Today the post-
woman brought
me a birthday
card from the
Marquis de
Sade. Not for
me, I told her,
two houses up
the road. I ran
to retrieve it
the minute she
was out of sight.

Now available

Now out from sandy press.


Mark Young
with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish
sandy press, 2023
94 pages
$US 19.95
ISBN: 978-1736816066
Available through Amazon

Mark Young's language is at once familiar, sprinkled with unusual words beloved of the philologist in us. There is a Magritte-like gap between image and object, with a title that sounds as though it comes from a fable by La Fontaine. These are poems for the Zeitgeist, poems of the Internet Age and post-colonialism, a demystification couched in at times mysterious language. Poems written in a demotic language, apocalyptic, cynical, utopian and always beautiful, stripping pop-culture illusions bare while creating new myths, a deliberate misreading to create new truths. You think you know what's coming in Young's work, but there are always twists and turns enough to surprise you and catch you out; his latest collection, with the slow-paced turtle replaced by a fast fish, does not disappoint.

—Javant Biarujia, author of Pointcounterpoint: Selected and new poems, Resinations, and Spelter to Pewter. Creator of the Taneraic language and compiler of its comprehensive dictionary.

There's a sampler available at sandy press.

wednesday newstrip

Three more insurance companies including Tokio Marine have left a United Nations-backed net-zero climate alliance, leaving the group with about half the number of members it counted two months ago as insurers take fright at political pressure from some Republican politicians · ‘last resort:’ government faces legal action to force repatriation of Australians from Syrian refugee camps · Australia's 'misery index' up 220 per cent in a year due to rate rises, inflation · new evidence suggests Russia deliberately targeting schools in Ukraine · Whitehaven Coal's underground mine in northern New South Wales is polluting the atmosphere with more than three times the direct greenhouse gas emissions it forecast it would emit when it received environmental approval in 2015 · popular pub in Adelaide under fire for offering free drinks to woman based on their bra size: 'the bigger the better.'

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An Indian government official has been suspended after he ordered the drainage of a two-million-liter dam so he could get his phone back, which he dropped while taking a selfie · researchers say the US city of Manhattan is sinking at a rate of two millimeters a year · in a study published in the journal Science last week, a team of international researchers reported that more than half of the world's large lakes & reservoirs had shrunk since the early 1990s due to climate change, unregulated water use, & dam construction · widely available vape products have been found to contain toxic heavy metals, including arsenic, lead, mercury, nickel, chromium, antimony, aluminium, iron, & nickel, along with known carcinogens like formaldehyde & nicotine, according to new tests · ‘Shops will close’: soaring cost of potatoes batters British chippies.

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Woman, 95, Tasered by officer at New South Wales aged care home, when she approached on a walking frame with a steak knife in her hand, police say · millions prepare to flee homes in Mexico as Popocatépetl volcano spews more ash · India wrestlers risk Olympic dream for '#MeToo' protest, accusing the federation's president, Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, of sexual harassment & abuse of female wrestlers · US President Joe BidenMyTime & Republican NoCavin McCarthy end meeting with no deal on US debt ceiling · New Zealand’s ratio of sheep to humans at lowest point in 170 years · the real cost of your chocolate habit: new research reveals the bittersweet truth of cocoa farming in Africa’s forests.

wednesday newstrip

Rudy Giuliani demanded oral sex from staffer during T.®ump calls: lawsuit · Farmington: Teen gunman kills three in New Mexico before police shoot him dead · Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom players are building tanks, planes to commit war crimes · former Australian prime minister Julia Gillard has conceded that her desire to have a debate around the merit of marriage in modern society, instead of supporting same-sex marriage, was "wrong" · ninety-two rooms, full beds & no sprinklers: investigations begin into NZ hostel fire that killed six with eleven people still missing · renowned children's author Mem Fox says a message from her literary agent that one of her books had been banned in the US state of Florida made her "howl with laughter."

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Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić promised on Friday, just hours after that country's second mass shooting, that the government will make urgent changes to the country’s firearm legislation · seven bodies found during search for two missing Oklahoma teens · vapes to be banned in Australia for recreational use, 'pharmaceutical' packaging to be required under crackdown · gunman kills eight, sends hundreds into panic in Texas mall shooting · Australian public broadcaster lambasted over anti-monarchy coronation coverage · seven days, seven shootings, five deaths in South Mississippi · garlic planting time is here.

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Texas man kills five neighbors, including an eight-year-old child, after they complained about him shooting an AR-15-style weapon in his front yard · fisherman is feared eaten in a fatal crocodile attack at a remote river in Far North Queensland · a huge fire in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol on Saturday has been put out after what was reported to be a Ukrainian drone strike on fuel tanks at a Russian navy depot · a Moscow court has fined a Russian baker who decorated her cakes with pro-Ukraine and peace slogans. Since Vladimir Putain sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022, authorities have banned all public criticism of the offensive · seven psychoactive drugs detected in Australian wastewater for the first time · the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces that run Roj detention camp, where wives, widows & children of slain or jailed Islamic State fighters have been held in squalid circumstances for more than three years, have regularly been removing boys from the camp once they reach 12 years of age, taking them to adult prisons, arguing they pose a security risk. But UN experts have warned boys removed from the camp “may be forcibly disappeared, & subject to sale, exploitation & … torture”.

The latest issue of Otoliths is now live

The penultimate issue of Otoliths, the southern autumn, 2023 issue is now live.

