literary journals

10 poems, video stills and video published in Var 2(x)

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!

“Reality Programmer” video released in Ranger #13

Ranger is an online literary journal of avant garde literature, music, video and visual art; the 13th issue was released recently containing the usual smorgasbord of weird and wonderful challenging works. I’m pleased to be represented in this issue with the glitch music video “Reality Programmer,” which includes difficult music from Hearasay in Paradox Lust.

You can view the video in Ranger here.

Six poems published in Ranger #12

Online literary magazine Ranger recently released its 12th issue, another smorgasbord of experimental artifacts in textual, video, musical and visual forms. I’m pleased to be represented by six poems: “wiggy sip,” “pilled blame,” “prattle burn misc,” “About Calls,” “bastion fire crag,” and “mog turner.” You can read them here.

Five poems published in Utriculi

Utriculi is an online literary journal for experimental writing, and something of a “sequel” to Otoliths, both journals being published by Sandy Press in Australia. The second issue of Utriculi was released recently in print and digital formats, and it seems similarly encyclopedic in scope to the earlier journal, comprising another who’s who of the international literary avant garde. I’m pleased to be represented by five poems (starting on page 150 of Issue 2, Part 1): “guidelines,” “If those aren’t the reasons, what,” “jade slick,” “bezel delight,” and “blade lout parse.”

You can view the complete online issue, both Parts 1 and 2, here. The print issues are available via Amazon here.

Poem in Best of Mad Swirl Anthology #8

Recently received a nice email from Mad Swirl literary magazine announcing that my poem “Free Trip” will be included in their annual Best of Mad Swirl anthology for 2024. This anthology will present the best of 2024’s works posted on MadSwirl.com: art (4 artists, the best of each quarter), short stories (12 stories, the best of each month), and poetry (52 poems, the best of each week). The anthology is issued in print and digital versions; these have yet to be released, so stay tuned!

Video published in Ranger magazine #9

Ranger literary magazine released two issues this winter (!). I had poetry in issue #8. In issue #9, one of my glitch videos is included “That’s Edutainment.” Possibly could be filed under “video poetry”? You can check it out here. The video features music from Hearasay in Paradox Lust, a project which has a brand new Bandcamp page here.

Ranger literary magazine picks up where Angry Old Man (aka, Son of Angry Old Man) left off. It picks up the avant garde literary baton recently passed on by the now defunct Otoliths. Highly recommended.