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A Technicolor Stumble into Spring.

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“Coloring” turned up some wild contributions this issue, and I bet it will surprise exactly no one that most of them were poetry. When you consider poetry is feeling and colors are…well, yeah. Anyway, we have contributions from two of our favorite EAP contributors, Chris Farago with #267 (we love counting with him), and C.S. Kraszewski with ORANGE GREEN WHITE BLACK. As if that wasn’t enough, there’s poetry editor Marissa Bell Toffoli’s Heather. And poets new to our scene as well: Joseph Harms sends in ARGENTIERA, and John Grey loves The Aunt.

We’ve also got scary stuff. Darren Payne must have honed his work by freaking out his children, so here’s another of his chilling stories, A Glass of Cabernet. And Karin Wares remembers when she was green, One Green Word.

If you only read one piece, though, please do head to Bruce Thompson’s Stumbling Toward Truth. It’s about his discovery as a young philosopher that what one of his mentors said was absolutely true: “Whatever you think you know about your field, there is a person of color in your field that you should be paying more attention to.” There are changes going on in our world, and that new focus of attention is one of the most useful, and the most potentially creative.

Speaking of creative, welcome, Spring! We’ll be taking a break from now till the Fall issue, getting out my fourth book in The History of Arcadia series: Report to Megalopolis, or The Post-modern Prometheus—it’s the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, and this book is, among other things, my own personal celebration.

See you in the fall. And in the meantime, welcome back.

EAP’s Existential Glass of 2018 is Half Full.

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Here are EAP’s New Year’s resolutions: 1.) to be kinder to all 2.) to be more aware of what is happening, even when it is something that makes it difficult to be kind to a loved one or admired group and/or person. Or even to an unadmired group and/or etc. 3.) to support others in […]

The Ashland Literary Arts Festival: You Know It Makes Sense.

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It’s been a nuts summer around EAP World Headquarters, what with the sudden development of the (former) Ashland Literary Festival being turned over to us at the Southern Oregon Literary Alliance and Cascadia Publishers, transforming itself into the Ashland Literary Arts Festival. When the infrastructure was offered us by SOU’s Hannon Library, here in beautiful […]

What Happens Next.

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This remains one of my favorite of our EAP themes, this one this summer, so do have a look at what inspired it, the intense Stripped and Despoiled, by Charles S. Kraszewski. Also there’s Into the Underworld and Beyond, where Bruce Thompson takes issue with Joseph Campbell (and why not?), as well as the (as […]

Welcome Now, Welcome Spring.

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Really, the first thing you should do on reading this: click through to Judith Arcana’s poem, “You Don’t Know,” if you want to know what should be known about a woman’s—a person’s—right to their own life, and to the decisions made about that life…even when it includes the potential life of another. The buck has […]

Looking Back to Look Forward.

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Happy 2017. I know a lot of us put a pillow over our head and howled during 2016…but after that, I sincerely hope, we decorously put the pillow aside, ran fingers through our collective hair, and got up, determined to move forward as kindly and creatively as our collective DNA allows. So with that in […]

In Memory of David Budbill.

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We talk a lot about what it means to be human, here at EAP—and on The Arcadia Project Facebook page, too. And there was much to meditate upon when we heard last week of the death of the poet David Budbill, who has written so much and so eloquently on our animal species’ painful attempts […]

The World We Want.

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Our world is changing. I don’t think there is any doubt anywhere about that. So the obvious question is: what do we want it to change to? The Arcadia Project on Facebook has some interesting conversations going about that very question, and two of the articles in this issue come directly from there. Tamra Spivey […]

So THAT’S the Question.

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I think we’re all agreed that another world isn’t just possible, it’s imperative. So what is that other world to be? That’s the main question, damn it. And there are flickers of light all over our world as people ask that question and try to answer it in their own, creative way. That’s what we’re […]

What’s the Question, Damn it.

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When “EAP: The Magazine” first started up, I had this kind of selfish idea. The idea was the space would attract like minds…the kind of minds that worked a bit, well, differently. My idea was that real creativity happens on the margins, where people try out different ways of seeing and being, and it was […]