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" 

Mark DuCharme - Three pieces

 

Mark DuCharme is the author of We, the Monstrous: Script for an Unrealizable Film, Counter Fluencies 1-20, The Unfinished: Books I-VI, Answer, The Sensory Cabinet and other works. His poetry has appeared widely in such venues as BlazeVOX, Caliban Online, Colorado Review, Eratio, First Intensity, Indefinite Space, New American Writing, Noon, Otoliths, Shiny, Talisman, Unlikely Stories, Word/ for Word, and Poetics for the More-Than-Human World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary.  A recipient of the Neodata Endowment in Literature and the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, he lives in Boulder, Colorado.