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Edition 1 Volume 8 Autumn 2025 Vol. 8 Autumn 2025Download

Once
John Heath-
Stubbs, Basil
Bunting, Michael
Hamburger, Peter
Levi, and Adrian
Henri used silly numbers
of syllables (...) a totally
superb, uninteresting,
successful, spurious,
useful, redundant,
diminishing
exercise
in the
end

by Mark Saunders
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"What is
revealed is another painting that the critic has determined
will be more glorious than the Goddess we behold. It’s not."

Of Clement Greenberg, art critic extraordinaire.

Discover the work of Penn Kemp in this our latest.
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Parabolic Alterity by Vernon Frazer out now! We here at C22 are proud to bring to you Parabolic Alterity by Vernon Frazer, the latest in our Open Editions chapbook releases. In PARABOLIC ALTERITY Vernon Frazer creates a remarkable blend of te…

Parabolic Alterity by Vernon Frazer out now from C22 Open Editions @c22press.bsky.social ! A recontextualization of language into an altogether unfamiliar form. Read the book for free!

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Exciting project, & thrilled to have Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social as progenitor & reader w/ me on this project / @icefloepress.bsky.social

Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.

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"That nothingness, peripheral, erring,
Hath, final jest, turned into everything."

Discover the wonderful sonneteering by Mark Wartenberg in this our latest.
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October 19th, 2025 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 𝐨𝐟 𝐉𝐨𝐬𝐡𝐮𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧’𝐬 𝑴𝒖𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔: ​ I’ve long admired Joshua Martin not only for his work with C22...

My review of Joshua Martin's newest book, Mutations. @c22press.bsky.social

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"I don’t get the sense that we so much descend into ourselves as stumble, headfirst, into ourselves and land broken-necked somewhere along the entrails of our own subconscious."

Laura Kerr : The Enduring Idea: Art and Poetry in the Age of Endless Circulation A growing strand of contemporary practice, both in art and in poetry, has undergone a fundamental transformation in how it exists ...

Good morning.

This is Part 1 of my Experimental Poetry Criticism—
a prelude, a first movement.
Read it before Part 2 begins to unwrite it.

Ready or not— I am.

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"Membranous ringlets drip, expelling flesh from legacy."

Discover the complex and musical work of @seankilpatrick.bsky.social
in this our latest.
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“The sonnet is a script, a timeworn frame”

Poetic forms, AI and timely re-assessments all involve in the profound work of @ericracher.bsky.social
showcased in this our latest.
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Issue 8 of Version (9) Magazine is now live. Heartfelt thanks to all contributors, without whom its manifold display of poetry contemporary, avant-garde, and experimental could not occur.
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Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age A free digital chapbook featuring 44 poems of protest, resilience, and rising authoritarianism in the Trump era—published by The Chaos Section Poetry Project.

Hi, friends. If you read Record of Dissent and it resonated with you, we’d be grateful if you took a minute to leave a review. Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Bookshop, wherever you like. It helps the book find its way to new readers. Thanks for the support. thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...

Tuesday poem #646 : arien wolf : I can see my mother’s outline but not her shape like the sharp point of her nose or the way her softness fades into angles   as she loses her mind to the tide pools of thick water pl...

Tuesday poem #646 : arien wolf : I can see my mother’s outline but not her shape
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recently on periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics: recently at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics : Laura Kerr : Unfixed Readings : Fugue, Fire, Fish ; Buck Downs : How to Be Alon...

recently on periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics: / @periodicities.bsky.social ;
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Thank you so much @wildtwin.bsky.social x:) There are tons of wonderful Nightjars available @nightjarpress.bsky.social: nightjarpress.weebly.com including @arthurmandal.bsky.social's excellent Old Tutor, New Tutor

poetry against the infection Podcast Episode · The Line Break · 07/29/2025 · 1h 2m

NEW EPISODE

sorry for the hiatus. we didn’t mean to. wanna read some poems?

