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September 12, 2016
Out of the Gutter Online, Counterblow by María C. Domínguez
Out of the Gutter Online: Counterblow: Regrets can provide important life lessons. The most important lesson in The Gutter? Don’t push the wrong buttons. Counterblow by María C. Domínguez
About Out of the Gutter
“Begun in 2008 as “the only pulp magazine in print,” Out of the Gutter originally appeared as a 200-page quasi-punk ‘zine featuring homemade formatting, off-the-wall humour, articles on crime, politics and culture, and the grittiest fiction available anywhere. After seven issues the project grew into a small press, and the printing of the journal grinded to a halt.
But today we’re breathing new life into the endeavour, finally moving into the twenty-first century by combining Gutter’s rapid-fire, no-holds-barred attitude with the instant access and live discussion offered by the Internet.”
Out of the Gutter Online: Counterblow by María C. Domínguez
Out of the Gutter Online: Counterblow: Regrets can provide important life lessons. The most important lesson in The Gutter? Don't push the wrong buttons. Counterblow by María C. Domínguez
About Out of the Gutter
"Begun in 2008 as "the only pulp magazine in print," Out of the Gutter originally appeared as a 200-page quasi-punk 'zine featuring homemade formatting, off-the-wall humour, articles on crime, politics and culture, and the grittiest fiction available anywhere.After seven issues the project grew into a small press, and the printing of the journal grinded to a halt.
But today we're breathing new life into the endeavour, finally moving into the twenty-first century by combining Gutter's rapid-fire, no-holds-barred attitude with the instant access and live discussion offered by the Internet."
September 1, 2016
London Grip´s new Autumn issue includes poem by María C. Dominguez
A big thanks to Michael Bartholomew-Biggs, London Grip’s current Poetry Editor for having put together such a exciting issue. Quoting from the magazine: LondonGrip is an international online cultural magazine- founded by Patricia Morris in 2007 – is a wholly independent online venue, a cultural omnibus providing intelligent reviews of current shows and events, well-argued articles on the widest range of topics, an exhibition space for cross-media arts and an in-house poetry magazine with its own editor.
July 24, 2016
Ascension and Abroad aboard by María Castro Domínguez
Friday Flash Fiction, @fridayflashfict, showcases a particular brand of flash fiction. Makes for an exciting read.
Its New contributors are:
Adam J. Rickman
Jane Hertenstein
Debarun Sarkar
Mark Beddard
Erin Armstrong
María Castro Domínguez
Robert Evenstell
Bethany van Sterling
Khulya Jafarova
Pat St Pierre
Mickey Kulp
Here´s a taster of Ascension and Abroad aboard
Ascension
The sky thickened rapidly, the ship now was indistinguishable from the sea. Only flashes of lightening revealed the scrolls soaring, monstrous giants waiting for their feed. The Captain’s eyes said it all. Death was hunting.
“Get off” he boomed pointing to the only lifeboat on board. My mind stopped, then my body took over. The chains lashed at me whilst I loosed the wood delivering it below. I dived in, finding myself under the roof of a greedy wave……….
Abroad aboard
After twenty minutes going up and down, side-stepping cargo cranes and nearly falling into a hold being stowed, I found the bridge.
Hesitating before going in, I had to find my bearings. Persuade myself that I could pull it through…….
July 8, 2016
Apogee Magazine exploding with art today.
Today I received my contributor´s copies and I can´t stop looking, reading and touching it.
Each page is evocative, stirring, stunning and combines art with poetry, lyrics and fiction. And Jane Callahan and Susan MacRae´s fascinating art accompanies us throughout.
Editor Dr. Charmaine Cadeau and the rest of the editorial team have crafted a beautiful composite gallery of contemporary creation. Apogee radiates a passion for real deep change accomplished by uniting an inspiring mix of eclectic voices. Their mission as they say is to effectuate change in readers’ attitudes, change in writers’ positions in literature, and broader change in society. I can assure you that reading Apogee is quite a mind-changing experience.
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Six poets are featured in this is issue together with me and my poem Rewriting the End. Among them is one of my favourites, Matt Dugan with his striking alliterative poem City of Glass. Matt Duggan was the winner of The Erbacce Prize for poetry 2015.
Quoting from their page: Apogee is a journal of literature and art that engages with identity politics, including but not limited to: race, gender, sexuality, class, ability, and intersectional identities. We are a biannual print publication featuring fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art.
