Yellow Mountain Collective

a community/press of radical social commentary and outsider art/poetry

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More Art by Bree

More Art by Bree

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Ebola, Sunflowers, Love by Joshua Lew McDermott

Ebola, Sunflowers, Love by Joshua Lew McDermott

for Kristiana and TiTi

The sunflower patch in the sidewalk of the Mormon Summer in the brick-house town reminded me of you.

And I owe no person any justification for that. Yes, I let the flowers, yellow and healthy, show me you, whose face I haven’t seen in months, you, the only person who can bring me to dancing. The flowers grow and you grow too.

I could choose to love the flowers, or I could ch…

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Wellfleet, MA by Zoe Contros Kearl

Wellfleet, MA by Zoe Contros Kearl

strange land – dunes meet trees an angry sea cold and starkly beautiful

it’s so quiet at night without you

nobody to ask me why I’m sighing aloud

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Check out the archives!

Check out the archives!

Get excited for our new article on voluntourism and imperialism, out later this week, by taking a look through our archives. Here’s a taste of what you can expect, excerpted from “Sonny Dee Loses Hir Mind.”

God Hates Heterosexuals

Went up to heaven the other Week / To pay a visit to The Holy Ghost / Caught him in bed with Sigmund Freud / Hallelu / Why should I worry /

Went down to hell late Last…

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A JAZZ THEMED PARTY ON A MONDAY NIGHT AT LE BAIN by Zoe Contros Kearl

A JAZZ THEMED PARTY ON A MONDAY NIGHT AT LE BAIN by Zoe Contros Kearl

“We are all going forward. None of us are going back.” (Richard Siken)

there are two limes in my Hendricks and tonic and Astroturf beneath my feet there is a famous actor here who my girlfriend recognizes he is wearing a hat and a pair of dirty sneakers he is the son of two professional figure skaters from Leningrad

the last part of that I learned from reading his IMDB biography

looking around at…

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THERE IS A CONGRESSMAN IN THE FRESH PLUS by Zoe Contros Kearl

THERE IS A CONGRESSMAN IN THE FRESH PLUS by Zoe Contros Kearl

the silver Lexus parked out front has special designation license plates

there is an American flag pin on his lapel

he is standing at the butcher counter ordering two pounds of Angus ground beef to mold into hamburgers with his soft palms

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Art by Will Roat

Art by Will Roat

Native-American and Western art by Utah-based painter and activist Will Roat

A number of Will’s works are available here: http://fineartamerica.com/art/all/will+roat/all

Faces in the Trees

Two Eagles and a Sawtooth Parade

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Social Evolution, Creativity, and the Divine

Social Evolution, Creativity, and the Divine

By: Joshua Lew McDermott

How does man ever conceive the inconceivable? If we are limited solely to rational, external, physical reality, how could our physical minds conceive of something that does not exist?

I recently watched the Greek film Dogtooth, where three children are kept in a bizarre reality their parents craft using language, stories, and deprivation as means of control.

Only when…

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Neocolonialism: The Legacy of Colonization in Africa is Real

Neocolonialism: The Legacy of Colonization in Africa is Real

By: Joshua Lew McDermott

When one points out capitalism’s use of the colonial legacy to continue to rule and exploit third world regions, such as Sub-Saharan Africa, there are a few arguments defenders of capitalism will generally make. Similarly, when one questions why “free-market” capitalism’s expansion into Africa has only resulted in causing further poverty and government corruption, one…

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The Education of Two Boys

The Education of Two Boys

Originally posted on 100 Days In India:

Last night I couldn’t sleep. Thunder boomed in the mountains and shook the windows of the house. Every few minutes, the curtains lifted from the broad wooden sills, only to resettle with the passing wind. But it wasn’t the weather that kept me awake for three hours. Nor was it the giant, and I mean giant, spider that I found on the bed right before sleep.…

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Art by Bree

artwork by Bree, the wonderful poet, musician, all around artista, and founder of Green Panda Press out of Cleveland, Ohio

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The Poem I Promise to Write for You: Music by Jay Anderson Poetry by Joshua Lew McDermott

The Poem I Promise to Write for You: Music by Jay Anderson Poetry by Joshua Lew McDermott

A music/poetry collaboration produced by Jay Anderson with a poem by Joshua Lew McDermott, as part of an album Dr. Jay Anderson is producing featuring poets from the Logan, Utah scene. 

The Poem I Promised to Write for You

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NEOCOLONIALISM IN WEST AFRICA BOOK TOUR

NEOCOLONIALISM IN WEST AFRICA BOOK TOUR

Below is the flyer for the summer book tour of political activist Chernoh Bah of Sierra Leone. His new book is entitled NEOCOLONIALISM IN WEST AFRICA.

We at Yellow Mountain are currently volunteering to help Chernoh organize venues at universities and bookstores so he can speak about the book and the problem of exploitation in Africa by multinational corporations and imperial fiscal policies…

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The Institute for Sierra Leone Languages and The Importance of Saving Indigenous Languages from Extinction

The Institute for Sierra Leone Languages and The Importance of Saving Indigenous Languages from Extinction

The Threat of Language Extinction

The preservation of centuries of priceless knowledge, culture, and different ways of looking at the world depend upon the survival of indigenous languages. When a people lose their language due to cultural imperialism, it can harm the very fabric of their social relations and personal identities. When a language dies, not only does the ethnic group who once…

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Two Poems by Isaac Timm

Two Poems by Isaac Timm

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I have three images, A semi-truck burns on the side of the road, Oily smoking stains the sky, the truck and its trailer is whole but made of fire

I walk into the muscular dystrophy clinic A woman holds a child twisted by a disease She rocks him -  he is looking at me, jaw unhinged

Lightning webs the bottom of storm clouds My hair raises on my head my arms, but I remain

   Stories to tell…

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The Suburbs

By: Joshua Lew McDermott

from the collection Black Milk

  a dead bird I saw, walking down 9000 South, four lanes of cars, is just a dead bird, head cocked, bloody skin beneath loose feathers, in a patch of dead grass beside the fresh sidewalk. It is not an allusion. Nothing is an allusion anymore. Death is not a pop culture reference, pop culture is a reference to death, and a poem does not have…

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