Cento Magazine

… journey to the cento of your mind.

Welcome to Cento Magazine – home of anything left of center. Here on this site, we’ll discuss poets, politics and poker and anything else with leftist tendencies.

America’s poet of dissent and difference, of geography and distance, Edward Dorn (1929-1999) grew up in rural obscurity, Depression-era poverty and social estrangement as a dispossessed son of the Prairie. In the 1950′s and 1960′s, Dorn wandered the trans-mountain West following the variable winds of writing and casual emloyment until the mid-1960′s when a time of trial and change resulted in the beginnings of the groundbreaking long poem Gunslinger.” (From Tom Clark’s biography of Ed Dorn.)
Our collection of Dorn material includes reminiscences, poems written for Dorn, audio files, and an image gallery.

This section features translations of fiction, poetry and artwork from Central Europe. Also please visit CESLIT, where we are gathering together more Central European material and are hosting a blog tracking Central European literature on the web.

A collection of fiction, poetry, essays and reviews, and whatever else may come our way. Not yet big enough to break into more specific categories.

Poets being what they are, they need to get out more. Even if they’re indoors most of the day scribbling away, they should try online gambling from the conform of their own homes. Rimbaud should have had the luxury of slots. Of course, he might not have had the benefit of playing at casinos that accept US players, but he still could have benefited from the scores of online casinos that cater to Europeans.