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The Story of Peace Eye

by Ed Sanders

Some Glyphs from The History of Peace Eye
     This selection of nine comes from a 221glyph manuscript,
          “History of Peace Eye.”

The Story of Peace Eye
began in an urban commune
one night in the fall of 1961

I was reading John Cage’s
book Silence
and taking a course
in ancient Egyptian

Peace Eye began that evening
as I wrote a poem
about seeing my mother
in an Egyptian Boat in the Sky
the night she passed away

& the Peace eye story
continued through the years

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

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Jeffrey Cyphers Wright:  best known as a New Romantic poet, is also a publisher, critic, eco-activist, impresario, singer/songwriter, filmmaker, puppeteer, and artist.  He is author of 18 books of verse, includingBlue Lyre and Party Everywhere.  A book of sonnets and artwork called Doppelgängster is forthcoming from Mad Hat Press.  He publishes Live Mag!

Anne Waldman

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Anne Waldman:  recent projects include the album SCIAMACHY, Levy-Gorvy & Fast Speaking Music, (with William Parker, Laurie Anderson, Guru Moe & others) 2020; Goslings to Prophecy with Emma Gomis (Lune, 2021); Perdu Podcast: HAFEZ, 2021; I Wanted To Tell You About My Meditations on Jupiter, Fast Speaking Music, Mexico City, 2022. The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Summer Writing Program at Naropa opening in June 2022.

Sotère Torregian

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Sotère Torregian:  born in 1941, is an American poet of Sicilian, Ethiopian, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, and Moorish ancestry.  He is associated with the New York School of poets and painters and has taught at the Free University of New York, Santa Clara University, and Stanford University where he helped establish the Afro-American studies program in 1969.  He is the author of seventeen books of poetry.  He currently resides in Stockton, California.