Never Mind the Beasts

This hot new journal sounds very very promising. A focused eclectic (much needed as opposed to so many unfocused eclectics like Fence etc.)

Here’s the notice (and open call) from editor Tony Tost:

Here’s an open call I’m hoping to spread like good

butter. Feel free to forward to any lists or post on

any blog or message board. There’s a copy also at my

defunct Unquiet Grave blog

(http://www.unquietgrave.blogspot.com)

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F A S C I C L E

o p e n c a l l

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This summer I will be launching a new online site

called Fascicle with the help of Chris Vitiello and

Ken Rumble. Another web journal, I know, but one with

some focus, hopefully. We’re looking at running a new

issue twice a year.

Essays/Reviews/etc.

In the spirit of Jacket, Talisman, Sulfur and other

journals that present a possible context for the poems

and poetics found therein, Fascicle welcomes critical

prose on various historical and cultural tendencies

that inform an innovative aesthetic. Welcome topics

would include (but are not limited to) Negritude,

Outsider Writing (however defined), Fluxus,

Ethnopoetics (as represented by various anthologies

and writings by the Rothenbergs, Tedlock, etc.),

performance poetries, the Beats, visual poetries (from

Concrete to the work found in the Rasula/McCaffery

Imagining Language anthology), Flarf, Language

writing. Writing on individual writers and artists is

also welcomed; a representative listing of possible

subjects might include Hannah Weiner, bp nichol,

Jonathan Williams, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Tom Raworth,

Anne Tardos, Kathy Acker, Antonin Artaud, Jess, Ed

Roberson, Jacques Roubaud, besmilr bingham.

Reviews of recent titles are also always welcome.

Local News

A regular feature of Fascicle will be a (as yet

untitled) local news section consisting of the poetry

news from various communities. What we’re hoping for

is a venue by which various communities can stay

informed as to recent activities in various other

communities, and a venue by which all will have access

to news, ideas and happenings viewed through local

eyes. We have ‘correspondents’ already from Philly and

the Triangle area in North Carolina, and are searching

for people from Austin, Atlanta, DC, Vancouver,

Milwaukee, San Francisco and elsewhere, including

communities of much smaller measure. Two’s company,

three’s a community.

“The news” is free to the correspondents’

interpretation: it could be news of recent

publications, readings, social and political poetry

activities; it can also be news as to “what’s in the

air” aesthetically. Fascicle is looking for two to

three paragraphs from each correspondent, twice a

year.

Word of Mouth

[ working title ]

Fascicle will also feature short 1-2 paragraph

review/notices of work that falls under the publishing

radar. This includes chapbooks, self-published books,

internet work, audio and so forth. If it’s too small

to make SPD and you think it’s worthy of notice, we

want to run your review/notice.

Write-ups for the Word of Mouth section should be 1-2

paragraphs long and include information for ordering

and/or finding the work.

Family Tree

Another omnibus section in a similar vein as Octopus’

Recovery Project. Fascicle welcomes short write-ups of

texts (from any era) that you consider primary to your

understanding of poetry, that you feel are

under-recognized essential texts. For example, I’ll

probably write on either Clayton Eshleman’s Juniper

Fuse or the Mary Margaret Sloan edited Moving Borders:

Three Decades of Innovative Writing by Women.

Translations, etc.

Fascicle seeks translations, ideally of contemporary

poets and writers, but also of relevant historical

figures.

Additionally, English language poets from outside of

the US are especially invited to submit innovative

work; Fascicle seeks to present a view of innovative

writing as both a global and local occurrence.

Thanks —

Tony Tost

editor, Fascicle