Dedicated to the memory of two significant contributors to the journal, Michael Rothenberg & Carla Bertola, this issue, as always, contains a variety of work in many fields from a variety of contributors — Pat Nolan, Tim Wright, John M. Bennett, Judith Skillman, Jen Schneider, Sanjeev Sethi, Andrew Stys, Jerome Berglund, Mehreen Ahmed, harry k stammer, John M. Bennett & Texas Fontanella, Strider Marcus Jones, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Nigel Ford, Glen Armstrong, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Jim Leftwich, Bill Wolak, Jack Galmitz, Tom Beckett, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Bruce Morton, Alan Catlin, Fin Sorrel, Karl Kempton, Dean Kelly, Pete Spence, Mario José Cervantes, Eric Hoffman, Howie Good, John Martone, Les Wicks, Louise Landes Levi, Nathan Anderson, Mary Cresswell, Michael J. Leach, Elaine Woo, Harvey Huddleston, petro c.k., Paul Perilli, Carol Stetser, Adam Fieled, dan raphael, CL Bledsoe, Clive Gresswell, David A. Bishop, Vernon Frazer, Robert Fleming, John McCluskey, M.J. Iuppa, Jennifer Weigel, Dave Read, Serse Luigetti, Mark Cunningham, Texas Fontanella, Ian Willey, Joshua Martin, Juan Pablo Mobili, David Greenslade & David Rees Davies, Kenneth Rexroth, Jeff Harrison, Adriána Kóbor, Daniel de Culla, John Tustin, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Yejun Chun, Olchar E. Lindsann, Stephen Nelson, Bing Cherches, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Eddie Heaton, N. H. Van Der Haar, Barbara Anna Gaiardoni & Andrea Vanacore, Henry Hughes, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio, Javant Biarujia, Phil Montenegro, Xe M. Sánchez, Hrishikesh Srinivas, bart plantenga, Andrew Taylor, K. S. Ernst & Sheila E. Murphy, Richard Magahiz, Sydnie Stern, David Wolf, Blossom Hibbert, Hua Ai, Paul J. Enea, Paul Dickey, Bob Lucky, Mars Brocke, John Kucera, John Levy, Damon Hubbs, Patrick Sweeney, Antonio Devicienti, Massimo Fantuzzi, Réka Nyitrai, Flamur Vehapi, David Jalajel, Harrison Fisher, Jeff Bagato, Volodymyr Bilyk, Keith Nunes, Goro Takano, Joanne Bechtel, Sheila E. Murphy, Nathan Whiting, Marilyn Stablein, Tony Beyer, Gavin Lucky, Jürgen O. Olbrich, Ken Bolton, A. W. Kindness, Nam Hoang Tran, Eileen R. Tabios, Diana Magallón, Penelope Weiss, Tazeen Fatma, Glenn Bach, Rick Henry, Eileen R. Tabios & harry k stammer, Keith Higginbotham, Kit Kennedy, Darrell Petska, Edward Kulemin, Michael Helsem, Shloka Shankar, Shloka Shankar & Deepa Patil, Dhaatri Vengunad, Ganesh R., Mark Danowsky, Bob Heman, Linda M. Walker, Vidhi Ashar, Sam Langer, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, Jill Jones, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., J. D. Nelson, Peter Yovu, & Marcia Arrieta.

As I keep saying, there's something there for everyone.

& The Land Of The Free Freaky

 

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US forces evacuate American diplomats from the bloody chaos of Khartoum’s urban war: performing seals to follow as soon as possible · UK emergency alert trial: phone users report flaws in first test along with an extraordinary amount of spam · "I was sexually abused by male passenger sitting next to me throughout ten-hour Air Europa flight — but cabin crew shouted & hurled abuse at ME & my husband" · a social media influencer has warned how she ended up with a flesh-eating parasite in her left eye after using contact lenses, wants others to do the same · a 54-year-old man was burned with boiling cooking oil before being stabbed to death by his wife after finding out he was not their son's biological father. After realizing what she had done, the mother jumped out of the third-floor apartment's window & later died in hospital of multiple injuries · a man who stabbed his cheating wife to death & then sent photos of her blood-soaked corpse to her lover after a meal at McDonald's has been seized by police · Kenya cult deaths: 73 bodies found in investigation into Christian 'starvation cult' who believed they would go to heaven if they starved themselves to death.

wednesday newstrip

Foreign Minister Penny Wong dismisses ex Prime Minister Paul Keating’s claim that the military has taken over Australian foreign policy · two New Yorkers accused of operating secret police station in Manhattan for Chinese government · Australians report record $3.1bn losses to scams, with real amount even higher · four dead after ‘sweet 16th’ birthday party in Dadeville, Alabama, ends in mass shooting · at least six people are dead & 30 more missing after separatist gunmen attacked Indonesian army troops deployed to rescue a New Zealand pilot taken hostage in Papua, according to reports · Disney’s Strange World was biggest box office bomb of 2022 with loss of nearly $US200 million · is your phone REALLY listening to you?

    eventually he was smuggled out of the country & out of the limelight    

wednesday newstrip

Pentagon leak traced to video game chat group users arguing over war in Ukraine · China simulates 'precision strikes' against Taiwan on second day of military drills · building collapses in southern French city of Marseille · the BBC is objecting to a new label describing it as "government funded media" on one of its main Twitter accounts · Police ‘disrupt New IRA plot’ ahead of BidenMyTime visit to Northern Ireland, report claims · Tiger Woods pulls out of Masters due to heel injury, ending streak at Augusta National · Meth-funded online casino scams 'coming for NZ targets' · Resident Evil 4 remake adds micro-transactions · fans erupt as Taylor Swift break-up cause revealed.

geographies: Moe

 

wednesday newstrip

Windmill manufacturer closes doors in Mount Gambier, South Australia as business dwindles · Jurassic World is wrong. Terrifying T-rex had lizard lips, new study shows · DoNuts T-®ump faces more than 30 counts related to business fraud in an indictment from a Manhattan grand jury, according to two sources familiar with the case · roof collapses during Morbid Angel heavy metal concert in Illinois, as tornadoes tear through US states · Taliban close women-run radio station in Afghanistan for playing music during Ramadan · school closures spread as Japan struggles with depopulation · Beenjammin' Notjustanyahoo has been a political magician for years. Has Israel's leader finally run out of tricks?

Today the post-
woman brought
me a book on

plagiarism. No-
thing I hadn't
read before, 

word for word, 
in a number 
of other books.

wednesday newstrip

"Poor DoNuts is being attacked again, he’s our hero, & the Democrats are just trying to put him down – that’ll help him with fundraising.” U.S. contributor to Sky News Australia · DoNuts T.®ump's arrest would show ‘how totally corrupt the deep state is’: Noguile Farago on Sky News · Freshwater Strategy Director Leo Shanahan says on Sky News that if T.®ump is arrested it “makes him a martyr of the cause” after a key witness in T.®ump's Indictment case was discredited by his former advisor · T.®ump wants to be handcuffed for court appearance in Stormy Daniels case, sources say · The White House is hoping all of the recent “T.®ump headline nonsense" will “drown out” the Hunter Biden story, says Sky News contributor Kristin Tate · “these full, horrible, left, democrat investigations of your all-time favourite president, me, is just a continuation of the most disgusting witch hunt in the history of our country:” former US president DoNuts T.®ump has blasted the ongoing investigations facing him, posting a scathing video rant to social media platform Truth Social · 'God, guns, & T.®ump': thousands turn out for Texas rally · we were told we’d be riding in self-driving cars by now. What happened to the promised revolution?

recently, on Series Magritte

Of Limbs & Luxury

Today the post- woman brought me an already ex- pensive castle in the Pyrenees. If I had added the optional extra of that giant bird found in some Magritte paintings it would have cost me an arm & a leg on top of a basic price I can't really afford. & since Ma- gritte is dead, I don't trust the vendor's guarantee that the artist will paint any missing limbs back on me, just like he did to the model in Attemp- ting the Impossible.

wednesday newstrip

Arrest warrant issued for Vladimir Putain for war crimes · Sydney woman's horror injury after being attacked by kangaroo while trying to rescue joey · DoNuts T.®ump says he expects to be arrested & calls for supporters to protest · ‘the smell is next level’: millions of dead fish spanning kilometers of Darling-Baaka river begin to rot · Pakistani police storm home of Imran Khan & arrest 61 amid tear gas · Shazam: Fury of the Gods opens with bleak box office · Benjamin Notjustanyahoo: refusal to follow orders & incitement won’t be tolerated as Israeli reservists failed to show up for training on Sunday to protect the government’s judicial overhaul plan.

