“We must realize that the world as it is isn’t worth saving; it must be made over.”
— John Andrew Rice a founder of Black Mountain college in an article published in Harper’s Monthly in 1936 about the Black Mountain
I encountered this reading a thin anthology of Black Mountain poets. It was not just a radical art school; it was a radical rejection of the status quo.
It’s time for the entire art world to once again take up that torch.
Mark Folse is a provincial diarist and aspiring minor poet from New Orleans. His past blogging adventures included the Katina/Federal Flood blog wetbankguide on blogspot.com which David Simon told NY Magazine was one of three blogs that helped inform Treme, and Toulouse Street–Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans, which once outranked the Doobie Brothers on Google Search. His work has appeared in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, The New Delta Review, Metazen, New Laurel Review, Ellipsis, What We Know: New Orleans as Home, Please Forward, The Maple Leaf Rag IV, and A Howling in the Wires (which he co-edited).
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