January 13: Tainted Dayton Show And Raffle

Brian Fugett (pictured below) is becoming a man this month at a private party but none of us are invited so we will express our disgust while we try to raise some money for Project U Radio with a raffle of awesome prizes. These prizes are so awesome that we can't even post about them here. As a teaser, however, we will say that we just might have a basket of laundry for you to try to win and sniff from Phyllis Miller herself. We're talking ripe compression stockings, straight from the Hi Rise! Five bucks, via paypal, and you get a chance to win. All proceeds go to Project U Radio operating expenses, nothing fishy. Just trying to toss some money in the Literary Underground kitty.

In this segment, we will dis-honor Mr. Brian Fugett with some roasting and ribbing as we celebrate his 40th with some well deserved abuse. The call in number is (805) 856-2808. This is the link to the show page where you can listen through your phone if you have cheap-ass internet, listen online, listen to the archive, or call in to say something. *here*.

Here is your chance to holler about hamsters, poetry grenades, aerosol cheese, porn-a-rama, and Karl Koweski.

Karl Koweski, here is your chance to holler about Gordon Lightfoot.

Gordon Lightfoot, here is your chance to holler about being Canadian.

And Canadians? You can holler about having Leopold. Eh?

Leopold can't holler because he will be too busy.

Plus, he's kinda locked in an old refrigerator. Because he's a raffle prize.

January 20, 2012, Segment 5, Project U Radio

Segment 5: January 20, 2012.  ”Editorial Discretion”. Editors, would you publish work with content that you think is personally objectionable (i.e. racism) if you thought it was an otherwise good piece? How do you feel about a blanket policy about certain kinds of content, such as “We don’t publish anything that includes sexist elements”. Do you make distinctions as far as language, character, etc. and have you had this issue come up when selecting work for a zine, website, journal, or project? Do you find the line of subjective interpretation to be difficult? Have you rejected work that you thought was well written because it contained something that you thought to be offensive or thought might offend readers? Beyond offensive, but perhaps hurtful or harmful?

If you want to start at the beginning, check out the archives *here* for our Censorship show, December 2, 2011, where we discussed movements like The Citizens For Decent Literature whose aim was to suppress literature that organizers felt was "objectionable". Inspired by this and being a fan of free speech, Literary Underground's Michele McDannold started a printed publication by the same name and soon after, a website to showcase poetry online. Brief editor of the website content, Michael Goscinski, was invited on to talk about censorship and a lengthy conversation ensued.

My distinction on the difference between censorship and editorial discretion is simple- one involves the systemic suppression of free speech through an authority either by their own undertaking or under pressure by a group that has lobbied for suppression. The other involves the discretion of a content producer and their right to have standards with respect to content. If I have a magazine, I have the right to decide that I don't want any content that involves clowns. (to use my example from the show) We are looking at my right as an owner and producer to discretion, which I believe to be important. But censorship would involve the government telling producers that they cannot publish content that involves clowns. This distinction takes away editorial discretion with a blanket rule across the board, presumably (they say) for societal or other benefit. This is an external, imposed control meant to assert one group's moral or religious view onto another group by limiting clown content. ...... 

Welcome to Project U Radio

Welcome to the Literary Underground's Project U's Radio/Audio blog, where we will be posting information and links about upcoming shows, topics, guests, and more. We will also post a schedule as episodes are organized.

dispatch litareview special occupy movement issue

Dear friends,

The spectre of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its otherworldly implications certainly warrant a special issue of dispatch litareview (issn 1948-1217 - litareview.com), that much goes without saying. Given our historical grounding as a forum for radical literature, it'd be irresponsible of us to forgo this movement as cause for a special edition.

We feel that this issue must be printed and disseminated on the streets as well as by the usual means (free download). We've got the people nationwide to make this happen. We're only short a bit of spare change, and so we've done one of those kickstarter things to see what can come of it. If we get anywhere near the goal, surely we'll find another means to cover the gap ("...we robbed banks to fund papers of transgressive poetry..."). Please go to http://kck.st/sgY2NS and please tell everyone you know who might possibly be interested. We're only trying to raise $350 (consider it pre-ordering, as all donors receive a copy), so we're confident to reach our goal in short order.

We're also soliciting first-hand dispatches from the occupations nationwide. We've got guaranteed reportage from Portland, Oakland, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Boston, DC, and Chicago, but of course we'd like more perspectives from each as well as work from other North American occupations.

I am personally pleased to see the spirit of Paris 1968 so alive and well. With any luck, we'll get a variety of voices and riff the occupation movement from all sides. A plaque on the hall of culture commemorating a distinctly anarchist phenomenon.

Submissions of first-hand accounts, photography, and artwork from the occupations can be sent by the means established at http://litareview.com/submissions.html or by sending them directly to dispatch@litareview.com. Materials may also be sent by post to dispatch litareview / c/o Paul Madore / 1929 W. North Ave Apt. 3 / West Baltimore, MD 21217.

In resistance,
md & phm
litareview.com
dispatch@litareview.com

a product of disproductions, disproductions.org

 

--
Thank you for your continued support.

November 25, 2011 - Relationship between author and publisher

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Adopt-A-Poet

Adopt-A-Poet on YouTube

ok, so maybe i'm having a little too much fun with the Adopt-A-Poet poster and video. but what if it was in vogue, hip, or whatever passes for cool these days to support underground authors and publishers. all we need is one Angelina Jolie and they'll be lining up for it. help me spread these around and send me any ideas you have on the subject. also- any celebrity addresses would be helpful.

Archives: Special Collections (Print)

i hope there are many of you who can take advantage of the hard work that Aleathia Drehmer has put in coming up with this list of libraries with special collections. Small presses, independent and self publishers- share your work. Spread the word. Please message me at admin@theliteraryunderground.org if you have more to add.

Denver Zine Library
PO Box 13826
Denver, CO 80201

San Diego State University
Special Collections
c/o Michael Lopez
Library/Information Access
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182

Toronto Zine Library
15 Thorndale Ave
Toronto, Ontario
M8X 1W8 Canada

University of Buffalo
Poetry Continuations
134 Lockwood Library
Buffalo, NY 14260

Zine Collection
Brooklyn College Library
2900 Bedford Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11210
zinecollectioni@brooklyn.cuny.edu

University Libraries
The University of Alabama
PO Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487

Marlboro College
2582 South Rd
Marlboro, VT 05344
library@marlboro.edu

Special Collections
Michigan State University Libraries
100 Library
E. Lansing, MI 48823

Papercut Zine Library
c/o Lorem Ipsum Books
1299 Cambridge St.
Cambridge, MA (? zip)

Linebaugh Public Library
105 W. Vine St
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
zines@linebaugh.org

Dorothy H. Hoover Library, Zine Collection
Ontario College of Art & Design
100 McCall St.
Toronto, Ontario
M5T 1W1 Canada

NAP Print Chap Series 1 Presale

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WHEN THE SEA DIES BY J.D. NELSON (DECEMBER SHIPMENT)

TINY PEOPLE BY RUSS WOODS (JANUARY SHIPMENT)

WE WILL CELEBRATE OUR FAILURES BY J. BRADLEY (FEBRUARY SHIPMENT)

LAST NIGHT WAS WORTH TALKING ABOUT BY GREGORY SHERL (MARCH SHIPMENT)

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BRAVE BUYERS GET SURPRISES LIKE UNBREAKABLE COMBS (NOT GUARANTEED, BUT SOMETHING THAT WILL BE A SURPRISE. I MENTIONED UNBREAKABLE COMBS BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE LIKE COMBS THAT DO NOT BREAK.)

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MORE EXCITEMENT

What is Underground?

Project U Radio: Voices from The Literary Underground aired last night for the first time on blogtalk radio. Hosts Lynn Alexander and Paul Corman-Roberts were joined by callers Jack Varnell, Kevin Ridgeway, F.N. Wright and Michele McDannold on the topic of "What does Underground mean to you?". Late in the show, a mysterious sock monkey called in keeping things from getting too heavy. It was a good discussion well worth your time. If you missed it, you can now listen to the on-demand episode in the archives. Next Week, Frankie Metro will share hosting duties with Lynn and Paul. The topic will be on the relationship between publisher and author. What do they owe to one another before the book and after the book. Please call in and share your views. All are welcome!

