Issue 1
fall 2012
Daniel Ari
Felino A. Soriano
Taylor Bush
Tyrel Kessinger
David Spicer
Leila A. Fortier
Allie Batts
Rachel Carbonell
Julius Kalamarz
Cindy Rinne
Erik Hoff Rzepka
William Burke
André V. Katkov
Yazmin Wheelock *2012 shuf contest winner
Eleanore Bennent
Felino A. Soriano
Taylor Bush
Tyrel Kessinger
David Spicer
Leila A. Fortier
Allie Batts
Rachel Carbonell
Julius Kalamarz
Cindy Rinne
Erik Hoff Rzepka
William Burke
André V. Katkov
Yazmin Wheelock *2012 shuf contest winner
Eleanore Bennent
JULIUS KALAMARZJULIUS KALAMARZ received his MFA from Columbia University. His work appeared in Opium Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, >kill author, Ninth Letter, DEAR SIS, and elsewhere. PIROULETTE—an automatic last words generator (LCD screen, wood) showed last year in Apexart's, "Let It End Like This." AVENIR (24 boxed postcards based on the work of Yves Klein) was published as Object 009 in the ZIMZALLA Avant Object Series.
The work is a series of objects defined by statements of non-facts that, never-the-less, convey elements of truth through fragmentation and absurdity. -Dot (red)
-Dot (blue) -Bird (blue) |
CINDY RINNECINDY RINNE creates art and writes in San Bernandino, CA. Cindy won an Honorable Mention in The Rattling Wall Poetry Contest. Cindy is a Guest Author for Saint Julian Press. She is a founding member of PoetrIE, an Inland Empire based literary community. Her work appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Quarterly, Welter Literary Magazine, The Sand Canyon Review, Inlandia: A Literary Journal, Lili Literary Journal, The Halfpenny Marvel, and Phantom Seed. Cindy is collaborating on two chapbooks.
Her website can be found here. -Zebras
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William BurkeWilliam Burke is a poet from Maine. his chapbook “The World is Full of Peasants” is available from Slash Pine Press. His work has appeared or will appear in Hot Metal Bridges, Witness, Shampoo and Boo: A Journal of Terrific Things.
More of his poetry (along with sound bits and an interview) can be found here. -A Friday
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Leila A. FortierLEILA A. FORTIER is a poet, artist, and photographer currently residing on the remote island of Okinawa, Japan. Her unique visual poetry is the specially crafted formation of abstract designs, often accompanied by her own multi-medium forms of art, photography, and spoken performance. Much of her work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, German, Hindi, and Japanese in a rapidly growing project to raise global unity and understanding through the cultural diversity of poetry and literature.
Her work in all its mediums has been published in a vast array of literary magazines, journals, and reviews both in print and online. In 2007 she initiated the anthology A World of Love: Voices for Carmen as a benefit against domestic violence and in 2010 composed a photo book entitled Pappankalan, India: Through the Eyes of Children to benefit the education of impoverished Indian children. She is also the author of Metanoia's Revelation through iUniverse. Her website can be found here. -Involuntary
-Annointing Kiss |
David SpicerDAVID SPICER is the author of one full-length collection of poems, Everybody Had a Story (St. Luke's Press) and four chapbooks plus six unpublished poetry manuscripts. His poems have appeared or will appear in The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Alcatraz, Nitty Gritty, Thunder Sandwich, Mad Rush, Hinchas de Poesia, Crack the Spine, New Verse News, Fur-Lined Ghettos, and elsewhere. He is also the former editor and publisher of raccoon, Outlaw, and Ion Books.
He says his poetry strives "to marry the lyric and mythic qualities of poetry with narrative possibilities of fiction." -One, Two, Three, And Four
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Allie Batts
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Daniel AriPracticing poetry for 28 years, DANIEL ARI writes and publishes; performs solo work based on favorite poems by Roethke, Cummings, Oliver, Yeats, and others; and leads creative writing classes and jams. Writer's Digest, Conscious Dancer, Ceramics Now, Turbulence, 42 Magazine, and McSweeneys have recently published his writing.
