New issue of the City! NO WAY HOME, DIRECTION UNKNOWN
I’ll be back in cyberland next Thursday. Traveling back to the States & it’ll take us a while. Before I go, here’s the new issue of the City zine:
New issue of the City! NO WAY HOME, DIRECTION UNKNOWN
Issue 20 Fall 2007
The City Poetry Zine is characterized by a kind of patchouli cheer/despair or sci-fi gestalt or fairy tale radiance. It showcases poetry, prose, reviews, interviews, photography and art.
some snips:
woody x weed
woodpecker landed ona thick tree
and did a little dance to the priest
wld a pecker cld
he mighta askt
what the hell allus people
were doin standing by a hole
we didnt beak
- Bree
We swim like fish in a culture of space and time
where the surface of things
more threatening than the patient gaze of egg timers
bore holes into the unguarded pens of fiction writers.
- Ronnie McGrath
“I think you said that Burning Man changed your life.”
I would describe it as the first time I felt what a community actually felt like. Everyone talks about community but that was the first time I actually experienced it. It felt really fucking good, really natural.
- Blue7 interviewed by Lady K
ATTENTION current and past contributors: there is a reading Oct 21 in Cleveland. It is part of the Kerouac Celebration weekend. You are invited to participate. Please view www.thecitypoetry.com for more information or e-mail me.
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