ULA: the Future of U.S. Literature!

I'm a member of the ULA, the Underground Literary Alliance. We're the only literary activist group in the nation. We're pushing for the publication of relevant literature once again in this country.



Here's a link to a bunch of ULA zeens that are just plain good reading about the everyday life of this here world. It's fun, wild stuff from zeensters who mean bizness: ULA zeens from OYB . Here's the main ULA website, fyi.

We're also launching a new line of books via ULA PRESS in the bold new *OYB CATAZEEN*!

We're making noise in a lot of ways about the state of literature today. We're a small group of totally broke, far-flung readers and writers who are fed up. So we've been acting, and acting up. We're experienced and we know what we're doing. It's working. Very well.

We've busted several corrupt book awards and grants already.

We've gotten amazing coverage in the NYT twice---once in a cover story. The Boston Globe and Washington Post both follow up and report on what we do. We've had big, glossy mag articles on us.

We have the literati on the run, scared.

We say that the MFA system has a lock-grip on literary publishing and that they're driving it into the ground. We say that regular people have given up on quality reading, thinking it's only for out-of-touch NYC limo-elites and the black-turtleneck frumpy wannabes who listen to their exploits on NPR. The status quo today accepts that literature is a tiny niche market.

So we say it's time that zeensters are put on NEA grants panels. That populist publishers be on awards committees. That colleges start studying underground publishing, zeening and alternative literary sources. That folk writing be accepted as EXISTING (right now, folk art is big in music and painting but folk writing is defined out). Oh, we say lots of things. And we do things, and publish, and get the word out.