ISSUE 17

Brave New Word ISSUE 17 

AKA Taking Care of Business

Editor's note:
If there is an appropriate time to say "Things have changed" - that's it. The last time I was doing a Brave New Word issue - it was at one of the lowest points of my life. My employment for the previous two years, more or less, went down with a whimper due to politics, professional jealousy, greed, and backstabbing. The emotional toll of November and December left me creatively spent and without many career prospects. Ain't going to lie - I felt screwed, but in the end - it is over. That's not my problem anymore. I'm over it - going towards new frontiers. I don't have time to fight the specters of the past.

The downside is that since last September and up until the very end of December, I more or less put aside much of my creative output to focus on the job. As a result - I did a whole lot of what ultimately amassed to nil and not much else of worth.

I snapped out of it in early December because the bullshit got too ridiculous, but the damage was done. Brave New Word Issue 16 was the first step of my rehabilitation, but it wasn't enough to reinvigorate my creative senses. I've spent much of December and January picking up the pieces and slowly getting back to form.

The work on Issue 17 began in earnest around early February. In fact, I've spent a month working on it - the project started on February 5th and is over by March 2nd. The fastest turnaround since 2017.

One thing that I've noticed while analyzing the performance of Issue 16 is that 20 pieces sequence results in some posts getting significantly less attention when the issue is viewed as a whole. The numbers don't lie. Because of that, Issue 17 features only 14 spots - similar to the early issues.

Without further ado - Brave New Word Issue 17.

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Issue Line-up:

1. Jeremy Stewart - bugs groucho 1-5
2. J.I. Kleinberg - Five collage poems
3. Eddie Watkins - from Leap Frogs
4. Janis Butler Holm - queen dregs hand yam
5. James Sanders - Chyrons and Plants
6. Kristine Snodgrass - Six asemic pieces
7. Nils Geylen - Stress Bot Crash Test Subroutine
8. Heller Levinson - excerpts from from here goes 
9. Olchar Lindsann - Five poems 
10. Luc Fierens - Baby Doc / Fatale / Fotomodella / Gold
11. Mary Kasimor - Three Poems
12. hiromi suzuki - au bord de la mer
13. Jeremy Hight - Donnie Darko retold as self-help book section
14. Tom Prime / Gary Barwin - collaborative mayhem

Jeremy Hight - Donnie Darko retold as self-help book section

Jeremy Hight is a professor of English and Creative Writing and is proud to have a text and image work in the Whitney Museum. He writes prose, poetry and critical theory and lives with his loving wife Lisa in Los Angeles

Jeremy Hight - Gerald prefers it this way

Jeremy Hight is a professor of English and Creative Writing and is proud to have a text and image work in the Whitney Museum. He writes prose, poetry and critical theory and lives with his loving wife Lisa in Los Angeles

ISSUE 13

Editor's Note:

The more i write editor's notes, the less i actually have to say about the creation of the particular issue. I don't know why. It just happens this way. There is nothing particularly interesting in putting together another issue of an online magazine. You just gather a lot of stuff, sort it out, put in some kind of sequence and then post. Why I'm telling you this - because i'm honest with you.

This issue was a long time coming mostly due to the fact that I wanted to make an issue "just like back then" but in the same time "make it new" and "make difference". Because of that i was announcing and announcing calls for submissions over and over again and it didn't really worked out.

If previously i was dealing with too many trash submissions - now i just wasn't interested in the majority of the stuff sent. Not that it was bad, it was just passable. And the thing with passable stuff is that it makes you don't care - passable stuff is toxic. And i can't give the platform for that kind of stuff.

Anyway, this issue is good. Really good. And you need to experience it for yourself.


ISSUE LINE-UP:

• AG Davis - Five Poems
• Karen Schauber - Case Study
• John Pursch - Three Prose Pieces
• Beatriz Seelaender - A MORAL PROBLEM 
• Mendes Biondo - The song of the sand
• Lorna Wood - Five Can Poems
• Lawrence Upton - Two songs
• Claudia Martin - Conversations since I began dating myself
• Matthew Mousseau AKA mwpm - QR decompositions
• Tommasina Bianca Squadrito - Six Abstract Poems
• Jeremy Hight - 200000022000000222222224The empty storm40000004400000044444444 
• C-M Frank - Closed Captions 
• Olivier Schopfer - Concrete Haikus

Jeremy Hight - 200000022000000222222224The empty storm40000004400000044444444

Jeremy Hight is a professor of English and Creative Writing and is proud to have a text and image work in the Whitney Museum. He writes prose, poetry and critical theory and lives with his loving wife Lisa in Los Angeles