F.A.L.D. Issue #013
December 2016
December 2016
N! NEWSPROSECOLORING & WRITING PROMPTS
Publishers That Won't Waste Your Time[ oh- & check out ENCLAVE's "Where To Submit" for a more comprehensive list of potential homes !! ]
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POETRYSara Adams
[ website ] Danielle Marie Clark [ @DanielleClark_ ] Katie Clark [ @octupiwallst ] Amanda Dissinger [ @fragglezrock ] Jordan Hoxsie [ tumblr / @jordanhoxsie ] Jessie Janeshek [ website / @BlondeBitters ] Danielle Perry [ website / @jekyllian ] Alec Robbins [ website ] Soeun Seo [ // ] Erin Taylor [ @erinisaway ] HOW-tosRecommended Reading
INTERVIEWS & ESSAYS
ESSAYS & ARTICLES
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FEATURESARTWORKS
Richard Kerwin
[ website / @metanyme ] Jonathan Orion Nicoloff [ facebook ] kerry rawlinson [ website / @kerryrawli ] Nathan Tompkins [ @GorillaPoet1 ] MIXTAPES #002
YOUTUBE PLAYLIST
SOLID ALBUMS
LET'S DANCE WITH POEMS
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This year's tours trainwrecked fast. Misfiring thru New Mexico. St. Louis tire squeals. New York soaked bones shiver. Kansas City liquored lips trip over a tweaked out man waving a rifle. Desert ragged confidence takes on the swamps. The Everglades respond by swallowing plans, like one long bong rip exhaling reroutes & "how the fuck are we supposed to make it there time?"s.
Yeah—one hell of a year.
But adventure isn't adventure without teeth—& N! managed the occsaional flossing. We succesfully debuted & toured 2016's chaps. Books & Shovels stumbled thru new lit while we bumbled thru new selves.
Oh—& we learned more about overheating + cuban coffee + web-cam modeling + Evangelicism + I touched a gator.
Out stories get weird. This year's crossings have been difficult to maintain my truth w/ others privacy. Sprinkled thru out this issue are photos & excerpts linking to the full entries. Well, not all of them. Some entries are still being written, & will posted at N!'s Tavern.
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N! News: SNIPE & LIGHT 2016's Chapbooks FreeOi y'all !! We’ve released N!‘s 2016 chapbook series as free PDFs !!
The titular links below lead directly to the PDFs to read/download. If ya dig the chaps, a couple print copies (still donation-based !!) remain, all hungry for oil from your fingers <3 Much love, thanks for your support <33 |
"I can remember the meaning of every tarot card but i can't remember what i texted you last night"by elle nash“a list of the identities i inhabit include
pretty girl eating salad at mod market counter reading a book night hands coming in from cold air to rest on my nearbody animals eating each other” from “the moon”
[ free pdf // order print ]
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"MAke a fist & Tongue the knuckles"by emily o'neill“This isn’t Texas anywhere except at your temples.
Where the sun lives. Where the smoke gathers. Your redhead unraveling in handcuffs, in the salt grass. Your apple chucked over your shoulder, half-eaten. Your frown lines. Your James Dean. You’re bad enough. Can’t be poor when even the cops beg for a souvenir.” from “Lucky Like That”
[ free pdf // order print ]
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"I was talking about love—you are talking about geography"by bob sykora“…There’s me sweating my balls off
at an electronic slot machine in the back of the Twilight Room in North Portland, trying to forget the way you’d let me piss in the trees when we were drunk late, talking on the bluff above the river, not cheating on our girl/boyfriends, terrified of this new type of love we’d discovered.” from “Clicking through Karen’s Wedding Pics”
[ free pdf // order print ]
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Wrapped up thru Jeffrey's art is his work as a critic, eco-activist, and publisher. He currently writes criticism for American Book Review, ArtNexus, & White Hot Magazine. He is a long time resident of the East Village in New York City, & produces literary events at KGB Lit Bar and La Mama ETC in conjunction with his magazine, Live Mag!—that said, he’s best known for his lyricism, having published fourteen books of poetry, including “Triple Crown, Sonnets” from Spuyten Duyvil and “Radio Poems” (forthcoming from The Operating System).
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you asked me to kill you
because you knew i would say no but now i am wondering: what would have happened if i had said yes? (i should have said yes)
how much pain would have been averted
if i had said yes and made my palms red with your blood i should have let myself dig into your rabbit-flesh with my owl-talons |
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"Actually—I was torn between two versions of it. I'd recently watched a video of Terri Trespicio ("Stop Searching For Your Passion"); advocating just putting one foot in front of the next (if you find you have no drive or ambition for anything specific). She worked her ass off doing something she'd just fallen into because she had no idea at all what her "passion" was, or should be. And I get that. Because seriously - who could earn a proper living as a poet or artist? Really? So unless you slog your butt off to get you to a place where you can truly engage your "passion" (like me)—well... keep working your ass off."
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"My definition of passion....this is a difficult thing....but passion is when I feel when I stand before a microphone sharing my words, and listening to the gasps from the audience, or when I look at lights on dark roads, and think how I might photograph them and play with them in order to create art, or when I look at my daughter's own artwork."
Nathan Tompkins is a writer and photographer living in Portland, Oregon, though he will always call North Idaho home. His work has appeared in Menacing Hedge, NonBinary Review, and Full of Crow. He's the author of four chapbooks, most recently "Lullabies to a Whiskey Bottle" and "A Song of Chaos".
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