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| Tuesday, July 20th, 2010 | 7:11 pm
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Nov3rd: The Final Issue ...
I'm a little speechless. And really, I think I've said all I have to say. Thank you for an amazing five years, and rest assured, I'm quite certain you'll be seeing the people behind Nov3rd in new projects, maybe sooner than you'd think. For now, we've got a great last issue, with Mindy Nettifee looking back at JFK, Scott Woods pondering Zardasht Osman, Tony Williams talking Graham Greene, Elizabeth Ross-Harrison talking Arlen Specter and Phil West watching America watch Ragan Fox on Big Brother. It's a great note to end on. The Summer 2010 Issue of The November 3rd Club, featuring art, poetry and prose by: ADETOKUNBO ABIOLA, VICTOR ALCINDOR, ANTOINETTE BRIM, MELODIE CORRIGALL, SARAH DAUGHERTY, AMY DAVID, LEA C. DESCHENES, ALAN ELYSHEVITZ, HOWARD FAERSTEIN, ELIZABETH P. GLIXMAN, LATOYA JORDAN, KRISDELARASH, DAVID KUTZ-MARKS, EUGENIA LEIGH, AMANDA LICHTENBERG, KYLA MARSHELL, RYAN MCLELLAN, BRENT MESICK, DJ MOSER, MINDY NETTIFEE, COLE RODRIGUEZ, ELIZABETH ROSS-HARRISON, JAY RUBIN, TUFIK Y. SHAYEB, TRISTAN SILVERMAN, FRANK SLOAN, MARC SOLOMON, BIANCA SPRIGGS, MARK STATES, THOMAS SULLIVAN, LENORE WEISS, PHIL WEST, SARAH WETZEL, TONY WILLIAMS and SCOTT WOODS. And once again, thank you. | | Monday, March 1st, 2010 | 3:56 pm
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New Issue of "The November 3rd Club" is up!
There's a whole lot of discontent in this issue of "The November 3rd Club": Elizabeth Ross-Harrison discusses her differences with her political party of choice, Marc Solomon talks about how the far-left and the far-right have been respectively used by people in power, and a number of poets chime in on the subject of free-floating societal anger. But it's not all the message: the medium gets a little love, too, as fiction editor Lenore Weiss talks Social Media, and several of our favorite literary thinkers talk literary criticism. Not enough? Phil West lets loose on the Olympics, and wins a gold medal in awesome. All this and more in the Winter 2010 issue of " The November 3rd Club," featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art by: JANET BARRY, PETER BRANSON, DEAN BRINK, MICHAEL H. BROWNSTEIN, ROBERTA BURNETT, PETER CAMPION, ROLAND W. CORYELL, STEVIE EDWARDS, AMÉLIE FRANK, TOVA GARDNER, ADAM INTAE GERARD, JACK HIRSCHMAN, MAJOR JACKSON, WESS MONGO JOLLEY, RACHEL KANN, MICHAEL MUHAMMAD KNIGHT, KASANDRA LARSEN, KIM LOOMIS-BENNETT, VYTATUAS MALESH, MARIE-ELIZABETH MALI, MICHAEL JAMES MARTIN, VICTORIA LYNNE MCCOY, MIKE MCGEE, CURTIS MEYER, MARC OLMSTED, PAUL LOBO PORTUGÉS, ANDREW RIHN, ELIZABETH ROSS-HARRISON, FARIDA SAMERKHANOVA, SATNROSE, JASON HENRY SIMON-BIERENBAUM, MARC SOLOMON, SUSAN B.A. SOMERS-WILLETT, G. MURRAY THOMAS, JEANANN VERLEE, LENORE WEISS, PHIL WEST, BUFF WHITMAN-BRADLEY, JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS, TONY WILLIAMS and SCOTT WOODS. | | Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 | 10:30 pm
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New issue on its way ...
