ISSUE 19

  

Brave New Word ISSUE 19

AKA Slight Return

Editor's note:

The last time i was doing Brave New Word - I was expecting to move forward with new issue coming out every quarter. 

It didn't happened because I wasn't feeling like doing another Brave New Word issue.

The pandemic, lots of dayjob, other commitments were keeping me away from the zine. It was draining. My heart wasn't there for a while and I didn't wanted to do a half-hearted issue.

But people kept sending stuff and I kept explaining that BNW was on hiatus. After a while, i looked through the submissions and understood that there is a new issue. 

Because of that, this issue is a celebration of those who believed in the meme of Brave New Word. 

A bit of comparison

• Issue 18 cycle had 162 submissions total. I was actively promoting the submission call and there were a lot of first-timers.
• Issue 19 "cycle" had 49 submissions total. Most of them were from folks who already were featured in BNW, but nevertheless - 49 is a lot. Especially if you consider that i went radio silence right after Issue 18 went live.

There is also another reason for hiatus - new Blogspot layout. For reasons beyond understanding, the whole post scheduling system doesn't work properly. Sure, it is just an inconvenience, but one that discourages you from doing anything on this platform.

Without further ado - Brave New Word, Issue 19.

Issue Line-up:

1. Vernon Frazer - 5 Pieces
2. Szilveszter Botond - Perspiration of Incision
3. Mark DuCharme - Three pieces
4. Stephen Bett - The Works
5. Jim Leftwich and Jeff Crouch - An assorted collection of collaborations
6. Christian ALLE - The Works
7. Seth Leeper - 5 poems
8. Andrew Brenza - Five Pieces
9. Charles J. March III - Crisis Scrawlings
10. Michael Basinski - The Works + Ode to Daphne
11. Karl Jirgens - Pareidolic Response
12. Yury Zavadsky - "ea" 

Charles J. March III - Crisis Scrawlings

 

Charles J. March III is a Navy veteran currently living in Orange County, CA. His works have appeared in or are forthcoming from Evergreen Review, Atlas Obscura, Litro, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, Lalitamba, Ligeia, 3:AM, Ink Sweat & Tears, Fleas on the Dog, Problématique, Queen Mob’s Teahouse, The Recusant, Sulfur “Surrealist Jungle”, RIC Journal, tragickal, Taco Bell Quarterly, Nauseated Drive, Storm Cellar, Terror House Magazine, Harbinger Asylum, Mycelia, Young Mag, Madness Muse Press, Mantis, Maudlin House, Joyless House, Misery Tourism, BlazeVOX, Blood Tree Literature (prize), The Babel Tower Notice Board, Bareknuckle Poet, Heroin Love Songs, Anti-Heroin Chic, Synchronized Chaos, swifts & slows, The Beatnik Cowboy, Points in Case, Black Scat Review, Expat Press, Poetry WTF?!, Stinkwaves, Young Ravens, The Writing Disorder, Defenestration, Versification, Seiren, Literary Orphans, Centre for Experimental Ontology, Otoliths, Oddball Magazine, et al. 

Links to his pieces can be found on LinkedIn and SoundCloud. 

About the pieces:
These obfuscations are my way of trying to make sense of all the suffering, while trying to transcend such on my way to finding surreal joy and humor in the absurd.

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