ISSUE 6

ISSUE #6

Editors note:

I'm gonna be a bit minimal this time. It was fun. Making this issue was really satisfying experience. I've met lots of interesting people, got so many ideas i'm almost overwhelmed. It is really good. I'm proud of this issue. It came together naturally as mesmerizing kaleidoscope with intense humming.

The submission flow was tight but relatively clean. 52 letters if being exact. Rather big number for a niche poorly named online magazine which is barely indexed in Google and barely exposed (hey, i'm in charge i can be honest). Even rejected submission weren't that bad. Just not something that can be used in BNW with maximum result. And I had a really funny discussion on politics of including bio and photo on one of the posts in the submission calls groups. Anyway...

Look at the line-up - all top-notch hardcore funkateers!

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Table of Contents:

1. Siobhan Elvis Atkins - Five Asemic Pieces
2. Peter Carlaftes - Three Poems
3. Drew Pisarra - Goo-goo Story 
4. Carlo Parcelli - Wakey! Wakey!
5. Jenne Kaivo - Science don't lovers just grew on the eyes
6. Jim Andrews - from Aleph Null 2.0
7. Michael Stewart - QR poem
8. Don Kingfisher Campbell - Eight Poems 
9. Rafael Gonzalez - Makings Buttons
10. Rie Sheridan Rose - Spam Poem 
11. Larry D. Thacker - Two Poems
12. Dylan Kinnett - If You See Something, Say Something 
13. Edward Kulemin - Crumpled Poems

Rie Sheridan Rose - Spam Poem

Rie Sheridan Rose multitasks. A lot. Her short stories appear in numerous anthologies, including Nightmare Stalkers and Dream Walkers Vols. 1 and 2,  and Killing It Softly. She has authored nine novels, six poetry chapbooks, and lyrics for dozens of songs. More info on www.riewriter.com. She tweets as @RieSheridanRose.

Jim Andrews - from Aleph Null 2.0

Jim Andrews has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. It remains the centre of his work as a poet-programmer of interactive multimedia. He lives in Vancouver Canada.

Siobhan Elvis Atkins - Five Asemic Pieces

Siobhan Atkins lives in the Sperrins in Northern Ireland with two boys, two goats, two dogs and a scattering of hens. Her passion is poetry and conservation.

Rafael Gonzalez - Makings Buttons

Rafael González released his first cassette of experimental electronic music in 1986, at the age of 16 (Exenple by Brigada Nadie, a duo with his 13-year-old brother). He was a member of the futurist multidisciplinary group Equipo Estético Étika Makinal (or 3EM), and Spanish experimental noise band I.Q.C.M. Rafael is a prolific audio artist with numerous collaborative works as well as his solo recordings. He is also a collage and décollage artist (his visual and audio works bear many striking similarities!), and is head of the art department at Tape Safe. (HalTapes http://www.haltapes.com/aterrizaje-magnetico.html)

https://www.discogs.com/es/artist/998310-Rafael-Gonz%C3%A1lez

http://continuo-docs.tumblr.com/post/115926282407/rafael-gonz%C3%A1lez-mail-art-cassettes

Ética Makinal was a group of teenagers who experimented with music created with synthesisers. Their aesthetic was related to punk, noise and industrial movements, but they also referred to other times and forms – they researched the visual principles of avant-garde and they were influenced by Futurism, Dadaism and Constructivism. In spite of living in the periphery, in the isolated Asturias, they soon engaged with the emerging national scene, which had nothing to do with the famous “Movida”, and they even exchanged letters, fanzines and cassettes with groups from other countries, likes France, Italy and USA. ( http://www.mediateletipos.net/archives/34217 )

Michael Stewart - QR poem

Michael Kei Stewart is a poet, visual artist, and software industry professional who blogs poetry at http://www.mksanythingblog.blogspot.com. His work has appeared in the Istanbul Literary Review, the Muddy River Poetry Review, Popt Art, and the Morpo Review.

Don Kingfisher Campbell - Eight Poems

Don Kingfisher Campbell, MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, has taught Writers Seminar at Occidental College Upward Bound for 33 years, been a coach and judge for Poetry Out Loud, a performing poet/teacher for Red Hen Press Youth Writing Workshops, Los Angeles Area Coordinator and Board Member of California Poets In The Schools, poetry editor of the Angel City Review, publisher of Spectrum and the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Quarterly, leader of the Emerging Urban Poets writing and Deep Critique workshops, organizer of the San Gabriel Valley Poetry Festival, and host of the Saturday Afternoon Poetry reading series in Pasadena, California. For awards, features, and publication credits, please go to: http://dkc1031.blogspot.com

Carlo Parcelli - Wakey! Wakey! #6

Carlo Parcelli studied for many years with the Joyce/Wake scholar, Dr. Rudd Fleming, who translated Greek drama with Ezra Pound while Pound was incarcerated at St. Elizabeth’s hospital here in Washington DC. He has published two books in the style of Pound’s Cantos, ‘Three Antiphonies’ and ‘Fernparallelismus’. I have also published a series of 88 monologues, ‘The Gospel According to Simon Kananaios’ based on David Jones’ monologues of a Roman principalis in his volume ‘The Sleeping Lord’. I have a forthcoming epic poem about a fictitious First Century Roman cynic philosopher called ‘Canus Ictus in Exilium’ (Dog Bite in Exile).  My work, generally excerpted, has appeared in a number of journals and I have performed my work, especially ‘The Gospel’, at dozens of venues. I am currently an editor at FlashPoint magazine <http://www.flashpointmag.com/>, an online journal largely devoted to high-Modernist poetics.

Drew Pisarra - Goo-goo Story

Drew Pisarra has been known to stage Gertrude Stein plays, turn Fassbinder movies into poems, and blog weekly about Korean cinema. He recently grew a mustache to play Nietzsche is an opera-theater piece by the Austrian-American composer Gisburg. His book of short stories, 'Publick Spanking,' was published eons ago by Future Tense.

Jenne Kaivo - Science don't lovers just grew on the eyes

Jenne Kaivo never makes a mistaek.

Edward Kulemin - Crumpled Poems

Edward Kulemin is an artist, poet, author of many art-projects; inspirator and organiser of various communication creative societies (KEPNOS, Group of Unknown Artists, Association damned poets, etc.); participant of some exhibition and festivals; author of the books: «It seems to have begun" (1994), “Odnohujstvenny Ulysses”(1995), "By the artificial way" (1998), «Multimatum”(2002), “Lowdown” (2012), «Poems cash register» (2017).

You can find more of his visual poetry here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/113405210@N03/
Also check out his video poetry: http://www.youtube.com/user/artklmn?feature=watch

Larry D. Thacker - Two Poems

Larry D. Thacker’s poetry can be found or is forthcoming in more than ninety publications including The Still Journal, Poetry South, Tower Poetry Society, Mad River Review, Spillway, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Mojave River Review, Mannequin Haus, Ghost City Press, Jazz Cigarette, and Appalachian Heritage. His books include Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia and the poetry books, Voice Hunting and Memory Train, as well as the forthcoming, Drifting in Awe. He’s presently working on his MFA in both poetry and fiction. Visit his website at: www.larrydthacker.com

Peter Carlaftes - Three Poems

Peter Carlaftes offers a poetic voice filled with drop-dead humor, searing insight, and resilient originality –while resonating with overtones of Bukowski, Baudelaire and Vonnegut. He lives in New York City.

Dylan Kinnett - If You See Something, Say Something

Dylan Kinnett is a writer, spoken word performance artist, and the founding editor of Infinity's Kitchen. His writing seeks to alter traditional literary forms with the use of media, hypertext, and performance. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.