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The Boukra Collective is a group of writers, scholars, and artists in the Monterey area with varying levels of affiliation with Old Capitol Books.

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Jeff Erwin, écrits sur la poésie collaborative

Jeff Erwin explore la joie d’abandonner le logos de la raison individuelle et de plonger dans la poésie. Retrouvez ensuite trois poèmes, écrits de façon collaborative par le Collectif Boukra. Poésie col-labo-rative Pourquoi écrit-on ainsi ? Pour libérer le poème. Nous sommes des motifs dans un tissu emmêlé. Vous pouvez percevoir les nœuds, la trame,…

Brian Sheffield on the Feedback Loop show and on local punk

Local poet and punk, Brian Sheffield, checks out the Feedback Loop gig, featuring Odder, Parasite, A.P. Tobler, Jacuzzi Cat, George Crustanza, and The Scalps. With some musings on the mosh pit and local punk. The building that houses the Paper Wing Theater is an old, red, tin paneled converted cannery turned shopping center. Across the…

Jeff Erwin on collaborative poetry

Jeff Erwin explores the joy of abandoning logos and embracing poetry. Followed by three poems, written collaboratively by the Boukra Collective. Col-labor-ative Poetry Why do we write this way? To liberate the poem. We are patterns in a tangled fabric. You can see the knots, the weft, even the holes, the rips if you look…

“Del Monte Beach” a new poem by Susan Moon

​​ A new poem by Monterey based poet, Susan Moon, inspired by New York poet Marie Ponsot, and fifteen century Sufi mystic Kabir. Susan Moon (she/her) is a Korean-American poet who writes at the intersections of language, art and mythology. Her work has appeared in Hobart, The Shore and Honey Literary. Her coordinates for home…

‘Table for Two: Lunch Time with César Chávez and Herbert Marcuse,’ by Armando Arias

Professor Armando Arias remembers back to a conversation between critical theorist Herbert Marcuse and labor organizer César Chávez, as part of a larger project on the coming together of Chávez and science. Herbert Marcuse warned César Chávez: Unless immigrant Mexican farm workers are transformed, unless they become ‘multidimensional,’ they will remain conservative in their outlook…

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