by Carolyn Williams-Noren
Selected by Guest Editor Joobin Bekhrad
(Headlines from the magazine, June 1932 to May 1939)
American Mercury
America’s Number One Fool
The Truth About Hair Tonics
Is Roosevelt a Socialist?
Are Dogs People? What is
Mussolini? What About
“The Revolution”? The Boast
The Overprivileged The End
of America The Lost Art
of Homebrewing
Emancipating the American
Male America
for Americans? Requiem
for the League of Nations
The Question of the Hour
Have You Had Your
Appendix Out? How Long
Can Hitler Stay? Why You Fear
the Dentist The Truth
About Sleep Our Enemy,
the Cat Enemies
Are Valuable Why We
Do Not Behave
Like Human Beings The Fallacy
of Free Trade What Republicans
Won’t Do Against an American
Third Party Do You
Wear Eyeglasses? Are Conservatives
Naturally Stupid? Are Small Towns
Doomed? Has Insulin
Failed? Is Patriotism
Necessary? The Case for
Economic Nationalism The End
of Democracy What is
Democracy? Why
Aren’t You Healthy?
Why Change America? On Facing
the Next War It Is Even Worse
in England
Editorial Response by Joobin Bekhrad
I’m Afraid of Americans,
As the World Falls Down.
Candidate, Cracked Actor;
Future Legend: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow.
Ashes to Ashes, Day In, Day Out;
Criminal World, Slow Burn.
God Knows I’m Good.
Do Anything You Say, I Dig Everything.
I Pity the Fool. I’m Deranged.
It’s Gonna Be Me. It Ain’t Easy.
The Pretty Things are Going to Hell,
Scary Monsters and Super Creeps.
Look Back in Anger, Scream Like a Baby.
Carolyn Williams-Noren’s poems have appeared in Salamander, Gigantic Sequins, Sugar House Review, and elsewhere. She’s the author of a chapbook, Small Like a Tooth (dancing girl press, 2015) and the founder and caretaker of a free poetry library in the Minneapolis neighborhood where she lives with her family.
