LIT 15/16 + OCHO 25

Playing catch-up hard. Email inbox like overgrown pubes. Went to life mailbox today. Jesus god. Got a lot to imbibe, talks on.

Starting where the start:

New 10th anniversary issue of LIT is fucking bajoinkers. One of the best looking thangs I've seen in a min., and at least 2x their normal size, fat with freaks:



LIT 15/16 Contributors Include:

Poetry and Prose by Cynthia Arrieu-King, Kate Baldus, A K Beck, Mark Bilbrey, Sommer Browning, Jennifer Bryan, Blake Butler, Tyler Carter, Jeff Chang, Jamison T. Crabtree, Mónica de la Torre, Christopher Deweese, Denise Duhamel, Brian Foley, Andrew Grace, Kate Hall, Casey Haymes, Chris Hosea, Christine Hume, Kirsten Kaschock, Sean Kilpatrick, Amy Lemmon, dawn lonsinger, Julianne Lynch, Anthony Madrid, Scott Miles, Ander Monson, Linnea Ogden, Shelly Oria, Jeffrey Pethybridge, Marie Ponsot, Brett Price, Justin Quarry, Kathleen Rooney, Catie Rosemurgy, Brian Russell, Michael Schiavo, Roy William Scranton, Craig Morgan Teicher, Brendon Vayo and Dean Young…

10 Years: An Editors’ Retrospective, with an introduction by Nicole Steinberg and Peter Bogart-Johnson, LIT co-editors, featuring work by Mary Jo Bang, Erin Belieu, Mark Bibbins, Liz Brown, Jenna Cardinale, Clifford Chase, Shanna Compton, Elaine Equi, Paul Feldman, Andy Fitch, Jonathan Franzen, Caroline Knox, Wayne Koestenbum, Thomas David Lisk, Justin Marks, Chris McCabe, Nancy Nalven, Kathleen Ossip, Angela Patrinos, Rebecca Reilly, Joseph Salvatore, Maureen Thorson, Chris Tonelli and Matthew Ulland…

Bars Across Sky Across Feeling: A Selection of German Poetry in Translation, curated by Liesel Tarquini, with work by Susan Bernofsky, E.H. Bottenberg, Marica Bodrozic, Katy Derbyshire, Catherine Hales, Victoria Hill, Wendy Ann Kopisch, Friederike Mayröcker, Alistair Noon, Veronika Reichl, Monika Rinck, Silke Scheuermann, Lutz Seiler, Tzveta Sofronieva, Donna Stonecipher, Matthias Traxler and Chantal Wright…

Mine's is a piece of Scorch Atlas, 'Water Damaged Photos of Our Home Before I Left It'

In few intro peeks inside, Sean Kilpatrick wins again.

It's got a $8 cover price dudes. You can get it from their forthcoming new website now.






For those interested, issue 25 of Ocho, edited by me, you can buy now in print version from Amazon here, I got a copy, it looks really rad with art by 12 yr old Jaycee Menendez, do a buy?, lots of freaks inside, including:

Matthew Simmons, Sam Pink, Jeff Johnson, Peter Davis, Hickory Assbags, Janey Smith, Rauan Klassnik, Dan Hoy, Michael Bible, Claire Donato & Leslie Patron, James Iredell, Conor Madigan, Adam Robinson, Mike Topp, Ethel Rohan, Kim Parko, Kendra Grant Malone, Jonathan Papas, Ravi Mangla, Christopher Higgs, A. Minetta Gould.



You can still also read it online here.