His runs the blogs the INLAID EAR and IMUNURI. -andandandand
-Loper v Riva -Texture & Discovery |
Julius KalamarazJULIUS KALAMARZ received his MFA from Columbia University. His work appeared in Opium Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, >kill author, Ninth Letter, DEAR SIS, and elsewhere. PIROULETTE—an automatic last words generator (LCD screen, wood) showed last year in Apexart's, "Let It End Like This." AVENIR (24 boxed postcards based on the work of Yves Klein) was published as Object 009 in the ZIMZALLA Avant Object Series.
The work is a series of objects defined by statements of non-facts that, never-the-less, convey elements of truth through fragmentation and absurdity. -Dot (blue)
-Bird (blue) -Dot (red) |
Felino A. SorianoFELINO A. SORIANO has authored 51 collections of poetry, including Of oscillating fathoms these nonverbal chants (Argotist Eboos, 2012), Analyzed Depictions (white sky books, 2012) and Intentions of Aligned Demarcations (Desperanto, 2011). He publishes the online endeavors Counterexample Poetics and Differentia Press. His work finds foundation in philosophical studies and connection to various idioms of jazz music. He lives in California with his wife and family and is a case manager and advocate for adults with developmental and physical disabilities.
His poems are from a series entitled Quartet Dialogues, which interprets dialogical occurrences between a jazz quartet. These particular poems are from the saxophone section. -From Quartet Dialogues
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Rachel CarbonellRACHEL CAROBONELL is a writer, artist, and teacher living in Brooklyn, New York. She maintains a blog, "Reviews and Reflections of Southwilliamsburger," and her Twitter handle is @RachelOliviaNYC. Rachel has been published in such literary journals as Prick of the Spindle, The Vagrant Literary Quarterly, Burning Word and The Common Voice. She holds a B.A. in English from Oberlin College and an M.A. in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU, as well as a Certificate in Publishing fromNYU.
-the Traveler/urban traveler
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Tyrel KessingerTYREL KESSINGER lives, works, and writes in Louisville, Kentucky. There's the wife, two dogs, cat and all the other trappings of a fairly normal life. His work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, and Grey Sparrow Journal, among many others, and his most recent chapbook, "An Absence of Scientific Nomenclature" is forthcoming from the Red Ochre LIT B&W series. In 2011, he won the Literary LEO Magazine Award for Short Fiction. He also volunteers as a Contributing Editor for Blackheart Magazine and a Contribution writer for 22 Magazine. Atticus Coleman created a video for Wampum.
-Wampum
-To & From |
cindy rinneCINDY RINNE creates art and writes in San Bernandino, CA. Cindy won an Honorable Mention in The Rattling Wall Poetry Contest. Cindy is a Guest Author for Saint Julian Press. She is a founding member of PoetrIE, an Inland Empire based literary community. Her work appeared or is forthcoming in Poetry Quarterly, Welter Literary Magazine, The Sand Canyon Review, Inlandia: A Literary Journal, Lili Literary Journal, The Halfpenny Marvel, and Phantom Seed. Cindy is collaborating on two chapbooks.
Her website can be found here. -Popeye
-Zebras |
Tyrel KessingerTYREL KESSINGER lives, works, and writes in Louisville, Kentucky. There's the wife, two dogs, cat and all the other trappings of a fairly normal life. His work has appeared in 3:AM Magazine, Prick of the Spindle, and Grey Sparrow Journal, among many others, and his most recent chapbook, "An Absence of Scientific Nomenclature" is forthcoming from the Red Ochre LIT B&W series. In 2011, he won the Literary LEO Magazine Award for Short Fiction. He also volunteers as a Contributing Editor for Blackheart Magazine and a Contributin writer for 22 Magazine. Atticus Coleman created a video for Wampum.
-To & From
-Wampum |
Erik Hoff RzepkaERIK HOFF RZEPKA is an interdisciplinary researcher interested in the intersections of art, science, philosophy, poetry, and coincident practices. This multidimensional work has its principle documented home in the multi-locational virtual space that is the internet.
