Three poems appear in The Sparrow’s Trombone:
“Look!”
“just a putt on the green dream”
“shadows fasting in a team”
According to editor Jeremy Scott, “The Sparrow's Trombone is a surrealist literary website as well as a zine made using traditional punk/diy cut and paste lofi tech.”
Three chapters of Autobiography of a Book appear at Mercurius.
The editors write:
Mercurius Magazine was founded in May 2020 with the aim of building a community of writers and artists around the themes of “transformation” and “vitality”. The site publishes a wide range of work, from avant-garde visual poetry to contemporary surrealism and absurdism, literary essays, journalism, short stories and flash fiction. … We seek to take down the barriers between high art, literary culture and current affairs, not by forcing them together in unholy matrimony, but by providing a shared space. … Perhaps Mercurius is less a magazine than an ever-evolving social experiment, a community building project.
GAS: Poetry, Art, and Music has posted two chapters from Autobiography of a Book, “in which the book admits to a difficulty” and “in which the book observes the translation of favorites”.
"I Thought I Ought to Number” appears in issue #1 of the new zine ubu. A poem in a debut issue. That’s fun. My poem appears on p.16 (or maybe 17; the pages aren’t numbered).
ubu is edited by Lori A. Minor. She says of the ezine’s mission:
My favorite absurdist play … Jarry's Ubu Roi (1896), … uses extreme satire, foolishness, and obscenity to mock the upper middle class and overturn their social norms, [and] is a precursor to Dadaism, Surrealism, and the Theatre of the Absurd … I chose ubu. for its roots in the plays … I began writing and studying minimalist poetry over the past four years. Recently I've decided to combine my love of the two by using this venue to focus on absurd, minimalist writing.”
Editor Zee Zahava requested new haiku for this issue of brass bell, that is, poems written from 8/26 to 8/29. I felt some inspiration so had several to send. She chose:
chasing the last berry
around the bowl
morning fog
Many good ones in the issue. Look for those by Al Peat, Brad Bennett, Bryan Rickert, Joe Sebastian, Kathleen Kramer … Sunflowers! Shadows! A laundry disaster! Plus both a shooting star and a meteor.
