Today poetry blog Your One Phone Call published my poem “What River Is This?” You can read the full text here.
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Futures Trading Anthology Five released
An online journal of experimental poetry, Futures Trading compiles its issues into print anthologies. The fifth book was just released as an on-demand paperback, available via Amazon. It’s something of a who’s who of the international experimental poetry “scene,” including work by Mark Young, Volodymyr Bilyk, Eileen Tabios, Mark Cunnngham, Sanjeev Sethi, and many others. I’m pleased to be included with four poems from four different online issues.
“A Spell Through Time” published in Midnight Lane Boutique
Today online literary journal Midnight Lane Boutique published my poem “A Spell Through Time.” This piece is one of the texts from the Doom Pussy series, intended as a kind of incantation from the character herself. In the stories, Doom Pussy is a Kali-esque figure engaged in a total war against a destructive enemy: mankind as a virus.
Be aware that this piece features extreme language.
You can read it here.
There’s also a link to the Doom Pussy story published in Gobbet.
SF story “Ceramic Eyes” published in Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre issue 114, aka “Venusberg” was released last night. It includes my short story “Ceramic Eyes,” mostly science fiction with some weird horror elements. In it, a young woman investigating missing cats finds–and loses–much more than she expected.
You can read it here.
“Don’t Mess with Ouija” published in Your One Phone Call
Poetry blog Your One Phone Call published one of my Ouija poems today, “Don’t Mess with Ouija.” You can read it here.
This is one of a series of pieces featuring a character named Ouija who may or may not be an actual ouija planchette. Your One Phone Call has published three others in the series.
3 Gonch poems published in Ex Ex Lit
Experimental poetry journal Experiential-Experimental-Literature (Ex-Ex-Lit) published three of my “Gonch” poems today: “Chonall Na Lochonga,” “Galla Galla Gan,” and “Nagonall.” You can read them here.
These pieces were written 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.
5 video stills published in M58 journal
Just discovered that experimental poetry journal published five visual poems on March 12. Check out the images here.
These were pulled from my video Succubus Highway, which was previously published on YouTube.
“My Turn to Shine” and 4 other poems in The Curly Mind
Today, experimental poetry journal The Curly Mind published 5 of my poems: “My Turn to Shine,” “Reinforcement Labels,” “Some When,” “The Hold Up,” and “A Dose of Applause.” Seems like they are part of Issue 8. You can read them by clicking the title of each poem above.
DC people may be interested to know that “Reinforcement Labels” is set in Meridian Park (aka Malcolm X Park), and describes a typical weekend scene there, probably on one of the occasions my son and I went there so he could ride his skateboard.
“The Long Fire” and 2 other poems in Synchronized Chaos
Just learned that the latest issue of Synchronized Chaos was released on March 1. This month’s theme relates to journeys, and includes three of my poems: “The Long Fire,” “Complete Breakfast,” and “Come My Brothers, Have a Good Courage and Follow Me.”
You can read them here.
“Too Much of a Good Thing” and 2 other poems published in Ygdrasil
The March 2018 issue of online poetry journal Ygdrasil was released today. It includes three of my poems: “Too Much of a Good Thing,” “Something for Everyone,” and “Under the Weather.” You can read them here.
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