The Winter 2010 issue is on its way, and will be online very soon. But before it comes out, I'd just like to note, on behalf of the whole staff of "The November 3rd Club," that in the time since our last issue, the journal has lost three beloved friends and members of our community: Dennis Brutus, Gabrielle Bouliane and Erica Erdman. Their friendship, support and, above all, their poetry has meant a lot to all of us, and they and the people who loved them are in all our thoughts. Thank you. You are all dearly missed. Victor D. Infante Editor-In-chief "The November 3rd Club" | | Friday, January 8th, 2010 | 2:48 pm
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Dennis Brutus Remembered
By Richard Modiano, November 3rd Club nonfiction co-editor All that is visible, clings to the invisible, the audible to the inaudible,
the tangible to the intangible:
Perhaps the thinkable to the unthinkable. – Novalis
Words are seals of the mind, results – or, more correctly, stations – of an infinite series of experiences, which reach from an unimaginably distant past into the present, and which feel their way into an equally unimaginable distant future. They are the audible that clings to the inaudible, the forms and potentialities of thought, which grow from that which is beyond thought.
The essential nature of words is therefore neither exhausted by their present meaning, nor is their importance confined to their usefulness as transmitters of thoughts and ideas, but they express at the same time qualities which are not translatable into concepts – just as a melody which, though it may be associated with a conceptual meaning, cannot be described by words or by any other medium of expression. And it is just that non-rational quality which stirs up our deepest feelings, elevates our innermost being, and makes it vibrate with others.
The magic which poetry exerts upon us is due to this quality and its rhythm in combination. It is stronger than what the words convey objectively – stronger even than reason with all its logic, in which we believe so firmly. The success of great poets is not only due to what they say, but how they say it. If people could be convinced by logic and scientific proofs, the philosophers would long since have succeeded in winning over the greater part of humanity to their views.
One poet who drew on the magical properties of poetry was Dennis Brutus the South African freedom fighter. Brutus died in his sleep early on December 26 last year in Cape Town, at the age of 85. Through the medium of his poetry and the direct action of civil disobedience, he struggled against the injustice of racism, challenging South Africa’s apartheid regime. For his courageous stand, for his poetry, he was banned, he was censored, he was shot.
Brutus spent 18 months in prison, in the same section of Robben Island as Nelson Mandela, where he wrote his first collection of poems, Sirens, Knuckles, Boots. His poem Sharpeville described the March 21, 1960, massacre in which South African police opened fire, killing 69 civilians, an event which radicalized him. Brutus authored over more than a dozen collections of poetry, including A Simple Lust, Stubborn Hope and Salutes and Censures. In 2006, Haymarket Books published a compilation of his work, Poetry and Protest. His work was banned for years in South Africa, but one book, Thoughts Abroad, slipped through; it was published in 1970 under the pseudonym John Bruin.
Dennis Brutus became known in later years as a campaigner for global justice, frequently attending mass mobilizations against the World Trade Organization, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and most recently, although not present, giving inspiration to the protesters at the U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen. Brutus also gave generously to many projects he deemed worthy such as the fledging November 3rd Club online journal. He said, on his 85th birthday, days before the climate talks were to commence: “We are in serious difficulty all over the planet. We are going to say to the world: There’s too much of profit, too much of greed, too much of suffering by the poor ... The people of the planet must be in action.”