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theliteraryunderground

Call In Number: (805) 856-2808
Next Live Show: Friday, November 25 at 10pm CST

November 18, 2011 - What does “underground” mean to you?

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Citizens for Decent Literature Call for Submissions

Citizens for Decent Literature Online is a new quarterly poetry publication founded by Michele McDannold and edited by Michael D. Goscinski. Submissions are open now for the inaugural issue. This is a themed issue and the full guidelines can be read on the website. The deadline for submissions is December 24, 2011. We are looking for new and established poets not afraid to speak their mind. No matter how perverse, gritty, ballsy, political, gay, anti-establishment, women’s-lib, sweet, cynical, absurd, misogynistic, suicidal or rum soaked the poem is, if it’s well written and says something, there’s a good chance it’ll find a home here. No simul subs, reprints considered. Response in four weeks or less.

http://citizensfordecentliterature.com

Crisis Chronicles Press New Chapbook

Grace, You Let the Screen Door Slam (CC#16) is a chapbook by Ohio poet William Merricle that was published on 11/1/2011 by Crisis Chronicles Press (http://press.crisischronicles.com/). Cover collage/foto by Smith. It's available for only $5 US from Crisis Chronicles Press, 420 Cleveland Street, Elyria, Ohio 44035 - or via PayPal http://press.crisischronicles.com/2011/11/04/grace-you-let-the-screen-door-slam---by-william-merricle-cc16.aspx

Project U Radio: Voices From The Literary Underground

Join hosts Lynn Alexander and Paul Corman-Roberts (Red Fez, Full Of Crow) for guests, callers and discussion about independent press topics, issues, and activism. All are welcome to call in, speak up, and be heard. For more information: theliteraryunderground.org. The Literary Underground is a community, and a growing resource for small press writers, publishers, and readers. The views expressed by guests and hosts are their own, and dissent is welcome. Uncensored, unscripted, and unhinged. Get in touch to get involved.

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theliteraryunderground
Call-in Number: (805) 856-2808
UPCOMING SHOWS:
Friday, November 18th 10pm-11pm CST(USA)
Friday, November 25th 10pm-11pm CST(USA)
Friday, December 2nd 10pm-11pm CST(USA)

decomp magazine November issue

decomP magazinE, November 2011

featuring new work from Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Derrick Brown, Matthew Dexter, Amy Eisner, Don Hucks, Michael Hurley, A D Jameson, Rebecca King, Rupan Malakin, Stephen Massimilla, Rebekah Matthews, Rebecca Mertz, Christopher Miller, M. Owens, Amy Rossi, Amy Marie Thomas, and Jackie Tileston. Additionally, we have reviews of Rae Bryant's The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals, Jessie Carty's Fat Girl, and Vincent Standley's A Mortal Affect. Thank you for reading.

David Tomaloff New eChap

Artistically Declined Press has released a new eChap by David Tomaloff, titled 13.

13
David Tomaloff
Artistically Declined Press
http://artisticallydeclined.net/pages/322

In Between Altered States Episode 18

In Between Altered States Episode 18

Episode 18 features flash fiction from: Len Kuntz, Robert Vaughan, Kyle Hemming, Kristin Fouquet, Danica Green, Michael D. Goscinski, Cheryl Ann Gardner, and Jodi MacArthur.

Gutter Eloquence Issue #18

Gutter Eloquence Issue #18

Peycho Kanev, Rhys Milsom, Kevin Ridgeway, C Wilk, William Taylor Jr, Valentina Cano, John Flynn, Anthony Liccione, Frank Sloan, M.P. Powers, Michael Goscinski, Michele McDannold, Chinedu Ichu, Jason L. Huskey, Jamie Townend, Cynthia R. Lewis, John Tustin, Sarah E. Alderman, Mike Meraz, Jean Brasseur, Zoe Dzunko, Gregory Liffick, Fiona Helmsley, Bruce McRae, James Martin Spears.

NOTES FROM THE EDITOR

Welcome to Issue #18 of Gutter Eloquence Magazine.
To all contributors and readers, my sincere thanks!
Your constructive feedback -- pro or con -- is welcome.
Comments can either be sent in by email * or posted
on the message board (if you're not a member already,
you'll need to sign up).

If you've had any experience writing reviews for books
or chapbooks, and would like to be a reviewer for this
zine (on an occasional basis), please contact me at
ooze AT guttereloquence DOT com.

Submissions for the next online issue (#19) will be open
from November 5th thru December 10th.

Please read the submission guidelines before sending
anything, even if you're a previous contributor.

My inbox awaits your most GUTTERIFIC poetic work!

--Editor Jack

Comments go to: info AT guttereloquence DOT com

Guerilla Pamphlets Call for Submissions

submissions are now open for guerilla pamphlets volume 17
http://guerillapamphlets.webs.com/

Submission Guidelines

Poetry:
Please make sure your poems are no longer than five pages.
No simultaneous submissions.
We aren't looking for pornographic, violent, racist, homophobic, misogynist, xenophobic, or sentimental poetry. Sonnets are usually frowned upon.(Ryhming is ok)
We are open to poetry in any language.

Art:
Please
We are allways open for submissions. Send your poems to gpconfidential@hotmail.com .

It shouldn't take us more than a month to get back to you. The goal is to put out a pamphlet as often as possible.

Please read and print out atleast one pamphlet before submitting.

We do not sell the pamphlets.
We do not pay our authors.
You can read them online or you can print them out for yourself.

MiCrow Call for Submissions

MICROW
Winter #6

Submission Period: November 1, 2011 through January 1, 2012 – target publication date: February 1, 2012

Submit to: microw@fullofcrow.com

Theme: Transport

Consideration will only be given to submissions that follow very simple, but important guidelines for this special edition.

All Submissions: MUST state in less than 50 words how their submission relates to the theme of: Transport.

Prose: 1000 words or less, single submission only.

Poetry: Maximum submission of 3 poems.

Images: Multiple submissions allowed - preference to black & white photography, pen and ink, charcoal sketches and mixed media imagery.

All submissions will receive acknowledgement within one week of submission. Final selections will be communicated in January with publication in February. If you cannot wait that long, do not submit as we are NOT interested in work submitted elsewhere or previously published. We want work specifically created for this theme.

New Release Round-Up

Zygote in my Coffee
Issue 135
http://www.zygoteinmycoffee.com/100s/issue135contentsbumping.html

Michael D. Goscinski, Michael Grover, Aleathia Drehmer, Craig Firsdon, Michelle Gaddes, M.P. Powers, Josh Olsen, Mather Schneider, Karl Koweski, Misti Rainwater-Lites.

Full of Crow Quarterly Fiction
October 2011
http://www.fullofcrow.com/fiction/2011/10/quarterly-fiction-october/

Ken Poyner, Shawn Misener, Amy Glasenapp, Robert Kaye, Zarina Zabrisky, Sherri Collins, Richard Godwin, Rasmenia Massoud, Allen Mendenhall, Suzanne Conboy-Hill, Josh Goller, Milla Van Der Have, Stephen Mannion, Edythe Wise, Joel Landfield.

Full of Crow Quarterly Poetry
October 2011
http://www.fullofcrow.com/poetry/2011/10/october2011/

Kasandra Larsen, Claudia Emmingham, Steven Gulvezan, Paula Kirman, Glenn Cooper, Justin Ehrlich, Jan Steckel, Emaniano Acain Somza Jr. Jennifer McRae-Poulter, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Miguel Caldas, Thomas Hoad, Larry Thacker, Stacey Madden, Melanie Browne, Joseph Gant, Flynn O'Brien, Marc Vincenz, Mbizo Chirasha, Douglas Polk.

decomP magazine
October 2011
http://www.decompmagazine.com/

Jacob Allgeier, Jekwu Anyaegbuna, Natalie Edwards, Berit Ellingsen, Richard Prins, Sarena Ulibarri, Jeffrey Kingman, Melissa Reddish, Lauro Jo Hess, Rose Hunter, Neila Mezynski, Richard T. Rauch, Mark Seidl, Heather Sommer.

