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Spring 2022: What Glamour.

On Our Way Home.

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by Marissa Bell Toffoli.

Let’s stretch the time.
Above, stars set out to glimmer.
Beyond the fenceline,
traffic simmers. We skip
along with the breeze.
A neighbor’s wind chimes sing.
The cherry tree drops blossoms.
Spring glamour lines the lane
amid this clamor. Enough
for us. City shimmers
shattered glass on concrete
and the daffodils bid good evening.

Cymeric (From “My Life with Dogs”).

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by Tod Davies. My maternal grandparents were a much different story. My mother’s father died before she was born. My grandmother was six months pregnant when he suddenly succumbed to typhoid. The family had been living in the Philippines where he worked as a Macanese merchant in import export. When I was a little girl, […]

Parvin E’tesami, an Iconic Female Iranian Poet.

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by Brian Griffith and Zhinia Noorian Parvin E’tesami (1907–1941) was a major female poet of the early twentieth century, whose art brought unprecedented change in the world of Persian literature. She published her first several poems in Bahar (Spring) magazine at age 13, and on graduating from secondary school in 1924, gave a speech denouncing […]

Unglamorous Philosophers.

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by Bruce E. R. Thompson. There is no person more unglamorous than a philosopher. Investment bankers can be glamorous; computer programmers can be glamorous; even dock workers and ditch diggers can clean up nicely and be glamorous. But philosophers are pretty universally despised, and logicians most of all. Philosophers cease to be glamorous the moment […]

Evil, an excerpt.

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by Joseph Harms.   Skeletal and ferrous beneath the snowcapped truncated mountain the empty watertower like some oblate quadrupedal dead eye above the cascading baytown howled and whistled from its scabrous perforations. Not far below it the church’s redbrick belltower. The foot of nightfallen snow had shelved from their casques, pattered in incessant scintillae from […]

The Stork Woman.

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by Rose Jermusyk. There once were two sisters-in-law who refused to mourn the third. They’d met her only once on their joint wedding day, but in the days leading up to the nuptials they’d known her handiwork. In that work they’d seen themselves and each other reflected and this made them kin. And it made […]

Steps of Time.

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by David Bolton.   I walk the steps of time Prana leading the way Slow, deep breathes Up the stadium staircase Feel the pounding of the heart Fingers tingling with heat At the top, hands on hips, a scan at the sky Below:  joggers, lacrosse players and wanderers Time for the descent Down and up, […]

Lake Urmia.

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by David Selzer. In Old Persian, language of the Shah of Shahs, Darius the Great, whose inscriptions extend from Persepolis to Egypt, and from Romania to Bahrain, this salt lake, greater than the Dead Sea, was called Chichast, ‘Glittering’ – sunlight on the undulating lapidary of myriads of silver particulates. Urmia – Assyrian Aramaic for […]

Types of Hairstyles I Would Have if I Wasn’t Bald.

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by Sean Murphy. I mean if we’re talking miracles: Having hair would, admittedly, be low on the priority list, at least with things like healthy hearts, minds, and livers to consider. For starters. Bank accounts too. And also, I remember that even when I could be called hirsute, once upon a time, every day was […]

Airplanes and tin roofs.

March 31, 2022 by Exangel

by Kunal Mehra. He recoiled at the sight of the ox walking towards his stall. Its horns were big and there wasn’t much space to move back – on his right side, was an old woman selling buckets of tomatoes and marigold flowers strung together; on the left, a teenager selling tea and fried cutlets; […]

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In This Issue.

  • Who Was Dorothy?
  • Those Evil Spirits.
  • The Screaming Baboon.
  • Her.
  • A Tale of Persistence.
  • A Conversation with Steve Hugh Westenra.
  • Person Number Twelve.
  • Dream Shapes.
  • Cannon Beach.
  • The Muse.
  • Spring.
  • The Greatness that was Greece.
  • 1966, NYC; nothing like it.
  • Sun Shower.
  • The Withering Weight of Being Perceived.
  • Broken Clock.
  • Confession.
  • Francis Coppola’s Apocalypse.
  • Sometimes you die, I mean that people do.
  • True (from “My Life with Dogs”).
  • Fragmentary musings on birds and bees.
  • 12 Baking Essentials to Always Have in Your Poetry.
  • Broad Street.
  • A Death in Alexandria.
  • My Forked Tongue.
  • Swan Lake.
  • Long Division.
  • Singing against the muses.
  • Aphorisms from “What Remains to Be Said”.

In The News.

That cult classic pirate/sci fi mash up GREENBEARD, by Richard James Bentley, is now a rollicking audiobook, available from Audible.com. Narrated and acted by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio, you’ll be overwhelmed by the riches and hilarity within.

“Captain Sylvestre de Greybagges is your typical seventeenth-century Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and compound interest as he is wielding a cutlass, needling archrival Henry Morgan, and parsing rum-soaked gossip for his next target. When a pepper monger’s loose tongue lets out a rumor about a fleet loaded with silver, the Captain sets sail only to find himself in a close encounter of a very different kind.

After escaping with his sanity barely intact and his beard transformed an alarming bright green, Greybagges rallies The Ark de Triomphe crew for a revenge-fueled, thrill-a-minute adventure to the ends of the earth and beyond.

This frolicsome tale of skullduggery, jiggery-pokery, and chicanery upon Ye High Seas is brimming with hilarious puns, masterful historical allusions, and nonstop literary hijinks. Including sly references to Thomas Pynchon, Treasure Island, 1940s cinema, and notable historical figures, this mélange of delights will captivate readers with its rollicking adventure, rich descriptions of food and fashion, and learned asides into scientific, philosophical, and colonial history.”

THE SUPERGIRLS is back, revised and updated!

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In The News.

Newport Public Library hosted a three part Zoom series on Visionary Fiction, led by Tod.  

And we love them for it, too.

The first discussion was a lively blast. You can watch it here. The second, Looking Back to Look Forward can be seen here.

The third was the best of all. Visions of the Future, with a cast of characters including poets, audiobook artists, historians, Starhawk, and Mary Shelley. Among others. Link is here.

In the News.

SNOTTY SAVES THE DAY is now an audiobook, narrated by Last Word Audio’s mellifluous Colby Elliott. It launched May 10th, but for a limited time, you can listen for free with an Audible trial membership. So what are you waiting for? Start listening to the wonders of how Arcadia was born from the worst section of the worst neighborhood in the worst empire of all the worlds since the universe began.

In The News.

If you love audio books, don’t miss the new release of REPORT TO MEGALOPOLIS, by Tod Davies, narrated by Colby Elliott of Last Word Audio. The tortured Aspern Grayling tries to rise above the truth of his own story, fighting with reality every step of the way, and Colby’s voice is the perfect match for our modern day Dr. Frankenstein.

In The News.

Mike Madrid dishes on Miss Fury to the BBC . . .

Tod on the Importance of Visionary Fiction

Check out this video of “Beyond Utopia: The Importance of Fantasy,” Tod’s recent talk at the tenth World-Ecology Research Network Conference, June 2019, in San Francisco. She covers everything from Wind in the Willows to the work of Kim Stanley Robinson, with a look at The History of Arcadia along the way. As usual, she’s going on about how visionary fiction has an important place in the formation of a world we want and need to have.

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