Apogee Journal is featured in:
NewPages – Issue 06
Ploughshares
The Hairpin
Writer’s Relief
The Review Review
Poets & Writers
The Poetry Foundation
Book Culture Blog
The Catapault
Slice Magazine
New Pages
Brokelyn’s list of independent local magazines
You can find print copies of the latest issue of Apogee at the following bookstores and online:
Bureau of General Services—Queer Division
208 W 13th St #210, New York, NY 10011
(646) 457-0859
Bluestockings
172 Allen St, New York, NY 10002
(212) 777-6028
Book Court
163 Court St, Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 875-3677
Book Culture
536 W 112th St, New York, NY 10025
(212) 865-1588
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY 11217
(718) 246-0200
McNally Jackson
52 Prince St, New York, NY 10012
(212) 274-1160
June 1, 2016
Gambling the Aisle literary magazine
Gambling the Aisle is a bi-annual, Denver-based literary magazine, founded in 2011 with the endeavor to support the artistic community of which the editors and staff are members. Considered “Denver’s 2nd Best Lit Mag.” June´s flash fiction is “Goldilocks” by María C. Domínguez
If you want to be awoken from a literary slumber don´t miss “Gambling the Aisle”. A literary magazine dedicated to innovation. Not fearful to take a plunge into authentic art and as Ezra Pound said “make it new”.
Following on you have info about who they are and what they do quoted from their site.
Gambling the Aisle is a chronicle of the curious mind and a record of its risks.
We believe the terms of art should be dictated by expression of the real, rather than the pursuit of a paycheck. We abhor the factory-produced kitsch designed to empty wallets and suffocate the rebel soul. Instead, we delight in creativity that comes on like a panic attack and illuminates an ill-defined recess. The strange will always have a home with us.
Art struggles not against censorship but against apathy. The genuine can be silenced if the false is well-funded; therefore, when the weeds of conformity threaten to overtake the garden, orchids will thrive in the Aisle.
Editors
Fiction: Patrick Kelling is a doctoral candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Denver. He graduated with his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Colorado in 2008, where he was an editor for Square One literary magazine. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and to Best New American Voices.
Flash Fiction: Jenna Park graduated from the University of Denver in 2013 with a degree in Biology and Cognitive Neuroscience, of all things. Jenna writes flash fiction and screenplays; her work has been published more than once on her mother’s refrigerator. Beyond writing, her favorite things are rock climbing, cycling, and big dogs. Jenna resides in Los Angeles, pursuing her MFA in Screenwriting.
Poetry: Adam Van Alstyne spent some time in Pueblo, before spending some time in Boulder, and now spends his time in Littleton. He works as a tester, freelance writer, editor, and gardener. Adam was Mayor of Avondale for seven years before losing the coat in 2010. He reads too much news, drinks too much coffee, and only hears the drum beats.
Visual Art: John Cross makes his home in Longmont where he teaches painting. He received his BFA from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and his MFA from Fontbonne University in St. Louis. John spends most of his time reinforcing his hypocritical stance on life and seeking out the weird in the most common places.
April 13, 2016
Dystopia by Matt Duggan. Worthy winner of the erbacce-prize.
Dystopia 38.10 comprises a balanced innovative collection of ground-breaking poetry. It is a poetic dystopia divided into four zones, city life, private life, the life of things, and inner life all blended together. The poetic voice like all good art provokes defamiliarization or ostranenie with a multitude of poetic devices, such as alliteration, repetition, half-rhymes, and enjambments. Also it has something of the confessional poetic strand that Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath propagated. It awakens us from a comatose and complacent state and thrusts us out of the cement of our comfort zone, right from first line.
Matt Duggan, the author of this engaging collection, is a poetry activist who swerves our emotions, twists and tangles our feelings, making us see anew. With his antithetical language, his satire, his thudding rhythm, his novel use of words we are helplessly under his spell. Dystopia 38.10 is also imbued with poignant humanity and love for everything human. Despite the dystopian connotations, we feel that its poems take us through urban and suburban landscapes with a voice that both consoles and inspires change.The first poem of the book, “The City Statue”, sets the pace. We immediately visualize a city that is moving yet static. Unloving and cold, inhabited by walking dead, the homeless, disillusioned and drunk. With ladies whose eyes are in death´s royal plum. The tanned faces with innumerable credit are rich but dead.
His very imagist poem “The sun bathing fox” consistent of only two quatrains, immerses us in a drowsy day where we can see a fox embalmed in orange. By means of a “bedroom” metaphor, present for example in line 6 rolling in the daisy covers, we can feel the comfort of being at home protected under an Ikea duvet, on a lazy summer afternoon. It brings recollections of two other fox poems, Ted Hughes and Simon Armitages´. Both are about a fox, which personify violence and even inspiration and are set at night. Matt poem renovates on this theme, it is set in the afternoon, under a luminous light and it´s the blood thirsty bugles that bring violence not the fox itself. Sun pools of grass gestures to a Whitmanesque optimism. A soothing soundtrack that alienates us from the faraway chase and its death tones that threaten to end it all.
