Non-Fiction

• June 12, 2012

  “Bukowski” by Kristine Nodalo

  Bukowski by Kristine Nodalo Charles Bukowski is one of the most prolific and vulgar writers out there. He stood at five feet eleven, often wearing a collared button-down shirt, with a chest pocket consisting of a few pens peeking out of it, covering a beer belly that hung over his waistline–a reminder of his romance…
• May 11, 2012

  Mostly Harmless and May 2nd

  by Ayo Khensu-Ra May 2nd has long held a sort of special aura for me. Improbably I reckoned some years ago that this was the date I picked up a certain book in the Hilo Public Library. While I wouldn’t say that book changed my life, it’s still one of my favorites — a strange mixture…
• May 8, 2012

  “How to Tell a True War Story” by Ava Stewart

  How to Tell a True War Story by Ava Stewart Ava Stewart is a student at CCSF from Santa Cruz, CA. While spending a year in a half in Tucson at the University of Arizona, she studied the works of war author Tim O’Brien during in an English class over the course of a year.…
• February 28, 2012

  “Contemplation” by Kaylo X.

  Contemplation by Kaylo X. Nic Alea, published in the Fall issue of Forum, wanted to readdress an issue briefly mentioned in our interview. Nic casually responded “Hopefully not for committing suicide” to my question “What do you want to be known for?” I appreciated the candid answer and felt it should be brought to the…
• January 20, 2012

  Aubrey, Maturin and HMS Surprise

  HMS Surprise is the third in Patrick O’Brian’s popular and well regarded series of Aubrey/Maturin novels. The series is centered around the lives of  Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend naval surgeon and intelligence operative Dr. Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic War era. HMS Surprise was the first book in the series…
• January 19, 2012

  Several Questions With Survival Guide’s Emily Whitehurst

  by Ayo Khensu-Ra |  And now somewhat of a departure for Forum and Boeotia. We have had live music at Forum events in the past but of course music isn’t our main focus. Still, music is a vital part of the arts and thus we present an interview with local musician Emily Whitehurst. Whitehurst was…
• April 17, 2011

  My Stories Are Ending by Joseph Ramelo It’s been said that if Shakespeare were alive today, his bread and butter would be writing for soap operas. Sure, he’d probably still conjure up a Hamlet or Macbeth. But his day job? Probably similar to that of Agnes Nixon, the creator of All My Children and One…
• March 16, 2011

  Found in translation

  Poetry, Poesie, Poesia By James H. Miller I have an undying respect for poetry translators. I’ve never had the patience or discipline to truly learn a foreign language myself. I tried Spanish so that I might read Cesar Vallejo in the original, attempted German because I thought Goethe was really rad, and then French for…
• March 16, 2011

  Nonsense in the current social order

  The University of Resentment: Alan Kaufman’s Wild Idea By Kwame Opoku-Duku, Forum General Editor “I am very unhappy with current attempts throughout the universities of the Western world by a group I have called ‘the school of resentment’ to put the arts, and literature in particular, in the service of social change…pseudo-Marxists, pseudo-feminists, watery disciples of…
• January 18, 2011

  Aubrey, Maturin and HMS Surprise by Forum editor HMS Surprise is the third in Patrick O’Brian’s popular and well regarded series of Aubrey/Maturin novels. The series is centered around the lives of  Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey and his close friend naval surgeon and intelligence operative Dr. Stephen Maturin during the Napoleonic War era. HMS…