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!
publications
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.
Long poem excerpt published in Ranger magazine
I’ve been working on a long poem for a while now, a “sequel” to my earlier book And the Trillions. For those eagerly anticipating the release of And the Trillions Part 2, an excerpt has been published in Ranger magazine #8. The poem has certain distinct sections, and this one is called the “rag doll” section. You can check it out here. Here’s an excerpt of the excerpt:
Ranger literary magazine is the follow up to Angry Old Man (then Son of Angry Old Man), and is picking up where Otoliths left off as a kind of encyclopedic treatment of the international literary avant garde. Highly recommended.
Poems published in Ranger #7
A literary magazine for extreme experimental work, Ranger #7 was recently issued in September (alongside issue #6). Large eclectic roundup of interesting text, visual, video and musical work. I’m pleased to be represented in this issue by ten poems: “brass spittoons once so public,” “when you’re looking for answers,” “You’re trying to make, even if it’s just to have,” “There’s this way,” “tandem align,” “spatter. bits,” “Wooden Lightbulb,” “mass calculus,” “obligation,” and “window on the world to nowhere.” You can read them here.
Music video “Technobabylon” published in Ranger magazine
“The Joys of Serf Culture” published in 13 Miles from Cleveland
My poem “The Joys of Serf Culture” was published in 13 Miles from Cleveland literary magazine, Volume 6 Number 1 for 2024. I’m a bit behind in posting, as this was released in January. You can read the full poem here, just scroll down a bit. Lots of interesting Vispo and text work from familiar and unfamiliar names.
This is actually a reprint, the poem first appearing in Mad Swirl on April 24, 2021. I’m pleased to see it getting new life.
“Free Trip” published in Mad Swirl’s Poetry Forum
On March 9, Mad Swirl literary journal published my poem “Free Trip.” You can read it here.
Text and video published in Ranger magazine
Ranger Magazine #4 was released in January 2024 featuring a wide array of experimental work in many formats. I’m pleased to be represented with two videos and six poems. The videos are “Tiger Song” and “ET ABC,” both featuring asemic language imagery and asemic vocals in the electronic soundtrack by Hearasay in Paradox Lust. The poems are “baiting,” “better get,” “whether tube or tunnel,” “we must,” “pointers pointing,” and “way out.” You can view the videos here and the poems here.
Video, vispo and text published in Ranger
Ranger is a new literary magazine focusing on experimental text, visual and hybrid work from the editor of the defunct Angry Old Man journal. Ranger #2 was released on August 3, filled with experiments of all kinds. Witness the contents here. I’m pleased to be represented by a portfolio of new work including video, video stills/vispo, and text pieces.
My video “Phantom Broadcast” features asemic visual elements and an electronic soundtrack that includes asemic vocalizations. I pulled 20 stills from the video to demonstrate the asemic text. You can view this stuff here.
There are also seven text pieces, including “can’t go back,” “Good Times,” “It’s down to this,” “collect afraid,” “A Resource,” “There goes another angel,” and “Click the topic to access a collection of images.” You can read them here.
New work in last Otoliths: asemic video, asemic vispo, text
The last issue of Otoliths, Issue 70 for Southern Winter, was published July 30, and it bows out in classic encyclopedic style, covering an even wider gathering of experimental poets, writers and artists from around the world than ever before. As editor Mark Young noted in his announcement email, “This last issue is immense & ranges from the dunes of Oceano across to the battlefields of Ukraine, from Scandinavia down to the unceded lands of South Australia. It contains reviews, memoirs, collages, photographs, paintings, vispo, text poems, short stories, videos, combinations of the preceding plus a few other things.” The contents is too huge to paste on this post, but can be marveled at here.
I can’t say enough good things about Otoliths, as it has always seemed like the literary journal of record for the “international avant garde” ever since I discovered it in 2016, and I’ve been grateful for all the times my work has appeared on its pages. This last blast is no exception. You can find new video, vispo and text from me in these pages.
My video “New Brain Imprint” incorporates asemic textual elements in the imagery as well as what I’m calling “asemic vocalizations” in the electronic soundtrack (credited to my music project Hearasay in Paradox Lust). You can view the video here. There are ten stills pulled from the video, demonstrating the asemic text, which can be viewed here. There are also ten text pieces here, including “some functions of lingual,” “say out noise,” “tailing action float,” “talker view,” “day lag,” “palest pensive,” “nettle pack lock swell,” “laugh track to everything,” “gurgle, fetter, blessed,” and “This Immersion.”
Otoliths will be missed. It’s passing leaves a huge void in the literary journal world. But we will (hopefully) have the online archives in perpetuity, and there are print versions to be acquired on Lulu. Long live Otoliths!
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