Today the post-
woman brought
me an audio re-

cording of the 
love that dare not 
speak its name.

wednesday newstrip

Cyclone Freddy strikes Mozambique for the second time, killing at least 100 people, during a journey that started when it was spotted near Indonesia & named by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology on February 6 · Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in the United States for a special meeting regarding Australia's pending deal to buy nuclear submarines from the US & UK · one of Silicon Valley’s top banks fails & assets are seized, marking the largest failure of a U.S. financial institution since the height of the financial crisis almost 15 years ago · Indonesia’s Merapi volcano spews hot clouds in new eruption · Priyanka Chopra Jonas said she was left in tears after she was told she was too big to fit in a “sample size” during a fitting this week · a British anti-transgender activist is planning a visit to Aotearoa, sparking concerns amongst Rainbow communities who say she has a "track record of hateful speech & the incitement of violence".

wednesday newstrip

Australian Prime Minister among thousands who walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge during WorldPride march · Israelis rally again to protest government’s judicial overhaul · ‘he’s gone full T.®ump’: Tories turn on Bore-us Johnson over Partygate · humming vibrator in Pacifica apartment tower sent 25 residents ‘insane’ · Antarctic sea ice reaches lowest levels ever recorded · Vanuatu residents 'exhausted' after two cyclones in three days · ‘I am your warrior’: fiery DoNuts T.®ump promises to end wars, pay baby bonus · man’s eyeball tattoo looks like an ‘eyegina,’ according to Twitter.

wednesday newstrip

Australian national science agency warns of a 'post-antibiotic world' in 2050, marked by declines in lifespan, quality of life, & livestock production · Vladimir Putain gives Steven Seagale friendship award · Joe BidenMyTime plans to run for president again, says wife · Canada bans TikTok from all government mobile devices · new earthquake hits Türkiye, collapsing buildings · $489m cocaine bust in banana shipment · Italy shipwreck death toll rises to 62 as more bodies pulled from sea · U.K. school suspends sex education after drag queen 'told 11-year-olds there are 73 genders.'

"Cordial," she replied cordially, when asked what she wanted to drink. "With gin?" he asked gingerly.

wednesday newstrip

A Brazilian man has passed away from injuries he received last month when a concealed handgun he was wearing discharged near an operating MRI machine, shooting him in the abdomen · Tesla recalls nearly 363,000 cars over 'Full Self-Driving' issues · Japan is reportedly doubling its number of islands after a recount · leaks indicate DoNuts T.®ump's desire to bring back public executions · Microsoft's Bing Chatbot has started acting defensive & talking back to users · a massive helicopter used to catch & secure rockets as they return from space is now on a new mission to deliver aid to stricken areas of the East Coast of New Zealand, after Cyclone Gabrielle left its devastating mark on the region · only 8 per cent of AI professionals depicted in film are women, new study finds · former US President Jimmy Carter to begin receiving hospice care.

Today the post-
woman brought
me semen from
a papal bull. Un-
fortunately, the
only holy cow 
I know of is too
busy camping 

it up with the 
rest of the crew 
of the sixties TV
series Batman
to be available 
for insemination. 

wednesday newstrip

First shipment of Australian coal to China in more than two years arrives, raising hopes other sanctions could be dropped · New Zealand authorities recover 3.2 tonnes of cocaine from Pacific Ocean, believed to be bound for Australia · Madonna hits back at 'ageist' critics after Grammys appearance · Australia rejects a proposal for a coal mine near Great Barrier Reef due to risk of ‘irreversible damage’ · US shoots down unknown object off coast of Alaska · looks like The Witcher 3 ‘next-gen’ update added realistic vaginas, too · Australian Defence Minister orders removal of China-linked CCTV cameras from defence premises · not worth tupPence subpoenaed by special counsel investigating DoNuts T.®ump.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a pterodactyl.
I'd actually asked
for some pommes 

de terre au gratin;
but these days
you take what 
you can get, & 
are grateful for it.

wednesday newstrip

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne cancels final tour, says 'not physically capable' of continuing · Pentagon says Chinese spy balloon seen flying over United States, but it is too risky to shoot down — though they've now done so · the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has approved psilocybin & MDMA for use in treating depression and PTSD · US Secretaries of State Wynken Blynken & Nod postpone China trip over 'unacceptable' near miss with their wooden shoe by Chinese spy balloon · man pleads guilty to treason over 2021 threat to 'kill the Queen' with a crossbow · fashion designer Paco Rabanne, known for his chainmail designs, dies aged 88.

The print parts of Otoliths sixty-eight are now available

The print parts of Otoliths issue sixty-eight are now available from The Otoliths Storefront at Lulu. This week's discount, available until Friday midnight, is 15% & the promotional code to be entered to obtain it is FEBRUARY15. New weeks' codes will be available each Monday on the Lulu Press Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/Luludotcom/.

Part one of Otoliths issue sixty-eight, the b&w part, contains varied text & visuals from Michael Ruby, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Sanjeev Sethi, Richard Kostelanetz, Margaret Karmazin, Robert Lietz, Nico Vassilakis, Ken Poyner, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Mehreen Ahmed, Alexander Lazarus Wolff, Tom Beckett, Robert Ronnow, Harrison Fisher, Owen Bullock, Lachlan J McDougall, Jim Leftwich, Olchar E. Lindsann, Henry Felerski, Joel Chace, Daniel Barbiero, Jack Galmitz, Clara B. Jones, Tony Beyer, Gao An, Daniel f Bradley, John M. Bennett, Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett, Todd Matson, petro c. k., Nathan Anderson, Eric Hoffman, John Tustin, Martin Edmond, Michael Neal Morris, R L Swihart, Thomas Fink, Rich Murphy, John Bradley, Pat Nolan, Pete Spence, Jeff Harrison, Vernon Frazer, Peter Cherches, Mayu Kanamori, Damon Hubbs, Paul Dickey, Joshua Martin, Alan Catlin, Communications Arts Students at U. P. Los Baños (Denelle Justine T. Ramos, Ronan Gabriel Erni, Kyla Chantal P. Dela Torre, Joana Austria, Gezryl Peter Tamayo, Alya Maria Inciso, & Yvonne M. Bandong), Bob Lucky, Ian Willey, Jim Meirose, Nicholas Wright, Sanket Mhatre, Louis Armand, Michael J. Leach, Rose Knapp, Keith Nunes, Oz Hardwick, Mark DuCharme, Maggie Yang, Jon Cone, Richard Magahiz, Michael Battisto, Susan Gangel, Vassilis Zambaras, Stephen C. Middleton, Christopher Barnes, Elmedin Kadric, Kevin Browne, Patrick Sweeney, Stephen Mead, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Jared Chipkin, M.J. Iuppa, Linda King, Steven Waling, Kenneth Rexroth, Jen Schneider, Heath Brougher, John Levy, Lawrence R. Smith, Kit Kennedy, Paul Ilechko, Keith Higginbotham, Bob Heman, James Hannon, J. D. Nelson, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Nathan Whiting, Mark DeCarteret, John Vieira, Lorraine Caputo, Mark Blaeuer, Tim Suermondt, David Jalajel, Peter Yovu, Sheila E. Murphy, Rico Cleffi, nicky melville, Edinburgh Mews (Clare Hewitt, Jill Cameron, Judy Wilson, Kirsty Lewin, Nicky Melville, & Moira Naismith), Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Roger Mitchell, Réka Nyitrai, Adriána Kóbor, & Eileen R. Tabios.

