E-Interview “In January 1996 Ibegan writing a poem a day as an experiment. At the time I was workingon The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School ofPoets, and in retrospect I imagine I began my daily poem project asa way of getting close to the spirit of two of the New York School’sfour founding figures, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler.” Ane-interview with David Lehman. By Rebecca Seiferle. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –– – – – – – Visuals Aselection of original digital photographs, Spring2002, images of light and darkness in the spirit of the times, fromReva Sharon, award-winning Israeli photographer. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –– – – – –– Online “Now ina second year of publishing, the goals of FluidInk Press remain quite simple. A commitment to bringing only thebest in verse to the public eye, with a high quality of presentation andproviding an environment for the free thinker in all of us.” ByScott Villarosa, Editor. “From its inception in 1998, JanusHead, as an interdisciplinary journal, has aimed to be that opened doorat the threshold of a newly charged dialogue among the disciplines.Disciplines themselves are human demarcations, boundaries built acrossthe phenomenal field, both opening up and closing off the thought of onedisciplinary domain or another. The interdisciplinary space, then, isone that seeks to give rise to other, provocative modes of revealing, tofreshen the blood of the disciplines by interjecting and crossingdifferent bodies of thought, to give credence to various manifestationsof truth in human knowledge and experience. ” ByClaire Barbetti, Editor. “. . .was established in1998 as a literary arts magazine by Australian poet Alison Croggon andwas produced for four issues as a print journal. It has now movedexclusively to the internet for its second incarnation as an occasionaljournal which embraces writings about poetry, poetics, theatre,contemporary music, politics and much else.” ByAlison Croggon, Editor. “Appearing quarterly,each issue offers a variety of thought-provoking articles, poetry, shortstories, essays, artwork, photography, irreverent humor, andoff-the-wall items from off the beaten path. The editorials provide anopportunity for The ScreamOnlineto pick on anything and everyone. . .” By StuartVail, Editor. “. . .an independent literary journal featuring the best writingsfrom the new south. Our magazine attempts to capture all the aspects ofthe modern-day south, from the curse of racism to the budding promise ofracial cooperation, from Civil War reenactors to those who see nopurpose in battles that are a hundred and fifty years old.” ByJason Sanford, Editor. “One of Waxpoetic‘sdevelopments is the poetry reading begun in the summer of 2001. Thevenue is Pete’s Candy Store, an Italian shop that once sported anillegal gambling den in back. A friend converted the shop into a bar andthe casino into a performance space about two years ago. My seriesprovides an eclectic sampling of poetry in our predominately visual artsenclave.” By Joelle Hann, Editor. – – – – –– – – – – – – Presses &#147As a literarypublisher I still look for good writing as the key element of anymultimedia project. And I look for projects with potential for crossartform presentation because I believe that these kinds of titles willenlarge the audience for literary work. This sets us apart from manypublishers who tend to be more conservative about what they take on. Onthe other hand the work has to have a redeeming commercial value, too.So we walk the tightrope of encouraging hybrid forms while at the sametime only taking on work that we think will find a willing market.”By David Reiter, Editor. – – – – – – – – – – – – Resources for Writers “. . .has become legendary. Each year audiences of writers andreaders are dazzled by the créme de la créme from differentgenre (biography, journalism, memoir, nature writers, etc.), always withpoets present and poet participants, but in 2003 the subject is POETRY.And poets will abound.” By Kay Putney Gantt. “I’ve hosted a poetry series in Victoria, B.C. forthree years; nearly every Friday night for three years. We have an openmike, followed by a featured reader. . .Mocambopo. . . has been going on since1995.” By Wendy Morton, Host. – – – – – – – – – – – – In Print “We both publish poetry in on-line zines and love doing this forits immediacy and because of the large numbers of people who read poetrythis way today. But still we both believe that putting out a printjournal in this era of internet and superfast communication is an act offaith. We like to think there are many people like us who still lovethe feel of paper and the smell of fresh ink. . .” By SusanTerris, Co-editor. – – – – – – – – – – – – Continuing Features We are pleased to announce the latest fromArchipelago: “Some of us remember, perhaps from ourchildhood, the horrible story of the murder of a black youngster, EmmettTill, by two white men in Mississippi. We offer a series of reports onthe aftermath by James L. Hicks. “Jimmy” Hicks was an eminent blackreporter who went down to Sumner, Miss., to cover the trial.Investigating amid the fearful atmosphere in the African Americancommunity, he uncovered facts and the whereabouts of a crucial witness,who nonetheless was never called to testify.” ByKatherine McNamara, Editor. – – – – – – – – – – – – Lithuania Poetry (updated with photos andnew commentary) A feature, edited by J.C. Todd, including workof noted Lithuanian poets and translators.The Nation Sings by the notedscholar and translator Laima Sruoginis. more modestly I look on lithuanianpoetry by feature editor, J.C.Todd. Commentary by noted poets:Laurynas Katkus, Giedre Kazlauskaite, Kornelijus Platelis,Sigitas Geda.

An e-chapbook and interview withEleanor Lerman, an exciting poet of the 70’s who has just come back topoetry and publishing with The Mystery of Meteors from SarabandePress.

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Poetry and Healing: Two Chapbooks

Breast Art, achapbook by Israeli poet and translator, Lisa Katz.

My Arthritic Heart a chapbook by Australianpoet, Liz Hall-Downs.

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Columns

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“ When, in flashand crumble, the towers came down, the way to the river of childhoodopened, sequence was disestablished, and speech fell apart, exposing theinchoate roots of language—all that I had wished for, I wasinconsolable, one of thousands of sudden Ereshkigals.”By J.C. Todd.

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