Look at this, everyone. It's great! I joined. I advocate that you all join, too!
http://litlist.net/
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
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
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Journals you like
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Exquisite Corpse poems from the last Frontiers of Poetry 2010 class--10/12/10
These exquisite corpse poems were written at Sanctuary Pub in Iowa City by Justine Retz, Eric Roalson, Stephanie Wilkinson, and Russell Jaffe:
#1
Sitting under a toadstool
sweating in the noon day sun
they pray for an alchemical rain
to a landfill idol, pariah of industrial housing
a Frankenstein--wire bed frame.
In a stark, vast room
the saxophone is the only voice
of reason, but the pipe organ is
becoming one with the merry-go-round.
A headless horseman appears;
It is better to gallop than to extrapolate
--sage advice from the mother in us all.
#2
The school house brick steamed.
A fog rises into the September air
and by October a fog drives itself to work, it
takes on a new name--a new identity.
Calling home,
ancient resonance of the choir
tires me more than the tremolo of
a pomegranate turning tangerine in the sunset.
Grapes dripping from the vine,
it is divine to sing across the web
to untapped URLs, my sweet
covered in melted brie juice.
#3
My primary refusal is to write anything about
the meaning of a rainbow over an
apocalyptic sky.
There is a fire in the chamber of tomorrow
so call today's fire chief--he's got it
in spades. The mushrooms on fire,
diamonds bounce in the bubble,
double the trouble of seduction
by introducing the TV, a remarkable
box of manipulation--a stargazer's paradise.
Tears flow openly
into the chalice of mercy.
#4
The rogue winks and moves across the bar
toward plastic spheres and D.I.Y stigmas.
The 7-Up bottles came flying, fizzing,
jasper colored beads scatter
like squirrels in the strobelight,
I convulse an adorable bravado,
an Ewok caught in a time machine--
Asteroids dance
around the coffin of silence,
the funeral home of loudness operates
oh-so-silently, spinning in darkness and
out of control.
#1
Sitting under a toadstool
sweating in the noon day sun
they pray for an alchemical rain
to a landfill idol, pariah of industrial housing
a Frankenstein--wire bed frame.
In a stark, vast room
the saxophone is the only voice
of reason, but the pipe organ is
becoming one with the merry-go-round.
A headless horseman appears;
It is better to gallop than to extrapolate
--sage advice from the mother in us all.
#2
The school house brick steamed.
A fog rises into the September air
and by October a fog drives itself to work, it
takes on a new name--a new identity.
Calling home,
ancient resonance of the choir
tires me more than the tremolo of
a pomegranate turning tangerine in the sunset.
Grapes dripping from the vine,
it is divine to sing across the web
to untapped URLs, my sweet
covered in melted brie juice.
#3
My primary refusal is to write anything about
the meaning of a rainbow over an
apocalyptic sky.
There is a fire in the chamber of tomorrow
so call today's fire chief--he's got it
in spades. The mushrooms on fire,
diamonds bounce in the bubble,
double the trouble of seduction
by introducing the TV, a remarkable
box of manipulation--a stargazer's paradise.
Tears flow openly
into the chalice of mercy.
#4
The rogue winks and moves across the bar
toward plastic spheres and D.I.Y stigmas.
The 7-Up bottles came flying, fizzing,
jasper colored beads scatter
like squirrels in the strobelight,
I convulse an adorable bravado,
an Ewok caught in a time machine--
Asteroids dance
around the coffin of silence,
the funeral home of loudness operates
oh-so-silently, spinning in darkness and
out of control.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
A question for Russell: is this the class you were telling us about (in May)? I thought you were going to teach it in November. At any rate, could you tell us the course title and time for the next class? Thanks! This is the first time I have 'returned' to this site since our class ended. Nice posts here! --Karyn
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Journals to look up
I've chosen a handful of journals I think are very interesting and worth your time to study and analyze as benchmarks of today's poetry landscape.
DIAGRAM: http://www.webdelsol.com/DIAGRAM/3_3/index.html
Octopus: http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue05/html/main.html
horse less review: http://www.horselesspress.com/
elimae: http://www.elimae.com/
Leveler: http://www.levelerpoetry.com/
Super Arrow: http://www.superarrow.org/
The Portland Review: http://www.portlandreview.pdx.edu/
The Paris Review: http://www.theparisreview.org/
Poetry: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/index.html
The Iowa Review: http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/
Conduit: http://www.conduit.org/
MiPOesias: http://www.mipoesias.com/MIPO/Home.html
Shampoo: http://www.shampoopoetry.com/
Coconut: http://www.coconutpoetry.org/
LIT: http://litmagazine.wordpress.com/
La Petite Zine: http://www.lapetitezine.org/
ACTION YES: http://www.actionyes.org/
Black Warrior Review: http://blackwarrior.webdelsol.com/
Indiana Review: http://indianareview.org/
Hanging Loose Press: http://www.hangingloosepress.com/
Glimmer Train: http://www.glimmertrain.com/
But you don't need to be limited to these. Here’s a massive list of poetry journals, all collected and updated frequently!
http://duotrope.com/listallmarkets.aspx?page=pubtype-p&sort=title
DIAGRAM: http://www.webdelsol.com/DIAGRAM/3_3/index.html
Octopus: http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue05/html/main.html
horse less review: http://www.horselesspress.com/
elimae: http://www.elimae.com/
Leveler: http://www.levelerpoetry.com/
Super Arrow: http://www.superarrow.org/
The Portland Review: http://www.portlandreview.pdx.edu/
The Paris Review: http://www.theparisreview.org/
Poetry: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/index.html
The Iowa Review: http://iowareview.uiowa.edu/
Conduit: http://www.conduit.org/
MiPOesias: http://www.mipoesias.com/MIPO/Home.html
Shampoo: http://www.shampoopoetry.com/
Coconut: http://www.coconutpoetry.org/
LIT: http://litmagazine.wordpress.com/
La Petite Zine: http://www.lapetitezine.org/
ACTION YES: http://www.actionyes.org/
Black Warrior Review: http://blackwarrior.webdelsol.com/
Indiana Review: http://indianareview.org/
Hanging Loose Press: http://www.hangingloosepress.com/
Glimmer Train: http://www.glimmertrain.com/
But you don't need to be limited to these. Here’s a massive list of poetry journals, all collected and updated frequently!
http://duotrope.com/listallmarkets.aspx?page=pubtype-p&sort=title
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