The poetry of Dennis Brutus embodied the idea that a truly free society is not only desirable but also possible, and that nothing less than the most far-reaching social transformation can bring such a society into being. The age of meaningful reforms having passed away long ago, this transformation must go beyond the traditional political/economic limits of the last century’s revolutions, but also needs to embody – from the start – the open-ended, non-repressive, emancipatory, and eros-affirmative praxis of the poetic imagination.  | | Saturday, December 26th, 2009 | 12:24 pm
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Goodbye Dennis Brutus
| Voices, Names, Places | | Dennis Brutus |
These were names that were honored
these were men and women who were honored
Bram Fischer, Ruth First, Joe Slovo, O.R. Tambo, Govan Mbeki, Nelson Mandela
in the townships, informal settlements, ghettos, slums, shanties, shacks
that bear the names of honorable men and women
amid the wailing of hungry pot-bellied malnourished infants
and the tears of widows in RDP lean-tos
where raindrops drip constantly down
(not in opulent mansions of ANC fatcats
in Nelson Mandela Metropole and environs)
you will hear impassioned curses against
these “unutterable betrayals”
and menacing rumbles of anger
that presage coming violent revolts
The November 3rd Club, August 2007 | | |
| | Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | 4:58 pm
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| | Sunday, September 13th, 2009 | 3:20 pm
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New York City?!?!?!
If you are anywhere ... and I mean ANYWHERE ... in the general New York area, you should really cancel your plans for November 3rd, right now and be sure to be at the Bowery Poetry Club for a hat trick of poetic mayhem: First, at 6 p.m., Victor D. Infante and Lea Deschenes lead the WordShop workshop series on the theme: "Lies, Damn Lies and Poetic License." Then, at 7 p.m., Victor and Lea feature at the Urbana Poetry Slam! Any sane poets would stop there. But wait, there's more! At 10 p.m., Victor and his fellow " November 3rd Club" editor Tara Betts host a night of poetry and politics featuring Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Corrina Bain, Tony Brown, Jane Cassady, Lea Deschenes, Amy Holman, Emily Kagan Trenchard, Geoff Kagan Trenchard, Erika Lutzner, Jon Sands, Jade Sylvan, Edwin Wilson Rivera, Darren Taffinder and Derek JG Williams. That's enough poetic firepower to jump-start a single-payer health care system ... And just to put a cherry on top, word is that Shappy will be working the bar. Trust me. There is nowhere else you'd rather be. | | Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 | 2:42 pm
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Autumn 2009 issue of "The November 3rd Club"
In this issue of " The November 3rd Club," Phil West takes on Michael Vick, Obama gets an earful on health care from the left, right and center (and strangely, not one of them calls him a socialist, or accuses him of wanting to kill grandma), and our own Ray McNiece stands up for his man and against the current crop of racism the health care debate's kicked up, and of course, the inevitable Tonys, Williams and Brown, and our biggest poetry section to date! All this and more in the Autumn 2009 issue of " The November 3rd Club," featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art by: ROBERT ANBIAN, CRISTIN O'KEEFE APTOWICZ, CORRINA BAIN, MARY BIDDINGER, PHAM BINH, TONY BROWN, MICHAEL H. BROWNSTEIN, CURTIS L. CRISLER, ROGER CRAIK, JARITA DAVIS, LENKA DEVENYI, JENNIFER E. DONNELL, ANDY ECHEVARRIA, STEVIE LEE EDWARDS, APRIL GEORGE, B.L. GIFFORD, GARY HOARE, NELS HANSON, AMY HOLMAN, RANDALL HORTON, AMANDA JOHNSTON, EMILY KAGAN TRENCHARD, GEOFF KAGAN TRENCHARD, MICHAEL LAUCHLAN, ERIKA LUTZNER, EILEEN MALONE, BILL MACMILLAN, RAY MCNIECE, WEAM NAMOU, BARBARA JANE REYES, EDWIN WILSON RIVERA, DANIEL ROMO, ELIZABETH ROSS, JON SANDS, MARC SOLOMON, THOMAS SULLIVAN, VENUS THRASH, PHIL WEST, BUFF WHITMAN-BRADLEY, DEREK JG WILLIAMS and TONY WILLIAMS. | | Monday, April 27th, 2009 | 8:10 pm
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| | Monday, March 16th, 2009 | 2:09 pm
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Site Down
We're back, baby! As many people have e-mailed to alert us, the November 3rd Club Web site is down. We're addressing the technical difficulties, and hope to have it up sometime today, tomorrow at the latest. Thanks, Victor D. Infante editor-in-chief "The November 3rd Club" | | Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | 9:30 pm
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| | Thursday, November 6th, 2008 | 10:53 am
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| | Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 | 9:40 pm
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New on "The November 3rd Club"!
