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Against Originality: Rediscovering Art in the Time of AI
by PB Wombat With all the folderol regarding fears that artificial intelligence (AI) will destroy creativity and the livelihoods of artists and writers, we lose sight of one important and longstanding problem: the tyranny of originality. Long gone were the days when anonymous priests and monks copied down scripture and lore unencumbered by the “need” Continue reading
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Mortimer Altitude Banghead Network
Found written on the back of the packaging that contained an AOL CD ROM, “Mortimer Altitude Banghead Network” represents late Bean Newton at his most cogent. Interpolating e.e. cummings rolling on ecstasy, Newton asks us to consider both existential dread and Epicurean pleasures, even if of a minor sort. –EW Wilder subject portway throughnot the Continue reading
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Brue in Bean
In the end, I suppose, Bean Newton needed this, something of a prayer, something of a lament, something of a love poem. Battered, sick, saddled with student loan debt, Newton found himself, at the end of 1998, before he finally lost or cut contact with friends, acquaintances, and the outside world, settled into a sort Continue reading
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Character Names for Your Dark but Whimsical Dickensian YA Novel
As part of EastWesterly Review‘s mission, we are obligated to support preborn works of art by occasionally publishing story starters, challenges, and, in this case, random lists of character names. This is the latest in the series, free of AI interference, straight from the dusty attics of our misused minds. –EW Wilder Prancy Gütbukt Mortimer Continue reading
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PostModern Village Conference 2024/2025
Where things stand . . . Let us pause, before we proceed, to praise that most basic of feelings, fear. It protects us from blundering into the tiger’s range when we hear her roar, keeps us from dancing in rush hour traffic, pushes us away from the teetering edge. So we may be forgiven a Continue reading
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Fascist-Friendly Names for Your Former DEI Program
For EWR, EW Wilder As diversity, equity, and inclusion programs continue to come under fire from the Trump administration, your college or university might be looking for ways to continue the work without drawing undue attention. To better serve you, our crack team of experienced committee-members and press-gang administrators put together the following list of Continue reading
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Odes to the Alternate Others
EW Wilder answers Edgar Lee Masters. 1.Liquid Sunday, animaof the undergroundparty scene of OrchardTech, glitter-bound, noö-spheric, nylon headdressblessing the dankchargedpurple air! Bless ourpassage, our tress-passing upon the graciousvacancy of your bones. 2.Akadocious and Mr. Crosius,they were the crisis—together, apart—thedesire at the fo’csle,they tire athwart. Theywere the party, the two,inched distant onlyby the “s” and the Continue reading
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Story Starters
As part of the charter of EastWesterly Review, and in accord with the mission of Purewater University and its corporate underwriters, a certain number of “creativity-instigating” features are to be provided. Each year, the Department of Applied Textualization forms a Creativity Seed Committee, the work of which is to help fulfill this mandate. This year, Continue reading
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Bean/Yurt
This fragment, first discovered among Bean Newton’s notebooks dated 1994-1995, represent the poet’s early attempts to (re)visit European pagan mythology in a somewhat straightforward way while peering through the lens of late 20th Century popular culture. While he later abandoned this project, the kinetic movement between subjects characteristic of his later poems (1996-1998) are already Continue reading
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