Pank Magazine
6.12/October 2011
http://www.pankmagazine.com/category/2011/6-12-october-2011/

Erin Gnidziejko-Smith, Anya Groner, Ian Khadan, Matthew Vollmer, Matthew Snee, Benjamin Walker, Jason Lee Norman, Clara Changxin Fang, Meghan Lamb, Justus Humphrey, Joe Uchill, Lauren Schmidt, Joanna Pearson, Sarah Faulkner, Ocean Vuong, Vic Sizemore, Michael Shea, Mather Schneider, Karen Munro, Andrew Grace, Tessa Fontaine, Maura Fitzgerald, Nolan Chessman, Stacy Lynn Austin.

Phantom Kangaroo
issue no. 12
http://www.phantomkangaroo.com/

Faryn Black, James Dowell, Jane Roken, Jean Brasseur, Jeanie Tomasko, Kevin Ridgeway, kj, Lisa Marie Basile, Margaret Mary, Melanie Browne, Peter Marra, Rachel Marsom-Richmond, Tess Pfeifle.

Red Fez Publications
#39 October 2011
http://www.redfez.net/issue39

Mary Estes-George, Benjameno Carlo Kraus, Alexandre Nodopaka, Carly Bryson, Steven Gulvezan, George Freek, James H Duncan, Glen Armstrong, David S Pointer, John Tustin, Jay Passer, Newamba Flamingo, Alan Catlin, Carney James, Travis Blair, Shannon McKeehen, Mark Blickley, Jeff Santosuosso, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Miles Budimir, Sean L Corbin, mike taylor, John G. Hall, William Seward Bonnie, J. A. Tyler, Paul Corman-Roberts, Bud Smith, rachel cann, Luis Rivas, Ani Smith, Robert Kloss, Aida Zilelian, Christy Harrington, JC Piech, Mark James Andrews, Matt Rowan, Brandon A.M., M.V. Montgomery, John Palen, Michael Giddings, Crawdad Nelson, Mario J Gonzales, Andy Henion, Misti Rainwater-Lites, Leopold McGinnis, J.B. Pravda, Yahia Lababidi.

Guerilla Pamphlets
Volume 16
http://guerillapamphlets.webs.com/

Michael Grover, Scott Wannberg, Michele McDannold, A.D. Winans, Philip G. DeLoach, Dan Provost, J.D. Nelson, Dustin Holland, C.A.A., Annie Brodrick, C. Brannon Watts, Jay Passer, S.A. Griffin, Wayne Mason, David S. Pointer, Carolyn Srygley-Moore, Ben Marx, J.B. Hogan, Barbara Moore, Michael O'Brien, Dan O'Neill.

Occupy Blogtalk

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/theliteraryunderground

Premium service gets ya 2 hour shows and prime time scheduling. Cost is $39  month or $399 a year.

We need your help. If by some miracle of miracles more than $399 is donated, we will use the money to cover web hosting costs for theliteraryunderground.org and printing and sending out more Citizens for Decent Literature.

What do you get for donating... besides the great feeling of helping a good cause dear to your heart... ?

we'll post your name in various internet spots like here and here.

we'll send you paper things in the mail, hell- we'll even let you host your own show on the network.

don't have money but want your own show anyway? cool. we love trades. hit us up. admin@theliteraryunderground.org

Menacing Hedge Fall 2011 Edition

Menacing Hedge Fall 2011 Edition

The fall edition of Menacing Hedge is graced with the work of fifteen brilliant writers, one talented young photographer and the artwork of an acclaimed pop surrealist. Wallwork offers up a mouth-watering story of high society cannibals and their shopping dilemmas. Thompson brings a series of research-based poems shining an unblinking eye on the victims of Ted Bundy followed by the chilling Anonymous poem. Conroy explores the physicality of bodies, the making and unmaking of monsters, and the upkeep of what is one part awful and one part necessary. Poyner takes us to an alternative universe filled with the delightful but somewhat treacherous creatures, the Orikind. Reale's piece, Learn(ed), describes the subtleties of an abusive relationship and its precarious underpinnings. Budden's work, the Jolly Butcher's Lament, enters into the land of magical realism where the chief creature in a painting enters a pub and creates well-deserved mayhem. Doreski's poems explore the power of place, underground houses, haunted spaces, and a village collapsed.

Dickinson presents an interview with the actress Jean Seberg, which manages to span her lifetime – her role as Joan of Arc, her time in Paris, and herMidwest beginnings – with imagery and memories so searing, it feels as if Dickinson is channeling Seberg's very spirit. Altman takes us from the Qing Dynasty and a savvy snuffbox and unwise concubine, to a monstrous man whose actions resonate in modern Chinatowns, and then to the blue gas of God, with images that flex and strain seeking to escape the page. Bashaar transports the reader to uncertain corners of places: love, diners, and poetry readings in restrooms, her voice crashing through everything, like mad birds through glass. Rainwater-Lites embarks into poverty, the concrete minutiæ of everyday life, transcending the mundane to find beauty in its particular painfulness, while also exploring the connectivity between unlikely individuals. Connell's Metropolitan Hotel describes one man's journey from boredom to violent enlightenment, through a series of bizarre encounters with a mysterious woman.

Randall and Shapiro have borrowed old seventies diagrams from the Exploratorium and added their own comments, creating images and words that compel the reader to re-explore formal conventional wisdoms and ideas of human relationships. Dexter's piece, The Nudist Cover-up, takes us from a child's discovery of his teacher's floating corpse to a strange ritualistic covering of the same child's body with sand. Bennett's images are filled with poems and stories, from a shadow on a trailer to chilled red feet over wire. Grindley puts us in the feet of The God of Minor Inconvenience, whose power may be limited but whose repercussions are vast, reminding the reader of how even the smallest of inconveniences can ultimately render devastation. Finally, Scott Musgrove conjures and paints imaginary beasts, which live and breathe and leap from the page, given pulse and breath and blood.

Review of Expired Nickel Valentine

Expired Nickel Valentine

By Misti Rainwater-Lites
182 pages ISBN 978-0-9824669-4-0
From Goldfish Press
1620 W. Line Street
Leesburg, FL 34748
http://goldfishpress.com

Misti attacks the page/canvas fiendishly like Remedios Varo and Frida Kahlo. Her words are fiery smoke delving deep into her ocean. She fears nothing and is brave and courageous in her own sometimes highly erotic exposure. I can not recommend this book enough. Being born in Albuquerque, like her first son I felt we were on the same wavelength. “Blood and love, boots stomping guts, Satan and Jesus riding in a Chevrolet, God might be a termite, firetango wolverineskin” were just a few descriptions from the first 28 pages and it just gets better. I also, “smell electra in her green then blue then storm cloud eyes.”

Catfish McDaris

Review of Dancing Naked on Bukowski's Grave

DANCING NAKED ON BUKOWSKI’S GRAVE
by Ben John Smith & Catfish McDaris
135 page Hardcover at Lulu.com

All night I dreamed of the poems of Ben John Smith and Catfish McDaris in their new book Dancing Naked on Bukowski’s Grave. I read non-stop the Catfish section which comprises the second half of the book, tore through it like the sex-crazed maniac I’ve always been, running down the street after that guilt-ridden fantasy bus headlined real life. Afterward on the bus, and in my tortured sleep, I began to understand the meaning of the ritual phrase that’s what I’m talking about. I formed words in my dreams to explain to Catfish how reading his amazing output was like looking into his soul, if anyone has such a thing, because oddly, he approaches soulful material through an outrage of the senses, because he talks about boogers and shit and glorious cunt-holes that most people lack the courage to discuss, yet isn’t that where we all live?

Take for instance “Even Rats Party in Hell’s Kitchen”, a fantastical portrait of the toilet at Dangerfield’s Comedy Club, the cooking up of a poetic recipe that starts out with some possibly true measurements. 1) toilets in NYC and Paris are in “dim decrepit basements, swampy funk-ridden holes”; 2) “the stairway is rancid”; 3) “a cloud of maryjane fumes engulfed me”; 4) “I heard female laughter and an Asian language coming from the Men’s Room”; the rest could be called imagination, or not, when it introduces “a talking rat” with “a tiny hard-on”. With these ingredients Catfish leaves the kitchen and enters the inner rooms of the soul, a mystical journey to jolt the jaded and wise-up the weary.

