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Here We Are.

June 30, 2020 by Exangel

Well, here we are.

And where we’ll be in three months time, with the next issue, is a mystery. But the one unmysterious thing about it is we have to look after ourselves, our loved ones, and those we can help, because the US and UK governments are too busy following their usual greedhead short sighted full speed ahead ethos to see what’s in front of them.

In fact, it’s going to take all of us some time to understand what is in front of us, because everything has changed, and we have yet to understand what that means, and what’s required of us as a result.

The one thing we can all do right away is resist the temptation to waste any time looking for someone to blame. I’m sure there’s a lot of blame to go around. (Although I do wonder why the people who keep sending me that ridiculous “Plandemic” video don’t wonder why if Soros and mysterious global forces have all that power and are doing this to control us, WHY IS IT NOT POSSIBLE FOR THEM TO TAKE DOWN A STUPID YOU TUBE VIDEO?) Be that as it may, right now we have to focus on a.) keeping our families and communities safe, and b.) keeping our creativity flexible and at red hot pitch. I say ‘b’, of course, because it’s ‘b’ that’s going to find the path in the right direction. In the dark.

Once again, in this issue, the poets have overwhelmed me and poetry editor Marissa Bell Toffoli with an exuberance of riches. Once again, I know it’s because poets are always the canaries in the coal mines. (Or, in our case, the flags formerly upright in the permafrost.) Thank you, poets. Whether grappling with real grief, like Ben White always does—in this case, in American Passenger—or upholding principles that bring us eternal joy, like Charles S. Kraszewski does in all his work—here with Heinrich Boll is Dead. Long Live Heinrich Boll. Or Chris Farago, as usual, in Maps. Or continuing to celebrate our everyday connection to each other, the way Marissa Bell Toffoli always does, this time in Waltz for Strangers. Or looking at history to remind ourselves that tragedy, even manmade, is something of a human lot, but is that always going to be the case? David Selzer and Contagion.

There’s more. Have a look. There’s Sean Murphy’s half poem/half lament, Peregrinations. There’s Duncan Tierney (welcome, Duncan!) and his horrifyingly matter-of-fact On the Manufacture of Dream Dust. There’s EAP’s favorite philosopher on the expansion of the boundaries of the rational, Bruce E.R. Thompson and Moving.

And there is, once again, always love. Thank Tamra Lucid this issue for that. Thanks, Tamra, for the sexy, wistful, passionate memory in Falling in Noir.

And always, always, thanks to Brian Griffith for his clear eyed and meticulous approach to cultural history. This time with Iran’s Feminist Parties.

(On a side note, if you want to get some support for shopping less and enjoying fresh produce more, have a look at this issue’s Jam Today.)

Stay safe and well, all of you. But most of all, stay creative. Keep envisioning visions, and we’ll come out the other side of this into a better kind of day.

Welcome back.

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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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