Night Garden Journal (formerly Black Poppy Review) features dark and atmospheric poems. Today, my poem “Neon Dust Falling Out of Time” was published. You can read the full piece here.
Lit Rag Roulette
One Gonch poem published in Ex-Ex-Lit
Just discovered that one Gonch poem appeared in Ex-Ex-Lit journal on June 11. This one is “Nag Nag Nallanach Gonhal,” and you can read the full thing here.
“Ass Splatter at the Beach” and “Debugging the Popular Wisdom” published at Thirteen Myna Birds
Online poetry blog Thirteen Myna Birds has an unusual format, presenting a flock of thirteen poems or visuals at a time, etherizing them from the site when the next flock lands. The June flock was published today, including two of my poems: “Ass Splatter at the Beach” and “Debugging the Popular Wisdom.” You can read them here–but do it soon, as they may be gone in a month or so.
“Watermelon Void” and “A Little Vanity in Everyone” published in Sheila-Na-Gig online
The new issue of Sheila-Na-Gig online poetry journal (Vol 2.4, Summer 2018) was released today. This one contains a special section of poets who are also editors of literary journals–which seems a pretty nice way to scope out future submissions. LOL
Anyway, this issue includes two of my poems, “Watermelon Void” and “A Little Vanity in Everyone.” The first meditates on the joys of summer that mask the pains, and the second, uh, seems to be about the queen of the squirrels. You can read them here.
Gonch poems and images in Utsanga
Utsanga is an online journal for experimental writing based in Italy. Randomly checking in on it today, I was pleased to discover that a selection of my Gonch work had been published in Issue 15 on March 27. As you can see from the contents page above, this includes three text poems, six images from the Gonchlog, and my statement about the work. The texts are “Ancollachan Nog Nallanach,” “Chocnahal Clacano,” and Gnaachnalahal gon Lagan.” You can read the text works here, view the Gonchlog images here, and read the statement here.
Here’s part of the statement I contributed to explain the Gonch project:
The text pieces are new work using a vocabulary limited to words invented from the nonsense phrase “All Gonch.” It’s an attempt to create a new language, imagining also the culture behind it through the shape and structure of the words, that might arise after the death of the current (American) culture and language.
The images are part of another phase of the Gonch project I call the Gonchlog. In this process, I search through consumer magazines and cut out the five letters of “gonch,” then glue them onto accounting paper. The source, its date of publication, and volume number are noted. The intention is to draw out that key nonsense word from these commercial propaganda vehicles in order to find a way forward.
Gnarled Oak #15 compilation published
The final issue of Gnarled Oak has been compiled as online and PDF issues, available free at the journal’s web page. Titled Walking through Clouds, this is issue number 15. The editor has been slowly publishing the contents piece by piece over the last month or so, and now the issue is complete. I’m pleased to say it includes my short video poem “Crushed Bits” alongside the textual micropoetry and microfiction. Short reads for your lazy summer dayz.
“Love in Space” published at Horror Sleaze Trash
Online literature and underground culture journal Horror Sleaze Trash published my science fiction story “Love in Space” today. This is one of a few pieces featuring the character Jean Savage. This one should come with some kind of trigger warning for the extreme sexual situations, but there is a deeper literary purpose. You can read it here.
It’s kind of funny how the editor dug up that photo from an Internet search. One never knows the things that are floating around out there.
“Prayers of the Day” in Poetry Pacific
Just noticed that issue 7.1 of online poetry journal Poetry Pacific was released on May 5. This one includes my poem “Prayers of the Day.” You can check it out here.
“Joys of Doggerland and 5 other poems in Word for/Word
Online literary journal focuses on experimental visual and text works. The new issue #31 is out. I’m pleased to be part of this one with six poems: “Joys of Doggerland,” “Dimming of the Haruspex,” “Standing Stone,” “Electromagnetic Pulse,” “Efface the New Caesar,” and “Cold Fortress.” You can read them here.
All these pieces are based on various lost cities or civilizations around the world. This series was inspired by current US affairs, which really made me think about the fragility of languages, cultures and nations.
“Rabbit Lies Scheming” in Mad Swirl
I’m pleased to announce that online poetry journal Mad Swirl published my poem “Rabbit Lies Scheming” today. You can read it here.
I wrote a few poems with a trickster rabbit as a main character–not so much inspired by Bugs Bunny as the Mayan Rabbit. In this one, Rabbit plots a hold-up, “dreaming of a better life so you won’t have to.”
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