“While Bogart Played with Rock Hudson’s Balls” is another myth-buster. We knew Rock was gay but what about Bogart? I always suspected he was a real pussy with his various wives in spite of his tough guy image. I could imagine Lauren putting him to bed with a glass of warm milk. Sure, he smoked, but that only began as a way to show what a regular guy he was. Then he became addicted to sucking butts. Maybe Rock was the one with the real balls; gay, and enjoying his lifestyle to the hilt. Like the cops in stanza three. What’s this tough guy bullshit all about, anyway? Think about it with help from Catfish.
—Patricia Hickerson

New Release Round-Up

Episode 17 « In Between Altered States.

from the editor-
Oh yes….it is time again for another episode of In Between Altered States where we try to string together 8 pieces of flash fiction into a twisted dream. Each story is loosely themed for a bit of cohesiveness though each writer gets to take the theme to the far reaches of their minds. This episodes theme is “cleaned out”. Come take a little trip with us on what that means. I would like to welcome back writers Ben Pullar and Kevin Ridgeway and give a barbaric yawp for the newcomers to IBAS: RL Raymond, Frankie Metro, Paul Tristram, Kyle Hemmings, Craig Scott, and Gertrud Pehk. As always, please read the stories from start to finish for the fullest effect and then go back and read your favorites again. Enjoy!

6.09 / September 2011 - Pank Magazine

Andrew Brininstool, Blake Kimzey, Wendy Xu, Tessa Mellas, Suzanne Marie Hopcroft, Thomas Patrick Levy, Kit Frick, Tess Patalano, Regina Marshall, Tyler Sage, John McKernan, Aimee Vitrak, Brandy Wilson, Kirstin Chen, Aimee Pogson, Danielle Shutt, Shira Richman, Teresa Milbrodt, Court Merrigan, John Jodzio, Ian Golding, Stefanie Freele, Saehee Cho, Corinna Bain.

Issue No. 11 - Phantom Kangaroo

Amy Elisabeth Olson, Brad Liening, F.J. Bergmann, Gale Acuff, Georgie Delgado, Holly Day, Michael Andrew, Rick Bailey, Simon Jacobs, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Thomas Piekarski, Vanessa Young, Walter Bjorkman.

September 2011 - Red Fez Publications

Crawdad Nelson, Shawn Misener, RC Edrington, Wayne Mason, Kevin Ridgeway, Nathan Graziano, Lindsey Thomas, Aleathia Drehmer, Zachary Moll, Josh Olsen, William Taylor Jr and many more!

October 2011 - Underground Voices Magazine

C.J. Arellano, Alice Ash, Beau Johnson, Sarah Terez Rosenblum, Garrett Socol, Jim Davis, John Grochalski, Steven gulvezan, J.B. Hogan, Cynthia Ruth Lewis, Ali Shakir, Steve C., Marian Kamensky.

October 2011 - Negative Suck

Andrew J. Stone, Cheryl Anne Gardner, Brett Spencer, Howie Good, Jessica Dyer, Justis Mills, Ray Succre, Jenny Caitlin, Sarah Alderman, Karissa Satchwell.

Issue #24 - Jersey Devil Press

Shannon Derby, Samuel Snoek-Brown, Christian A. Larsen, Rowdy Geirsson, Vincent Purita.

Oct/Nov Issue - Primal Urge

Oct/Nov Issue Featuring an article with and NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED S. CLAY WILSON ART!!!!!....plus STEVE VANONI in Europe & Korea....Artist PABLO GALVAN......Sacramento Poet Laureate BOB STANLEY.....BAD BONES PHOTOGRAPHY......CARTEL INK WORKS......Has Execution Become An Art Form......America's Secret Military....Poetry by John Dorsey, Michael Grover, Colin Dardis, Paul Corman-Roberts, Jason Ryberg, Michele McDannold and more!

Volume 15 - Guerilla Pamphlets

Michael Grover, A.D. Winans, J.D. Nelson, Dianne Borsenik, Felino A. Soriano and many more!

Issue #17 Gutter Eloquence

Gutter Eloquence Magazine is still alive, despite its
latest online installment (#17) being The Death Issue.

Interred within the issue are poems by some of the best
voices in the underground lit scene...and beyond!

Contributors include:

Mark James Andrews
James Babbs
Rumjhum Biswas
April Michelle Bratten
James H. Duncan
Joseph Farley
Nancy Flynn
Michael Frias-May
Lynne Hayes
Paul Hellweg
R.G. Johnson
David Jordan
Neil Kelly
Cynthia Ruth Lewis
Ally Malinenko
David McLean
Karen Neuberg
Scott Owens
Tony Pena
Puma Perl
Ken Poyner
JP Reese
Vincent Renstrom
Scherezade S.
Joseph Veronneau
Julene Tripp Weaver

Check 'em out at http://www.guttereloquence.com

--Jack T. Marlowe, Editor

decomP magazine September Issue

decomP: a literary magazine
www.decompmagazine.com

From the Editor-in-Chief
By Jason Jordan

Welcome to our September 2011 issue, featuring new work from Garrett Ashley, Stephanie Barber, Judy Bebelaar, Eric Burke, Matthew Burnside, Sam Cha, Matt Ferner, Jon Gertz, Joel Kopplin, Jessica Levine, Gary Moshimer, Judith Mullen, Burgess Needle, Meg Sefton, and Alexander Yan. Additionally, we have reviews of They Could No Longer Contain Themselves: A Collection of Five Flash Chapbooks by Elizabeth J. Colen, John Jodzio, Tim Jones-Yelvington, Sean Lovelace, and Mary Miller; I Don't Respect Female Expression by Frank Hinton; and The Snow Whale by John Minichillo. Normally we don't mention themes in issues, provided we find them, but this issue is unique in that several pieces include letters. Thanks for reading, as always.

Call for Submissions - The Rag

The Rag is a quarterly electronic literary magazine. Notice that we didn’t say “online” literary magazine. You don’t read The Rag at a website. You hop on the Internet and go to raglitmag.com and get The Rag delivered to you in the digital format of your choosing. Currently we offer a PDF version available at our store as a 1-year, $9 subscription, or you can get an individual issue for $3. Versions for the Kindle and Nook are coming soon. So, what’s in The Rag? Short stories ... for now. We plan on publishing poetry and novels in the future and are currently accepting your submissions. Our first issue includes 9 short stories: a little over 40,000 words of reading pleasure.

We Pay
Good writing takes talent and hard work, and we want to reward this hard work as much as possible. That’s why we always pay our contributors. As our magazine grows we will continue to look to maximize our payouts.

We value your submissions and support.

Call for Submissions - The Broken City

The Broken City, an online literature/arts magazine, is currently accepting submissions for its winter 2011 edition: This is why I drink.

You read it right, blurry-eyed friends, The Broken City’s getting soused! In this issue, we’ll be tipping back a bottomless bottle of the nectar of the gods as we examine anything and everything related to boozing and carousing: beer, spirits, wine, cocktails, keg parties, open bars, closing time, fisticuffs, and of course, the inevitable hangover that follows it all.

Send your poetry, fiction, essays, comics, illustrations, photography, music/book reviews to thebrokencitymag@yahoo.com. Further information and submission guidelines can be found at www.thebrokencitymag.com.


Deadline is: November 1, 2011.

Call for Submissions - Snail Mail Review

Snail Mail Review is a up-and-coming literary journal. The editors are now
seeking submissions for the third issue. Submissions are open from now
until December 31, 2011. We would love to receive a submission from you. We
accept all genres in Poetry and Fiction. Attached is a flier with all the
specific submission guidelines. There is *No Pay* for accepted submissions.
Contributors will receive a complimentary copy as payment. *No online
submissions are accepted*. Online submissions are only accepted from
overseas. Feel free to redistribute this flier to other writers as you see
fit. If you are interested in submitting, please send 3-5 poems of no more
than 35 lines and/or 1-7 pages of fiction to:

Snail Mail Review
c/o Kris Price
3000 Coffee Rd
Chateau Apt #B6
Modesto, CA
95355

No online submissions.