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geographies: Natimuk

 

geographies : Gunbower

 

The new issue of Otoliths is now live

Otoliths sixty-eight, the southern summer issue, is now live.

It contains various forms of text poetry, photographs, essays, paintings, flash fiction, vispo, short stories, collages, & journal columns from Michael Ruby, Karl Kempton, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Sanjeev Sethi, Richard Kostelanetz, Margaret Karmazin, Judith Skillman, Robert Lietz, Nico Vassilakis, Ken Poyner, Roberta Beach Jacobson, Mehreen Ahmed, Alexander Lazarus Wolff, Mario José Cervantes, Tom Beckett, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Robert Ronnow, Harrison Fisher, Ruggero Maggi, Michael Orr & Texas Fontanella, Owen Bullock, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Lachlan J McDougall, Jim Leftwich, Olchar E. Lindsann, Henry Felerski, Jennifer Weigel, Joel Chace, Daniel Barbiero, Doren Robbins, Jack Galmitz, Clara B. Jones, Tony Beyer, Gao An, Daniel f Bradley, Keith McKay, John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett, Todd Matson, petro c. k., Nathan Anderson, Eric Hoffman, Texas Fontanella & John M. Bennett, John Tustin, Martin Edmond, Michael Neal Morris, R L Swihart, Dave Read, Thomas Fink, Rich Murphy, Carol Stetser, John Bradley, Pat Nolan, Pete Spence, Jeff Harrison, Vernon Frazer, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Peter Cherches, Mayu Kanamori, Damon Hubbs, Paul Dickey, Joshua Martin, Alan Catlin, Bob Lucky, Communications Arts Students at U. P. Los Baños, Ian Willey, Diana Magallón, Laurent Grison, Jim Meirose, Nicholas Wright, Dzenis Burzic & Texas Fontanella, Sanket Mhatre, Louis Armand, Michael J. Leach, Rose Knapp, Keith Nunes, Oz Hardwick, Mark DuCharme, Maggie Yang, Jon Cone, Richard Magahiz, Michael Battisto, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Bill Wolak, Susan Gangel, Vassilis Zambaras, Stephen C. Middleton, Christopher Barnes, Andrew Maximilian Niss, Elmedin Kadric, Kevin Browne, David A. Bishop, Patrick Sweeney, Stephen Mead, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Jared Chipkin, M.J. Iuppa, Linda King, Steven Waling, Kenneth Rexroth, Jen Schneider, Elena Zalogina, Heath Brougher, Jeff Bagato, Penelope Weiss, Marilyn Stablein, John Levy, Eileen Woo, Edward Kulemin, Lawrence R. Smith, Cherie Hunter Day, Kit Kennedy, Paul Ilechko, Keith Higginbotham, Antonio Devicienti, Bob Heman, James Hannon, J. D. Nelson, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, Nathan Whiting, Isabel Gómez de Diego, Daniel de Culla, Mark DeCarteret, Marzi Margo, John Vieira, Lorraine Caputo, Marcia Arrieta, Mark Blaeuer, Tim Suermondt, Texas Fontanella & Chris Edwards, Mariel Herbert, David Jalajel, Peter Yovu, Sheila E. Murphy, Rico Cleffi, nicky melville, Edinburgh Mews, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., bart plantenga, Roger Mitchell, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, Réka Nyitrai, Adriána Kóbor, Michael Moreth, Eileen R. Tabios, & Márton Koppány.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a man who'd
lost a leg to an
alligator. "Which

one?" I asked. 
"Can't tell," he 
said. "You've seen
one 'gator, you've
seem them all."

Why going back to Aotearoa New Zealand has suddenly become less attractive

Australia Invasion Day

 

wednesday newstrip

Globe At Night citizen science program reveals rapid increase in light pollution around world · Hollywood actor Alec Baldlost to be charged over fatal shooting during Rust filming · DoNuts T.®ump misidentified photo of rape accuser E Jean Carroll as his ex-wife Marla Maples, deposition shows · giant cane toad found in Conway National Park in north Queensland weighs 2.7kg · as the war rages on & military spending booms, the US arms industry is a big winner in Ukraine · singer-songwriter David Crosby dies aged 81 · Google's parent company Alphabet to lay-off 12,000 workers worldwide · Jacinda Ardern announces resignation as New Zealand prime minister.

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Wyoming has just introduced legislation with the hopes of phasing out the sale of electric vehicles in the state by 2035 · female NYPD sergeant accused of yanking officer's ponytail at precinct · accused baby snatcher in Adelaide says he was too intoxicated to plead guilty to abduction · Cate Blanchett criticises ‘patriarchal pyramid’ of awards shows · New Zealand Ministry of Health reports 19,179 new community cases of COVID-19, 57 virus-related deaths · another 500mm of rain possible for Mackay region as deluge swamps Queensland's north · a serving London police officer has admitted carrying out 24 counts of rape in a nearly two decade-long campaign of abuse against women · Gina Lollobrigida, legend of Italian cinema, dead at 95.

Today the post-
woman brought
me several vials 
of frozen bull 
semen as well 
as the complete
sheet music
of John Philip

Sousa. It is 
a retirement
dream. To create
the first 
Minotaur
Marching Band. 

wednesday newstrip

A Kevin McCarthy critic, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, cast votes in the election for Speaker for DoNuts T.®ump – a symbolic but pointed sign of the broad divisions over the Republican Party's future · controversial 2023 Australia Day lamb advertisement takes a dig at all things ‘un-Australian’ · Prince Harry reveals he lost his virginity to an older woman in a field, not Professor Plum in the billiard room · teen who took coke in a Tesco toilet flipped car while taunting ex · Ring offers a first look at its home security drone · a Grammy-winning recording engineer who has worked in the Nashville music scene for 35 years, Mark Capps, was shot & killed by police in Nashville Thursday afternoon · six-year-old shoots teacher in Virginia classroom.

Today the post-
woman brought
me Zeno. I’m try-
ing to get him into

the house in stages,
covering half of
the remaining
distance each time

we move, but we 
don’t seem able to
get there. Some-
what paradoxical.

XXXX CENTONES now available

XXXX CENTONES is now available as a free download from sandy press.

