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Blue Collar Holler: Autumn Issue Editorial

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Monday, December 30, 2013. This season also saw the utter hypocrisy of the climate summit in Warsaw derailed by the fossil fuel industry as disasters caused by oil spills, fracking, coal burning, and the subsequent climate change wrought horrific destruction in the US and globally. Around the country, service workers at Walmart and the fast food chains are striking for living wages, breathing new life into the class struggle. The loss of hope revealed in the poems ...

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Blue Collar Holler: Fall Issue Editorial

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Fortunately, not all are taken in by this pathology. As the ugly reality of corporate right-wing culture is bared, the best remedy is the recognition and rejection of this destructive paradigm, reclaiming and recreating our older, healthier, more community-focused working class culture. This is what gives us, as working people, the strength to survive. This is what this journal. We are proud to be able to continue presenting the stronges...

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Blue Collar Holler: October 2005

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Monday, October 24, 2005. Our "sister journal", Pemmican. Presents in it's commentary an excellent statement regarding "political poetry" by Robert Edwards, editor of Pemmican and, in my opinion, one of the finest poets in North America. Talking Points for Political Poetry. Now Ireland has her madness and her weather still,For poetry makes nothing happen: it survivesIn the valley of its making where executivesWould never want to tamper. If I write a poem about boat...

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Blue Collar Holler: You Could Have Been A Contender!

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Thursday, June 19, 2014. You Could Have Been A Contender! The Spring issue of the Blue Collar Review. Is in progress but there are three very fine poems that I had to pull from the collection because the authors did not bother to read our Submission Guidelines. And "9 am Break, Line 3, Engine Assembly". If one of these poems is yours, take some time and review our Submission Guidelines. Posted by Jaded Prole at 8:36 AM. Links to this post:. Who Are We Then?

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Blue Collar Holler: Summer Issue Editorial

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. We've got the blues; the bad job, no job, hungry child, can't afford a doctor, bad landlord, dying planet, not another stupid bogus war blues. That moves beyond the destructive tyranny of corporate rule. This season has also witnessed the growth of pervasive, blatant racism pushed by the right and the existence of an increasingly militarized police state as a response to rising economic desperation and anger. We are grateful to the poet...

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Blue Collar Holler: December 2005

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Saturday, December 31, 2005. New Collection from Partisan Press. In a week or two, a new and powerful collection of poetry called "Cosmic Rainbow" by Mary McAnally. Will be available from Partisan Press. This flat-spined publication is priced at for $14.00 (including shipping). The Poet Christopher Butters says about this collection:. Posted by Jaded Prole at 9:12 AM. Links to this post. Thursday, December 29, 2005. Book by a BCR contributor. Weekly paper published...

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Blue Collar Holler: June 2006

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Tuesday, June 27, 2006. Into the Desperate Country by Jeff Vande Zande. Jaff Vande Zande is a long time supporter and contributor to the Blue Collar Review. He has used it in his classes at Delta College. March Street Press announces the publication of Jeff Vande Zande’s debut novel . . . Into the Desperate Country. Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Into the Desperate Country . . . Bay City, MI 48707. Posted by Jaded Prole at 7:24 AM. Links to this post. As our world tu...

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Blue Collar Holler: Who Are We Then?

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Friday, September 13, 2013. Who Are We Then? Those who subscribe to the Blue Collar Review. Are familiar with the strong, well crafted poetry of Ed Werstein. Partisan Press. Is proud to announce a new collection of his work, entitled Who Are We Then. Barbara Crooker, author of Radiance, Line Dance, More, and Gold writes about this collection, "Ed Werstein, in his new collection, asks, Who Are We Then? Sixteen civilians shot dead. Mostly women and children. Working ...

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Blue Collar Holler: February 2006

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Saturday, February 04, 2006. Hot off the Press. This is a collection of astounding depth and power and we are honored to have had the opportunity to publish it. Posted by Jaded Prole at 3:35 PM. Links to this post. Up Against the Savage Heavens. A Lasting Gift of Sanity and Inspiration. Continuous Performance: The Selected Poems of Magg.

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Blue Collar Holler: Winter Issue Editorial

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Commentary from the Blue Collar Review. Friday, April 03, 2015. We too are struggling, holding on to the crumbling edge to get these words - our words, out. You will find an insert in this issue asking for your help in keeping this collective project going. You can also help support this journal by entering a poem in our annual contest. Posted by Jaded Prole at 2:31 PM. Links to this post:. Review - WHAT WERE THEY LIKE? You Could Have Been A Contender!