Please feel free to contact us if you have any further questions at
snailmailreview@gmail.com.

Find us on Facebook by searching Snail Mail Review.

Submission Guidelines:
We accept simultaneous submissions
Poetry: 35 lines, 3-5 Poems
Short Fiction: 1-7pgs.

Mail Submissions to:
The Snail Mail Review
3000 Coffee Rd. Chateau Apt. B6
Modesto, CA 95355

Include:
S.A.S.E (Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope)
Cover Letter W/ Brief Bio.

 Submission Deadline: December 31, 2011

E-Mail: snailmailreview@gmail.com
Facebook: Snail Mail Review

Episode 16 « In Between Altered States

Episode 16 « In Between Altered States.

from the editor
This episode feels pretty heavy on the feline to me and as I type this the cat is digging his claws in my leg trying to get me to extend my foot so he can use me as his nightly fetish. Yeah, this episode is sort of going to go like that. Episode 16 is running around in a dream about all things artificial…this takes on whatever meaning depending on the writer and that is the way we like it here at In Between Altered States. I would like to welcome back David Haase and Melanie Browne who have contributed before and give a big huzzah for newcomers: David Tomaloff, Andrew J. Stone, James Kowalczyk, Kevin Ridgeway and Sherri Collins.
If this is your first time wandering over to IBAS then I suggest that you read the stories in a row from the first one to the last one because this website is designed to provide you a series of dreams that run into one another in some way or fashion. Then when you are done, feel free to go back and read your favorites. Thank you for stopping by.
Aleathia

the red ceilings: wikipedia says it will pass ~ Diana Salier

New free ebook out on the Red Ceilings Press.

wikipedia says it will pass by Diana Salier.

Available on issuu, as pdf and .mobi (kindle)

Visit the website for the complete list of ebooks and limited edition chapbooks.

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Call for Submissions - Citizens for Decent Literature

Citizens for Decent Literature is a print zine in the early-Calliope Nerve-style (published by Nobius Black), distributed to contributors, an APA of the same name and your mother's underwear drawer. submit poetry, flash fiction or whatever lit drug you're snorting this week. Keep it short, make it good. also looking for b&w photos and sketches.

http://theliteraryunderground.submishmash.com/submit

3 new releases from Ebullience Press

Three new releases, edited by Misti Rainwater-Lites and published by Ebullience Press, are available now for purchase or free download at lulu.com. kick-ass photography and poems... includes work from Jay Passer, Tommy Anthony, Melanie Browne, Michele McDannold, Misti Rainwater-Lites and others.

KmaRT FaSHioN

Walleyed Country Girl

Award Winning Douche

Best of Net Submissions Sought

NewPages Blog: Best of Net Submissions Sought.

From Sundress Publications: "Since 2006 theBest of the Net Anthology has sought to represent the best of the online literary world in poetry, fiction, and in 2010 non-fiction. Sundress Publications is seeking submissions to the sixth volume of Best of the Net. This project aims to represent the expanding, although often disregarded, online venue and bring more prestige to the innovative and continually growing medium. This collection intends to bring greater respect to the voices of those writers who choose to publish their work online. Our last issue included work by poetry by B.H. Fairchild, Karin Gottshall, Maxine Lopez-Keough, fiction by, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Max Everhart, Dominic Preziosi and non-fiction by Amy Clark, Mark Dowie, and Emma Trelles. Submissions from editors will be open from July 1 to September 30th. Winners will be announced in February, 2012." Full details available here.

 

the red ceilings: New Chapbook out! Building Murder with a Smile by Bobby Parker

Building Murder with a Smile by Bobby Parker
limited edition chapbook [rcp cb9]
A6 28pp 40 copies
£3.50 inc. p&p (UK)

visit the Red Ceilings Press to order

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Pank Magazine 6.08

PANK Magazine / 6.08 / August 2011
www.pankmagazine.com

Contributors: Molly Laich, Jacob Dawson, Charles Dodd White, Kevin Vaughn, Julia Clare Tillinghast, Carlie St. George, Emma Sovich, Gary Sheppard, Alec Bryan, Johanna Reed, Lindsay Norville, Christopher Lirette, Sarah Layden, Ruby LaBrusciano-Carris, Caleb Johnson, Marcelle Heath, Michael Glaviano, Corey Ginsberg, Claudia Cortese, Claire Burgess
http://www.pankmagazine.com/category/2011/6-08-august-2011/

Phantom Kangaroo Issue #10

Phantom Kangaroo, Issue #10 (August 2011)
http://www.phantomkangaroo.com/issue-no-10/

Contributors: Caroline Misner, David Tomaloff, Drea Jane Kato, Harry Calhoun, Jack Hodil, Jennifer Lobaugh, John Grey, Kirby Wright, Lauren D.M. Smith, Nancy Flynn, Nazifa Islam, Simon Perchik, Walt Garner.

new eBook from NAP by David Tomaloff

A SOFT THAT TOUCHES DOWN &REMOVES ITSELF  by David Tomaloff
Download the Ebook FOR FREE at SMASHWORDS

David is the author of
Olifaunt (The Red Ceilings Press)
EXIT STRATEGIES (Gold Wake Press)
MESCAL NON-PALINDROME CINEMA (Ten Pages Press)

via NAP. http://naplitmag.com/

New Issue from Red Fez

Red Fez Issue 37 has lifted off! (www.redfez.net)

Intro by Claudia Lamar

Articles & Reviews:
The Last Days of Los Angeles #1 by Luis Rivas
The Youth in Imagination, Rekindled by J. A. Tyler
The Imagination of Youth, Rekindled by Robert Kloss
Dispatches from Atlantis #9 by Paul Corman-Roberts
Lost Shakespearean PlayER, ‘Sir kNight, Benjamin of Judah‘, Found by J.B. Pravda
Shapechanger by William Henderson
Two Bits by Youssef Alaoui-Fdili
The Workers Who Have No Names by Matthew Dexter
What’s In A Name? by A. Razor
My Cockamamie Theory by Ani Smith


Music & Audio:
Pedagod by Dustin Michael
The Yodelling Elevator by J.B. Pravda
Pretty Woman by DB Cox


Video:
Inspiration by Cheryl Snell


Fiction:
Breakfast and a Cigarette, Part VI by Bill McLaughlin
An Evening With the Charles Bukowski of Berlin by M.P. Powers
Czarninapalooza by Tom Andrews
Klippinger, Minnesota by Adam R. Burnett
Destined by Greg Eidson
Soldiers by Daniel Davis
E-Harmony Connection #54421 by Meg Tuite
Cupcake Chronicles #6 by Patricia Carragon
Cupcake Chronicles #8 by Patricia Carragon
Kleptomania by Ally Malinenko
Bring Me An Apple With No Worms by Catfish McDaris
Hines Park by Josh Olsen
Hey, Chinese kid! by Josh Olsen
The Electric Ukulele Lady Land Band by Ashwin Parulkar


Poetry:
Biology 101 by Mather Schneider
Stiletto Heeled Gestapo Boots by F.N. Wright
The Fortune Teller by Sonia Saikaley
Night Of The Living Head by Joseph Stern
Shit Happens by Jane Butler
This Poem May Harm Your Computer by Philip Tinkler
Love Like A .45 by Cynthia Ruth Lewis
The Porn Of You by Joseph M. Gant
Christian Slater by Carla Criscuolo
Munson Diner by Mende Smith
Old Men Go Crazy by Gabriel Richard
Right Now by James Babbs
Rhapsody On Q A by Uche Ogbuji
Up Chuck The Boogie by Cassandra Dallett
Windchimes of the Lost by Carly Bryson
Flies Of Summer by John Grochalski
Penny by Barbara Moore
Hair Today Gone Tomorrow by Tyler Kessinger
Sometimes I Hear My Father's Voice by James Babbs
Rilke's Panther by Alan Britt
Rising Auction by Marybeth Niederkorn
And the cat said to the mouse by J. Claudius Cloyd
Razor by A. Razor
When You're Serious About Bungee Jumping by Tyson Bley
Ahorita by James Babbs
El porno de ti by Joseph M. Gant

Modus Operandi: Submit!