 

I find the Cantos of Ezra Pound wide-ranging in subject & style, & note that they borrow heavily from the work of others, from Homer & Chinese sources through to contemporary historical records. Pound has the ability to blend & merge these — often quite extensive — quotes with his own rhetoric; which has a great deal of depth & beauty, & so becomes great feedstock for basing a series of centos on. The poems in this collection, written over the last six years, have the Cantos as their source — not just the words of Pound but those of those others who are embedded. Two bites of the cherry, as it were; & I hope my CENTONES reflect favorably on us all. — Mark Young

Recently, at Series Magritte

The Organs of the Night



This time the jockey isn't lost, 
just perplexed to find a set 
of wellworn curtains standing
upright on the sand. As is the 
horse, paused midstep in its 
littoral dressage routine. All 
up an unexpected tableau, made
more complex by the fact the

sun seems to be falling rather
than setting. Loss of gravity; &
everything is red-cast as the 
human condition deteriorates. 
Organ failure ensues. Night will 
not see the light of day again.

wednesday newstrip

Graduate student studying criminal justice allegedly murdered four University of Idaho students · after a lengthy legal battle T.®ump’s tax returns are released · ‘a true legend, a pioneer’: American TV icon Barbara Walters dies aged 93 · Romanian police arrested former kickboxer & influencer Andrew Tate & his brother, a day after Tate shot to international fame when Greta Thunberg derided him as ‘small dick energy’ · New South Wales man, 25, killed by bull at rodeo in Warwick, Queensland · Elongated Muskrat becomes first person ever to lose $US200b · should you be worried if your dog is getting high on cane toads?

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

The print parts of issue sixty-seven are now available from the Otoliths storefront at Lulu. This week's Lulu promotion code — which runs until midnight on Friday — is COUNTDOWN15, 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-seven, part one.
Page count: 476 pages
Price: $US27.45
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Part one of Otoliths issue sixty-seven contains vispo, short stories, translations, essays, & a variety of poetic forms & styles from Elisa C. Martínez Salazar, Paul Siegell, Anna Cates, Sanjeev Sethi, Riccardo Benzina, Steven Bruce, CL Bledsoe, Alan Catlin, David Miller, Craig Cotter, Sharon H. Frost, Ali Zarbali, Dale Jensen, Eric Hoffman, Lynn Strongin, Paul Dickey, Jack Galmitz, Gao An, Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, Bob Kotyk, Michael J. Leach, petro c. k., Maria Giesbrecht, Richard Kostelanetz, Jimmy Crouse, Nathan Anderson, John Geraets, Judith Roitman, Ivars Balkit, Rob Martelli, Tohm Bakelas, Michael Sikkema, Livio Farallo, Jim Meirose, Eric Lunde, Sheila E. Murphy, dan raphael, Richard Magahiz, Daniel Barbiero, Pawel Markiewicz, Lawrence R. Smith, John Tustin, George Myers Jr., Mark Pirie, James Grabill, Caleb Puckett, Damon Hubbs, Mark Danowsky, Piet Nieuwland, Christopher Barnes, Harvey Huddleston, Sterling Warner, Pete Spence, Lewis LaCook, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jim Leftwich, Olchar E. Lindsann, Linda M. Walker, Maximilian Speicher, LUNE OFFLINE, Gavin Lucky, Tom Beckett, Jeff Harrison, James Yeary, Joshua Martin, Mark Cunningham, Uvia Shcho, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Kenneth Rexroth, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Heath Brougher, Vernon Frazer, Bob Lucky, Daniel f Bradley, Heather M. Browne, Patrick Sweeney, John Levy, Glenn Ingersoll, Michael Ruby, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Kit Kennedy, Caleb Fenez, M.J. Iuppa, Elmedin Kadric. Siân Vate, Jill Jones, Alan Peat & Réka Nyitrai, Réka Nyitrai, Thomas Camus, J. D. Nelson, Peter Cherches, Keith Higginbotham, Darrell Petska, David Jalajel, & Paul Pfleuger, Jr.

Otoliths issue sixty-seven, part two.
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Part two of Otoliths issue sixty-seven, the full color part, contains photographs, poetry, found items, paintings, asemic visuals, sculptures, collages, & visual poetry from Judith Skillman, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Peter Yovu, Kyle Hemmings, Texas Fontanella, Karl Kempton, John M. Bennett, Ioan Bunus & John M. Bennett, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Daniel de Culla, Jennifer Weigel, Elaine Woo, Diana Magallón, Carol Stetser, Mike Callaghan, George Myers Jr., Tim Gaze, Marilyn R. Rosenberg & Ann R. Shapiro, Guy R. Beining, Julia Vaughan, Dave Read, Susan Gangel & Ken Hay, Joanne Bechtel, Brooks Lampe, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Maximilian Speicher, Lucia Sapienza, Samarra Prahlad, Bill Wolak, Antonio Devicienti, Carla Bertola, Edward Kulemin, harry k stammer, Jeff Bagato, Catherine Eaton Skinner, Mark Yale Harris, Natalie Christensen, Marcia Arrieta, J.I. Kleinberg, Keith Nunes, Marilyn Stablein, Cecelia Chapman. Daniel Lehan, Hubert Kretschmer & Jürgen O. Olbrich, Penelope Weiss, Elena Zalogina, hiromi suzuki, Barnaby Smith, K. Roberts, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Cherie Hunter Day, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, & Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett.

Otoliths issue sixty-seven, part three.
Page count: 36 pages
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Part three of Otoliths issue sixty-seven is Eileen Tabios' "SIMMERING," a novella-in-prose poems, in which all of the prose poems were written in response to opening lines of other novels.

Otoliths issue sixty-seven, part four.
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Part four of Otoliths issue sixty-seven is "Breaches 2," the continuation of a conceit by Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola which records their breaching various palaces of art — & some not so luxurious or well-known places —in order to insinuate their own work. This is the second part of a long project; & one that also documents their traveling life together over several decades. In full color.

wednesday newstrip

Vladimir Putain says Ukraine invasion aims to unite ‘historical Russia’ · Press Start’s GOTY 2022 #8 is Mario + Rabbids Sparks Of Hope · scientists find how glass frogs turn transparent, with hint at better understanding of human blood clotting · 'Race scientists' took human skulls from villages in Palau. Now, Indigenous Pacific Islanders want their ancestors back · meteor soaring through the Alaska sky was captured by… a doorcam · food dye in Twizzlers, Doritos, & more foods may trigger bowel diseases, study finds · Qatar expresses "extreme concern" over Taliban bar on female staff · Kardashians throw insane Christmas party.

from the archives

Today the post-
woman brought
me John Cage's
X, writings '79-
'82. I went to 
sign my name. 

