wednesday newstrip

In a wild twist, physicists have revived an alternative theory of gravity · West Australia Liberals blame attitudes to women & religious fundamentalism for Australian federal election disaster · World Health Organisation calls for concern around growing monkeypox cases · Nationals MP lashes Victorian Liberals as ‘election-losing machine’ · giant asteroid almost two kilometers in diameter to fly past Earth · Legalise Cannabis Australia party sees record Queensland Senate votes in federal election · Rainbow Six Siege reveals Sens – the shooter’s first non-binary operator · outgoing Pram Minister Scat SorrySon has cried in church, after losing the Federal election race to Anthony Albanese.

Today the post-
woman brought
me nothing. An
empty mailbox 

later filled by a
green & yellow 
tree snake which
watched silently 

as I detoured a-
round it taking the 
garbage out. That arc 
retraced returning

until eye contact 
broken. Which 
is when the 
snake spoke. Said: 

I'm an old man now, and
a lonesome man in Kansas. . .

wednesday newstrip

Kim Jong Un orders North Korea into lockdown after Pyongyang confirms first COVID-19 outbreak · final refrain for iPod as Apple stops production · United States records 1 million deaths from COVID-19 two years after start of the pandemic · running Twitter may be much harder than Elongated Muskrat thinks · Israeli police beat pallbearers at Al Jazeera journalist’s funeral · Finland, Sweden inch closer to seeking NATO membership · crypto-currency crash sees man lose $650k life savings · cancer surgery patients fare better with robot surgeons, study finds — with chances of re-admission reduced by 52%.

recently, at Series Magritte

Le parfum de l'abîme

L'abîme est un band de Montréal in-
fluencé par le jazz, le rock, & le
classique contemporain. This isn't
them. More likely the painted
shape is one of those bits of 
bricolage, the detritus one finds 
rolling around the bottom of an 
abyss. Magritte, more concerned
with shadow than with shape, 
appoints it the head of a child. No 
jazz there. Possibly death metal.
 

geographies: Pyramid Hill

 

Good thing Frank O'Hara didn't think like this

He did lunch:
but it wasn't

long enough 
to do a poem.

wednesday newstrip

Kim Kardashian's Monroe moment at the Met Gala shows money, influence, & Instagram can get you what should be untouchable · Sri Lanka's President declares state of emergency as thousands protest & demand his resignation · woman lost $1m to Tinder swindler after bank approved hundreds of thousands in loans, two of them days apart · Palestinians vow to stay on West Bank land despite defeat in decades-old legal battle · after fighting & dying against Crucible Knight Ordovis, a player showcases how tragically close they came to defeating the two crucible knights ·Taliban issues decree mandating Afghan women wear head-to-toe burka in public · man who received a pig heart transplant dies with animal virus DNA.

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-five are now available.

The print parts of issue sixty-five are now available from the Otoliths storefront at Lulu. Lulu's weekly promotion code can be found on the Lulu Press Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Luludotcom/.

Otoliths issue sixty five, part one.
Page count: 380 pages
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Part one contains poems, short stories, & various other bits & pieces by Linda King, Mark Pirie, Dario Zumkeller, Mark Cunningham, Sanjeev Sethi, James Cochran, Jim Leftwich, hiromi suzuki, Michael J. Leach, Elancharan Gunasekaran, Louise Landes Levi, Chuck Joy, Jimmy Crouse, Andrew Cyril Macdonald, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Timothy Pilgrim, Alan Catlin, Paul Ilechko, Jim Meirose, Adam Fieled, John Sweet, Sterling Warner, Jack Galmitz, Lynn Strongin, Richard J. Fleming, M.J. Iuppa, John M. Bennett, Harvey Huddleston, bofa xesjum, Ben Egerton, Nathan Whiting, Volodymyr Bilyk, Xe M. Sánchez, Ellen Wardman, Barbara Parchim, Bruce Robinson, Jeff Bagato, jim mccrary, Gale Acuff, harry k stammer, Jen Schneider, Heather Sager, Keith Polette, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Daniel f Bradley, Robert Beveridge, Tom Beckett, Mary Kasimor, Connor van Bussel, R. S. Stewart, Tony Beyer, John Levy, Kenneth Rexroth, Nathan Anderson, Jeff Harrison, Charles A. Perrone, Russ Bickerstaff, Paul Dickey, Keith Nunes, Bob Lucky, bart plantenga, Joshua Martin, Jillian Oliver, Réka Nyitrai, Marilyn Stablein, Jerome Berglund, Christopher Barnes, Peter Cherches, Kay Kestner, Cameron Morse, Eric Hoffman, Gavin Lucky, Kiriti Sengupta, Patrick Sweeney, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Jane Simpson, Kit Kennedy, Steven Tran, dan raphael, Andrew Taylor, Charlotte Jung, Michael Borth, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Rich Murphy, J. D. Nelson, Kit Willett, Angelo 'NCE' Colella, H. A Sappho, Martin Stannard, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., David Jalajel, Keith Higginbotham, Susan Gangel, & Bob Heman.