With different locations, labels and multimedia forms throughout the web, the work finds a theoretical and navigational base in the conceptual, post-commercialist tactical hub that is x-o-x-o-x.com It formally and conceptually explores the amorphous and organic which operate as a mirror to our corporate-virtual ordering system. The abstract precedes the authorial-particular, and the inevitably-embodied transgression of alterity that responds to that consistency. This evolving body of work has been published, presented, and exhibited internationally. Check out this to have your mind blown. -proof
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LEILA A. FORTIERLEILA A. FORTIER is a poet, artist, and photographer currently residing on the remote island of Okinawa, Japan. Her unique visual poetry is the specially crafted formation of abstract designs, often accompanied by her own multi-medium forms of art, photography, and spoken performance. Much of her work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, German, Hindi, and Japanese in a rapidly growing project to raise global unity and understanding through the cultural diversity of poetry and literature.
Her work in all its mediums has been published in a vast array of literary magazines, journals, and reviews both in print and online. In 2007 she initiated the anthology A World of Love: Voices for Carmen as a benefit against domestic violence and in 2010 composed a photo book entitled Pappankalan, India: Through the Eyes of Children to benefit the education of impoverished Indian children. She is also the author of Metanoia's Revelation through iUniverse. Her website can be found here. -Annointing Kiss
-Involuntary |
Allie BattsALLIE MARINI BATTS is a graduate of New College of Florida, meaning she can explain deconstructionism, but cannot perform simple math. Her work has appeared in over eighty literary magazines her family hasn't heard of. Allie calls Tallahassee home because it has great trees to climb, and conveniently, her husband happens to live there, too. She's pursuing her MFA degree in Creative Writing through Antioch University Los Angeles and.....oh no! it's getting away! To read more of Allie's work, please visit her website, or to read her book reviews and literary blogging, visit Bookshelf Bombshells.
Her poem, "sixteen, summer and the south" was quite literally a "shuffle" poem. Allie told us, "I was having a case of writer's block, so I put my mp3 player on shuffle. I grabbed either titles of songs or certain words from the lyrics and built this piece from them. If you read close, you'll find The Smiths, Cocteau Twins, R.E.M., Pink Floyd, Korn, Bronski Beat, Tori Amos, and Peter Murphy hidden in there." -sixteen, summer and the south
-high art (collaberative with Todd Overby) |
daniel ariPracticing poetry for 28 years, DANIEL ARI writes and publishes; performs solo work based on favorite poems by Roethke, Cummings, Oliver, Yeats, and others; and leads creative writing classes and jams. Writer's Digest, Conscious Dancer, Ceramics Now, Turbulence, 42 Magazine, and McSweeneys have recently published his writing.
His runs the blogs the INLAID EAR and IMUNURI. -Loper v Riva
-Texture & Discovery -andandandand |
Daniel AriPracticing poetry for 28 years, DANIEL ARI writes and publishes; performs solo work based on favorite poems by Roethke, Cummings, Oliver, Yeats, and others; and leads creative writing classes and jams. Writer's Digest, Conscious Dancer, Ceramics Now, Turbulence, 42 Magazine, and McSweeneys have recently published his writing.
His runs the blogs the INLAID EAR and IMUNURI. -Texture & Discovery
-Loper v Riva -andandandand |
Julius KalamarazJULIUS KALAMARZ received his MFA from Columbia University. His work appeared in Opium Magazine, The Los Angeles Review, >kill author, Ninth Letter, DEAR SIS, and elsewhere. PIROULETTE—an automatic last words generator (LCD screen, wood) showed last year in Apexart's, "Let It End Like This." AVENIR (24 boxed postcards based on the work of Yves Klein) was published as Object 009 in the ZIMZALLA Avant Object Series.
The work is a series of objects defined by statements of non-facts that, never-the-less, convey elements of truth through fragmentation and absurdity. -Dot (blue)
-Bird (blue) -Dot (red) |
eleanor bennetELEANOR LEONNE BENNETT is a 16 year old internationally award winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature's Best Photography, Papworth Thrust, Mencap, The Woodland trust, and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in the Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC News Website, and on the cover of books and magazines in the United States and Canada. Her art is globally exhibited, having shown work in London, Paris, Indonesia, Los Angeles, Florida, Washington, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, Canada, Spain, Germany, Japan, Australia, and The Environmental Photographer of the year Exhibit (2011) amongst many other locations.
Visit her website here. -Victorian Staircase (issue cover)
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