“Trusting to escape scrutiny, by fixing the public gaze upon the exceeding brightness of
military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye,
that charms to destroy—he plunged into war.”
—ABRAHAM LINCOLN, writing about
James K. Polk, another “war president.”

CONTRIBUTORS

JOE REBHOLZ, artist, & MICHAEL ANNIS, editor

Statements Re: OMEGA 6's Artwork

3 FRANK WINTERS

Amerika

4 OSWALD LE WINTER

For the Marine Dead in Iraq, A Tide of Honors

5 WILL INMAN

Poem for the Voice of America, & a Tribute by Dick Bakken

6 LEIGH HERRICK

little nothings (enlisted and laboring), Fracture for Target Practice, kendo wants 2B1
w/the sword, anybody's gaza, 1:3-05, Anti-Terror Movin' In Blues

7 ALAN BRITT

And Justice for All, WMDs, Drinking Rosé, Twist of Fate, Christians on the Euphrates, 2004,
The Leaves of Joy

8 - 9 NORMAN MACAFEE

Life During the Coup, For Robert Kennedy's 80th Birthday Celebration

10 STANWOOD WALKER

Juggernaut, Caesar, The New Olympians, Ulysses in the Oranges

11 ADRIENNE FIORELLA

Young Soldiers - They Are Always Icarus, Shaman, Subclinical Signs of Impending Doom,
A Quadrillion Words

12 ANTHONY SEIDMAN

Noise, The Love's Mistery, What Is Drafted on Gorky's Anatomical Blackboard,
Coatlicue, Whose Name Means "Serpent Skirt," Money

13 - 14 SHAWN BARRIENTOS

America, Rantings of "P.C." Irrelevance, or Because I'm Jaded, Blood, Crying, Life,
I Want to Be Stone Deaf, Lists, Sleep, First Break

15 - 16 EP ALLAN

The American Dream, Ithaca, The Truth, The Rats of Hell, Odysseus's Oar

17 - 18 ANDRÉ SANT’ANNA

Love

19 GEORGE KALAMARAS

Our Desire, Love, Lust, and Loss, Kindly Ask Whose It Is, Good, Bad, Indifferent

20 MARILYN COFFEY

Peace March, 1967

21 HELLER LEVINSON

Val Kilmer in Tombstone, Read Eliot's Little Gidding in Will Rogers PO, Santa Monica,
CA 12/19/2005 (310) 576-6783 12:06:31 PM, Souring Suburban Contingency Fields,
Bill Paying as Creative Entelechy, Cowboy Perfect

22 - 23 DAVID RAY

Credo, A Man with a Cross, The Difference, To a Detainee, Out of the Spigot,
Interstate I-25, New Mexico, A Survivor of the Vietnam War Years

24 REX BUTTERS

American Nero, dog park priorities

25 MARY HAMRICK

Columbina's Electroshock Treatment (1940s), Hurricane, The Stages of Certain Friendships

26 JOHN BRYAN

Heydrich at Wannsee, Convolution Bolus, Nipples Indistinguishable from Goosebumps,
Combinations Divide into Complications, Cryptozoology

27 DAVID CHORLTON

A Short Account of Landscape Art, Morning, Free Verse,
Suitable Subjects for Poetry, Night Thoughts

28 CORDLEY COIT

untitled

29 KENNETH ROSEN

Homo Politico I, Homo Politico II, Onetti, Glad as a Hibiscus, Telmah, The Donkey with the Broken Tooth, Command the Children to Shout

30 LILVIA SOTO

America, Inc., Of Stature and Spindle Cells: A Job Description, Two Flags

31 TONY CHRISTINI

Selections from "HOMEFRONT"

32 DICK BAKKEN

Three Snapshots Thirty Years Old, For Prenati in the Street, I Am Hungry,
Last Will & Testament

33 THOMAS [WORDWULF] STERNER-HOWE

Quodlibet (part 4), The Hundred Bites

34 BLAZE / BLAZING WHITEWOLF

Alone ... In Societies Country Club

35 ANNMARIE ELDON

Strange Dates II, Strange Dates IV (Where Micky Meets Jacky), Lost Paintings:
(VI) Botticelli's "Venus in Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation"
Commissioned by an Anonymous Medici or "Death of Venus"

36 VAN BROCK

Calling 911-SOS, After the Destructive Hurricanes, Search for the Afghan Girl,
The Murder of Tamba Smallboy, Taxi Driver, Cold Front

37 - 38 SANDRA M. RUSHING

From The Judas Legacy: "American Shadow Symbols"

39 SETH

To the C.I. Of A., When the Ayes Lie, Atom Adam, Perambulation

40 URSULA CARLSON

The Legacy, Refugees on S.S. General Black: 1949, Immigrants, 1949, Dead Months

41 KIRIL ROSENOVICH

A Word on Samson, Blackish Dog, The Bereaved

42 LISA BEATMAN

Schvarze, 1960, Got It, Manufacturing America, Crumbs, Citizen Delia,
76 Properzi Way, Somerville, Nursery

43 [HORUS8] jeremi handrinos

The Christian Science Monitor Knows Science & God, but Only When It's Convenient for Them,
The Grand Adjustment, Lifestyles of the Ripe & Glamourless at Spring Break,
Rape My Ass with Your Shoe, The Christ Omelette

44 ANNA LYNN HAMMOND

Remembering the Dismembered

45 JOE REBHOLZ & DAVID RAY

America, Inc., Of Stature and Spindle Cells: A Job Description, Two Flags

46 MIKE CEREAL

The Fraternity Beercan Monks, Manifest Holocaust, Dull Pink Digits,
The Internet Popped My Cherry, Ed Gein and His Bewildered Brothers
(blame it on the mothers)

47 [DR. MELAMPUS] devin wayne davis

owl, sol fa, butane, filament, gazelle, obeys j, family, crack a safe,
pyramid, twitching, canon

48-49 BRUCE AXELROD

forthcoming

50 MICHAEL ANNIS & JEFFREY ETHAN LEE’S GRADUATE STUDENTS

A Poetry Weaving, Prisoners in Our Fortresses

51-52 ROBERT PULLMAN

The Warren Street Slave Market, Andy Warhol People, Induction Day, The Fort Dix Stockade,
Full Moon Incidents, Zabar's People, Naked, How Crazy Was I?,
Life Saver, The Day It Rained Fifty Dollar Bills

53 ERIC VELEY

forthcoming

54 PAUL CORMAN ROBERTS

forthcoming

55 ANTLER

How to Explain the War to Your Children