Experiment-o and Reading the New

The issue is now live at www.experiment-o.com.

This first issue live with some interesting work to check out. The contributers are: Gary Barwin, Emily A. Falvey, Spencer Gordon, Camille Martin, rob mclennan, Sheila E. Murphy, Roland Prevost, Jenny Sampirisi and Steve Venright

It’s a good week for poetry.

Received my print copy of Magma. (I’m grateful to Rob Mack for mentioning that discovery.) It has the highest density of enjoyable poetry I’ve read in a while. That dark and absurd British sense of humor tickles me right. The magazine’s got a wonderful feel to it overall with integrating classic writers and articles. Like how the book review section isn’t pushed off to the back like footnotes but has more poems after it.

Also arrived to my hands a new issue of 1cent with one of my trains poems in it. Only 140 copies made. Tell me if you want one.

This week also brought the new Haiku Canada Review (which I’ve yet to crack but always promises an enjoyable sit) and sidebrow which has some promising looking fun stuff thru the peruse.

Adeena Karasik’s poems mashing up war and high cuisine are in Rampike 17/2. This is a particular coup for me because she performed this in Peterborough in March and I wanted to hear them again but they weren’t yet it print. And a new story by Rebecca Rosenblum which was fun. She’s the author of Once which we are in the middle of reading still. Lovely to get more.

I have to start making wishes at a more ambitious rate if they keep getting filled like this.