ISSUE 14 Nimbus Memorial Special

Editor's Note:

You know - sometimes you need try something completely different in order to move on. And sometimes - this means you need to give up on control and let things come together differently.
That's what happened with this issue.
I decided to take a back seat and make an issue, but not an issue of Brave New Word. Instead, i've decided to provide a platform for another magazine that was unjustly shut down before it could really blossom.

The magazine i'm talking about is Nimbus. It was a Facebook-based publication all about exasperated tongue-in-cheek mocking of self-serious digital publications that have more bark than bite.

Here's what Nimbus editor Jeremy Hight says:

"Nimbus was created initially as a conceptual prank.  The initial idea and posts were absurd exaggerated characters parodying clichés of publishing.  

The work also was intended to explore the concept of a literary magazine existing in an alternative and seemingly unusual space like within a social media platform in a place for events or selling products.  

The quality of works almost immediately pushed it to a level of a truly high quality publication of text and image works from around the world. It only lasted 3 weeks as Facebook anonymously engineered breaking the notes function making it impossible to function."

So - after the unfortunate shutdown happened - i thought - why don't make a memorial issue - so that everyone could experience what the Nimbus was outside Facebook? That's how this issue came together.

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Issue Line-up:

1. Vuk Cosic - A KICK IN THE AI
2. Talan Memmott - google result sonnets
3. Annie Bergson - Five Word Clouds
4. Louise Bak - Tegument 
5. Margie Schnibbe - Two Pieces
6. Paul Corman-Roberts - Break Up Series
7. Shane Jesse Christmass - Two Visual Pieces
8. Michael J Maguire - Consider (Waiting for) the commuter bus… 
9. John Trubee - T'n'I
10. Alan Sondheim - schisms/intruder/ruptures
11. Ariel Riveros Pavez - T'N'I
12. Jeremy Hight - Gerald prefers it this way
13. Alexandra Naughton - Wakka Wakka Wakka
14. Borys Tsyperdyuk - Not Giving a Damn: The Frequencies

Louise Bak - Tegument

Louise Bak is the author of Syzygy (DC Books), Tulpa (Coach House Books) Gingko Kitchen (Coach House Books) and emeighty (Letters). She was the co-host of Sex City, Toronto's weekly and only radio show, focused on intersections between sexuality, gender, politics and culture, ciut 89.5 fm. Her performance work has appeared in various settings and videos, including Cheese, Brothers and Sisters, Partial Selves, Crimes of the Heart, Tracing Soul and Partial Selves. She collaborated with Garine Torossian in a poetic video work, Come Around. She worked with independent and local filmmaker Keith Lock to bring a script inspired by Chinese folklore and Bak's own family history. She has guest-edited PlusZero, an independent feminist culture publication, on the theme of global Asian women’s art and she was a columnist with Toro, Canada’s online men’s magazine as a weekly sexual-cultural columnist. She's programmed variously, including film screenings with The Centre for Media and Culture in Education and with 100,000 Poets For Change. She has also curated and hosted a salon series called The Box, which encourages communication across literary and artistic borders.