tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-132467382012-01-30T10:36:28.471-06:00An Irregularly Published Journal of VerseEditor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.comBlogger161100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-70066422688687852362009-02-13T11:30:00.006-06:002009-02-13T11:39:29.493-06:00In case you haven't noticed, <a href="http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/apocryphal_text_3.htm">Volume 3</a> is available.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.apocryphaltextpoetry.com/apocryphal_text_3.htm">Click here.</a><br /><br /><br />I hope you enjoy it.<div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-7006642268868785236?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-61275188297895665832009-02-03T10:12:00.004-06:002009-02-06T09:54:00.499-06:00Volume 3 is being proofed as we speak. The new issue includes:<br /><br />Brandi Wells<br />Sean Patrick Hill<br />Drew Kalbach<br />David Brennan<br />Dan Kaplan<br />Kathryn Puerini<br />Inman Majors<br />Mark DeCarteret<br />Rebecca Cross<br />Bonnie Jean Michalski<br />Tina Mozelle Harris<br />Juliet Cook<br />Joe Balez<br />Jane Nakagawa<br />Hank Lazer<br />Heather Bell<br />Katie Quarles<br />Kristina Marie Darling<br />Charlie Conway<br />Louisa Spaventa<div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-6127518829789566583?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-52324577864993018422008-11-09T18:47:00.005-06:002009-02-03T09:52:55.445-06:00Online literary journals frequently bite the dust. Lucky for us, there's the<a href="http://www.archive.org/index.php"> Internet Archive</a>. If you remember the web address of a defunct e-zine, you can access archived content by typing said address in <a href="http://web.archive.org/collections/web/advanced.html">The Wayback Machine.</a><br /><br />Here are some sites that might interest you:<br /><br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20071221021142/http://www.kulturevulture.org/">Kulture Vulture</a><br /><br /><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20070208201439/www.wordsonwalls.net/index.html">Words on Walls</a><br /><br /><br />(Sometimes navigating archived content in the Archive is a bit tricky.)<div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-5232457786499301842?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-15464278965503940122008-04-06T13:58:00.004-05:002008-04-06T14:24:21.248-05:00***<br /><br />New issues of<br /><br /><a href="http://blazevox.org/">BlazeVOX</a><br /><a href="http://thediagram.com/8_1/index.html">Diagram</a><br /><a href="http://spellmag.livejournal.com/">Spell</a><br /><a href="http://lit.konundrum.com/">Konundrum Engine</a><br /><br /><br />***<div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-1546427896550394012?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-26675672888869649332008-04-06T12:39:00.007-05:002008-04-07T15:23:08.225-05:00***<br /><br /><br />Just received Hank Lazer's new book <span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lyric-Spirit-Selected-Essays-1996-2008/dp/1890650323/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1207506276&amp;sr=8-1">Lyric and Spirit</a>. </span>For some reason, I was drawn to an interview in the back, which I enjoyed very much. Near the end of the interview, Chris Mansel asks:<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Where do you suppose the self-destructiveness trait comes from that occurs in so many writers?</span><br /><br />Here's are a few sections from Lazer's answer:<br /><br />"A writer, particularly a poet, places himself in an odd position in relation to dominant cultural value. A poet decides to value certain kinds of somewhat aimless, impractical, non-money-making activities. Furthermore, he's apt to be pursuing a rather elusive mode of language--not necessarily the direct, communicative, "useful," commercially manipulative kind of language skill that society readily appreciates and rewards (in advertising, in journalism, and in other modes of persuasive and/or manipulative writing). So, what he's doing with his time is aberrant--hard to explain. And yet, if he is really engaged in a serious and profound relationship to poetry, he does have certain sporadic validating experiences--a sense of connection to a longstanding human enterprise of considerable wisdom, joy, and pleasure. The self-destructiveness may arise as a gesture of anger and frustration, arising from a sense that one's primary life activity is not appreciated or understood or respected. The self-destructiveness becomes an act oddly complicit with that ignoring and marginalizing by the society at large, while it is also a somewhat desperate call for attention and significance.<br />Society at large--at least here in the US--establishes an interestingly ambivalent role toward the poet/artist. Most of the time, it's business as usual: scorn, neglect, derision, lack of value. But then there is the flip-side: a compensatory romantic larger-than-life version (preferably made for the movies) of The Artist. This Artist is one who is--big surprise--too sensitive and volatile for this world..."<br /><br />"This intuitive, somewhat childish artist figure... is exactly what the society at large needs to comfort itself. That is, that being an artist is a big mistake, though a grand enough mistake--entertaining enough--that we can witness the story every couple of years in a big Hollywood production. And then we can return the rest of our days to ignoring such individuals in our midst..."