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.