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your eyes have their silence

 

Mercator Projected

https://www.josephsalvatoreaversano.com/post/new-digital-chapbook-release-mark-young-s-mercator-projected-selected-geographies-hdmp-9

geographies: Howqua Hills

 

Issue seventy print parts

The print parts of the final issue of Otoliths, issue seventy, the southern winter issue are now available from The Otoliths Storefront at Lulu. Because of its size, it has been broken down into four parts, two b&w, two full color. This week's discount, available until Friday midnight, is 15% & the promotional code to be entered to obtain it is READIT15. New weeks' codes will be available each Monday on the Lulu Press Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Luludotcom/.

Issue seventy, part one
319 pages
Price: $US27.75
direct URL: https://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young/otoliths-issue-seventy-part-one/paperback/product-wj9p49.html?page=1&pageSize=4

Part one, the first of the b&w parts, contains work from Martin Edmond, Scott MacLeod, Ian Ganassi, Stephen Bett, Eric Hoffman, R L Swihart, S. K. Kelen, Bob Kotyk, Jon Wesick, Vernon Frazer, Thomas M. McDade. Laurie Kuntz, Lynn Strongin, Sanjeev Sethi, Christopher Barnes, Vaishnavi Kolluru, Marc Isaac Potter, John Bradley, Laura Jeannerette, Heath Brougher, Nate Logan, Paul Perilli, Joseph Buehler, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Paul Dickey. Yuan Changming, Jim Leftwich, Dale Jensen, Judith Roitman, Richard Kostelanetz. Maileen Hamto, Sabine Miller, Alison Ross, Nathan Anderson, Ken Poyner, Jim Meirose, Márton Koppány, Tom Formaro, Patrick Sweeney, Karen J. Weyant. Kirsty Lewin, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Daniel Barbiero, Rus Khomutoff, Pat Nolan, Randee Silv, DS Maolalai, Michael J. Leach, Mark Cunningham, Dmitriy Shandra, Sterling Warner, David Wolf, Sheila E. Murphy, Sheila E. Murphy & K.S. Ernst, Tony Beyer, harry k stammer, Tom Beckett, Michael Gottlieb, Joshua Martin, Mark DuCharme, Réka Nyitrai, jim mccrary, Philip Kobylarz, Adam Fieled, Hugh Tribbey, Alan Chong Lau, & Jacklyn Henry.

Issue seventy, part two
303 pages
Price: $US27.45
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Part two, the second of the b&w parts, contains work from Harrison Fisher, Kenneth Rexroth, Thomas Fink, Ed Go, Pete Spence, Jerome Berglund, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Jeff Harrison, Joe Balaz, Bob Heman, Bob Lucky, Liz Teuber, John McCluskey, Gavin Lucky, Rahul Santhanam, Steve Carll, Opal Louis Nations & Peter Cherches, Susan Gangel, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Tim Frank, Javant Biarujia, Linda King, Ella O'Keefe & Tim Wright, Hifsa Ashraf & R.C. Thomas, Harvey Huddleston, Glenn Ingersoll, dan raphael, John Levy, Jonathan Cant, Pam Brown, Bernie Earley, Eddie Heaton, Robert Burton, Alan Catlin, John Kucera, Steven Salmoni, Jessica Grim, Pete Smith, Charles Freeland, Jane Downing, David Jalajel, Eileen R. Tabios, Damon Hubbs, Eric Lunde, John Tustin, Keith Higginbotham, berni m janssen, Jill Jones, Marty Hiatt, Peter Yovu, Irmak Canevi, Michael Vecchio, Caitlyn Steer, Olchar E. Lindsann, Matthew Platakos, Jessica Dejanovic, Colleen Woods, Bobbi Lurie, Linda M. Walker, Kit Kennedy, J. D. Nelson, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Cy Forrest, nicky melville, Edinburgh Mews, Volodymyr Bilyk, Makenzie Matthews-Beard, & Mark Young.

Issue seventy, part three
319 pages
Price: $US54.95
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Part three, the first of the full color parts, contains work from Satu Kaikkonen, Scott MacLeod, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Jack Galmitz, Marzi Margo, Daniel Lehan, Jennifer Weigel, Giovanni Fontana. Carlyle Baker, Ferran Destemple, Brandstifter, C. Mehrl Bennett, & John M. Bennett, Texas Fontanella, Mike Callaghan, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Christian ALLE, Bill Yarrow, Laurent Grison, Javant Biarujia, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio, John M. Bennett, Pamela Miller, petro c. k., C. Mehrl Bennett, m@, József Bíró, Kimberly Kuchar, Carol Stetser, Texas Fontanella & Michael Orr, Dave Read, Rosella Quintini, & Karl Kempton.