<br /><br />"Personally, I find it hard enough to work with the nature and complexity of making poetry. No need to pursue additional clich<span style="font-style: italic;" class="ex"><em>é</em></span><span class="ex"><em></em></span>d personal drama (and self-destructiveness) just to make the story conform to a movie script. The real drama is one that can barely be seen: an internal drama of consciousness, the drama of wrestling with the issues, questions, and realizations of making the poem. You don't see those moments dramatized in the movies. You see the scenes of drunken abuse; you don't see the scenes of someone sitting in a chair, staring out the window, writing down three words."<br /><br />Lazer's new e-book <a href="http://www.ahadadabooks.com/content/view/128/41/">First Portions</a> is also available (for free) from Ahadada.<br /><br /><br />***<div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-2667567288886964933?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-41649541579670111092008-01-12T10:32:00.000-06:002008-01-12T10:41:14.459-06:00<span class="style14">A double issue of A-text (Volume 2 numbers 2 &amp; 3) is available online at <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/">http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/.</a><br /><br />Check it out.<br /><br />Poets:<br /></span><span class="style14"></span><span class="style14"><br />Arrington, Bennett, Berry, </span><span class="style14">Bloodworth, </span><span class="style14">Butler, Chace, Daly, Farr, Illich, Kostelanetz, Lawrence, Lazer, Manning, Michalski, Muslim, Raven, Savoca, Smith, Stamatakis, Worozbyt, Yuan<br /><br />Chapbook by Simon Perchik<br /><br />Review of </span><span class="style14">Jeffrey Side's </span><span class="style14"><span style="font-style: italic;">Carrier of the Seed</span><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-4164954157967011109?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-58522783569045680532007-06-19T09:47:00.002-05:002007-06-19T09:49:13.209-05:00***<br /><br /><br />I'd forgotten about this site. Some interesting reviews:<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://newpages.com/npguides/litmags_online.htm">http://newpages.com/npguides/litmags_online.htm</a><br /><br /><br />***<div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-5852278356904568053?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-1447851184587922442007-06-07T19:21:00.000-05:002007-06-10T20:55:39.136-05:00is now available online <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/apocryphal_text_v2_no1.htm">here.</a> In this issue:<br /> <p class="style31"><span class="style11"><br /></span><span class="style31">kirsten andersen</span><br />john m. bennett<br />jessica bozek<br />eric elshtain<br />johannes göransson<br />brian howe<br />amy king<br />danielle pafunda<br />tony tost<br /><span class="style29">jillian weise</span></p><p class="style31"><br /></p><p class="style31"><span class="style29"><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Vol._%202,_%20No.1/jillian_weise.htm"><br /></a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-144785118458792244?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-51485204981493448992007-04-10T21:47:00.000-05:002007-04-10T21:59:06.362-05:00***<br /><br /><br />Quick and dirty review of apocryphaltext in <a href="http://www.eclectica.org/v11n2/malby_apr_07.html">Eclectica.</a><br /><br /><br /><br />***<br /><a href="http://www.eclectica.org/v11n2/malby_apr_07.html"> </a><div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-5148520498149344899?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-1168719101329772402007-01-13T14:09:00.000-06:002007-04-10T21:58:15.608-05:00Special Issue of <span style="font-style: italic;">apocryphaltext</span> is now available <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/apocryphal_text_special_issue.htm">here.</a><br /><br /><p class="style8"><span class="style11"><span class="style26">POEMS</span><br /><br /></span> <span class="style6"><span class="style11"> <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/o_hunt.htm">O. Hunt</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/stephen_kirbach.htm">Stephen Kirbach</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/skip_fox.htm">Skip Fox</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/jeffrey_side.htm">Jeffrey Side</a><br /> </span></span><span class="style27"><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/ariana_sophia_kartsonis_&_Caleb_Adler.htm">Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis &amp; Caleb Adler</a> </span><span class="style6"><span class="style11"><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/wayne_h_w_wolfson.htm">Wayne H. W. Wolfson</a></span></span><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/steven_teref.htm">Steven Teref</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/Jake_Berry.htm">Jake Berry</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/doug_draime.htm">William G. Doty<br />Doug Draime</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/Jnana_Hodson.htm">Jnana Hodson</a><br /></p><span class="style6"><span class="style11"><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/Jnana_Hodson.htm"> </a></span></span><br /><span class="style6"><span class="style11"><em><strong>ESSAY </strong><br /><br /></em><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/special_issue/Jake_Berry_Convocation.htm">Jake Berry</a><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-116871910132977240?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-1147913226979238642006-05-17T19:32:00.001-05:002006-07-08T15:55:15.743-05:00...is online at <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com.">http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com.