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Earth harbors 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants – & they weigh more than wild birds & mammals combined · bioelectronic face mask can detect COVID-19 in real time, scientists say · hacker posts footage of Grand Theft Auto VI in one of 'biggest leaks in video game history' · end of an era in Cambodia as last living Khmer Rouge leader loses genocide appeal · Tasmanian whale rescue turns to disposal operation as researchers hope for clues to stranding tragedy · University of Colorado research reveals that telehealth follow-up after gall bladder surgery is just as effective as in-person · Russian foreign minister accuses West of trying to 'stop the march of history' by providing military aid to Ukraine · vagina-flavored crisps are now on sale.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a glass
ceiling. Not for

me, I told her.
Perhaps meant
for the lady
next door.

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-six are now available

The print parts of issue sixty-six are now available from the Otoliths storefront at Lulu. This week's Lulu promotion code — which runs until midnight on Friday — is ENTERTAIN15, a saving of 15%. Next week's code will be available from Monday on the Lulu Press Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Luludotcom/.

Otoliths issue sixty- six, part one.
Page count: 354 pages
Price: $US23.45
direct link: https://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/otoliths-issue-sixty-six-part-one/paperback/product-pq245g.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Part one of Otoliths issue sixty-six contains vispo, short stories, translations, essays, & a variety of poetic forms & styles from Jen Schneider, Andrew Topel & John M. Bennett, Mark DuCharme, Sanjeev Sethi, Richard Kostelanetz, Tony Kitt, Jay Passer, Ken Poyner, Amy Barone, Owen Bullock, Eric Dillalogue, James Daniels, John Tustin, Steve Brisendine. Patricia Carragon, Richard Magahiz. John Bradley, Sunil Sharma, Randee Silv, Leslaw Nowara, J.J. Campbell, Jack Galmitz, Bill Freind, Shataw Naseri, Louis Campbell, Jim Leftwich, Timothy Pilgrim, John M. Bennett, Anna Cates, Clara B. Jones, Cecelia Chapman, Nathan Anderson, Tony Beyer, Nathan Whiting, Pete Spence, Vernon Frazer, Joseph Buehler, Charles Borkhuis, Michael J. Leach, John Levy. Olchar E. Lindsann, Peter Cherches, Janet Jiahui Wu, R L Swihart, Henry Cherry, Joshua Martin, Laurinda Lind, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal. M.J. Iuppa, Harrison Fisher, Jim Meirose, Andrew K. Peterson, Réka Nyitrai & Alan Peat, Jeff Harrison, Adam Day, Chris Daly, Lynn Strongin, H.A. Bari, Eli S. Evans, Bob Lucky, Eric Hoffman, Alex M. Frankel, Charles Freeland, Elmedin Kadric, Keith Nunes, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Patrick Sweeney, Rich Murphy, Keith Higginbotham, Thomas Fink, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Eileen R. Tabios, Marcelo Medone, David Jalajel, Nils HM Geylen, Steph Amir, J. D. Nelson, Mark DeCarteret, Lorraine Caputo, Peter Yovu, & Joseph Salvatore Aversano.

Otoliths issue sixty-six, part two.
Page count: 290 pages
Price: $US45.45
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Part two of Otoliths issue sixty-six, the full color part, contains photographs, poetry, paintings, asemic visuals, collages, & visual poetry from Diana Magallón & Jeff Harrison, Jennifer Weigel, Bill Wolak, Diane Keys & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Jihn Khan, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Naomi Buck Palagi & Joshua Purnell, Texas Fontanella, Joe Balaz, Pamela Miller, Judith Skillman, Dave Read, Karl Kempton, John M. Bennett, Christian ALLE, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, gobscure. Daniel de Culla, Carol Stetser, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Dave Webb, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Guy R. Beining, Adriána Kóbor, Diana Magallón, Penelope Weiss, Ségolène Pihut, Elaine Woo, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Bradley Earle Hoge, fred flynn, KJ Hannah Greenberg, hiromi suzuki, bart plantenga, Thomas Camus, Jeff Bagato, Leopold Haas, Marilyn Stablein, Stephen Nelson, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Angelo ‘NGE’ Colella, Antonio Devicienti, & Carol Shillibeer.