Issue seventy, part four
238 pages
Price: $US44.65
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Part four, the second of the full color parts, contains work from Cecelia Chapman, Doren Robbins, George Myers Jr., Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Adriána Kóbor, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Stephen Nelson, Joe Balaz, Bob Heman, Elaine Woo, Debbie Strange, Diana Magallón, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Jeff Bagato, Guy R. Beining, J.I. Kleinberg , John Levy & Alan Chong Lau, Jurate Sasnaitis, David A. Bishop, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Penelope Weiss, Keith Nunes, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Rick Henry, Cherie Hunter Day, Tony Cosentino & K.S. Ernst, K.S. Ernst, Irena Tall, Tejaswinee Roychowdhury, Antonio Devicienti, Robert Frede Kenter, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Bill Wolak, Barnaby Smith, Mark DeCarteret, Mark DeCarteret & Wayne Atherton, Bruno Neiva, Susan Connolly, Tatiana Novikova, Edward Kulemin, Sarah Legow, Rico Cleffi, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Pearl Button, Mark Melnicove, nick nelson, fred flynn, & Marcia Arrieta.

wednesday newstrip

Nitrous oxide study shows how use of 'nangs' causes brain & spinal damage · Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven babies while working as nurse in UK after ‘I am evil’ note found · police chase cyclist over 20 cars scratched on one road · modern slavery exists in 21st century Australia · raging wildfires force evacuation of villages in northern Greece · Californian desert under water as Tropical Storm Hilary floods state · Auckland dirt bikes: Killer Beez gangsters giving motorbikes to young Auckland riders who ‘prove themselves’, police intel says · Queen's smash single Fat Bottomed Girls has been cut from a new Greatest Hits compilation because it's been dubbed too racy for a younger audience · the countdown is on for the Wee Waa Show.

Meadow Saffrons (Les Colchiques)

 
The meadow is poisonous but pretty in autumn
The cows grazing there
are slowly poisoning themselves
Meadow saffron the color of your eye-shadow of lilacs
flower there your eyes are like that flower
Violet like the eye-shadow & like the autumn
& for your eyes my life slowly poisons itself

School children come noisily
dressed in their smocks & playing harmonicas
They pick the meadow saffrons which are like mothers
Daughters of their daughters & the color of your eyelids
which flutter like flowers caught in a crazy wind

The cowherd sings very softly
whilst the slow lowing cows abandon
this great meadow ill-flowered by the autumn

—Guillaume Apollinaire

geographies: Kaniva (2)

wednesday newstrip

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wednesday newstrip

Twitch streamer Kai Cenat facing charges after public PS5 giveaway leads to violent riot outburst in NYC · beanies, scarves, & puffer jackets come out as near-record chilly weather hits parts of the South Pacific · judge's Mr. T.®ump greeting to former president at his arraignment sets social media ablaze · a 34-year-old woman on bail for her alleged role in a murder has asked the Austrakian Supreme Court to send her back to prison because she cannot find housing · Russia bombs bloodbank in retaliation for Ukrainian attack on oil tanker · consulting giant KPMG has been accused by two whistleblowers of repeatedly ripping off taxpayers while contracted by the Australian Department of Defence — submitting inflated invoices & billing the federal government for hours never worked · a regional community in Victoria's east is in mourning after three people died from eating poisonous wild mushrooms at a lunch with friends.

Today the post-
woman brought
me what at first
felt like a capital
letter.

Later, 
after a closer
reading, it came
across as a lower
case of déjà vu.

wednesday newstrip

Former childcare worker from Gold Coast charged with more than 1,600 child sex offences · a Tauranga funeral home convicted of illegal discharges of cremation smoke, which sickened & traumatized neighbors over the “dead bodies over our property”, will have to pay $85,000 · a zoo in China has been forced to deny that its sun bears are "humans in disguise" after guests noticed the animals' uncanny resemblance to people while standing upright · Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the latest instalment in the popular game franchise, has an average completion time of 20-23 hours, according to Ubisoft · Indigenous experience of colonization now mandatory under school history overhaul · Sir Bob Geldof has revealed the heartbreaking text messages he received from Sinead O‘Connor just before her death · there will be two supermoons in August & one will be a blue moon.

Otoliths Issue seventy is now live

But first, to postpone the pain of having to confirm that this is, in fact, the last issue of Otoliths, a couple of notices from friends. Jeffrey Side has asked that the word be put about that he's looking for guest bloggers for his eponymous blog. Not poems — he has another site for that — but one where "The posts would not need to be as long as articles, and could (though not necessarily) cover topical issues in the poetry scene." His email is argotistonline AT gmail DOT com. Plus sandy press have recently published a new collection, with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish, from some arcane poet named Mark Young. It's available from Amazon.

