we’re back.

December 13th, 2010 § Leave a Comment

vandal is back because you needed us and we needed you.

we’re going to work to keep things simpler–online–so we can have more updates, more issues and more movement.

the next issue is being prepared so submit your work and encourage others to do the same. [and don't forget the inspiring first issue]

hope is still alive and working.

see the call for submissions and the submission guidelines.  send your work here.

  • vandal/van-dal/’vaendl/van-dl

    1. it is not a reaction to something, but a catalyst to conversation.

    2. it is the immigrant and the disenfranchised, the frustrated and the abandoned, the hopeful and the progressive.

    3. is the work of the activist, for we believe that art and literature are obsolete if they don't move you, make you cry, make your bowels hurt from beneath your skin, make you outraged, sympathetic, or simply give a fuck.

  • now.reading

    Eve Ensler
    Insecure at Last::A Political Memoir
    "...It gets easier to hurt people because you do not feel what’s inside them. It gets easier to lock them up, force them to be naked, humiliate them, occupy them, invade them, kill them--because they do not exist. They are merely obstacles to your security..."

    Chris Hedges
    War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
    "...The only antidote to ward off self-destruction and the indiscriminate use of force is humility and, ultimately, compassion. Reinhold Niebuhr aptly reminded us that we must all act and then ask for forgiveness. This book is not a call for inaction. It is a call for repentance..."

  • imagination is the chief instrument of the good...art is more moral than moralities. for the latter either are, or tend to become, consecrations of the status quo, reflections of custom, reenforcements of the established order. the moral prophets of humanity have always been poets event though they spoke in free verse or by parable...art has been the means of keeping alive the sense of purposes that outrun evidence and meanings that transcend indurated habit.

    john dewey [art as experience]

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