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Skeleton Shivers by Joshua Martin out now! We here at C22 are proud to bring to you Skeleton Shivers by Joshua Martin, the latest in our Open Editions chapbook releases. A kaleidoscopic DaDa text. Spinning: KABOOM! Fragments of playful Bric…

Check out my chapbook skeleton shivers from C22 Open Editions @c22press.bsky.social . A kaleidoscopic DaDa text. Spinning: KABOOM! Fragments of playful Bric-a-Brac and Knick-Knacks. Curving: dynamic riddles without answers. Read for free/buy in print.

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My chapbook, punctuated avalanche, is now available from
@stonecorpse.com! Covering the skeleton with disjointed flesh and bone: a cubist painting, a DADA collage, a tuning fork, a chance meeting on a dissecting table. Download the FREE PDF or purchase a copy.

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re•mediate lit mag — re•mediate submissions A Home for CPU-Assisted Writing

our new call for submissions, [machinewitness], opens today.

don't worry— you've plenty of time ! (subs close Nov.1) but we'd love to see what you've got.

Check it out at remediatelitmag.xyz/submit! — and then head over to finish reading Issue•3, [Next Realities], while you're there!

We've been a little behind, but we're still reading for Issue 4! Hoping for a fall/winter release. Plenty of time to submit since we are always open for your wonderful poems!

new from above/ground press: The Moleskin Coat, by Ellen Chang-Richardson The Moleskin Coat Ellen Chang-Richardson $6 06 • yyyy worth revisiting—saline rolling across our tongues entwined and shimmering certain now...

new from above/ground press: The Moleskin Coat, by Ellen Chang-Richardson / @ehjchang.bsky.social @wolsakandwynn.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social ;
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Conference University of East Anglia

There's a conference on alliteration in poetry & cultural history, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, Sept. 1st. You have till Aug. 18th to register for the conference, till Aug. 14th to register for the conference dinner, which will include informal poetry readings
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Forensic Poetry is the experimental language of now.
It won’t seek beauty—it documents rupture.
Not just glitch, but trace.
Not confession, but compression.
Poetry of residue, marks, filings.
What remains when meaning is handled as evidence.

#forensicPoetry #experimentalpoetics #languageasmaterial

Christina Tudor-Sideri — Socrates on the Beach

Something to pin here. Archival Bodies. My latest, in Socrates on the Beach. An attempt at a phenomenology of the body.

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Issue 27 - The Manchester Review Image: © Courtesy of Manchester City Galleries Editorial Róisín Leggett Bohan, 3 poems Livi Michael, ‘Signs’ Immanuel Misfud, ‘Rue Garenne’ (trans. Ruth Ward) Cormac Culkeen, ‘My Dog Ate the Sun’ Laur...

Issue 27 of The Manchester Review is Now Live!

We aim to bring together the best contemporary writing from a range of voices from across the globe.

We hope you enjoy reading our new issue.

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Excited to have my new chapbook, "Fabrication" published by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social & Nightjar Press. I'm delighted that it's been paired with @arthurmandal.bsky.social's"Old Tutor, New Tutor". Now available to order online here: nightjarpress.weebly.com/fabrication.... pic.x.com/Smq9DtGXU7

Eric Racher — Socrates on the Beach

Many thanks to @greggerkesocrates.bsky.social for publishing this essay on Ezra Pound, John Milton, music and poetry in Socrates on the Beach.

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I have a new novella coming out next month! It's a twisted surreal journey through life, death, gangsters and more! You should definitely get a copy!

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My chapbook, punctuated avalanche, is now available from
@stonecorpse.com! Download the FREE PDF or purchase a copy. This book skids, belching syntactical hocus-pocus, reducing words, symbols, and punctuation to a trash heap.

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Postcard is reading for Issue 4 and we're always open for submissions! Submit to (quite possibly) the only postcard-printed magazine today! Just visit postcardlit.com for more information (and maybe buy an issue while you're there?).