"Already done," 
she said. "Seen
one X, seen them
all." I watched
until she turned 
the corner. Took

her four minutes
& thirty-three
seconds to get 
there. I stood
silent. She 
kept whistling.

wednesday newstrip

Toxic spinach causes hallucinations & delirium in Australia · January 6 committee recommends charges against DoNuts T.®ump over Capitol riot · Coles introduces buying limit on frozen chips as floods hit potato supply · Elongated Muskrat's Twitter poll ends with users voting he step down as head of the company · 'historic' agreement reached at UN conference to halt biodiversity loss by 2030 · giant aquarium bursts in Germany, killing 1,500 tropical fish & spilling 1 million liters of water · Vladimir Putain in Belarus for talks amid fears of new assault on Ukraine · diving birds are more prone to extinction, according to new study.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a box of Girl
Guide tracking 

cookies. Truly a 
cornucopia. To-
morrow she'll be 
back to offer me

another bag that
contains much the 
same as those I've
just consumed.

wednesday newstrip

Jacinda Ardern has issued a "long overdue" Crown apology to a Māori tribe for warmongering & almost two centuries of breaches to New Zealand's Treaty of Waitangi · CCTV vision released after hit-run victim threatened with tomahawk · a 72-year-old woman in Germany has been arrested after she allegedly twice switched off a hospital roommate’s ventilator because she was annoyed by the sound it made · could a tax offset save Australia’s live music industry? · a growing trend for black market breast milk may be putting babies at risk, prompting Australian researchers to call for the establishment of regulated ‘milk banks’ · what to do when Queensland is at risk of becoming a sunny place for shady people.

wednesday newstrip

Microphytobenthos in the Dutch Wadden Sea feed on 'left-overs' from the bottom · Elongated Muskrat has suggested he is going to “war” with Apple after he accused the tech giant of making big moves against Twitter · strongest Arctic cyclone on record led to surprising loss of sea ice · Lets Keto Gummies Australia (SCAM Australia) UK, CA, NZ, Chemist Warehouse Gummies Must Read Before Buying · San Francisco's ruling Board of Supervisors has voted to let the city's police use robots that can kill · numerous letter bombs detected in Spain, including to PM's office as country steps up security · Warzone 2.0’s Revive Pistol lets you torture players for endless XP.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a pièce de 

résistance. Just
the one—I'm
on a diet.

geographies: Numurkah

wednesday newstrip

Why is a giant sculpture of Elongated Muskrat on a goat being paraded in Texas? · police arrested a woman, her husband & brother-in-law for allegedly dumping a 67-year-old man’s body after the latter died in the middle of having sex with the woman at her house · Doctor removes 23 contact lenses from eye of patient who 'forgot to take them out' · Iran's leader praises the Basij — paramilitary volunteers — for sacrifice in fighting anti-government protestors · Walmart supervisor bought gun on day of mass shooting, left behind a 'death note' · world’s oldest meal helps decode how the earliest animal ancestors evolved · US avian flu outbreak worst on record with 50 million dead birds.

wednesday newstrip

Weevil may save Great Britain up to £16.8m a year in management of invasive aquatic fern · New Zealand bus driver sacked after causing almost $100k worth of damage by driving double-decker bus into garage built for single-decker buses · White Ribbon Day plan for 50-jetski parade around Sydney Harbor labeled ‘tone-deaf stunt’ · ‘high risk’: Elongated Muskrat’s reinstating DoNuts T.®ump will not save Twitter · urgent Australia wide poppy seed recall over fears of 'severe poisoning' · at least five people killed, 18 injured in 'hate attack' shooting at US gay nightclub · Florida man makes announcement.

geographies: Patchewollock

 

wednesday newstrip

Majestic Princess cruise with 800 COVID-19 patients set to dock in Sydney · DoNuts T.®ump faces unpleasant dilemma after his handpicked candidates flop in midterm elections · climate change: 1.5°C warming threshold to be passed in 9 years as emissions hit record high · the world of deepfake advertising is coming this decade · octopuses caught on camera throwing rocks, shells, silt at each other · four Supreme Court justices attended right-wing gala — confirming the bias of the court · some God Of War Ragnarök collector editions are missing the game · the net worth of crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried plunges from $23 billion to zero after his company FTX filed for bankruptcy.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a seven-figure
check in payment
for the piece of
thick artist's paper
I'd left under the
front door mat
for six months &

then sold on eBay
as the original
Rauschenburg 
erasure of de
Kooning's nude.
Am a bit worried 
though. Modern 
technology being 
what it is it won't 

be long before what 
I described as the
vestigial remnants
of the original fig-
ure are identified 
as a not-too-clear
impression of the 
door mat maker's 
mark—an image 

of Kali, eight out-
stretched arms 
welcoming the
visitor—& beneath:
          The
       Bengali
      Coir Mat
      Factories
          P/L.

wednesday newstrip

US Air Force to deploy nuclear capable B-52 bombers to Australia as tensions with China grow · smuggled duck sees traveler's visa axed · Elongated Muskrat sacks half the Twitter staff, says that from now on he'll be known as Chief Twit · European Union bans sale of petrol & diesel cars from 2035 to boost electric vehicle uptake · little-known pīwauwau rock wren named as New Zealand’s 2022 bird of the year · researchers discover surprising link between picking nose & dementia · huge ‘planet killer’ asteroid discovered – & it’s heading our way · Jair Bolsonaro's supporters call for Brazil's military to overturn presidential election result · Indian capital New Delhi battles dangerous levels of air pollution more than 10 times the global safety threshold.

haibunny

The poet, roaming alone in the desert, is suddenly laid low with stomach cramps. Later, somewhat recovered, they return home & contemplate their day.

Indigestion or
inspiration — so much shit
in the world today.

celestial muscles

The most superficial, most 
Yáng system, mimics 

Kim Kardashian's facial 
expression & stylish top-

knot, & comes from the
merger of ordinary bonnet

needles & Alexei Nemov's 
fit gymnast body as he steps

out for the Prince's Trust
Awards in a stunning LBD.

wednesday newstrip

Addition of stereotactic body radiation therapy to sorafenib in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma improves overall survival · 'where is Nancy?': intruder beat US speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband with hammer in their home · a swarm of honeybees can have the same electrical charge as a storm cloud · at least 149 killed during crowd crush at Halloween festivities in Seoul · Medibank reveals customer data breach much wider than originally thought · nose surgeon faces drug charge after allegedly buying cocaine · Iranian security forces open fire at Mahsa Amini's grave, as police clash with mourners · James Webb Space Telescope captures a spooky view of the Pillars of Creation.

Issue sixty-seven of Otoliths is now live

Issue sixty-seven of Otoliths, the southern spring, 2022 issue, is now live.

