ISSUE 3

ISSUE #3

Editors note:
Doing this issue felt like it was a real deal - #1 and #2 were mostly a lucky accidents while this one is a result of hard work and thorough consideration. Love it!

The submission flow was more intense than for #2. I've received 152 submissions in 6 six weeks. There were lots of great stuff. I even started doing #4 with a different focus.

I'm glad to present you the works of the following:

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Table of Contents:

1. Mark Blickley & Amy Bassin - Weathered Reports: Trump Surrogate Quotes from the Underground
2. Michael Hetzler - Five poems
3. Vernon Frazer - Four poems
4. Joel Chace - Two poems
5. Devon Balwit - 1 / 1-2-3-4-5 / 1-2-3
6. Hugh Tribbey - Four poems 
7. Winston Plowes - Waiting for You on Cloud Nine
8. Neal Retke - Four poems and one image
9. rob mclennan - Five poems
10. Diane Keys - Six visual pieces
11. Andrew Topel - Eight visual poems
12. Julie Kim Shavin - Three poems and one image
13. Matt Margo - Twenty One-word Poems

Julie Kim Shavin - Three poems and one image

Julie Shavin adopted the Rocky Mountains as home in 1993 (and they are still looking for their real mom). She is a classically-trained pianist who began writing music at age 10. Her degrees are in Philosophy and English. Many of her artworks are enhancements of her photographs, drawings and paintings. She has four books of poetry and is working on the next, tentatively entitled "Closet Optimist's Creed." The Pikes Peak Arts Council has conferred upon her its annual Performance Poet and Page Poet awards two years consecutively. In 2016 she won the Mark Fischer prize, out of Telluride, Colorado, and she publishes often in literary magazines. She currently serves as president of Poetry West in Colorado Springs and describes herself as a nihilist/absurdist/synesthete of the best and worst and whatsitmatteranyway sorts. She is way weirder than her stuff and hopes for soonish congruence.

Announcing Brave New Word #3

Ladies and gentlemen!

Brave New Word #3 is going live on March 12.

I though it was going to take more time to put this one together - but i was lucky to get it done earlier. Maybe i should be more demanding to myself...

Anyway, I'm glad to present you so many amazing works...

Issue line-up:

• rob mclennan
• Michael Hetzler
• Julie Kim Shavin 
• Matt Margo
• Vernon Frazer
• Winston Plowes
• Joel Chace
• Hugh Tribbey
• Diane Keys
• Mark Blickley & Amy Bassin
• Devon Balwit 
• Neal Retke
• Andrew Topel