Russell Jaffe - 5 poems from Ip (unpublished)

Russell Jaffe is an edutainer and Literature Instructor for Course Hero. https://www.youtube.com/user/CourseHeroVideo/playlists

Russell Jaffe - Blank Verse Variation

Russell Jaffe teaches at Loyola University in Chicago and Fusion Academy in Oak Brook, and stars in literary study guides for Course Hero.
He is the author of the poetry collections This Super Doom I Aver (Poets Democracy, '12), INTROVERT//EXTROVERT (Punk Hostage Press, '14), LA CROIX WATER (Damask, '16), and Civil Coping Mechanisms (Civil Coping Mechanisms, '17).
Russell Jaffe, shoopa shoopa, Russell Jaffe.

Russell Jaffe - American Dream Poem

Russell Jaffe is the editor of TL;DR magazine (tldrmagazine.com), teaches at Loyola University in Chicago and Fusion Academy in Oak Brook, and stars in literary study guides for Course Hero. He is the author of the poetry collections This Super Doom I Aver (Poets Democracy, '12), INTROVERT//EXTROVERT (Punk Hostage Press, '14), LA CROIX WATER (Damask, '16), and Civil Coping Mechanisms (Civil Coping Mechanisms, '17). Russell Jaffe, shoopa shoopa, Russell Jaffe.

ISSUE 8

ISSUE #8

Editors note: 

This issue is designed after 2001 trip sequence. 

"Sometimes you just can't get rid of the bomb!" Remember when the last time i've said that Issue 7 is "last BNW for foreseeable future"? I was wrong! The very reason i decided to abandon this journal just vanished a bit later (in cosmic terms - it was "moments later") and i was left utterly perplexed. I feel stupid about that and I'm very sorry for causing needless fuss.

So - what happened? From August to some part of September i had a job at NGO and it was "so-so la-la" but well-paid and fitting my skills (writing stuff, etc.). I thought i could do it. But there were two problems. First - lack of any sort of task management. Everything was chaotic and i had no idea what is going on most of the time. The entire communication was based on Facebook Messenger which is counterproductive to say the least and there was no real system of tracking progress or keeping schedule intact. No Trello or Slack. But you can get behind the chaos if you want to. What you can't get behind is toxic environment. And boy, it was TOXIC. It was Chornobyl level of toxicity. Here's a thing - i can adapt to the collective. But it takes two for a tango and when the other side is not willing to embrace newbie - there is nothing to be done. After a while i was rejected and isolated simply because i wasn't one of them. That NGO-crowd were lawyers, graduates, PR-managers - all interested in one thing - politics and politics only. And they had no idea about anything. Anything!! They live in a parallel dimension. So when the writer comes to write stuff for them - their reaction was as if it full-on alien invasion. It seems like they don't really understand that some people may be different from them. And so they acted hostile and plain mean. It was disgusting. I was undermined at every point and had no chance to show what i'm capable of. That made very sad but i was willing to go on - because i'm not the one gives up. But they decided otherwise - and so I was out. I think it was a good thing after all - i nearly had a nervous breakdown because of the growing tensions (fun, fun, fun).

Now it's over - i'm back in the saddle and ready to rumble!

This issue is far more visual than the previous. The line-up is murderers row of talent of all walks. Whole lotta collage stuff in different styles from Guido Utermark and David Chirot, visual poetry from the Ruud Janssen and Mick Boyle. But there are also some texts - Miekal And's Also Spake Moby Dick is getting well-deserved spotlight. Probably the best piece of poetry ever posted on BNW. There are also very curious stuff from Russell Jaffe and Steve Timm. There's even a reunion of M58 crew - Andrew Taylor and Jez Noond! And there's stuff from legendary Valerij Scherstyanoi. Overall - i'm very proud of this issue. Probably the strongest of the bunch so far.

And as a teaser of sorts i want to mention one project that will involve whole lotta visual poetry. I hope it will go as planned.

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Table of Contents:

1. mIEKAL aND - Also Spake Moby Dick
2. Giorgio Moio - Seven Visual Poems
3. Russell Jaffe - Four Poems
4. David Chirot - Ten Pieces
5. Steve Timm - Five Poems
6. Ruud Janssen - Six Pieces
7. Guido Utermark - Seven collages
8. Raul Reguera - Palimpsestos
9. Mick Boyle - Seven visual poems
10. Valerij Scherstyanoi - The train of autumn in the Puschkinallee
11. Andrew Taylor - Three Visual Poems
12. Jez Noond -  - -e--a- -a---i--- --/--/---- - --/--/----
13. Francesco Aprile - Six Glitch Pieces
14. Gregory Betts - Three visual pieces
15. Logan K. Young - ɹoʇɐןnɔןɐɔ ɐ uo ǝdʎʇ uɐɔ 'ooʇ 'noʎ spɹoʍ 5341
16. Jason Motsch - Five visual pieces

Russell Jaffe - Four Poems

Russell Jaffe is the editor of TL;DR magazine (tldrmagazine.com), teaches at Loyola University in Chicago and Fusion Academy in Oak Brook, and stars in literary study guides for Course Hero. He is the author of the poetry collections This Super Doom I Aver (Poets Democracy, '12), INTROVERT//EXTROVERT (Punk Hostage Press, '14), LA CROIX WATER (Damask, '16), and Civil Coping Mechanisms (Civil Coping Mechanisms, '17). Russell Jaffe, shoopa shoopa, Russell Jaffe.

Announcing Brave New Word Issue 8

Ladies and gentlemen!

Brave New Word #8 is going live on October 25th.

It was a tough issue to pull off. Mainly because so much crap is going on around me. But it all paid off. I guess this issue is the strongest i've made to date. I'm really proud of it. The line-up is probably one of the most exciting you will ever see in any magazine. It is a murderers row of talent. There's even a reunion of M58 crew in the form of Jez Noond and Andrew Taylor. There's stuff from one of the all time greats - Valerij Scherstyanoi. I mean this issue will blow your mind the way no other issue of this or any other literary magazine ever will.

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Issue Line-up:

• mIEKAL aND 
• Giorgio Moio 
• Russell Jaffe 
• David Chirot 
• Steve Timm 
• Ruud Janssen 
• Guido Utermark 
• Raul Reguera
• Mick Boyle 
• Valerij Scherstyanoi 
• Andrew Taylor 
• Jez Noond 
• Francesco Aprile 
• Gregory Betts 
• Logan K. Young 
• Jason Motsch