!Dear :
Ohhh yeah, it’s a new DIAGRAM!
As you may have noticed, starting in 2024 we have moved to a quarterly schedule to make the design and production workload on our end more manageable. So instead of dropping a month ago, issue 24.1 is live now!
Quick note to remind our subscribers that THIS YEAR’S CHAPBOOK CONTEST DEADLINE IS MAY 15.
And now to our regularly scheduled programming! This issue includes…
TEXT / IMAGE
- Megan Baxter
- Amy Benson
- David Eileen
- Andrew Farkas
- Maddy Frank
- Marina Greenfeld
- Jen Hallaman
- Karen Holman
- Ian Jackson
- Angie Lee
- Kristi Maxwell
- Rodrigo Restrepo Montoya
- Tobenna Nwosu
- Meg Reilly
- Stephanie Sauer
- Heather Sellers
- William Stobb
- Elise Tao
REVIEWS
SCHEMATICA
- Combinations of Stimuli which “Set the Occasion” for Various Response Elements in Press Training (Left) and in Release Training (Right)
- Representative Waveforms of Averaged Evoked Magnetic Responses at 37 Channels, by Word Presentation Order (First or Second) and Hemisphere
- Two-Dimensional Plot of 10 Universes of Motivations for Becoming a Teacher by Mori’s Results
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As a sample from the issue here’s POEM WHERE EVERY EXCLAMATION POINT THRASHES A BEAT ON MY BELOVED’S DRUMS by David Eileen.
Thoughts & flares! Hold! the thoughts! Roadside! skin my!
every nerve! Turn noise! to! flint! & spark! behind my! eyes!
Lite-Brite for me! a picture! in pinprick! of her!
Some! might say! they can’t! hear themselves! think! Perhaps!
a person! ought to turn! some! damn! thoughts! up! to! eleven!
Did! a fuddy! duddy! ever! think! of that! Ear plugs! be damned!
Staccato! bursts! An aneurysm! to redden! my air! Cherry bombing!
around us! Seraphim! slobbering! jealous! over all! her fire!
What more! could! a body! need! to destroy! or to think! about!
Perhaps! thought! is longhand! for what! drums! destroy! in our hungry!
open! ears! Here! like sitting! or sugar! decay! ceaselessly comes!
through what! pacifies! roaring stadiums! inside us! So again! I say!
unweave! each seam! keeping! my blood! too clean! & butterfly!
with a sickened! beat! my comfort! Unweave it! whole cloth!
from my life! I seek only! stitches! ripped! Or the respite! offered!
with secret! or sacred! appetite! Only! complete! sublimation!
Tearing sound! to headache! or migraine! ripped! into light! No matter!
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The 2024 Chapbooks are all out, and you can pick them up over at the Merch Store:
- Stephanie Anderson’s Bearings
- (contest winner) Lillian-Yvonne Bertram’s A Black Story May Contain Sensitive Content
- Christopher Nelson’s Fugitive
- Steffan Triplett’s Constraints
or, best, pick up the whole 2024 Chapbook Subscription for $15 (PDF) / $35 (Print + PDF, shipped in US).
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The 2024 contest is sneakily open if you want to get in on that. DEADLINE: MAY 15.
Last, let’s shout out the first book by one of our poetry editors, Gabriel Palacios’s A Ten Peso Burial for Which Truth I Sign, out just this last month from FONOGRAF Editions!