Now back to the true purpose of this email. Issue seventy, the southern winter, 2023, issue of Otoliths is now live. This last issue is immense & ranges from the dunes of Oceano across to the battlefields of Ukraine, from Scandanavia down to the unceded lands of South Australia. It contains reviews, memoirs, collages, photographs, paintings, vispo, text poems, short stories, videos, combinations of the preceding plus a few other things. Included are Satu Kaikkonen, Martin Edmond, Scott MacLeod, Ian Ganassi, Stephen Bett, Eric Hoffman, R L Swihart, S. K. Kelen, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Jack Galmitz, Bob Kotyk, Jon Wesick, Marzi Margo, Daniel Lehan, Vernon Frazer, Thomas M. McDade, Jennifer Weigel, Giovanni Fontana, Carlyle Baker, Laurie Kuntz, Lynn Strongin, Sanjeev Sethi, Christopher Barnes, Ferran Destemple, Vaishnavi Kolluru, Brandstifter, C. Mehrl Bennett, & John M. Bennett, Marc Isaac Potter, Texas Fontanella, John Bradley, Laura Jeannerette, Heath Brougher, Nate Logan, Paul Perilli, Joseph Buehler, Mike Callaghan, Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter, Paul Dickey, Yuan Changming, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Christian ALLE, Bill Yarrow, Jim Leftwich, Dale Jensen, Judith Roitman, Richard Kostelanetz, Laurent Grison, Maileen Hamto, Sabine Miller, Alison Ross, Javant Biarujia, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio, Nathan Anderson, Ken Poyner, Jim Meirose, Márton Koppány, Tom Formaro, John M. Bennett (Vispo), Patrick Sweeney, Pamela Miller, petro c. k., Karen J. Weyant, C. Mehrl Bennett, m@, Kirsty Lewin, Hrishikesh Srinivas, József Bíró, Daniel Barbiero, Rus Khomutoff, Pat Nolan, Kimberly Kuchar, Randee Silv, DS Maolalai, Michael J. Leach, Mark Cunningham, Dmitriy Shandra, Carol Stetser, Sterling Warner, Texas Fontanella & Michael Orr, David Wolf, Dave Read, Sheila E. Murphy, Sheila E. Murphy & K.S. Ernst, Tony Beyer, harry k stammer, John M. Bennett (text poetry), Tom Beckett, Rosella Quintini, Michael Gottlieb, Karl Kempton, Joshua Martin, Cecelia Chapman, Mark DuCharme, Réka Nyitrai, jim mccrary, Doren Robbins, Philip Kobylarz, George Myers Jr., Adam Fieled, Hugh Tribbey, Alan Chong Lau, Jacklyn Henry, Harrison Fisher, Kenneth Rexroth, Thomas Fink, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Ed Go, Pete Spence, Adriána Kóbor, Jerome Berglund, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Jeff Harrison, Stephen Nelson, Joe Balaz, Bob Heman, Bob Lucky, Liz Teuber, John McCluskey, Gavin Lucky, Elaine Woo, Rahul Santhanam, Debbie Strange, Steve Carll, Diana Magallón, Opal Louis Nations & Peter Cherches, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Susan Gangel, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Guy R. Beining, Tim Frank, John Levy & Alan Chong Lau, Linda King, J.I. Kleinberg, Ella O'Keefe & Tim Wright, Jurate Sasnaitis, Hifsa Ashraf and R.C. Thomas, Harvey Huddleston, Glenn Ingersoll, David A. Bishop, dan raphael, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Karl Kempton ( a review), Jonathan Cant, Pam Brown, Penelope Weiss, Bernie Earley, Keith Nunes, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Eddie Heaton, Robert Burton, Alan Catlin, John Kucera, Steven Salmoni, Jessica Grim, Rick Henry, Cherie Hunter Day, Pete Smith, Tony Cosentino & K.S. Ernst, K.S. Ernst, Charles Freeland, Tejaswinee Roychowdhury, Jane Downing, David Jalajel, Antonio Devicienti, Eileen R. Tabios, Damon Hubbs, Eric Lunde, John Tustin, Robert Frede Kenter, Keith Higginbotham, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Bill Wolak, berni m janssen, Jill Jones, Barnaby Smith, Marty Hiatt, Peter Yovu, Mark DeCarteret, Mark DeCarteret & Wayne Atherton, Bruno Neiva, Susan Connolly, Irmak Canevi, Irena Tall, Michael Vecchio, John Levy, Tatiana Novikova, Caitlyn Steer, Edward Kulemin, Olchar E. Lindsann, Matthew Platakos, Jessica Dejanovic, Colleen Woods, Sarah Legow, Bobbi Lurie, Rico Cleffi, Linda M. Walker, Pearl Button, Kit Kennedy, J. D. Nelson, Mark Melnicove, nick nelson, fred flynn, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Cy Forrest, nicky melville, Edinburgh Mews, Volodymyr Bilyk, Marcia Arrieta, Makenzie Matthews-Beard, & Mark Young.

& finally, a sincere note of thanks to all of you who have made Otoliths the substantial & much-loved publication it is today.

Enjoy. Be sad.

Thank you for all your support.