A bit larger than normal, it contains the usual wide variety of work, this time from Judith Skillman, Elisa C. Martínez Salazar, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, Paul Siegell, Michael Orr & Texas Fontanella, Peter Yovu, Anna Cates, Sanjeev Sethi, Kyle Hemmings, Riccardo Benzina, Steven Bruce, CL Bledsoe, Texas Fontanella, Alan Catlin, David Miller, Craig Cotter, Ali Zarbali, Sharon H. Frost, Dale Jensen, Eric Hoffman, Lynn Strongin, Karl Kempton, Paul Dickey, Jack Galmitz, Gao An, Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett, John M. Bennett, Ioan Bunus & John M. Bennett, Bob Kotyk, Michael J. Leach, petro c. k., Maria Giesbrecht, Richard Kostelanetz, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Grzegorz Wróblewski, Jimmy Crouse, Nathan Anderson, Daniel de Culla, John Geraets, Jennifer Weigel, Judith Roitman, Ivars Balkits, Rob Martelli, Tohm Bakelas, Elaine Woo, Michael Sikkema, Livio Farallo, Diana Magallón, Jim Meirose, Carol Stetser, Eric Lunde, Sheila E. Murphy, dan raphael, Richard Magahiz, Daniel Barbiero, Pawel Markiewicz, Lawrence R. Smith, Mike Callaghan, John Tustin, George Myers Jr., Mark Pirie, James Grabill, Caleb Puckett, Damon Hubbs, Tim Gaze, Marilyn R. Rosenberg & Ann R. Shapiro, Mark Danowsky, Piet Nieuwland, Christopher Barnes, Guy R. Beining, Harvey Huddleston, Sterling Warner, Pete Spence, Julia Vaughan, Lewis LaCook, Dave Read, Susan Gangel & Ken Hay, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jim Leftwich, Joanne Bechtel, Brooks Lampe, Olchar E. Lindsann, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Linda M. Walker, Maximilian Speicher, Lucia Sapienza, LUNE OFFLINE, Samarra Prahlad, Gavin Lucky, Tom Beckett, Jeff Harrison, Bill Wolak, James Yeary, Joshua Martin, Uvia Shcho, Antonio Devicienti, Mark Cunningham, Carla Bertola, Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola, Mercedes Webb-Pullman, Edward Kulemin, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, harry k stammer, Kenneth Rexroth, Jeff Bagato, Nathan Whiting, Catherine Eaton Skinner, Eileen R. Tabios, Mark Yale Harris, Heath Brougher, Natalie Christensen, Vernon Frazer, Bob Lucky, Daniel f Bradley, Heather M. Browne, Marcia Arrieta, Patrick Sweeney, John Levy, Glenn Ingersoll, Michael Ruby, Hrishikesh Srinivas, J.I. Kleinberg, Kit Kennedy, Caleb Fenez, Keith Nunes, Marilyn Stablein, Cecelia Chapman, M.J. Iuppa, Daniel Lehan, Elmedin Kadric, Hubert Kretschmer & Jürgen O. Olbrich, Penelope Weiss, Siân Vate, Elena Zalogina, Jill Jones, Alan Peat & Réka Nyitrai, Réka Nyitrai, hiromi suzuki, Thomas Camus, Barnaby Smith, J. D. Nelson, K. Roberts, Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo, Peter Cherches, Cherie Hunter Day, Keith Higginbotham, Angelo 'NGE' Colella, Darrell Petska, David Jalajel, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., & Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett.

the surgeon friend of the family who
               operates out of & in the local gas station
                              is known to prefer a rusty telescope
                                             over a scalpel when performing critical
                         procedures such as heart by-passes

wednesday newstrip

Scientists manufacture 'living blood vessel' · UN torture prevention body suspends Australia trip citing 'clear breach' of OPCAT obligations · are you a tasty target? New study proves some people really are 'mosquito magnets' · Sydney’s $3b Silicon Valley tech hub gets the green light · Australian Consumer watchdog takes Fitbit to court over claims around customer rights · 834-carat sapphire found in Queensland gem fields after heavy rains across eastern Australia · Porous Sandstone pulls out of the race, Risky Kayak becomes Britain’s new prime minister.

Today the post-
woman brought
me a postcard
from André 
Breton who
writes that he

is alive &
well, & co-
habiting with
an abandoned
kaleidoscope
off the coast

of Costa Rica.

wednesday newstrip

Musician Rex Orange County reportedly charged with six counts of sexual assault, denies allegations · Medibank alerts customers to possible cyber attack · Pierce Brosnan reveals 'stupid' comment that cost him Batman role: 'Obviously, I didn't get the job' · close flyby of Lucy spacecraft this weekend has NASA on collision alert · passports in Optus hack don’t need replacing but partially useless · microbes can form 'superorganisms' that crawl across our teeth · Woolworths Group's MyDeal hit by breach exposing data of 2.2 million customers · Nvidia decides to ‘unlaunch’ the 12GB RTX 4080 because it’s confusing having two models with the same name but significantly different capabilities · Australian scientists have taught brain cells in a tray how to play the computer game Pong.

from the old firm of stammer & Young

Verismo

It is where the external
generative organs are
stored, combines exotic
plots with crops such as
peas or beans. Often
depicted as a communal
village which has water
added so it becomes water-
tight. Has no shareholder
rights; but witnesses are
called when the deathrate
rises above the national
average. Cracks with mat-
urity. Multiple meanings.

elliptical automata

The level of antibodies infants
get from thin plates of brass
drops over time. Greater efficacy
comes from sheets of 24 carat
gold inscribed in Etruscan.

*

The Twitter communities of both
Taylor Swift & One Direction fans
like goats. A generation completely
comfortable with remix culture
becomes a majority of the electorate.

*

I had a sudden hankering for
magnesium: & even though
no copyright infringement was
intended, all hell broke loose.

*

Prisonnier mordu par des chiens

We pro-
claim
innocence; but
so much gone on
that we are
part of
party to
partially
responsible for
we cannot
claim
we thought
it was an-
other that
did this
& set our
selves a-
part.

wednesday newstrip

Mass shooting at daycare center in Thailand leaves 37 dead, including at least 24 children · Sun explodes with 2,00,000 km long filament, blast debris could hit Earth · medicinal cannabis clinics' quality of care can be pot luck · human rights advocates in Ukraine, Russia, & Belarus win 2022 Nobel Peace Prize · ‘America First’ T.®ump is now doling out endorsements in foreign elections · Australia Post temporarily halts sea mail amid rise in prohibited items · researchers at IRB Barcelona & PCCB develop study model for Ewing sarcoma in Drosophila fly.

geographies: Dhurringile

wednesday newstrip

Adelphi Hotel guest died under wardrobe ‘she thought was bathroom’ · Bella Hadid gets dress spray-painted onto her mid-fashion show · ancient armored Cambrian 'worm' that looks like a toilet scrub brush ancestor to three major animal groups · Football Australia under pressure to issue lifetime bans for Sydney fans who made Nazi salute · massive ocean discovered by scientists near the earth’s core · Sacheen Littlefeather death: activist who rejected Oscar on Marlon Brando’s behalf dies, aged 75 · NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter spots foreign object debris on Mars · experts warn the UK is already at the start of a 'devastating' new Covid wave that could cripple the NHS this winter.

wednesday newstrip

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
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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.

wednesday newstrip

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

 

wednesday newstrip

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

wednesday newstrip

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.

