The Pacific Takes a Break
The Pacific will be taking a print and nature sabbatical for awhile, not sure how long, perhaps the rest of the spring and summer. Poets may still send work. If it meets…
An Alleged Copy of a White House Transcript Provided Courtesy of Russia
Discussion in the Offal Office of The White House via the Great Generosity of Russia !Official Transcript! cc: U.S.A. Russian Foreign Minister: Hey, Donny. What’s new? President T.: I get great…
Riverboat Sam: “Our President is Singing Like a Canary”
By Riverboat Sam, technical specialist/digital skeptic If brevity is the soul of wit, Twitter is the home of witlessness. The problem as it strikes a very old guy like me is…
The Pacific Letting the Naturally Satirical Material in Washington, D.C. Speak for Itself
The Pacific regrets it will not be posting much satire for the next few days due to the reality show some refer to as The White House. We simply cannot compete…
Rumple Oxbridge: “Liberal Verse is No Crime”
By Rumple Oxbridge, liberally elite writer of criminal verse A journalist of the conservative type has branded my satirical prayer “a crime against the idea of verse.” Well, well. I plead…
T.S. Swanky: “Darwin was Right About Health Care”
By T.S. Swanky, The Pacific’s confused conservative When liberals say they value scientific theories like evolution and “global warming,” what they mean is that they like liberal science, the kind…
The New Liberal Spirit of Poetry
By John Kaufman For most of the 20th Century, the biggest political battle in the world of poets and poetry revolved around questions of craft: modernism vs. formalism, free verse vs.…
Riverboat Sam: “Night Surfing Not a Brilliant Idea”
“We hear all our lives about the ‘gentle, stormless Pacific,’ and about the ‘smooth and delightful route to the Sandwich Islands,’ and about the ‘steady blowing trades’ that never vary,…
Pacific Follies: White House Explains Missing “Armada” and Unwisely Threatens North Korea Again
By John Kaufman, sole member of The Pacific’s Editorial Committee It turns out that what the Trump White House meant to say is that the U.S. aircraft carrier USS Carl…
A Statement Against the U.S. Missile Strikes & Escalating War in Syria
By John Kaufman On the 100th anniversary of the United States’ entry into World War I (the war that failed, as all the others have, to “end all wars”), President Donald Trump reportedly…
The “Human Rights Poetry” of Yevgeny Yevtushenko Very Relevant Today
By John Kaufman Speaking of his poetry, here’s what Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who died yesterday in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 84, told the Associated Press in an…