Otoliths issue sixty five, part two.
Page count: 311 pages
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Part two, the full color part, contains photographs, paintings, video stills, poetry, an essay, visual poetry, & collages from Karl Kempton, AG Davis, Ken Friedman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Marco Giovenale, Mario José Cervantes, Gregory Stephenson, Texas Fontanella, Sarah Bilodeau, John M. Bennett, Carla Bertola & John M. Bennett, fred flynn, John McCluskey, John Gallas, Laurent Grison, Jeff Bagato, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Howie Good, Alberto Vitacchio, richard lopez & Márton Koppány, Michael Basinski, Dave Read, Daniel de Culla, Joanne Bechtel, Bill Wolak, Elmedin Kadric, Clara B. Jones, Nicole Raziya Fong, Sabine Miller, Diana Magallón, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Hubert Kretschmer, Carol Stetser, Penelope Weiss, Marcia Arrieta, Márton Koppány, Cecelia Chapman, Michael Brandonisio, Judith Skillman, Katrinka Moore, & Guy R. Beining.

wednesday newstrip

New Zealand cannot afford to put back everything that will be damaged by rising sea levels, the Climate Change Commissioner says, as new data shows an earlier risk of inundation than expected · Police use tear gas during annual May Day rally in Paris a week after Macaron's election · Vladimir Putain has two secret sons by his gymnast 'lover' Alina Kabaeva, according to a new report · Netflix drops Meek& Markle’s animated series amid cutbacks – report · leave space missions to billionaires & robots, says U.K. astronomer royal · Russians plunder $5M farm vehicles from Ukraine -- to find they've been remotely disabled · Atlanta pedal pub vehicle rolls over causing 'mass casualty incident', 16 injured.

The new issue of Otoliths is now live.

Issue sixty-five of Otoliths, the southern autumn 2022 issue, is now up.

This issue, which marks the beginning of the seventeenth year of the journal's existence, contains a mix of — sometimes mixed — photographs, paintings, short stories, poetry, interviews, magazine columns, & manifestos from an international contributor list including Karl Kempton, Linda King, Mark Pirie, Dario Zumkeller, AG Davis, Mark Cunningham, Sanjeev Sethi, Ken Friedman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, James Cochran, Jim Leftwich, hiromi suzuki, Michael J. Leach, Elancharan Gunasekaran, Louise Landes Levi, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Chuck Joy, Marco Giovenale, Jimmy Crouse, Andrew Cyril Macdonald, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Mario José Cervantes, Timothy Pilgrim, Alan Catlin, Paul Ilechko, Jim Meirose, Adam Fieled, Gregory Stephenson, John Sweet, Sterling Warner, Jack Galmitz, Lynn Strongin, Texas Fontanella, Richard J. Fleming, Sarah Bilodeau, M.J. Iuppa, John M. Bennett, Carla Bertola & John M. Bennett, Harvey Huddleston, bofa xesjum, fred flynn, John McCluskey, Ben Egerton, John Gallas, Nathan Whiting, Laurent Grison, Volodymyr Bilyk, Xe M. Sánchez, Ellen Wardman, Barbara Parchim, Bruce Robinson, Jeff Bagato, jim mccrary, Gale Acuff, Grzegorz Wróblewski, harry k stammer, Howie Good, Jen Schneider, Alberto Vitacchio, richard lopez & Márton Koppány, Heather Sager, Keith Polette, Michael Basinski, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Daniel f Bradley, Dave Read, Robert Beveridge, Tom Beckett, Mary Kasimor, Connor van Bussel, R. S. Stewart, Tony Beyer, Daniel de Culla, John Levy, Joanne Bechtel, Kenneth Rexroth, Nathan Anderson, Jeff Harrison, Bill Wolak, Clara B. Jones, Nicole Raziya Fong, Charles A. Perrone, Russ Bickerstaff, Paul Dickey, Sabine Miller, Keith Nunes, Diana Magallón, Bob Lucky, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, bart plantenga, Joshua Martin, Jillian Oliver, Réka Nyitrai, Marilyn Stablein, Jerome Berglund, Christopher Barnes, Peter Cherches, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Hubert Kretschmer, Kay Kestner, Cameron Morse, Eric Hoffman, Gavin Lucky, Kiriti Sengupta, Patrick Sweeney, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Jane Simpson, Elmedin Kadric, Kit Kennedy, Steven Tran, dan raphael, Andrew Taylor, Charlotte Jung, Michael Borth, Carol Stetser, Penelope Weiss, Marcia Arrieta, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Márton Koppány, Rich Murphy, Cecelia Chapman, J. D. Nelson, Kit Willett, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, H. A. Sappho, Martin Stannard, Michael Brandonisio, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Katrinka Moore, David Jalajel, Keith Higginbotham, Susan Gangel, Judith Skillman, Bob Heman, & Guy R. Beining.

As always, enjoy.