wednesday newstrip

Videos of the Finnish PM partying sparked global outrage. Meanwhile, in Australia, beer-drinking PM Anthony Albanese is cheered on · DoNuts T.®ump kept 25 top secret documents, including on national security, at his Mar-a-Lago mansion for almost a year after leaving the White House, affidavit alleges · Moderna sues Pfizer & BioNTech for patent infringement over COVID vaccine · Amazon's Roomba robot vacuum merger bid sparks privacy fears · NASA released audio of what a black hole 200 million light years away sounds like to clear up the misconception that there isn't any sound in space · an orally administered nonpathogenic attenuated vaccine virus can be used to control SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Today the post-
woman brought
me the Swiss Cheese
calendar for 2023. 
I've sent it back
because it was
full of holes.

wednesday newstrip

De-extinction: scientists are planning the multimillion-dollar resurrection of the Tasmanian tiger · human remains were in Auckland storage unit sold at auction. How could it happen? · 'Poxy McPoxface', 'TRUMP-22' submitted to WHO's public search for 'non-stigmatising' new name for monkeypox · scientists achieved self-sustaining nuclear fusion… but now they can't replicate it · Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan & not the earliest deuterostome · don’t blame women for low libido. Sexual sparks fly when partners do their share of chores – including calling the plumber · New South Wales police strip-searched more than 100 children as young as 13 in two-year period · Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin defends partying in viral video, says she's taken drug test to alleviate concerns.

wednesday newstrip

FBI seized 'top secret' documents from DoNuts T.®ump's Mar-a-Lago property, unsealed search warrant reveals · North Korea's next generation is upending the regime's propaganda strategy with waterpark tours & quarantine vlogs · Tech giant Google has been fined 60 million Australian dollars – for collecting Android location data without user consent in 2017 & 2018 · Disney now has more subscribers than Netflix, & it's putting up prices to celebrate · McDonald’s to reopen some restaurants in Ukraine for first time since war began · Madonna admits her son David, 16, wears her clothes better than she does · World Health Organization says stop attacking monkeys: it won't stop monkeypox.

geographies: Daylesford

 

recently at Series Magritte

The State of Grace


What people see is the title,
not the subject. & the subject
contradicts the title. “I was
inspired,” said Magritte. “The 
subject to be painted: a bicycle 
on a cigar.” Or to put it even
more bluntly, a bicycle riding
roughshod over another object —
no state of grace in that. Ex-
cept . . .The objects float, & 
perhaps a belief hovers that 
the laws of gravity are defied 
when things are in a state of 
grace. Which brings in Simone 
Weill, who wrote: “All the 
natural movements of the soul 
are controlled by laws analogous 
to those of physical gravity. 
Grace is the only exception.” 
‘Analogous to’ is the escape 
clause that allows St. Thomas 
Aquinas to come on board &
point out that grace builds
upon, not contradicts, nature.
Then, once all parties are on
stage, lined up like ten pins 
in a state of grace, Magritte 
reappears, wearing his bowl-
er hat, & with a solid verbal 
cast, scatters the skittles
with his addendum: “A bike
sometimes runs over a cigar
down in the street.” No
gravity, no grace inherent.

wednesday newstrip

Sorry, that James Webb Space Telescope 'image' is just a close-up of a slice of chorizo · Elongated Muskrat accuses Twitter of deliberately miscounting spam users in countersuit · Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 8, including senior militant, plus another 16 in subsequent fighting · Russia calls for 'restraint' as fighting between Armenia & Azerbaijan breaks out again · Chinese & Taiwanese warships shadow each other as war games due to wind down · Monkeypox declared a public health emergency · Kim Kardashian & Pete Davidson ‘split’ after nine months together · Meta starts testing its latest AI chatbot, BlenderBot 3.

geographies: Wombelano

 

wednesday newstrip

Tiny turtle pooed ‘pure plastic’ for six days after rescue from Sydney beach · Russia, Ukraine accuse each other of POW prison bombing which reportedly killed 53 · Australian Prime Minister proposes draft national referendum question on Indigenous Voice to Parliament · Elongated Muskrat countersues Twitter over $44bn deal amid fresh legal action by shareholder · higher insulin dose is positively linked with cancer incidence, study finds · SpaceX Crew-1 Trunk debris found across New South Wales might not be the last of the phenomenon · people who eat more ultra-processed foods may have higher risk of dementia · habitual mask-wearing is likely helping Japan, Singapore & South Korea bring daily Omicron deaths down, epidemiologists say.

Otoliths issue sixty-six is now live

Issue sixty-six of Otoliths, the southern winter, 2022 issue, is live.

It contains the usual diverse assemblage of varieties of prose, poetry & visuals, from Jen Schneider, Andrew Topel & John M. Bennett, Mark DuCharme, Diana Magallón & Jeff Harrison, Sanjeev Sethi, Richard Kostelanetz, Tony Kitt, Jay Passer, Ken Poyner, Jennifer Weigel, Amy Barone, Owen Bullock, Bill Wolak, Eric Dillalogue, James Daniels, John M. Bennett & Diane Keys, John M. Bennett & Jihn Khan, Grzegorz Wróblewski, John Tustin, Steve Brisendine, Naomi Buck Palagi & Joshua Purnell, Texas Fontanella, Patricia Carragon, Richard Magahiz, John Bradley, Joe Balaz, Pamela Miller, Sunil Sharma, Randee Silv, Judith Skillman, Leslaw Nowara, J.J. Campbell, Jack Galmitz, Bill Freind, Dave Read, Shataw Naseri, Louis Campbell, Jim Leftwich, Karl Kempton, Timothy Pilgrim, John M. Bennett, Christian ALLE, Anna Cates, Clara B. Jones, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Cecelia Chapman, Nathan Anderson, Tony Beyer, gobscure, Daniel de Culla, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, Nathan Whiting, Pete Spence, Carol Stetser, Vernon Frazer, Dave Webb, Joseph Buehler, Charles Borkhuis, John Digby & Bill Wolak, Michael J. Leach, John Levy, Olchar E. Lindsann, Peter Cherches, Guy R. Beining, Janet Jiahui Wu, R L Swihart, Henry Cherry, Adriána Kóbor, Joshua Martin, Laurinda Lind, Diana Magallón, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, M.J. Iuppa, Penelope Weiss, Harrison Fisher, Jim Meirose, Ségolène Pihut, 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, Elaine Woo, Anne-Marie Jeanjean, Keith Nunes, Bradley Earle Hoge, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Patrick Sweeney, fred flynn, KJ Hannah Greenberg, hiromi suzuki, bart plantenga, Rich Murphy, Thomas Camus, Keith Higginbotham, Jeff Bagato, Thomas Fink, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Leopold Haas, Eileen R. Tabios, Marilyn Stablein, Marcelo Medone, David Jalajel, Nils HM Geylen, Steph Amir, Stephen Nelson, Hrishikesh Srinivas, Angelo ‘NGE’ Colella, J. D. Nelson, Mark DeCarteret, Lorraine Caputo, Peter Yovu, Antonio Devicienti, Joseph Salvatore Aversano, & Carol Shillibeer.