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How Can One Resist Donating to Slumgullion

Forwarded from Stuart Ross via Miekal And: My dear friend and anarchic smallpresser debby florence -- who is a poet and student in Missoula, Montana, and has been working tirelessly towards smallpress collectivism for the past year or two, writes this in her blog:

"I am building a small press library at our studio. The objective is to begin this collection so people can hang out and read in our space. As we grow into a newer and bigger space, we will be able to expand our hours and have an actual public reading library. So, I am asking all of you out there who do any kind of publishing to consider donating some stuff to us. Mail books and zines to: Slumgullion, PMB
1011, 91 Campus Drive, Missoula , MT 59812 USA."

slum·gul·lion (slm-glyn)

n.

A watery meat stew.

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[Perhaps slum, muddy deposit in a mining sluice + dialectal gullion, mud (perhaps from Irish Gaelic goilín, pit).]

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chin in a coffee cup, up and down

reverse intentions that once were honest

most aboriginal achievements

a barn's house

the very bottom of the line

right hand to ear, a question mark

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candle in an other room

fumbling syllables, fake identification

select obligatory phrases

reverse

the kill to

Otoliths -- A New Ezine Looking for Work

From editor Mark Young:

The response to my earlier email was fast, furious & overwhelmingly positive & supportive, so I'm going ahead with the ezine. (For those of you who I've included here for the first time, the earlier email was calling for expressions of interest.)

It'll be called Otoliths. Why? Because I like the word. & its definition. An otolith is one of the small bones or particles of calcareous or other hard substance in the internal ear of vertebrates, and in the auditory organs of many invertebrates; an ear stone. Collectively, the otoliths are called ear sand and otoconite.

I'll consider text & vispo, prose of any description (with a limit of 5000 words & I'm not too sure about genre fiction), photography, paintings, drawings, collages. Any combination of the above. I'll consider kinetic or moving works.

It should be previously unpublished work though I'll make an exception for exceptional blog postings, & anything visual can have been exhibited. There'll be no payment, though my intention is to also bring each issue out in a print on demand form, & each contributor will receive a complimentary copy.

I'll be using the Blogger platform, & most of you are familiar with its foibles. It'll be single-paged, not continuous, will have a separate cover for each issue, & a table of contents that will have the links to the individual pages. There'll be no sidebar. Each issue will be archived. The ability to have comments on the page/post will be at the discretion of the contributor. I've put a rough mock-up of a few pages at http://the-otolith.blogspot.com

Submissions can be as attachments or in the body of the email. The address for submissions is otolitheditor@gmail.com. Please include a brief bionote, & a photo if you like, with the submission. Closing date for submissions for the first issue will be April 30.

In/cap/it/u/lation

where does it in

when it goes here?

Follow Josh Corey's

thoughts on teaching poetry in his March 24 post, on expanding the poetry audience. Dip into the comments, too, including some suggestions for teaching resources such as Ron Padgett's Creative Reading. He's hitting on many of the topics I've broached in the last two years about creating readers who can withstand the death-grip of poetry as now taught in secondary schools, who can then raise their hands and fists and middle fingers in the school of quietude universities...

That may be a bit extreme, duh. In any case, as a high school teacher (and a pre-school poet) I appreciate Corey's consideration of the issue/s.

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the last traces of naturalistic convention

allowing such distinctions as a sway

is sand

competence conditioned to fear

we had all

some complexity coaxed of simpleness

absolute sinuous

often

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sky poised and wing tip

tie up a few loose ends

anyone waiting for another season

one took hand

much of the work is wonder

not come to the end of it

never does

crossed eye

to fix to the beginning

looped foul

below the navel

but if you inquire further

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part of the value of art is it makes us

used to make

poor little house suffused with stress

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Introducing perturbation into the system