valley
Water Man
Twentynine Palms
Goodbye, LagunaMichael McClure
Collection from Touching the Edge:
Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird SanghaLaurence Overmire
Less Than Infinity
Kerouac
The Right Reverend
Dastardly DickWanda Phipps
Zither MoodMichael Rothenberg
Burning Man HellLarry Sawyer
The Other Side of Language
Postcard from Japan
A Chaise Lounge in Hell
Of Karma
Breakfastskye
Twenny Miles of Bad Road
The Boy Who Would Be KingLina ramona Vitkauskas
To Kenneth Koch and AdolescenceEddie Watkins
Compost Pile
Body of Thought
Legend of the Louse
Virgin CocktailChad Weatherford
Deconstructing Ginsberg
Pronghorns by Jack Collom
This section deals with ecological concerns;
Jack Collom tells a story of an antelope roundup
during his college days in the late 1940s.
Chinese Chipmunk, by Mike Topp
Tea-Party is for some comic relief, but the
works on this section are serious in their
own right. Join in Mike Topp's eclectic humor.
Though JACK is spiritual in nature, this section
deals with that nature specifically. Gary Gach
has a review of Michael McClure's Zen-
oriented Touching the Edge: Dharma Devotions
from the Hummingbird Sangha.Two short poems:
Issue 1's road trip special is by Larry Jaffe,
who writes "Journey to the Poetic Tarmac,"
a trek to a poetry festival in Austin, Texas.
Zoketsu Norman Fisher discusses
oneness and unity, and how that might
not all be as ideal and pure as it seems,
especially when political passion is
distorted.
The renaissance section looks at burstful
times in history when artistic expression
and colorful thought provoked movements.
This issue features The Beat and Beyond,
by Mary Sands and Michael Rothenberg.
Meet JACK's founders and editors, as well
as others who've contributed to this issue.
Links to contributors, poetry resources,
and literary magazines.
In future issues, check this section for all
archives.
Check here for submission guidelines.
