Experimental literary magazine Ranger has released its 15th issue, packed with avant garde poetry, visuals, video, and music. The contents is pictured below.
I’m pleased to be represented by a glitch music video with “anemic” vocalizations, entitled The Interlocutors. Music by Hearasay in Paradox Lust, from the Warlock Zone album (on Bandcamp here). You can check out the video here.
Two of my poems were published in outlaw poetry journal Beatnik Cowboy yesterday: “Chronicle of a Dead Planet” and “Mars Is the New Mars.” You can check them out here.
Today, my poem “The Vlog that Ate the Sun” was published in Mad Swirl literary review. You can read the full poem here.
The new issue of literary magazine Spank the Carp was released today (April 1). I’m pleased to be represented by one poem “If Container.” You can read the complete poem here.
Literary magazine Ranger has just released its 14th issue, packed with experimental works in text, video, video and music formats. Contents in image below.
I’m pleased to be represented by five poems: “Head on Straight,” “See where it gets you,” “Stainless,” “a lay to the lie,” and “present arms.” You can read them all here.
The Spring/Summer 2026 issue of Rat’s Ass Review has been released with a full house of “outlaw” poetry. I’m grateful to be included with one poem called “Some Assembly Required.” You can read the full issue here.
My poem “Wish” was published today in online literary journal Beatnik Cowboy for outlaw writing. You can read it here.
Today my poem “Location, Location, Location” was published in online literary journal Mad Swirl‘s Poetry Forum. You can read the full piece here.
January 6, 2026–Today, a portfolio of my video and text work was published in Var 2(x), an online literary journal for extreme experimentation. Included are 5 video stills with asemic language elements pulled from the raw footage for my music video “New Brain Imprint,” as well as a link to the source video on YouTube. The main feature is a selection of 10 text pieces: “dole plot,” “badge of dolor,” “Arriba malfunction,” “regular quill,” “scrap grind hotel,” “taps patent fait enter,” “wailing watcher weight,” “game life atoll,” “change delinquent,” and “anti-rule characterized.”
The editors put all this under the headline “The Glitch Poetics of Jeff Bagato,” which seems a pretty good descriptor of this period of my written work. I’ll have to start using that tag myself!
Keep Your Ear to the Ground: A History of Punk Fanzines in Washington, DC was recently published by Georgetown University Press. Written by John Davis, member of punk band Q and Not U and an archivist at the University of Maryland library (he commands the DC Punk Archive there), this large tome makes a case for the strength of the DC zine scene of decades past. My own fanzine, Mole, is represented in the book on pages 204-206; there are pictures of two issues, and a rather nice capsulized history of the 13 issues published from 1989 to 2001. The only “error” is citing Mole as a photocopied zine; to set the record straight, Mole was pro-printed by offset printing for the duration of its run.
There’s much I didn’t know about DC zinedom past. From my recollections of the 90s, I would not have said a book was merited, but Davis dug deep and it’s a strong showing. If you’re not already sick and tired of the zine hype, you may want to check it out.
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