January 13: Tainted Dayton Show And Raffle

Brian Fugett (pictured below) is becoming a man this month at a private party but none of us are invited so we will express our disgust while we try to raise some money for Project U Radio with a raffle of awesome prizes. These prizes are so awesome that we can't even post about them here. As a teaser, however, we will say that we just might have a basket of laundry for you to try to win and sniff from Phyllis Miller herself. We're talking ripe compression stockings, straight from the Hi Rise! Five bucks, via paypal, and you get a chance to win. All proceeds go to Project U Radio operating expenses, nothing fishy. Just trying to toss some money in the Literary Underground kitty.

In this segment, we will dis-honor Mr. Brian Fugett with some roasting and ribbing as we celebrate his 40th with some well deserved abuse. The call in number is (805) 856-2808. This is the link to the show page where you can listen through your phone if you have cheap-ass internet, listen online, listen to the archive, or call in to say something. *here*.

Here is your chance to holler about hamsters, poetry grenades, aerosol cheese, porn-a-rama, and Karl Koweski.

Karl Koweski, here is your chance to holler about Gordon Lightfoot.

Gordon Lightfoot, here is your chance to holler about being Canadian.

And Canadians? You can holler about having Leopold. Eh?

Leopold can't holler because he will be too busy.

Plus, he's kinda locked in an old refrigerator. Because he's a raffle prize.

January 20, 2012, Segment 5, Project U Radio

Segment 5: January 20, 2012.  ”Editorial Discretion”. Editors, would you publish work with content that you think is personally objectionable (i.e. racism) if you thought it was an otherwise good piece? How do you feel about a blanket policy about certain kinds of content, such as “We don’t publish anything that includes sexist elements”. Do you make distinctions as far as language, character, etc. and have you had this issue come up when selecting work for a zine, website, journal, or project? Do you find the line of subjective interpretation to be difficult? Have you rejected work that you thought was well written because it contained something that you thought to be offensive or thought might offend readers? Beyond offensive, but perhaps hurtful or harmful?

If you want to start at the beginning, check out the archives *here* for our Censorship show, December 2, 2011, where we discussed movements like The Citizens For Decent Literature whose aim was to suppress literature that organizers felt was "objectionable". Inspired by this and being a fan of free speech, Literary Underground's Michele McDannold started a printed publication by the same name and soon after, a website to showcase poetry online. Brief editor of the website content, Michael Goscinski, was invited on to talk about censorship and a lengthy conversation ensued.

My distinction on the difference between censorship and editorial discretion is simple- one involves the systemic suppression of free speech through an authority either by their own undertaking or under pressure by a group that has lobbied for suppression. The other involves the discretion of a content producer and their right to have standards with respect to content. If I have a magazine, I have the right to decide that I don't want any content that involves clowns. (to use my example from the show) We are looking at my right as an owner and producer to discretion, which I believe to be important. But censorship would involve the government telling producers that they cannot publish content that involves clowns. This distinction takes away editorial discretion with a blanket rule across the board, presumably (they say) for societal or other benefit. This is an external, imposed control meant to assert one group's moral or religious view onto another group by limiting clown content. ...... 

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dispatch litareview special occupy movement issue

Dear friends,

The spectre of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its otherworldly implications certainly warrant a special issue of dispatch litareview (issn 1948-1217 - litareview.com), that much goes without saying. Given our historical grounding as a forum for radical literature, it'd be irresponsible of us to forgo this movement as cause for a special edition.

We feel that this issue must be printed and disseminated on the streets as well as by the usual means (free download). We've got the people nationwide to make this happen. We're only short a bit of spare change, and so we've done one of those kickstarter things to see what can come of it. If we get anywhere near the goal, surely we'll find another means to cover the gap ("...we robbed banks to fund papers of transgressive poetry..."). Please go to http://kck.st/sgY2NS and please tell everyone you know who might possibly be interested. We're only trying to raise $350 (consider it pre-ordering, as all donors receive a copy), so we're confident to reach our goal in short order.

We're also soliciting first-hand dispatches from the occupations nationwide. We've got guaranteed reportage from Portland, Oakland, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Boston, DC, and Chicago, but of course we'd like more perspectives from each as well as work from other North American occupations.

I am personally pleased to see the spirit of Paris 1968 so alive and well. With any luck, we'll get a variety of voices and riff the occupation movement from all sides. A plaque on the hall of culture commemorating a distinctly anarchist phenomenon.

Submissions of first-hand accounts, photography, and artwork from the occupations can be sent by the means established at http://litareview.com/submissions.html or by sending them directly to dispatch@litareview.com. Materials may also be sent by post to dispatch litareview / c/o Paul Madore / 1929 W. North Ave Apt. 3 / West Baltimore, MD 21217.

In resistance,
md & phm
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dispatch@litareview.com

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