Modus Operandi Fanzine is currently accepting submissions for issue #21, the Fall 2011 issue.  Send stories, poems, artwork, rants, reviews, photos, or any other type of article to: moduszine@hotmail.com  As of right now there is no theme, but we're thinking of something real good right now...so just send yr shit, fuckers!  Deadline is August 31st.

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Mud Luscious Press | 24-hour Sale

For 24 hours, choose any of our backlist novel(la)s & get them for $8 each. Use the drop-down menu to select your title & voila, money saved, words in the mail. Sale ends Saturday, August 13th @ noon: http://www.mudlusciouspress.com/books/24-hour-sale/

Issue Fourteen: Heller from > kill author

Kill Author, Issue Fourteen
http://killauthor.com/issuefourteen/

Contributors: Carissa Halston, J. Bradley, Jen Michalski, Meg Pokrass, Robb Todd and many others.

HTMLGiant Reviews Section | HTMLGIANT

Every Monday and Friday of each week we’ll host long formal review of this nature, live at noon. This section will be edited by our new Formal Reviews editor, Janice Lee.

Every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of each week we’ll be running a new review feature, with anonymously written, shorter reviews. This section will be edited by Anonymous Reviews editor, Brooks Sterritt.

Anyone interested in submitting reviews to either section is encouraged to do so, particularly the anonymous. Feel free as well to query if you would like to write but don’t yet have a book in mind.

Formal reviews should be 800-1500 words and up, and can be sent to Janice at janice [at] htmlgiant [dot] com.

Anonymous reviews should be 300-500 words, have a rating from 0.0-10.0, and can be sent to Brooks at brooks [at] htmlgiant [dot] com.

HTMLGiant Reviews Section | HTMLGIANT.

Houston Literary Magazine Tries to Convince the IRS It's Not Porn - Houston News - Hair Balls

NANO Fiction, a bi-annual publication of "flash fiction, prose poems, and micro essays of 300 words or fewer," is holding a fund-raiser.

Why?

So it can prove to the IRS it isn't porn.

READ MORE:  Houston Literary Magazine Tries to Convince the IRS It's Not Porn - Houston News - Hair Balls.

the red ceilings: Leap Year ~ CL Bledsoe

New free ebook out on the Red Ceilings Press. Leap Year by CL Bledsoe.

Visit the website for the complete list of ebooks and limited edition chapbooks.

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Underground Voices August Issue

Underground Voices Magazine, August 2011
http://www.undergroundvoices.com/

Contributors: David P. Bates, Joe Clifford, James H. Duncan, Sylvia Hiven, Tommy Ingberg, Bob Kalkreuter, Marian Kamensky, Barbara Donnelly Lane, Cynthia Ruth Lewis, Taylor C. Renfroe, Craig Shay, Michael Shorb, Andrea Tang

New Issue from Negative Suck

Negative Suck, August 2011
http://www.negativesuck.moonfruit.com/#

Brian Le Lay, Amit Parmessur, Meg Tuite, Morgan Hafele, Nicole O'Connor, Peycho Kanev, Andrea Borer, Elissa Leichter, Cynthia Ruth Lewis, Uzodinma Okehi

Issue Twenty-Three is No Match for a Good Blaster at Your Side, Kid | Jersey Devil Press

First up is “Exposure,” by Claire Joanne Huxham, followed by “The Toad and the Butterfly,” by RCJ Graves. Next is “Pentecostal,” by Lauren J. Barnhart. Then, finishing up the issue, is Mike Sweeney’s magnum opus, “CPA of the Sith.”

You can read the online version here or download the .pdf here.

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Red Ceilings Press -- New eBook by Chad Redden

New free ebook out from The Red Ceilings Press

The Lesson of Furniture by Chad Redden
18 Poems

Primal Urge Magazine Call for Submissions

THE DEAL - Primal Urge Magazine call for poetry submissions: Here’s the deal, the publisher gives six to eight pages for poems. We run two featured poets on two to three pages each. Whatever pages are left over we run in “One Offs” – one or two poems each from several poets. The rules: Don’t send any spiritual stuff. If you talk to God you don’t need to talk to us. Don’t send epic poems. Shorter is better. Alice’s Restaurant has already topped the charts once. That’s enough. The best thing to do is look at an old issue of the Urge: http://www.primal-urge-magazine.com/. We lean toward “Meat,” “Street,” “After Hours” and the occasional political poem. Don’t tell us about dead-burnt-bodies or regurgitate the daily news. We want your secrets – surprise us. Bring something fresh to the page. We want to smell the perfume, taste the lipstick and know why hearts beat – and sometimes bleed. Okay, send three to five poems to our poetry editor, Bill Gainer at: wsgainer@comcast.net. Put “Primal Urge Submissions” in the subject line. If you don’t hear from us before the next issue, there’s a good chance you won't.

decomP | new issue

decomP: a literary magazine
www.decompmagazine.com
From the Editor-in-Chief
By Jason Jordan
Welcome to our August 2011 issue, featuring new work from Kristi DeMeester, Donna L. Emerson, Jeffrey Greene, Eileen Hennessy, Pamela Michelle Johnson, Robert Laughlin, Ken Poyner, Angela Rydell, Matthew Salyers, Ian Sanquist, Jinen Jason Shulman, and Benjamin Winkler. Thanks for reading!

Dancing Naked On Bukowski’s Grave.

The joint collaborative of Catfish McDaris and Ben John Smith is on the shelves and ready to rock ya jocks.  Featuring flash fictions, poetry, rare photographs and zine scans, this bad bitch should make a nun cum.  Hard cover, 130 pages, split right in the guts – half BJS and the other CD, as cheap as it could possibly be made for, or download the PDF file for a buck or so.

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Guerilla Pamphlets Volume 13

Here's number 13

Its full of some wonderful poetry.

Please print out a copy or two.

Feel free to send us some of your poems.

Also: check out our photography website(guerillaphotography.webs.com)

spread the word.

peace,

archey

Episode 15 « In Between Altered States

Episode 15 « In Between Altered States.

Episode 15 is a series of dreams driven around the idea of hidden treasures.  The writers each have thier own ideas of what that could mean and then I get to string them together in one big night terror for you to enjoy.  If this is your first time at this rodeo please note that the stories are meant to be read in order for effect.  You can go back and read them out of order too, whatever floats yer boat, but do give them a try in order.  They are short!!  I am pleased to have back in the ringCheryl Ann Gardner,  Zack Kopp, Luis C. Berriozabal, Jay Passer, Josh Olsen and Shawn Misener.  I am totally thrilled to have IBAS newcomers Robert Lyons and David Haase.

Chicago Publisher ‘CCLaP’ Holds Quadruple Book Release Party « BIG OTHER

Chicago Publisher ‘CCLaP’ Holds Quadruple Book Release Party « BIG OTHER.

This looks to be fun!

The Chicago Center for Literature and Photography, or CCLaP, is proud to announce their latest local live event, a large-scale party to celebrate the release of their first four paper books this summer. An electronic publisher since 2007, CCLaP has been quietly releasing new special-edition, handmade “Hypermodern” paper editions of its four titles throughout the summer; and onAugust 10th the group will be gathering at the popular Beauty Bar in theBucktown neighborhood for drinks, free food, and a half-hour reading from all four featured authors, as well as a few surprise guests. Beauty Bar is located at 1444 West Chicago Avenue, and the free event will take place from 7 to 9 p.m., the reading itself from 8:00 to 8:30. All four books will be for sale individually for $20 apiece; or for one night only, attendees can purchase all four in a bundle for only $50.