“Obsolete” and “Ice Cream Utopiansim” reveal a poetic stance with a tragic sense of humour. “Ice cream Utopiansim” resembles with its repetitions a nursery rhyme, which shouts truths at us under its “sweet” simplicity. It invites us to see again with words that echo sight: look around, reflections, opening our eyes, visage, reflected.
There are so many poems that sting and yet simultaneously are vitalizing and compelling that it is difficult to single out a favourite. I feel Matt Duggan stimulates a desire for more poetry on our reading shelves. He makes us aware of poetry´s power with his modern, deconstructive style and provocative art. In other words, and following from one of his titles, he´s rebooted poetry today!His gift makes us more receptive to explore modern life and its controversies, to explore our inconsistencies and what´s more, aspires to make us better humans.
Matt Duggan is a Bristol born imagist poet, who won the prestigious erbacce prize for poetry from well over 5,000 entries worldwide. Matt has had his poems published in over sixty journals and magazines, and is involved in many other artistic projects.
Dystopia by Matt Duggan. Worthy winner of the erbacce-prize.
Dystopia 38.10 comprises a balanced innovative collection of ground-breaking poetry. It is a poetic dystopia divided into four zones, city life, private life, the life of things, and inner life all blended together. The poetic voice like all good art provokes defamiliarization or ostranenie with a multitude of poetic devices, such as alliteration, repetition, half-rhymes, and enjambments. Also it has something of the confessional poetic strand that Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath propagated. It awakens us from a comatose and complacent state and thrusts us out of the cement of our comfort zone, right from first line.
Matt Duggan, the author of this engaging collection, is a poetry activist who swerves our emotions, twists and tangles our feelings, making us see anew. With his antithetical language, his satire, his thudding rhythm, his novel use of words we are helplessly under his spell. Dystopia 38.10 is also imbued with poignant humanity and love for everything human. Despite the dystopian connotations, we feel that its poems take us through urban and suburban landscapes with a voice that both consoles and inspires change.
The first poem of the book, “The City Statue”, sets the pace. We immediately visualize a city that is moving yet static. Unloving and cold, inhabited by walking dead, the homeless, disillusioned and drunk. With ladies whose eyes are in death´s royal plum. The tanned faces with innumerable credit are rich but dead.
His very imagist poem “The sun bathing fox” consistent of only two quatrains, immerses us in a drowsy day where we can see a fox embalmed in orange. By means of a “bedroom” metaphor, present for example in L6 rolling in the daisy covers, we can feel the comfort of being at home protected under an Ikea duvet, on a lazy summer afternoon. It brings recollections of two other fox poems, Ted Hughes and Simon Armitages´. Both are about a fox, which personify violence and even inspiration and are set at night. Matt poem renovates on this theme, it is set in the afternoon, under a luminous light and it´s the blood thirsty bugles that bring violence not the fox itself. Sun pools of grass gestures to a Whitmanesque optimism. A soothing soundtrack that alienates us from the faraway chase and its death tones that threaten to end it all.
“Obsolete” and “Ice Cream Utopiansim” reveal a poetic stance with a tragic sense of humour. “Ice cream Utopiansim” resembles with its repetitions a nursery rhyme, which shouts truths at us under its “sweet” simplicity. It invites us to see again with words that echo sight: look around, reflections, opening our eyes, visage, reflected.
There are so many poems that sting and yet simultaneously are vitalizing and compelling that it is difficult to single out a favourite. I feel Matt Duggan stimulates a desire for more poetry on our reading shelves. He makes us aware of poetry´s power with his modern, deconstructive style and provocative art. In other words, and following from one of his titles, he´s rebooted poetry today!
His gift makes us more receptive to explore modern life and its controversies, to explore our inconsistencies and what´s more, aspires to make us better humans.
Matt Duggan is a Bristol born imagist poet, who won the prestigious erbacce prize for poetry from well over 5,000 entries worldwide. Matt has had his poems published in over sixty journals and magazines, and is involved in many other artistic projects.