</a> In This Issue:<br /><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/poet_01.html">mIEKAL aND</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/poet_02.html">Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/poet_04.html">Kenji Siratori</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/poet_05.html">Joyelle McSweeney</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/poet_06.html">Tom Wegrzynowski</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/poet_07.html">Jim Hilgartner</a><br /><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/volume1_issue4/poet_08.html">Tim Earley</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-114791322697923864?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-1146028493262291802006-04-26T00:11:00.000-05:002006-04-26T00:20:39.663-05:00Tim Earley will guest edit v. 2, no. 1. For guidelines, click<a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Submissions.htm"> here.</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-114602849326229180?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-1141965196196542312006-03-09T22:15:00.000-06:002006-03-09T22:33:16.210-06:00Joyelle McSweeney, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Jim Hilgartner, Tom Wegrzynowski, and other great stuff!<div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-114196519619654231?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-1135184622823928732005-12-21T10:55:00.000-06:002005-12-21T11:03:42.840-06:00A new issue is online at <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com">http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com</a>. This issue includes:<br /><br />Jake Berry : <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Three%20Poems%20from%20Brambu%20Drezi%203%20by%20Jake%20Berry.htm">Three Poems from Brambu Drezi Book 3</a><br />Cindy Savett: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Two%20Poems%20by%20Cindy%20Savett.htm">Two Poems </a><br />Jean Valentine: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/A%20Poem%20by%20Jean%20Valentine.htm">Re-birthing</a><br />Hank Lazer and Pak Nichols: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Visual%20Poetry%20by%20Hank%20Lazer%20and%20Pak%20Nichols.htm">Humid</a><a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Three%20Poems%20from%20Brambu%20Drezi%203%20by%20Jake%20Berry.htm"></a><br />Rachel Chenault:<a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/A%20Poem%20by%20Rachel%20Chenault.htm"> En Route 9 </a><br />Hugh Tribbey : <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/A%20Poem%20by%20Hugh%20Tribbey.htm">Easy Is the Dawn</a><br />John M. Bennett: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Four%20Poems%20by%20John%20M.%20Bennett.htm">Four Poems</a> and <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Mumbling%20in%20a%20Hole%20%28pages%201%20and%202%29.htm">Mumbling in a Hole: A Chapbook</a><br />Jim Leftwich and Jukka Pekka Kervinen: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Two%20Poems%20by%20Jim%20Leftwich%20and%20Jukka-Pekka%20Kervinen.htm">Two Poems</a><br />William Doty: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/A%20Poem%20by%20William%20Doty.htm">What I Learned from a Four-Inch-Tall Resin Replica from Chinatown, San Francisco</a><div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-113518462282392873?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-1126817598024631822005-09-15T15:45:00.000-05:002005-09-15T15:53:18.063-05:00Issues 1 and 2 of APOCRYPHALTEXT are online at <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com">http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com</a>. Issues include <br /><br />Tim Earley: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Three%20Poems%20by%20Tim%20Earley.htm">Three Poems</a><br />Caitlin Grace McDonnell: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Three%20Poems%20by%20Caitlin%20McDonnell.htm">Three Poems</a><br />Simon Perchik: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Three%20Poems%20by%20Simon%20Perchik.htm">Three Poems</a><br />Brad Vogler: <a class="style3" href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Three%20Poems%20by%20Brad%20Vogler.htm">Three Poems</a><br />A <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/A%20Chapbook%20by%20Jake%20Berry.htm">Chapbook </a>by Jake Berry<br />John M. Bennett: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Two%20Poems%20by%20John%20M.%20Bennet.htm">Two Poems</a><br />Phil Cordelli and Brandon Shimoda: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Two%20Poems%20by%20Phil%20Cordelli%20and%20Brandon%20Shimoda.htm">Two Poems</a><br />Donna Kuhn: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/A%20Poem%20by%20Donna%20Kuhn.htm">Digital Aardvarks</a><br />Chris Mansel: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/A%20Poem%20by%20Chris%20Mansel.htm">Birds Black</a><br />Sheila E. Murphy: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Three%20Poems%20by%20Sheila%20Murphy.htm">Three Poems</a><br />Tim Peeler: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/A%20Poem%20by%20Tim%20Peeler.htm">King James Version of Summer</a><br />Lucyna Prostko: <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/A%20Poem%20by%20Lucyna%20Prostko.htm">Reflections</a><br />And a <a href="http://apocryphaltextpoetry.com/Chapbook%20by%20Ivan%20Arguelles.htm">Chapbook</a> by Ivan Arguelles<div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-112681759802463182?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13246738.post-1119381523517417342005-06-21T14:05:00.000-05:002006-07-08T15:51:51.230-05:00APOCRYPHALTEXT seeks to publish poets with distinct voices/visions. Send up to 7 poems in the body of an email (no attachments please) to apocryphaltexteditor@gmail.com. Response time: 1 month.<div class="blogger-post-footer">notes toward an apocryphal text Alan May<img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13246738-111938152351741734?l=apocryphaltext.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Editor, Alan Mayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14834030847436118307noreply@blogger.com0