Front Cover Painting by Haideen Anderson

Mitchel Cohen lives in "The People's Republic of Brooklyn," and for many years made his living (such as it is) selling his poems in the subways. He was a founding member of the Red Balloon Collective and its "poetry conspiracy" at SUNY Stony Brook in 1969 and edited its journal through the decades. Mitchel was one of the "Liberty Bell 7," arrested for demanding freedom for political prisoners Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier. He co-founded and coordinates the No Spray Coalition <www.nospray.org>, works with Recycle This! and NY State Against Genetic Engineering, served on the Local Station Board of WBAI Radio (99.5 FM), and co-edits "G", the newspaper of the NY State Greens/Green Party of New York.

The Permanent Carnival Poems
by Mitchel Cohen
$14.00

Softcover - 66 pages

The Permanent Carnival
Brooklyn Beneath the Toxic Plume
Plowing the Snow
Nuclear Family
The Unrepentant Bather (90 Miles Out)
Styrofoam
Bensonhurst
Bombing the Bridge to the 21st Century
Waitress from Another Country
Remembrance of Allen Ginsberg
If You're Happy & You Know it... Bomb Iraq
Howling Nader
The Pope of Helado
Waking to the Shock
Genetic Enginearings
They Want to Raise the Fare Again
Assumptions
The Middle-of-the-Roader
Nicaragua Notebook
And We Thought Imperialism Was a Margarine
New Hampshire in Autumn
Groundhog Day Haiku
The Bones of September
Waiting