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

Paul Corman-Roberts - Break Up Series

Paul Corman-Roberts is the author of the full length poetry collection "Water for a Brokedown Moon" forthcoming from Nomadic Press in 2020. Other collection titles include "We Shoot Typewriters" (Nomadic Press 2015) "Notes From an Orgy" (Paper Press 2014) and "19th Street Station" (Full of Crow Chap Series 2011.) He teaches to young students in Oakland CA who call him a "crackhead Santa Claus" and he still loves them.