Books and performers being featured that night include the novella Too Young to Fall Asleep by Sally Weigel, about a Radiohead-listening “emo” high-school student who volunteers for the Iraq War (originally published in 2009); 99 Problems by Ben Tanzer, essays about the mental intersection between running and writing (originally published in 2010); Life After Sleep by Mark R. Brand, a day-after-tomorrow tale concerning a device that allows people to only need two hours of sleep a night (originally published this past winter); and Salt Creek Anthology by Jason Fisk, a collection of linked “micro-stories” regarding four trashy couples in the far Chicago suburbs (published this summer). CCLaP’s “Hypermodern” series is an attempt to create special collector-worthy editions of all the center’s electronic books, reasonably priced yet expertly made; they feature handmade hardbound covers, including a color photo of the ebook’s original cover adhered to the front, external Coptic stitching, whimsical decorative endpapers, a special signature/provenance page for collectors, and a full Colophon in the back listing all materials used. CCLaP itself has been open online since 2007, and with a handful of local live events held in varying venues across the city each year; the center also produces a semi-weekly podcast, sells general giftstore-style merchandise, and publishes over 150 book reviews a year at its popular website. Among other accolades, it’s been featured twice at respected arts guide BoingBoing.net, and its blog is followed by almost ten thousand unique monthly visitors.

For questions or more information, please contact executive director Jason Pettus at cclapcenter@gmail.com, or visit the CCLaP event page.

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THE2NDHAND txt » WRITE A MANIFESTO; T2H no. 37 upcoming

THE2NDHAND txt » WRITE A MANIFESTO; T2H no. 37 upcoming.

1. Imagine a literary/artistic “movement” — an aesthetic school, a militant lit troupe — of sorts called “Stupidism.”

2. Imagine further all appropriate tenets/favored aesthetics/styles/ways of living associated with being a practicing “Stupidist.”

3. Now write a “Stupidist Manifesto” of the group and email results (keep it under a single-spaced page) to me for consideration for THE2NDHAND’s next broadsheet, no. 37, a special issue to accompany the release of All Hands On, our 10th-anniversary anthology. Order the book here.

4. Get all manifestoes in by Aug. 5 for consideration for the broadsheet — I’ll definitely take any and all after the date as well into consideration for a special unit here at txt. For an example of a few myself, Spencer Dew, and Kate Duva crafted in 2007, go here.

That’s todd [at] the2ndhand.com.

California Small-Press Publisher Len Fulton Passes Away at 77 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation

California Small-Press Publisher Len Fulton Passes Away at 77 : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation.

from Harriet: The Blog by Harriet Staff

We are sad to note the passing of a lovely person and key player in the small-press world, Len Fulton, the force behind Dustbooks Publishing and Small Press Review, who died of lung cancer last Sunday morning. Len, who was 77, also worked in California politics, acting as a Fifth District Supervisor in Chico. According to a longtime friend, he was “an artist, talented writer and playwright who had an interest in politics.”

Remembrances abound in the Paradise Post. One of the most striking is from friend and writer Hugh Fox, who writes about Fulton in detail:

Like saying goodbye to Debussy or Hemingway or H.G. Wells. I…first met Fulton in Berkeley in 1968 when we founded COSMEP, a small press org. that had yearly conventions here, there and everywhere: St. Paul, Minnesota, New Orleans, New York, you name it. And everyone would be there, all the editors of small presses and lit mags. And poets and other writers. Always reading-shows, and I’d always read.

I got to know EVERYONE in the literary scene. And visited Fulton up in his place in Paradise, California, way in the middle of nowhere, or everywhere, if what you loved was California wilderness.

Tall dark-haired, a little moustache, always bright, on the ball, kind of Harvard professorish, but at the same time a kind of exploratory cowboy explorer always moving further into the essence of Nature itself. For years, two or three times a year I’d get a huge envelope filled with books and literary reviews to review for SMALL PRESS REVIEW, and he slowly turned me into a kind of central writer for the mag. Which I loved. Sadly COSMEP slowly disappeared over the years. Run by Richard Morris in San Francisco, it’s a book in itself that would go through the slow decapitations of all our dreams and hopes. But Morris died from cancer and COSMEP kind of died with him. There’s a huge file over in Special Collections at the Michigan State University library dealing with my connections with the death of COSMEP.

A couple of years back Fulton turned SPR into an on-line mag, which I wasn’t crazy about. But he’d always send me a printed copy too, and I’ve got this huge file in my bookcases, years and years and years of copies with my reviews in them.

In the last few years he became increasingly solitary. Suffering from lung cancer, but not aware that was what was going on. When I recently told him that I’m dying from cancer, he wrote a beautiful letter back and mentioned he wasn’t “quite up to it” either. But I don’t think he was aware it was lung cancer.

He was/is a central figure in the development of literary culture in the U.S. He published an INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF LITTLE MAGAZINES AND SMALL PRESSES which I always found of central importance in finding publishers for my books and articles. An odd name for a press — Dustbooks. Always aware of the transience of life and everything surrounding him/us. Always Señor High Concentration, High Seriousness. I couldn’t believe the size of the library in his Paradise ranchhouse. I asked him “Any of my stuff here?,” and he walked over the showed me volume after volume after volume, almost everything I’d ever written, the whole library a veritable treasure house of literary treasures.

Zouch Magazine’s LIT BITS Fiction Contest - ZOUCH

SUBMIT YOUR LIT BITS STORY

Remember, it can be about any topic, in any style set in any time period so long as it is 140 words or less! Be creative. Keep it short, as short as you want.

Formats: We will read DOC and RTF documents (NOTE: PDFs are not accepted)

Spacing: We don’t care.

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THE2NDHAND txt » NERVES OF STEEL back Aug. 2 @ Hungry Brain, Chicago

THE2NDHAND txt » NERVES OF STEEL back Aug. 2 @ Hungry Brain, Chicago.

Nerves is back at the Brain August 2 w/ host Harold Ray and house band Good Evening. And:

Bad Bad Badness by Jesus Angel Garcia, author of the novelbadbadbad.

Dr. Huckleberry Persimmon Explains Very Little for You
Dr. Persimmon made a deal with a demon to have brilliant thoughts. Unfortunately, he didn’t specify “significant” or “useful,” and things therefore haven’t really worked out. Now he’s got just 44 thoughts left before it’s time to pay up. By Mark Chrisler
Starring Brian Nemtusak and Kevlyn Hayes

Appalachian Antics by Jay Hill & Richie Ray Gene Bull Tipton (vets of our W.Va. edition from June)

Punk, Suffering (w/ Banjo) by writer Chris Terry

w/ Backup Dancers in Tim Jones Yelvington

& Piano Musics by Azita Youseffi

Smalldoggies Reading Series PDX012 | Smalldoggies Magazine Readings at The Blue Monk, Portland | Smalldoggies Magazine

Smalldoggies Reading Series PDX012 | Smalldoggies Magazine Readings at The Blue Monk, Portland | Smalldoggies Magazine.

Smalldoggies Reading Series PDX011: TUESDAY, AUGUST 9th, 2011 @ 8pm!

Permanent Location in the Southeast: 3341 SE Belmont at 34th Ave. @ The Blue Monk.

The Blue Monk on Belmont, PDX
3341 Southeast Belmont Street
Portland, OR 97214
(503) 595-0575
Click for directions.
Or Go By Bus: SE Belmont and SE 34th.

One musical guest, Three (or more) Writers performing and reading poetry, fiction and prose.

Featured readers include: novelist Will Gallien(Washington), writer Rob Gray (PDX), writer Elizabeth J. Colen (Washington).

Musical Guests: Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives.

Information on our special guests coming soon… stay tuned for details.

Dirty Noir Call for Submissions

DOLLAR DREADFULS: Dirty Noir's Quarterly e-issue
http://www.dirtynoir.com/

Submissions for our debut quarterly are NOW OPEN! Get dark, get dirty, get involved.

We are now taking submissions for our debut quarterly e-issue. General guidelines remain, except where stated.

The e-issues will be themed in the future but for this first issue we're leaving it open, non-themed. So go nuts. The only must is that you give us some damn good Dirty Noir.

- Submissions should be no more than 10,000 words and no less than 500. However, we will consider submissions of 10,000-40,000 words for serialisation, which will span the course of the four issues that make up Vol. 1 of Dirty Noir.

- Simultaneous submissions are fine, just let us know if it gets snatched up so we can high-five you.

- But multiple submissions are a no-go. Send one at a time. If you didn't quite make it and there's still time, we'll ask you for something else.

- Unfortunately we can't pay you in cash money at this stage. Instead, we'll swing you a couple of copies of the e-book. Cool?

