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David visited Vienna from July 14th to 18th.
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Brains and Talent vs. Persistence
If I had half his brains,
I always thought I could
be somebody. And that one -
what talent! But my genius
friend never could fit in -
drinking, drinking until
he shrunk his brain
to ordinary and my
truly-gifted friend
couldn’t […]

Poetry by Jozo T. Boskovski
Translated by
Herbert Kuhner,
David Axelrod et al
(Anna Esapora, Cynthia Keeson
and Svetlana Dimic)
Jozo T. Boskovski (1933 - 2008)
My friend Jozo has left us for the Universe.
I first met him when I attended the Struga Evenings Poetry Festival in 1972. I last saw him at that venue in 1982. We kept in touch […]

Here’s jazz critic and libertarian Nat Hentoff confronting Che: “Years ago, at the Cuban mission to the United Nations, I asked the revolutionary Cuban icon Che Guevara, who professed not to understand English, ‘Can you conceive of any time in the future when there will be free elections in Cuba?’

“Not waiting for the translator, Guevara […]

“Question: Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?
Answer: Because her father is Janet Reno!”
Told by McCain at a Washington dinner in 1998,
Sherman Yellen, Huffington Post, Nov.,18.2006
“Did you hear the one about the woman
who is attacked on the street by a gorilla,
beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die?
When she finally regains consciousness and tries to […]

Milivoj Asner is ranked No. 4 on a leading list of most-wanted Nazi war crimes suspects. He stands accused of persecuting hundreds of Serbs, Jews and Gypsies and dispatching them to their deaths in WWII-era Croatia, which was ruled by a Nazi puppet regime.

“He’s lived peacefully among us for years, and he should be able […]

Excerpts from Mixed Bag
Edited & Translated by Herbert Kuhner
Einleitung
Stephan Eibel ist einer der interessantesten und provokativsten gegenwärtigen österreichischen  Autoren. Er hat sich als Romancier, Erzähler, Lyriker und Dramatiker ausgezeichnet. Seine literarische Arbeit glänzt mit Ironie, absurdem Witz und reflektiert eine paradoxe und verlogene mitteleuropäische Gesellschaft. Er hat sich klar und kompromißlos über politische und gesellschaftliche […]

The Kronen-Zeitung is Austria’s largest circulation daily and the most widely read newspaper of any country in proportion to the population. Here are segments of articles from the journal, as well as letters to the editor.

Let the Dead Rest!
On January 30th, 1945 close to the end of World War II, The German liner Wilhelm […]

Herbert Kuhner
The most candid views of the publishers of the leading tabloid for lowbrows and the leading tabloid for highbrows are to be found in the “letters to the editor” section. This is the page for blatant revisionism and racism. The malevolence and the hostility of the authors of these letters know no bounds. They […]

Herbert Kuhner
There’s an Austrian broadsheet with a right-wing editorial page and a left-wing cultural page. If you’ve lived in Austria long enough, there’s no mystery about that. The Righties will buy the journal for the editorials and the Lefties will buy it for the articles on culture. But that’s not all there is to it. […]

Published in German translation in
Das Menschenrecht
& Minki die Nazi Katze und die menschliche Seite,
Verlag der Theodor Kramer Gesellschaft
Herbert Kuhner
Gentlemen, we’ve gotten together to discuss a modern version of the Stürmer and the Völkischer Beobachter. Julius Streicher and Josef Goebbels were okay in their day, but they’d be too stiff and rigid for our time. Anti-Semitism […]

Jazz Brunch with Harry Kuhner
“The No-Nosense 4″ are:
Eddie Salmen on Trumpet
Harry Kuhner on Drums
Jürgen Pingitzer on Piano
Peter Strutzenberger on Contrabass
Harry Kuhner reads some of his great Jazz-Poems
11:30 a.m. Sunday July 6. 2008 at Wienerwald. Waehringerstrasse 85, 1180 Wien Tel.: 050 15 16 118

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by David B. Axelrod
It was a very good summer for me in 1982. My career was taking off as a poet with a big New and Selected Poems just published and lots of performances. One prominent venue on Long Island, Guild Hall in fashionable East Hampton, scheduled me to perform and it was particularly gratifying […]

David will be visiting Vienna from July 14th to 18th.
A meeting can be arranged by contacting Harry Kuhner.
The following poem was inspired by our mutual friend Jozo Boskovski
who left us this year for the Universe.
- H. K.
The Man Who Said “Maybe”
He said a European flight
from Macedonia
took more time going
than returning
because the earth turned favorably.
Try to […]