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News from Mad Hatter's Review

Dear Friends of the Mad Hatters:

In case you haven’t heard the buzz, our journal has decided to hit the cyber-streets on an annual basis. 

Please be forewarned that our open submissions guidelines for Issue 12 (next in queue after THE MAD BUNKERS MASH, due to emerge in early 2010) is now posted on our front page, in the usual place, namely on the sidebar: Submissions Guidelines:  http://www.madhattersreview.com/submit.shtml.  We’ll be reviewing submissions sent to us from January 1st through 31st, aiming to publish Issue 12 in January or February, 2011.  

We have some old and new and juggled about staff members, namely:

Shirley Harshenin, webmaestress extraordinaire (nutheadproductions)
Alla Michelle Watson, Managing Editor
Gene Tanta, Art
Cartoons: Phil Nelson, assisted by Marja Hagborg
Visored Burgeonette (no kidding), Music/Audio
Ann Bogle, Creative Non-Fiction & Reviews 
Marc Lowe and Matthew W. Maxwell, Fiction
Karen Garthe and Jefferson Hansen, Poetry
Amy Marie Bucciferro, Wit & Whimsy
Drama and Whatnots will be reviewed by yrs truly publisher.

Issue 12 will feature exhibitions of Visual Music presentations (edited by Jean DeTheux) and Moving Words (edited by Camille Bacos and Jeremy Hight). 

All of our contributors, past and almost past (the Mash issue will be up in early 2010) are welcome to let us know about recent publications.  We’ll be happy to include reviews, as long as we find reviewers (hint); alternatively, if you have your own reviewer, we will consider publishing the review as an exclusive to our journal. Please send publication news to madhr.12@gmail.com, subject line: CONTRIBUTOR’S NEW PUBLICATION. 


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We’ll send another newsletter when the huge, mind-blowing Mad Bunkers Mash issue emerges.

New Year’s Cheers!
Carol Novack
Publisher
Mad Hatters’ Review


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Pastoral

 

Brightly colored cataclysm: With slow, slinky strokes

trying hard not to lose sight the way rich people swam.

 

Low, complacent buzz of the motionless, face up,

is our idyll, our bit of Virgil and the forgotten hemlock tree.

 

Swarm into the wilds.

A very young woman against the weather floating on her side.

 

She’s bleeding combs lying about.

This done, rise up slowly through

first time

he tried

he did

what he tried

choosing his moments

(his

m  o  m  e  n  t  u  m)

to insist his presence

he assisted others--

sister, mother, father

to be more

than presence

Now On-Line Galatea Resurrects #13

56 new reviews:

http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/

The editor notes: "As of Issue No. 13, GR has provided 713 new reviews (covering 326 publishers in 16 countries) and 62 reprinted reviews (to bring online reviews previously available only viz print)."

Galatea Resurrects #13: Hill Reviews Caramboles by Alexander Dickow

http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/caramboles-by-alexander-dickow.html

Galatea Resurrects #13: Hill Reviews: LANDSCAPES OF DISSENT: GUERRILLA POETRY & PUBLIC SPACE by Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand

http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/landscapes-of-dissent-guerilla-poetry.html

If you have a copy of this book on your shelves, shame on you. This is a book that needs to move--hand-to-hand, mouth to mouth. Action (readers) not stasis (dust). Stick it in your neighbor's mailbox today.

Galatea Resurrects: Hill reviews Rachel Loden's Dick of the Dead

http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/2009/12/dick-of-dead-by-rachel-loden.html

Jeffrey Side on The Semantic Limitations of Visual Poetry

http://artrecess.blogspot.com/2009/12/jeffrey-side-uk-semantic-limitations-of.html

I've been meaning to respond to this P.F.S. post (Adam Fieled's excellent blog). Well, that isn't forthcoming soon enough. Let me know what you think!

Announcing Issue 6 of Textsound

Reverberations of radio shows, sound cut-ups, a mouthful of metal, and
(that's right) cats make up just a few of the themes in this month's
installation of textsound. William R. Howe demonstrates how a broken
typewriter can turn out great work, Lindsay Cuff layers sound like she's in
a water-echo-chamber, and Kyle Booten gives us one of the world's most
delightful sounds: a child's laughter. Rodrigo Toscano, Lindsay Cuff, Dale
Sherrard, Kyle Booten, William R. Howe, Best Friends Forever, Brian Ang, and
Adrian Moens are all inside these cyber-walls.

Pull up a chair and make yourself at home at www.textsound.org.

This has got to be one of the most striking poetry book covers

that I have ever seen. Though I have not read the book (Advanced Elvis Course by CA Conrad) yet, I'd predict its camp, its garishness, is a good match for the poetry within. Kudos to Goodloe Byron, CA Conrad, and Soft Skull Press.

He admitted the tree with an axe we have to apologize.

A marathon reading of Clark Coolidge's The Crystal Text

Saturday, December 19
from noon till quits (around 5?)
Spare Room <http://www.flim.com/spareroom> presents


The Crystal Text

at The Waypost
3120 N. Williams Ave.

free--come or go at will

The readers will be: David Abel, Meredith Blankinship, Joseph Bradshaw, Jen
Burris, Allison Cobb, Jen Coleman, Endi Hartigan, Patrick Hartigan, Rodney
Koeneke, Maryrose Larkin, Sam Lohmann, Jesse Morse, Mark Owens, and James
Yeary.

*

Is this the only way I can now speak, arms
on a board to a dumb stone? The silence
of written words is perhaps correct for this
connection. An off-note to think of oneself
shouting against wall of crystal. Better to breathe
on it, dampening and misting its striations. Best
to be writing (whatever?) here in this book
in its presence. The window glass is but a
gross imitation of the crystal, as speech is of poetry.
As a closed book is the strength of a hand
brought to a perfection. Poetry is the closed voice?
--The Crystal Text

Text-Art 2010 Calendar by Andrew Topel

Fact-Simile Editions is pleased to announce that our 2010 Calendar featuring the textual artistry of Andrew Topel is NOW ON SALE at http://fact-simile.com/calendar.html

Order your copy of this limited edition 2010 spiral bound wall calendar (just $15 plus shipping) by Wednesday and we’ll be sure to get it to you in time for the holidays.

Yours Truly,

Travis Macdonald & JenMarie Davis
Fact-Simile Editions
www.fact-simile.com

P.S. Look for the 2010 Visual Poets in the Buff Calendar, out from BuffVispo.com later this month (photos by Geof Huth).

Indulgent Laugh

It’s nothing much: human behavior.

Coo on her window ledge.

 

It was; it is as mad as a hornet; war trumpet and darts.

It says, blue.

 

Its ruling passion soon developed a soft, docile scent all its own. .

He would kiss ill feeling.

Stare: What letters, words, poems do you see?