- Do us a favour, and DON'T report these submissions to DUOTROPE just yet. We need to set-up a separate listing for the quarterlies, as response times will be vary.

- That said, please allow up to 8 weeks to hear back from us before rapping at our door.

- Submissions close on September 15 or when the issue is full.

Word Riot Inc. | Paula Anderson Book Award – Kicking small press into high gear

Word Riot Inc. | Paula Anderson Book Award – Kicking small press into high gear.

The Paula Anderson Book Award will be granted to the author of a work of literary fiction, either a novel or short story collection, that was published by a small or independent press in 2011. The award will honor a writer whose work embodies the bold spirit of Paula Anderson, the late co-founder of Word Riot Press. The title should have increased awareness of or otherwise drawn attention to the small press community because of the merit of the work.

An author, editor or publisher may nominate a title. Nominations will be accepted through our Submishmash submissions manager account. A PDF of the title must be accompanied by a $25 processing fee.

Self-published works will not be considered. Word Riot Press titles are ineligible for the Paula Anderson Book Award.

The book must have been published between Jan. 1, 2011 and Dec. 31, 2011

Nominations will be accepted from Aug. 1, 2011 to June 1, 2012. The results of the 2012 Paula Anderson Book Award will be announced Aug. 1, 2012 and the winning author will receive $1,000.

Northern Poetry Review call for submissions: Best of Blog « Alex Boyd: BoydBlog

Northern Poetry Review call for submissions: Best of Blog « Alex Boyd: BoydBlog.

Northern Poetry Review (Canada) is looking for "your best piece on any subject related to poetry" for posting with a link to your blog, either in a special update or one or two at a time. No strict word limit, but somewhere between one thousand and four thousand words would be ideal. Send to northernreview [at] gmail.com

Jersey Devil Press. New Book by Danger_Slater

A Date That Shall Live In Infamy… Or Just Regular Famy | Jersey Devil Press.

Love Me by Danger_Slater, the world's most flammable writer will be released on August 9, 2011. Love Me will be available as a paperback or an e-book, from a variety of resellers.

Love Me is the touching tale of a guy in a Viking suit on an epic quest to figure out the mysteries of life.

Donate $25 to Jersey Devil Press and receive the book a few days early as well as the e-book Screw the Universe by Stephen Schwegler and Eirik Gumeny.

visit Jersey Devil Press for more information.

Black Coffee Press. New book by J.A. Tyler

From Black Coffee Press:

A pulsating and non-linear revelation of a man as he learns of his impending fatherhood, sinks in his overwhelming cast of family, and crushes beneath the world as we all sometimes do. This is a book about losing your mind perhaps more than your heart, or in either case, of realizing the loss of self.

A Shiny, Unused Heart
by J.A. Tyler
$12.95
110 pages
ISBN 9780982744055
Black Coffee Press, 2011

Available here.

The Velvet Press - Warmed and Bound

New Book

Warmed and Bound is an anthology of short stories stitched together by the people at The Velvet and edited by the beautiful and talented Pela Via. The book will be released July 22, 2011, and will be available at major online retailers, and also in e-formats for your e-Reading pleasure.

Contributors: Matt Bell, Tim Beverstock, Blake Butler, Vincent Louis Carrella, Craig Clevenger, Craig Davidson, Chris Deal, DeLeon DeMicoli, Christopher J Dwyer, Brian Evenson, Sean P Ferguson, Amanda Gowin, JR Harlan, Gordon Highland, Anthony David Jacques, Mark Jaskowski, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nik Korpon, Gary Paul Libero, Kyle Minor, Doc O'Donnell, J David Osborne, Rob Parker, Bob Pastorella, Gavin Pate, Cameron Pierce, Edward J Rathke, Caleb J Ross, Bradley Sands, Axel Taiari, Richard Thomas, Brandon Tietz, Gayle Towell, Paul Tremblay, Craig Wallwork, Nic Young. Edited by Pela Via.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Craig Clevenger, Stephen Graham Jones Headline Army Of Indie Lit Writers For Noir Story Collection
North Hollywood, CA – 6/28/2011 – The Velvet, an online incubator for future literary writers, have come together to publish WARMED AND BOUND, a story collection that brings “Velvet Noir” to the masses. On July 22nd, the result of this months-long outing will be available in paperback and eBook form with major retailers.

From critically-acclaimed authors Craig Clevenger (The Contortionist’s Handbook) and Stephen Graham Jones (Demon Theory) to indie lit heavyweights Matt Bell (How They Were Found) and Jeremy Robert Johnson (Extinction Journals), this collection brings the best in established and up-and-coming talent to explore “scary love stories” and “nostalgic thrillers” that will grip and never let go.

Says Steve Erickson, author of Our Ecstatic Days: “The writers of the Velvet are contemporary fiction’s most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas.” From the twisted parent in Caleb J. Ross’ “Click-Clack,” to Bradley Sands’ bizzaro “Soccer Moms And Pro Wrestler Dads,” this collection can only be called “Velvet Noir,” distinctly familiar and yet completely indescribable.

From publisher Logan Rapp: “Velvet Noir is the comfortable danger of a love that may come back to completely obliterate you. WARMED AND BOUND distills this feeling perfectly.”

For more information about WARMED AND BOUND, please visit WWW.WARMEDANDBOUND.COM or contact PELA VIA at PELAVIA@THE-VELVET.COM.

Purse Notes by Nicole Henares « Rusty Truck

Purse Notes by Nicole Henares « Rusty Truck.

and other fresh goodness at Rusty Truck

Pre-Order to your heart's content

Now available for pre-order

Red Reader #1
by Lynn Alexander, Shane Allison, Shaindel Beers, Tyson Bley, April Michelle Bratten, Judy L. Brekke, Brad Burjan, Paul Corman-Roberts, Aleathia Drehmer, Mary Ann Loesch, Leopold McGinnis, Mathias Nelson, Puma Perl, Misti Rainwater-Lites and Luis Rivas. Michele McDannold, Editor.
Pre-order @ theliteraryunderground.org
Side-stapled Sandpaper: 38 pages
Publisher: Red Fez Publications & Lit Vision Press (August 6, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-0976715306

Product Description:
This limited edition is a 8 ½ x 11 side-stapled book with a sandpaper cover and full-color interior pages-- accessible, gritty poetry, prose and art by fifteen talented writers and artists.

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A Note in the Window
by Bill Gainer
Pre-order @ Amazon.com
Perfect Paperback: 41 pages
Publisher: Red Alice Books (August 1, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0972295879
ISBN-13: 978-0972295871

Product Description
If Bill Gainer wrote motion pictures, they would be noirs. If he wrote novels, they would be pulp. But he doesn't, he writes poems and they are magic. That's his secret, he knows how to find those open windows and the notes left there. When you're with him, you soon learn he leaves no heart empty. So, if it s a foggy night, if the lights are down low and maybe - a cigarette's left burning, leave A Note in the Window. He ll find you.

About the Author
Bill Gainer has contributed to the literary scene as a writer, editor, promoter, publicist and poet. He is a co-founder and current board member of the nationally renowned Nevada County Poetry Series. Among other awards and recognitions, he is a past winner of the S.F. Beat Museum's Poetry Contest. Gainer has read and worked with a wide range of poets and writers, including readings on KUSF radio with National Book Award recipient Punk-Rocker Patti Smith and performances with California's Poet Laureate, Al Young. Gainer keeps a list, THE WOMEN I WILL LOVE FOREVER. Everybody is on it! Visit him at billgainer.com.

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Six Months
by Josh Olsen
Pre-order @ Tainted Coffee Press
Perfect Paperback: 75 pages
Publisher: Tainted Coffee Press

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Zygote in my Coffee #8
by Frank Reardon, F.N. Wright, J. Watters, Mather Schneider, Michael D. Goscinski, Mathias Nelson, Casey Rearick.
Pre-order @ Tainted Coffee Press
Publisher: Tainted Coffee Press
Product Description:
This perfect bound collection features the work of Frank Reardon, F.n. Wright, J. Watters, Mather Schneider, Michael D. Goscinski, Mathias Nelson and a stunning cover photograph by Casey Rearick!