The grand plans we had for Better Than the Times have been derailed by my serious illness. I am in a long struggle to stay alive over the next few years, with chemo and radiation and godknowswhat. This means my energy level and time commitments will be less and more irregular than what is needed to build the sort of alternative arts, literature, politics, and social journal.

Given that we already have the space, I have decided to use this as my mostly non poetry blog, updating whenever I write a piece I think a general audience might find useful, entertaining, or something.

I expect to update so that my thoughts are collected monthly and published on the first or very near the first of each month.

We are still open for submissions, and the work of other writers and creators will be featured above my own. So if you have the urge to contribute, please do. For now, the interview with Victoria Law will remain at the top of each issue until something more important comes along. So I hope you read these monthly updates, and I also hope you feel inclined to submit poetry, short stories, reviews, and even interviews. We will remain a left wing publication so don’t bother with MAGA or Heritage Foundation kind of stuff, it wont be published.

Anthony Watkins, publisher