The Winter 2019 issue of Rat’s Ass Review was released today. Lots of great stuff in this issue. I’m pleased to be part of it with one poem called “Hot Dogs Can’t Sing.” Excerpt below. Check out the full issue here.
Lit Rag Roulette
“Gravy Pills,” one other text, and five asemic vispo published in Otoliths 55
Just released, Otoliths #55, the Southern Autumn 2019 issue, is jam packed as usual with fine text, vispo and hybrid experiments from across the international literary avant garde. I’m pleased to be represented with two new texts, “Gravy Pills” and “Phantom Gold,” plus five new visual poems with asemic writing. You can view them here.
The texts continue experiments with AI language poems, this time using vocabulary drawn from the magical thinking of the average American. The vispo are a small selection from a kind of diary of a extraplanetary colony world.
“Corporeal Economics” published in Streetcake #64
An online literary magazine for experimental poetry, Streetcake just released its 64th issue today–the largest I’ve seen to date. This one includes my poem “Corporeal Economics.”
You can view the entire issue here.
5 asemic vispo published in Utsanga
Utsanga just released it’s third quarterly issue for the year, jammed with great cutting edge poetry and discussions of poetic possibility from across the international avant garde. I’m pleased to be represented with some new work–five vispo images with asemic writing. This is part of a much larger series that I completed this summer.
Check it out here.
“A Bone and Its Dog” published in Slipstream 39
Just received my copy of Slipstream #39 in the mail yesterday. This new issue is themed “Boneyards, Junkyards and Backyards”–80 pages of poetry in an outlaw mode. Lots of great stuff, judging by the brief time I’ve flipped through it. This is a print-only magazine, so copies can be purchased direct through the journal’s website.
I’m pleased to be represented here with one poem, “A Bone and Its Dog.”
“Silver Tree in the Black Castle” and three other poems published in Ygdrasil
The August 2019 issue of online literary journal Ygdrasil was released on July 10. It includes four of my poems from the Civilization’s Lost series: “The Silver Tree in the Black Castle,” “Capital Ruins,” “Early Observatory,” and “Erasing the Temple.” This series examines lost civilizations from around the world to highlight the fragility of languages, cultures and nations in the wake of the current American regime. You can read the whole issue here.
“This Changes Everything” and two other poems plus four vispo published in Otoliths
Otoliths 54, the Southern Winter 2019 issue, was released today, encompassing another encyclopedic cross section of the international avant garde in textual and visual works. I’m very pleased to be included with four visual poems and three new text pieces: “This Changes Everything,” “See What’s All About,” and “What We See.” You can check them out here.
The vispo are part of a small series of “tape sample” works made by pulling images from a daily newspaper using cellophane tape. The texts are part of a series inspired by the Facebook AI units that created their own language using English words with new semantic and syntactical values.
“Last Gasp” published in Streetcake
The July issue of online experimental poetry journal Streetcake, which is number 63, was just released–one of the largest of their issues I’ve seen. This one includes my poem “Last Gasp.” You can check it all out here.
“Don’t Fear the Rainbow” and one other poem published in Unlikely Stories
A great, long-running literary journal based in New Orleans, Unlikely Stories expands its online component with a monthly literary salon, book publishing, video readings and more. I’m pleased to announe two of my poems were published on the site today: “Don’t Fear the Rainbow” and “A Picnic Full of Secrets.” You can read them here.
Five visual poems published in Utsanga
Utsanga is an online journal for experimental literary work, edited from Italy. Utsanga #20 was released recently, filled with visual and textual work from across the international avant garde. According to the Facebook announcement:
“Utsanga.it: il numero 20, giugno 2019, è online con Wellington Amancio, Mariangela Guatteri, David Chirot, Anna Serra, Ruggero Maggi, Michael Filler, Nico Vassilakis, Kristine Snodgrass, Paolo Allegrezza, Carmine Lubrano, Martina Stella, Marcus Volz, Leo Barth, David Kjellin, Stephen Nelson, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, Karla Van Vliet, Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset, Vitaldo Conte, Volodymyr Bilyk, Francesco Aprile, Simon Costello, Sacha Archer, Richard James Biddle, Oronzo Liuzzi, Nùria Martìnez Vernis, Nancy Scott Bell, Mark Young, Louis Crane, John M. Bennett, Tom Cassidy, Jeff Bagato, Hank Lazer, Giovanni Cardone, Giorgio Moio, Giorgia Romagnoli, George Sabov, Du Ru Xie Bai, Chris Turnbull, Cecelia Chapman, Jeff Crouch, Carla Hackenschmidt, Cal Priest, József Bíró, Bill Bissett, Annie Bergson, Anna Boschi, Alexander Limarev, Neus Borrell, Pierre Bastien i Nicodemes Mendes.”
I’m pleased to be included with five pieces of visual poetry from an early tape sample series. All the pieces were made by “sampling” daily newspapers using cellophane tape. You can check out the selection here.
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