It's a fun installment of our "Conversations" feature. This issue's subject is Newspapers Don't Have to Suck, discussed by this issue's panel poet & editor Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, poet and music writer Kenn Rodriguez, journalist Janet Pickel and poet Issa Lewis. Enjoy! | | Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008 | 8:15 pm
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New issue of "The November 3rd Club"!
The Summer 2008 issue of The November 3rd Club is now online, featuring poetry, fiction, nonfiction and art by: BILL ABBOTT, DANIEL ABDAL-HAYY MOORE, JANET BARRY, PHAM BINH, TONY BROWN, SAMUEL BIAGETTI, BRYAN CATHERMAN, JENITH CHARPENTIER, ROGER CRAIK, CAMILLE DE TOLEDO, SHARON DOUBIAGO, DUBBLEX, MICHAEL FISHER, PAUL GAGNON, MICHAEL GAVIN, PETER D. GOODWIN, STEPHEN D. GUTIERREZ, TAMMY HO LAI-MING, BOB HOEPPNER, JUDY JUANITA, TIM KAHL, SANDRA LARKIN, ISSA LEWIS, BILL MACMILLAN, DAVE MACPHERSON, JACK MCCARTHY, DAVID MILLS, MARC OLMSTED, ELIZABETH ROSS, G. DAVID SCHWARTZ, PATRICIA SMITH, MARC SOLOMON, SCOTT T. STARBUCK, G. MURRAY THOMAS, LENORE WEISS, PHIL WEST and TONY WILLIAMS. Enjoy, and let us know what you think! | | Sunday, August 31st, 2008 | 10:02 am
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| | Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 | 2:33 pm
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| | Friday, June 20th, 2008 | 10:25 am
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50 Ways of Looking at an Election
PennsylvaniaBy Elizabeth Ross Yes, Pennsylvania is in the spotlight again, thanks to our illustrious governor, Ed Rendell. Gotta love how quickly he can flip sides - remember, he was the staunch Clinton supporter in the primary. Now that some pundits think that he might be good fit for Obama's VP, I'm wondering where his comments about his constituents went. Obviously they've forgotten that dear old Rendell was writing us all off as racist and sexist (apparently more of the former than the latter, given the primary results here.) If you're interested, there's a bit more on this over in my DailyKos Diary. Current Mood:  amused | | Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 | 10:19 pm
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RWJ and Tony Brown
Just figured you all wouldn't mind knowing: River Walk Journal's Anniversary Issue is finally out, and includes a poem by Tony Brown HTML VersionPDF VersionThank you again, Tony, for graciously allowing us to publish your work. (Being serious here, since it was a poem that he had posted to his LJ, and probably never expected anyone would want to publish.) ---------------- Now playing: Hem - Half Acre http://foxytunes.com/artist/hem/track/half+acre | | Thursday, June 5th, 2008 | 9:28 pm
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| | Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 | 7:18 pm
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"November 3rd Club" columnist search
The November 3rd Club, an online literary journal of political writing, is looking to expand the number of columns it runs in each quarterly issue, and to diversify the subject matter in those columns. The journal currently runs two columns each issue, written by Elizabeth Ross and Marc Solomon. Currently, we're actively looking for columns written from a far-left perspective, from an international perspective, and a column on politics & pop culture. We'd also be interested in regular columns written from feminist, right-wing and environmentalist perspectives. Our hope for the columns is that they be well-written, thought-provoking and insightful. We firmly believe that political writing should highlight the humanity in a subject before the machinations of electoral machines. Also, we're not big on jargon, jingoism and ad hominem attacks. If you can make politics sing, bring something to the journal we don't already have, and make deadlines, then drop editor in chief Victor D. Infante a line at victor@victorinfante.com. |
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