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From Hundreds
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Pushcart Winner Steve Kowit
 talks with the editor-in-chief about poetry, politics, cockroaches and tomato throwing on open mic night. Plus Kowit shares his thoughts on "The Way the World is Now" in our prose section.
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Judge and Jury
 Indie films make a comeback in 2004. Plus new music by REM, A Perfect Circle, U2, Lucinda Williams, and more--reviewed!
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Features on Perigee Contributors
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Welcome to Issue Seven!
from the Editor in Chief
Issue seven is all about poetry. I use that word in its broader sense, the kind explored in my interview with Pushcart Winner Steve Kowit. As usual, we received more submissions—particularly poetry—than previous issues. The editors narrowed it down to about ten percent, the cream that rose to the top, the truly poetic—be it photography, prose, or verse. As you peruse this issue of Perigee you'll be enjoying work from returning contributors as well as new voices. You can re-read last year's fiction contest winning story, you can learn more about two talented Perigee artists, you can read about Coffee and Cigarettes and Lucinda Williams in our reviews. But most of all, we hope you will simply enjoy, and we thank you for your continued support of Perigee.
 
 
We Just Think it's Good Photography
On the heels of our largest visual art issue ever, issue seven shifts from quantity to quality—bringing you some excellent photographic art from a couple photographers who just happen to know what they're doing. Enjoy.
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Judge and Jury
Perigee takes a close look at, and listen to, the movies and music of today—and sometimes the notables you may have missed from yesterday. Are they worth your hard earned dollar? Check out the newest section of Perigee with a very cool rating system!
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Apologies to the Cockroaches
Steve Kowit, interviewed by Robert Judge Woerheide

You know that famous quote from William Carlos Williams, "poetry is news that stays news?" I think that's bullshit. I mean it's true we're still reading things two, three thousand years old. … art is important. All art. It's consciousness raising of the highest level. It changes people's lives when they start investing a part of their time in art: poetry, music, whatever. They change. And it humanizes people. But I'm not convinced—and especially given Modernism, … I can see why people would rather watch a stupid T.V. show than read a poem they can't understand. Of course, it makes perfect sense.
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"Soap Bubbles" by Kat Miner, this issue's featured photographer. Question and Answer with Kat Miner

My goal is always to capture the essence of those I am photographing, or the essence of their relationship. It is like a dance between us. I do very little posing and just focus on interacting with them to help them relax (and me too!). We walk and talk and I shoot. I am always honored when someone lets me "see" their intimate self. It shows up in the eyes maybe once a shoot and it's quite a remarkable experience. I am so very grateful to those that have allowed me to experience a part of who they are through my photography.
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The Way the World is Now
by Steve Kowit
 
Perhaps it is time to stop imagining that Germany under National Socialism simply went insane, or that Hitler's oratorical genius "hypnotized" the German people into compliance, or that the genocide of the Jewish and Romani peoples is historically inexplicable—and instead, accept the fact that the "enemy" is always subhuman, quintessentially evil, and deserving of extermination. That is to say, perhaps it is time to accept that collective human savagery is a perfectly common tribal phenomenon—upon which our very nation was founded.
Read in its entirety ...		 ©RJW
Dr Fellows at Cal State San Marcos. A Proposal of Some Modesty
With a Nod to Jonathan Swift
by Dr. Susan Fellows

It is a melancholy object to those of us who drive through this great and lovely county to observe the disquietude and disequilibrium of the faces of those who sit, or crawl, next to us on our marvelous freeway systems here in San Diego, to observe the disregard and dislike with application to our being of those in cars in close proximity to us on these highways, a dislike that is, in fact, no fault of their own. But my intention, as I shall reveal it to you, is not to suggest that we leave the freeways, the highways or the county altogether (as some suggest), or wait countless hours for a bus that takes us where it will, not where we will. My intention is to glorify not moving, to embrace stasis, to have no speed limits because we will not be moving by choice and with great delight.
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Going to the Well
David Fraser's first poetry collection is perfect bound with 96 pages of poetry containing 65 poems. Whether writing poetry or short fiction, David examines characters struggling with time and entropy. David Fraser lives in British Columbia, Canada, where he is a full time writer. He is the founder and editor of Ascent Magazine. To Order the Book ...

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Internal rhyme, alliteration, vivid images, and inventive lyricism live inside the wintry undertones of Judy Jordan's poems in Carolina Ghost Woods, winner of the 1999 Walt Whitman Award. Get acquainted with these striking poems, and look for Jordan's new book-length poem entitled Sixty Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance—from LSU Press.link

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