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Live developments across UK after death of Queen Elizabeth II · a Tube passenger’s head was “crushed” earlier this year when they tried to urinate between two carriages of a moving Piccadilly Line train · the Sub Mini is a much smaller & cheaper way to add bass to your Sonos system · DoNuts T.®ump could become president of the United States again — even if he's in jail · Changesite-(Y) lunar mineral discovery ignites fierce China-US space race as powers inch towards moon mining · measles case reported in NSW, first case in state in 2½ years · TikTok influencer earning up to $1M a post · Moon wobble may have played a role in mangrove dieback, study suggests · Jean-Luc Godard est mort.

Recently, at Series Magritte

The Pilgrim



Decide on what faces 
to take along. Set out 
on the road to Zion 

or Mecca or Ayodhya 
or Lumbini. Which one 
you choose will depend 

on the face you have 
chosen for the day. 
Wear a clean shirt & 

a new tie — they will
be accepted everywhere. 
The best excuse to offer

for the hat is the old sun-
in-the-eyes routine. That
seems to work most places.

Today the post-
woman brought 
me a vortex
on a special
try-before-you-
buy offer. I 
got sucked in.

geographies: Numurkah

 

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In Louisiana, the first US climate refugees find a new safe haven · New York detects more polio in wastewater · Australian parliament passes first climate change legislation in a decade · a single amino acid change in the transketolase-like 1 (TKTL1) protein may have given modern humans an advantage over more ancient contemporaries like Neanderthals · Qantas boss Alan Joyce nets $287k pay rise despite airline’s woes · nanomolding could speed discovery of new topological materials · boat capsizes after reportedly being hit by whale near Kaikōura, five passengers dead · Charles III is the new King of Australia.

Now out from Luna Bisonte Prods

The Advantages of Cable
Mark Young
ISBN: 9781938521867
96 pages
$US12.50
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Mark Young’s The Advantages of Cable focuses on unexpected losses of focus, sudden changes in focal length, and spontaneous cracks in the lens, cracks that fracture, negate or enhance our immediate experience. Our “habitat” is over-defined, and not hospitable, but these sudden tricks of light (or of mind) produce visions of flying ostriches, angry crows, and blood-drinking salamanders: moments when "everybody freezes” and starts speaking “the language of the gypsies,” all the "small things” that open us up to losing “all track” of the fatal limitations of our “habitat.”

Reading Mark’s poems is like getting stuck in the revolving door of Marshall Fields, Myer, Selfridge’s, or any large department store. We suddenly realize we’re stuck, recognize our situation very differently than we did ten seconds ago, and can hear each of Mark’s poems as the tink of a ball peen hammer on the glass, trying to free us. — Scott MacLeod

The Advantages of Cable is how “cable” in all of its manifestations enable the poet to write the world in the persona of world. Its poems are meta as well as metaphysical. That’s how a poem like “Some Other Thing” doesn’t just end in well-wrought imagery but also in significance: “the glaze on / a Japanese bowl, water / caught by sunlight, snow / on low mountains, or / a crow croaking its anger / from the next door / mango tree which has / not yet come into flower.” Mark Young is writing, albeit slyly, at the peak of not just his but the world’s poetic prowess and power. — Eileen R. Tabios

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87% of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch's plastic comes from 5 countries · T.®ump may threaten to reveal state secrets to manipulate legal proceedings if he’s indicted: news report · fatal ambulance delays in Victoria state grow to 33 as report finds delays with majority of triple-0 calls · ‘unchecked for years’: Australian Cabinet Ministers crack down on cosmetic surgery ‘cowboys’ · Twitter is finally testing an edit button, but experts say there's a risk it can be used in 'deliberately misleading ways' · eyewitness sees the start of the Mill Fire in Weed · Timothee Chalamet cuts a stylish figure in a pair of leather slacks while enjoying drinks with friends in Venice · DoNuts T.®ump calls Joe BidenMyTime 'an enemy of the state' after president's condemnation of MAGA extremism.

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