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accepts poetry / prose / hybrid - the aesthetics of dread, iconoclasm, fractured history, etc
ISSUE 4 @huntergagnon

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Excited to present Issue 5
work that questions history, revelation and the concept of language
poems by: Meg Smith @MegSmith_Writer , Ruchi Acharya, Tom Charles Bair III @pilate_lite , Isabella Melians, Vytenis Bagdonas @bagvyt , and Mike Bove
https://t.co/6U9eUyOmtU

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All who have submitted, thanks for bearing with us - all responses are very delayed - one could say the beast writhes, decayed, near absent body, in the sludge of an unspeakable pit

[Meg Smith @MegSmith_Writer]

My short story, "A Spaceman for Christmas," has been accepted to The 13 Days of Christmas anthology from Twelve House Books, due out October 2022!
🖤🚀🪐🎄

[Benjamin Robinson @irishish32]

A publication worth supporting, for the range and depth of its vision and ambition. And hello to @huntergagnon who I see has work in it, he was such a pleasure to correspond with when he published work of mine recently in the excellent @SlouchingBeastJ.
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read the striking "Home alone" by Vytenis Bagdonas @bagvyt

Bagdonas generates an amazing intensity of memory and image here, with details energizing commentary - we loved it, and the dark-dwelling insects too, of course
https://t.co/WsKUYbm1Mh

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Alan Bern's photo-haiga in @ZinDaily!

"... I capture moments, sometimes with the camera on my phone, sometimes with a few words, and sometimes with both... And, yes, it’s often awfully familiar, but there is always something new to see..."

https://t.co/qePGMVFgPQ

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"Rats Live on No Evil Star" by Mike Bove

A sweet poem about child-rearing, anxiety and a very evocative palindrome. The rats are the little fleeting custodians of our dreams. A piece of memory and change.

https://t.co/TeOyc24MRj

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Read and love (as we did) Chella Courington's poems - personal and narrative, they generate a jewel-like reality that allows for intensified cataclysm
"Clouds" and "Close to the Edge"
https://t.co/ugzhxDbeAC

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"MISSIVE TO MY CHILDREN" and "CLATTER OF BLISS"
by Ismail Junaid Oluwadamilare @IsmailJunaidOl1

Thundering language of metaphysical suffering, triumph and warfare - poems acting as incantations and expansions of the personal into cosmic battle

https://t.co/u8UpZ63SDX

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"The coming resort of the world" and "114,901 acres" by Glenn Bach @AtlasCorpus

incredible world-poetry that describes an "Atlas" through scenes of environmental change, expansion, the hungry and terrified spirit-beast of development striding around
https://t.co/EZnEaOjpId

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@TheBitchinK @SanAntoReview @sentiencelit @sepiaorg @sink_magazine @SoFloPoJo @Spectacle_Mag @spellbindermag gratitude 👑

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@amsnowwrites The particular is the universal

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The whole schema! Prize-winning book from past contributor Dennis Hinrichsen published by @GreenLinden1 Includes poems from Issue 2 https://t.co/hPeczZegVh

"—O euro & yen // British pound sterling //
how you see me leaving darkened rooms // hands dripping"

[Green Linden Press @GreenLinden1]

An amazing (and free!) album of 8 poems by Dennis Hinrichsen set to soundscapes by Tom Larter! schema geometrica is the inaugural selection in our Wishing Jewel series, awarded to a collection of poems that challenges our ideas about what a book can be.
https://t.co/SlhAAhEaxy

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Read "Body Count" and "Lucy Terry Prince" by Elizabeth Upshur @Lizzy5by5 in Issue 4

Love these poems that intensely engage with the concept of history - as a personal, scattering, violent concept, redeemed by the possibility of communion through story

https://t.co/jnvnKwfntI

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@KludyHannah Hi Hannah, thanks for reaching out - we've been super behind on the inbox / updates in general, it looks like your pieces (which are great) are still in the "being considered" zone for a future issue - also congratulations again on the publications

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Language battles its own abstraction - "Be Radha, She Wrote On The Back" by Kushal Poddar - emotion narrative inflamed by cosmic imagery, read it! Very good intensification of substance w/ sleeves of myth-images https://t.co/htXwfH00Mz

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@MegSmith_Writer We’re lucky to have them!

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@sepiaorg "Pickpocket God. Deer-antlered God. God of the space
in the center of my back I can’t touch. God of all
spaces and all centers. Loblolly God. God of the Anthropocene." @emmabo

love this

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@CicadaLament praise the insect inheritors

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@InkDrinkers Skunk ape