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Mantra 1

If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don’t like. Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise.

Noam Chomsky

from Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992

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Mantra 2

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Shakyamuni Buddha

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Oil pollutes the ocean, corporations plunder, the government rewards them for it, and war for profit drives a large portion of my economy. This isn’t right. We have lost our way. This is the horror. So, one weekend, I felt the need to do some outraged interpretations. I wanted to rage about current events and CEO -political bullshit artists. I wanted to jostle my fellow humans and instigate intelligent arguments. But mostly I wanted to flip off all the assholes who screw things up for the rest of us. These are the outraged arguments of a horrified poet — yours truly. I hope you enjoy them.

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Profile of Professor Charles Bivona

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The Rutgers AAUP/AFT Newsletter
February 2009

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Charles Bivona’s poetry has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Sensations Magazine, and the Newark Metro. He has also contributed essays and/or poems to Suite101, Cerebration.org, GetOnTheCouch.com, NJ Peace Blog,  WarIsACrim.org, The Poem Daily, Decompression, Insanity’s Horse, Unquiet Desperation, and the PBS “This I Believe” Project.

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MY PUBLICATION LIST
[with assorted links]

Poetry & Poetic Prose

• “Walt Whitman Would Be a Poet Blogger.” The Writer’s Daily. May 23, 2011. »Link to Text

• “I Always Wanted to Be a Poet.” The Writer’s Daily. May 23, 2011. »Link to Text

• “Dear Unknown American Poets.” The Writer’s Daily. May 17, 2011. »Link to Text

• “Professor Poverty.”The #Poem Daily. April 27, 2011. »Link to Text

• “Too Busy Brothers in an Imaginary Diner.” The #Poem Daily. February 6, 2011. »Link to Text

• “Butterflies.” The #Poem Daily. December 12, 2010. »Link to Text

• “Written On Her Body.” Decompression. (Vol.3 — June, 2010) »Link to Text

• “To My First Love, Beth, In Second Grade.” Insanity’s Horse. (Fall 2008 – Spring 2009). »Link to Text

• “…and then…” Unquiet Desperation.  (June/July 2008 – Volume 2, Issue 2), 12.

• “¶6.” FLASHSHOT.  July 2008.

• “Miscarriages.” Paterson Literary Review.  (Issue 34: 2005), 109. »Link to Text

• “The Cherry Blossom Blooming.” Cerebration. 2003. Ed. Amrita Ghosh and Smita Maitra. » Link to Text

• “The Cherry Blossoms Blooming.” The Newark Metro. 2003.  Ed. Robert W. Snyder.

• “Lack.” Cerebration. 2003. Ed. Amrita Ghosh and Smita Maitra. »Link to Text

• “Song.” PHOOYA.  (June 1998), 2.

• “Backward Cento to Kenneth Koch.” Sensations Magazine. (Summer 1996), 93.

• “The Zen Master Explains How He Writes His Poems.” Sensations Magazine.(Summer 1996), 108.

• “Last Resistance.” The Rift. (Aug/Sep 1996), 15.

• “The Bargain.” The Rift. (June/July 1996), 7.

• “Good Night Father.” The Rift. (June/July 1996), 29.

• “Essay on Creativity.” Stretchmarks. (May 1996), 14.

• “Untitled.” Hipnosis. (Apr. 1996), 16.

• “Moment.” Hipnosis. (Apr. 1996), 16.

• “Things to Do Today.” World’s Too Heavy Press. (Mar 1996), 4.

• “Evening In A Greasy Spoon Diner.” World’s Too Heavy Press. (Mar 1996), 13.

• “Supermarket.” World’s Too Heavy Press. (Dec 1995), 18.

• “Sitting.” World’s Too Heavy Press. (Apr 1995), 6-7.

• “if.” World’s Too Heavy Press. (Apr 1995), 6-7.

• “Untitled.” Sophomore Jinx. (Spring 1995), 48.

• “‘Who is sane?’ asked the lunatic.” The Unsilenced Voice. (Mar/Apr 1995), 16.

• “An Argument.” Expression Forum Review. (1995), 25-26.

• “Lessons.” Expression Forum Review. (1994), 12.

Essays

• “Brutal Memoirs: Zen in the Art Of.” The governpoint Daily. March 7, 2011.
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• “The Mourning After.” NJ Peace Blog. May 30, 2010. »Link to Text

• “Phil Donahue Gave Me Writer’s Block.” NJ Peace Blog. May 3, 2010. »Link to Text

• “Stealing Childhoods, Destroying Families.” The Acorn: Drew University’s Student Newspaper. April 16, 2010. »Link to Text

• “Stare.” This I Believe: a public dialogue about belief — one essay at a time. September 16, 2009. »Link to Text

• “The Mentor Zone.” GetOnTheCouch.com. Summer 2009. » Link to Text

• “New Criticism & the Romantic Poet: Summarizing and Contending with Cleanth Brooks.” Suite 101.com. April 11, 2008. » Link to Text

• “Manufactured Awe: The Grand Canyon and the American Sublime.” Cerebration. 2003. Ed. Amrita Gosh and Smita Maitra. »Link to Text

• “Buddha in the Reader, Buddha in the Tale: A Buddhist Reading of Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale.” Cerebration. 2003. Ed. Amrita Ghosh and Smita Maitra. » Link to Text

• “Commercial Americanness.” Cerebration. 2003. Ed. Amrita Ghosh and Smita Maitra. » Link to Text

Articles

• “How to Calm SAT Test Anxiety: Practical Mind Tricks for Calming Your Nerves.”Suite101.com. April 23, 2008. » Link to Text

• “High school, DeVry form partnerships.” Union Leader: Union, NJ. April 25, 1996.

• “Roselle Park officials call cleanup a success.” Union Leader: Union, NJ. April 25, 1996.

• “School budget awaits review.” Roselle Park Leader: Roselle Park, NJ. May 2, 1996.

• “Police investigate attempted abductions.” Roselle Park Leader: Roselle Park, NJ. May 2, 1996.

• “Principle retires after 37 years.” Roselle Park Leader: Roselle Park, NJ. May 2, 1996.

• “Republican leaders fear charter study.” Roselle Park Leader: Roselle Park, NJ. May 2, 1996.

• “Glynos, Cohen elected ’96-97 President, VP.” Kennilworth Leader: Kennilworth, NJ. May 9, 1996.

• “Regional school board gives teacher awards.” Kennilworth Leader: Kennilworth, NJ. May 9, 1996.

• “Senior citizens learn dangers of prescription drugs, alcohol.” Union Leader: Union, NJ. May 9, 1996.

• “Planner’s just say no to drug clinic lot.” Union Leader: Union, NJ. May 9, 1996.

• “Local man charged with contract killing.” Union Leader: Union, NJ. May 9, 1996.

Conference Papers

• “A Difficult Telling: Fragmentation and the Traumatized Writer.”  18th Annual Tufts University English Graduate Conference: On Difficulty. Medford, Massachusetts, October 20, 2006. »Link to Text

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Mantra 3

Walt Whitman
from “Song of Myself”

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