April 1, 2016
Island Ramble by María C. Domínguez in StepAway Magazine
StepAway Magazine Issue 20 is now online with a fantastic collection of poetry, flash fiction and short story.StepAway Magazine is an award-winning online literary magazine which publishes the best urban flash fiction and poetry by writers from across the globe. The title of the magazine draws inspiration from Frank O’ Hara’s landmark flâneur poem, “A Step Away from Them”.The Editor Darren Richard Carlaw says it all in his "A letter from the Editor". As follows I will quote some of his lines:In the opening to my first editorial on March 21st 2011, I posed the question: ‘who was the first writer to bring a city to life for you?’ I then discussed Blake’s ‘London’ and how, for me, the poem forged a connection between the urban present and the past, capturing that fear and fascination I experienced when walking in the city as a young boy.I then namedropped Baudelaire, Benjamin and Poe, flâneurs all, before moving on to twentieth century literary wanderers, such as Frank O’Hara, whose New York walking poem ‘A Step Away from Them’ inspired the title and content of this magazine. ‘This is where StepAway Magazine begins,’ I announced hopefully.....The past five years have flown, and we’ve achieved a great deal. We’ve won a Walking Visionaries Award, which was presented to us in Vienna. We’ve worked with Durham University’s Hearing the Voice Project to create Voicewalks, a creative exploration of inner speech within the context of walking in the city. We’ve celebrated the streets of Fitzrovia with the University of Westminster. We’ve been part of Newcastle’s Festival of Belonging, thanks to Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts and Trashed Organ. And let’s not forget the publication of twenty issues showcasing the work of well over one hundred and fifty new and established writers.....
Issue 20 also provides a worthy home for the work of a startlingly talented set of writers, including:
Caroline Boobis, María Castro Domínguez, Sally Long, Ilona Martonfi, Luke Otley, Sue Spiers, Nicole Taylor and Norma Wilow.
StepAway Magazine
is a Newcastle upon Tyne based online English literary journal. It was founded by the British writer, researcher and literary reviewer, Darren Richard Carlaw.The journal publishes poetry and flash fiction about walking in an urban environment. StepAway Magazine takes its name from a flâneur poem by Frank O’Hara entitled “A Step Away from Them” from the collection Lunch Poems.[1]Key contributors have included James Robison, Sarah Schulman, Lemn Sissay, Maryam Sullivan, Van G. Garrett, and Richard Thomas.The magazine’s cover art has featured the work of Life magazine photographer Roger Minick, and British artist Paul Baines.
Island Ramble by María C. Domínguez in StepAway Magazine
StepAway Magazine Issue 20 is now online with a fantastic collection of poetry, flash fiction and short story.
StepAway Magazine is an award-winning online literary magazine which publishes the best urban flash fiction and poetry by writers from across the globe. The title of the magazine draws inspiration from Frank O’ Hara’s landmark flâneur poem, “A Step Away from Them”.
The Editor Darren Richard Carlaw says it all in his “A letter from the Editor”. As follows I will quote some of his lines:
In the opening to my first editorial on March 21st 2011, I posed the question: ‘who was the first writer to bring a city to life for you?’ I then discussed Blake’s ‘London’ and how, for me, the poem forged a connection between the urban present and the past, capturing that fear and fascination I experienced when walking in the city as a young boy.
I then namedropped Baudelaire, Benjamin and Poe, flâneurs all, before moving on to twentieth century literary wanderers, such as Frank O’Hara, whose New York walking poem ‘A Step Away from Them’ inspired the title and content of this magazine. ‘This is where StepAway Magazine begins,’ I announced hopefully…..
The past five years have flown, and we’ve achieved a great deal. We’ve won a Walking Visionaries Award, which was presented to us in Vienna. We’ve worked with Durham University’s Hearing the Voice Project to create Voicewalks, a creative exploration of inner speech within the context of walking in the city. We’ve celebrated the streets of Fitzrovia with the University of Westminster. We’ve been part of Newcastle’s Festival of Belonging, thanks to Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts and Trashed Organ. And let’s not forget the publication of twenty issues showcasing the work of well over one hundred and fifty new and established writers…..
Issue 20 also provides a worthy home for the work of a startlingly talented set of writers, including:
Caroline Boobis, María Castro Domínguez, Sally Long, Ilona Martonfi, Luke Otley, Sue Spiers, Nicole Taylor and Norma Wilow.
StepAway Magazine is a Newcastle upon Tyne based online English literary journal. It was founded by the British writer, researcher and literary reviewer, Darren Richard Carlaw.
Key contributors have included James Robison, Sarah Schulman, Lemn Sissay, Maryam Sullivan, Van G. Garrett, and Richard Thomas.
The magazine’s cover art has featured the work of Life magazine photographer Roger Minick, and British artist Paul Baines.
