The Phoenix was founded by James Cooney and his wife, Blanche Cooney (born Rosenthal) in 1938 at an artist’s commune in Woodstock, New York. The magazine was originally dedicated to D.H. Lawrence, who had composed the following lines with reference to the mythic creature in 1932: James Cooney was born in Ireland, July 28, 1848, died November 16, 1904. ... 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... A Commune is a kind of intentional community where most resources are shared and there is little or no personal property. ... Woodstock, New York The name Woodstock is associated with two locales in New York. ... D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885 - 2 March 1930) was one of the most important, certainly one of the most controversial, English writers of the 20th century, who wrote novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters. ... 1932 (MCMXXXII) is a leap year starting on a Friday. ...

 Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change. The phoenix renews her youth only when she is burnt, burnt alive, burnt down to hot and flocculent ash. Then the small stirring of a new small bub in the nest with strands of down like floating ash shows that she is renewing her youth like the eagle, immortal bird. 

Lawrence's posthumous papers bore the same name and had been published in 1936. Posthumous means after death. ... 1936 (MCMXXXVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

A pacifist quarterly, The Phoenix was noteworthy for the willingness of its editors to publish material that the mainstream media would consider countercultural, radical, and revolutionary. The writing of Henry Miller, which could find no outlet elsewhere in the United States at the time, was featured in all of the initial issues, as were excerpts from the diaries of Anaïs Nin. The works of writers such as Hervey White, Kay Boyle and Jean Giono were printed in their entirety, as well as the poetry of Robert Duncan, Raynor Heppenstall, Derek Savage, Thomas McGrath, J. C. Crews and William Everson (Brother Antonius). Image File history File links Phoe. ... Pacifist may mean: an advocate of pacifism. ... Quarterly means once a quarter (i. ... Mainstream is, generally, the common current of thought. ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe a cultural group whose values and norms are at odds with those of the social mainstream. ... Radical is derived from the Latin word radix, which means root. In various fields of endeavor, it can mean: Sciences in chemistry, either an atom or molecule with at least one unpaired electron, or a group of atoms, charged or uncharged, that act as a single entity in reaction. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Revolutions. ... Henry Miller photo taken by Carl Van Vechten, 1940 Henry Valentine Miller (December 26, 1891, Manhattan, New York City–June 7, 1980, Pacific Palisades, California), was an American writer and, to a lesser extent, painter of German Catholic heritage. ... Anaïs Nin Anaïs Nin (February 21, 1903 - January 14, 1977) was a French author who became famous for her published diaries, which span more than sixty years, beginning when she was eleven years old and ending shortly before her death. ... Kay Boyle, born February 19, 1902 in St. ... Jean Giono (March 30, 1895 - October 9, 1970) was a French author, renowned for his works of fiction set in the Provence region of France. ... Robert Duncan may refer to: Robert Duncan (1919-1988), U.S. poet Robert Duncan, U.S. physicist Robert Duncan, British TV comedy actor Robert Duncan McNeill, U.S. actor, director and producer Robert Duncan, Episcopal bishop of Pittsburgh This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages...

The Phoenix published until 1940, when France's fall to the Third Reich sounded the death-knell (however temporarily) for peace periodicals in the United States. 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ...

Second Series

Thirty years later, in 1970, as the Vietnam War spread to Cambodia (and the pacifists grew in number),The Phoenix rose again. Cooney announced the rebirth of his publication in The Massachusetts Review in the following advertisement: 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... The Vietnam War or Second Indochina War was a conflict between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRVN, or North Vietnam), allied with the National Liberation Front (NLF, or Viet Cong) against the Republic of Vietnam (RVN, or South Vietnam), and its allies — notably the United States military in support of...

 ANNOUNCING THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE PHOENIX 

 The Phoenix last appeared in Autumn 1940. Since then the suffering of this country has deepened. Freedom withers. Tyranny flourishes. Joy, gone underground, is led forth with a queerly frantic air at festivals taking place while far-off flashes of napalm transform remote peasant villages into instant crematoriums. 

 The Phoenix is appearing again to offer itself as a medium of communion for those who keep faith in mankind and Creation: a Promethean faith. Manuscripts are invited: completed novels, portions of novels in progress, stories, poems, diaries, letters, wood-blocks & line drawings. Publication will be quarterly and the first new issue is now in progress. Subscription rate is $7.00 a year. Single issues: $2.00. A pamphlet relating the past history of The Phoenix is available on request. Little magazines are always announcing themselves. They come and they go. The Phoenix first appeared on the scene in Spring 1938. Through its pages Henry Miller had his writings published for the first time in the United States. Among other contributors were Anaïs Nin, Robert Duncan, Kay Boyle, William Everson, Thomas McGrath, Derek Savage, Kiedrich Rhys, Jean Giono, Raynor Heppenstall, and D. H. Lawrence. A two-volume facsimile edition of the entire original file of issues, long out of print, is now available in a handsome hard-cover set priced at $55.00. 

 The Phoenix will resume where it left off. Opposing war. Refusing obeisance to tyranny. Rejecting violence as a way to freedom. Welcoming voices of affirmation, intercession, and reconciliation. Receptive to reports from the demonic underworld of irrational consciousness where the healing alchemy of reconciliations must transpire.