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

Olchar Lindsann - Five poems

Olchar E. Lindsann is a writer, theorist, publisher, historian, teacher, performer, archivist, organiser, and translator, dedicated to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of marginal countercultures. A co-founder of the International Post-NeoAbsurdist Collective, he is also actively engaged with Fluxus, Neoism, the Eternal Network, and many other radical and avant-garde projects internationally. He is the editor of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, and of the print periodicals Rêvenance and The In-Appropriated Press. The author or co-author of 40 books of critical and social theory, verse, historiography, performance scores, visual poetry, polemic, and collage, Lindsann has performed and lectured extensively in the US and the United Kingdom. He maintains several archives of contemporary and historical countercultures. Lindsann teaches cross-disciplinary Humanities classes, writing and history at a progressive school in Roanoke, Virginia.

Olchar Lindsann - Five Poems

Olchar E. Lindsann is a writer, theorist, publisher, historian, teacher, performer, archivist, organiser, and translator, dedicated to the formation, maintenance, and transformation of marginal countercultures. A co-founder of the International Post-NeoAbsurdist Collective, he is also actively engaged with Fluxus, Neoism, the Eternal Network, and many other radical and avant-garde projects internationally. He is the editor of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press, and of the print periodicals Rêvenance and The In-Appropriated Press. The author or co-author of 40 books of critical and social theory, verse, historiography, performance scores, visual poetry, polemic, and collage, Lindsann has performed and lectured extensively in the US and the United Kingdom. He maintains several archives of contemporary and historical countercultures. Lindsann teaches cross-disciplinary Humanities classes, writing and history at a progressive school in Roanoke, Virginia.

ISSUE 4

ISSUE #4

Editors note:

Still can't believe this magazine lasted more than three issues. I guess i'm becoming a more organized person because of this. Anyway...

Original plan for the #4 was to make a prose-centered issue. There was a fair share of nice pieces that were individually fine - but in whole it wasn't working at all. It was a mess. So I decided to start from scratch instead trying to fix fundamentally broken concept.

And it was moderately successful. It took longer than usual to make it work. The flow wasn't as good as Issue 3. There were a lot of trash submissions and too many pieces that were critically unfit for the magazine that promotes experimental writing. But after all - it's a solid issue with lots and lots of great stuff to read and think about.

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

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Table of Contents:

1. Zoria April - Five Visual Poems
2. Olchar Lindsann - Five poems
3. Luc Fierens - Four collages
4. Mark Antony Rossi - Four poems
5. Bill DiMichele - Garage
6. Heath Brougher - Two poems
7. Howie Good - Five cut-up texts
8. Phil Openshaw - Five visual pieces
9. Scott-Patrick Mitchell - Four poems
10. Stephen Nelson - Fourteen Untitled Minimalist Poems
11. Juan Angel Italiano - Sound and Visual pieces
12. Timothy Parfitt - Last First Action Hero
13. Orchid Tierney - Three visual pieces 

Olchar Lindsann - Five poems

Olchar E. Lindsann is a co-founder of the Post-NeoAbsurdist network, has published around forty books of poetry, critical theory, and avant-garde history, and has performed sound poetry across the US and UK. He is the editor of mOnocle-Lash Anti-Press and the journals in-Appropriated Press and Rêvenance: Hauntings from Underground Histories. He lives in Roanoke, Virginia where he teaches at a progressive alternative high school and co-organizes the AfterMAF Festival, and maintains several archive dedicated to various aspects of the contemporary and historical avant-garde.

Announcing Brave New Word #4

Ladies and gentlemen!

Brave New Word #4 is going live on May 1.

It was a long road and this time it was particularly rocky. Nevertheless, the issue is rock solid piece of experimental literature in high variety.

Issue line-up:

• Zoria April 
• Olchar Lindsann 
• Luc Fierens 
• Mark Antony Rossi 
• Bill DiMichele 
• Heath Brougher 
• Howie Good
• Phil Openshaw 
• Scott-Patrick Mitchell
• Stephen Nelson 
• Juan Angel Italiano 
• Timothy Parfitt
• Orchid Tierney