The Fine Art of Surfacing

Great idea, Russell. I have perused and piqued my own interest in several journals. Most of my publishing experience is from the late 1990's, so tonight I dug through "the drawer," finding some evidence for my lack of proliferation in that time. I thought I'd take a few lines to honor some defunct publications from that bygone era of internet innocence. Almost every organization that ever published a poem of mine is dead. I'm pretty sure I didn't kill them, though. I do get a kick out of their magazine titles:

24:7 Magazine, Bunkum, Conspire, Gravity, Ink e-zine, Leticia Dahling!, 191919, Croyden Online, Orbital Revolution, Radio Free Topeka, New Improved Mushrooms, Indigo Pig, Papyrus, Aabye's Baby, Savoy, Thunder Sandwich, The Poet's Cut, Green Tricycle, Sky Blue Water, et al....

Of course, I'll be turning this list itself, in unabridged format, into a poem.

A few of my old haunts still exist, though! Check out A Little Poetry at http://www.alittlepoetry.com/ - they still seem to get it on (as of 2009) and you'll find some terrible examples of what the 90's did to me in their 1998 "ancient archives" section. Another great past-blast in the lit zine Children, Churches & Daddies http://scars.tv/perl/ccd.htm and yet another in The Alembic from Providence college at http://www.providence.edu/English/Alembic/ .

Interesting, the old e-zine Shadow Voices seems to have evolved into a mental illness support services center. Convenient, poetry isn't always the most effective therapy.

Cheers, see you all Tuesday.

Christopher