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
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
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!
🖤🚀🪐🎄
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
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
"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
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
"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
"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
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"
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
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
@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
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
@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