Napalm Health Spa: Report 2010

Dedicated to the memory of
Peter Orlovsky
(July 8, 1933 – May 30, 2010).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PETER HALE
Allen and Peter

PETER ORLOVSKY
Good Fuck With Denise

ANNE WALDMAN
Death of Peter Orlovsky

STEVE SILBERMAN
Impossible Happiness:
An elegy for Peter Orlovsky


JOE RICHEY
Pluck another sonnet for a good man gone down
Why We Oppose the Privatization of the US Postal Service

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Pity the Nation

ALI ZARRIN
Interview by Jim Cohn

ANDY CLAUSEN
Neal Cassady was a man
Ginsberg, Corso and me

SARA KOHLER
missives from a nuclear reactor
#1: reactor jam


ELIOT KATZ
Smoke-Filled Back Room
One Satellite One Vote
Abbie Hoffman and the Four Corners Defense
How the Congressional Health Care Plan Was Developed
Lyme Code

HOLLY JONES
Falling asleep in Berlin
Before and Since

DAVID COPE
The Crippled Doe
“Alone and scared without her,
how do I move on?”

Dawn
Flight to Phoenix
Tahquamenon
Thornapple
Out the door
Gulf Spill Curse
Dark Evening
For Antler, after the storm
Building the Beat Canon

KATIE YATES
fairy tale
the conference of mothers (motels)
motel is

RANDY ROARK
Interview by Jim Cohn

LESLÉA NEWMAN
First Death

MIGUEL ANGEL FLORES
Change of Ghosts
Flowers
The Woman that Loved

EFRAIN HUERTA
Transit
Torrid Thing

ULALUME GONZALEZ DE LEON
The Lover
12 Telegrams

VICENTE GERBASI
Soisola
Sponge Tree
Funeral of a Friend
Abyss
Gold
Solitariness Corroded
The Walls of my house
Extermination
Trip
Solitudes in Spain

NANCY MERCADO
Litany for Change
To Repair A Broken World
We The People

BOB HOLMAN
"You Are" (Such Beautiful Words)
In Real Life
The Paintings Were Interesting
Fortune into a Bargain
You Can't be a Jerk & Write Great Poetry
Unity

PETER MARTI
Your Wisdom Eye Gleams

MARC OLMSTED
Silver Hand
Consecrating Monument
Proclaiming Buddha’s Mind

Cat Prayers

GARY LAWLESS
migrationist

JIM COHN
The President Had Already Been Lynched
9000 Times Hotter Than The Hottest Chili Pepper
“Man, I Ain’t Been Pulled Over In Three Months”
Recording

BOB RIXON
For the Kids Working at the Mall
The Burglar
Like A Weed
Overnight Trucking
The First Temptations

MICHAEL ROTHENBERG
Simplify Infinity

KYI MAY KAUNG
Loss

BOB DROJARSKI
Take A Number

EDDIE SWAYZE
Bones

KEVIN HAYES
Dead Zone

RICHARD WILMARTH
Death
Note
No Cure
no Direction

ANON
The Black Tear

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Jim Cohn, editor

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