Never Mind the Beasts

There’s a hot spanking new mag out of Greensboro called Backwards City Review. Comics, poetry, fiction, non-fiction.

The first issue should be available soon.

I’ve had a sneak peak (in pdf form). It’s very very good!

Check out the table of contents for the first issue:

EDITOR’S NOTE

COMICS

Tom Chalkley   Heat Wave Verso

Peter S. Conrad   What’s in a Name

Jim Rugg   The Stoned Ape Theory

FICTION

Michael Parker   Results for Novice Males

Alix Ohlin   Local News

Cory Doctorow   Excerpt from Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

Adam Berlin   Speeding Away

NONFICTION

Stephen Kuusisto   Alfred Whitehead Is Alive and Well in Corpus Christi, Texas

POETRY

Joyelle McSweeney   Architectural Digest,  The Great White Fleet

Ander Monson   Me v. January, Circumstantial

Karri Harrison Paul   Eviction

Greg Williamson   Sex  22   Sex  23

Marcus Slease   If You’ve Got Something to Say, Then Say It

Paul Guest   Poem in Which I Seek Consolation in the Etymology of a Word, Victoria’s Secret

John Latta   Umbrage,  Gadabout

Tony Tost   from Complex Sleep

Erica Bernheim   How to Create Your Own Amnesia, Summer Crookneck

Sarah Manguso   What Prayer Is

Kristin Hall   DIY Foot Washing, The Flight Area

Arielle Greenberg   Membrane, On a Return to Being a Polemic against Light Verse  

K. Silem Mohammad   They Call My Car Illegal,  Demerol Chillout

Johannes Goransson   from Secured against Hares

Kent Johnson   Poetry Blogs in Zurich

Gabriel Gudding   Policy, Religion

CONTRIBUTOR NOTES

ENVOI Kurt Vonnegut   Where Do You Get Your Ideas From?

GET IT WHILE IT’S HOT:

BACKWARDS CITY REVIEW