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December 12, 2017 / barton smock

repast

god as the complete
thought
I shared
with death…

skull
short
for squirrel

December 12, 2017 / barton smock

{MODE}

call for submissions {isacoustic*}

https://isacoustic.wordpress.com/

THING:

submit no less than [3] and no more than [7] pieces (poems, prose, poetics) to: isacousticsubmissions@gmail.com

/poems can be in the body of the email or attached as PDF, doc, docx

//include a brief and non-clever bio

~

in order to be published, [3] of the poems in the submission must be selected by the editors*

*this applies only to unsolicited submissions

/all three poems will be published in one post

//postings will occur weekly or bi-weekly

~

payment for a selected submission is 15.00 (5.00 per poem)

/payment will be made within one month of the posting

//previously published and simultaneous submissions are okay

///response time is 3 days ///please inquire if that time passes without

////whether rejected or accepted for publication, there is no waiting period for submitting multiple times

~

every three months, the editors will self-publish a journal of the poems posted in those months. contributors will receive a copy.

~

what the editors are looking for:

image-based absence.

/structurally sound offhandedness.

//clarity, yes, but not necessarily reliable.

///purpose.

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contact/submit: isacousticsubmissions@gmail.com

if interested in being interviewed, or having a chapbook or book reviewed, send inquiry to same submission email

facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Isacoustic-192435501303710/

paypal donation link: https://www.paypal.me/BartonSmock
if donating, you can note the name of a contributor and the money will go to said contributor

~

CURRENTLY:

AT isacoustic*
https://isacoustic.wordpress.com/

CONTRIBUTORS:

Jon Cone

and the heart-ache
that occupies the land is yours alone in hope. – {from} YOU ARE NOT LATE, IT IS ONLY THE PRELUDE THAT PLAYS

person Jon Cone, four poems

/

Adam Hughes

Tonight the fugitive gods limp
away, – {from} Kemper Street Hymns

person Adam Hughes, four poems

//

Leanne Drapeau

the body broken,
poured out. – {from} love has all its teeth intact

person Leanne Drapeau, three poems

///

Agnieszka Mauch

I can’t
move my arms enough to create a
notion of the sea – {from} FURTHER DISRUPTIONS

person Agnieszka Mauch, two poems

////

Amelia Kester

I will find
the soft people – {from} BLACKBERRIES

person Amelia Kester, one poem

/////

Brian Dawson

sway against forgotten statues
until all that is left is the sibilance of old secrets. – {from} Nine

person Brian Dawson, four poems

//////

REVIEWS:

They Were Bears – poems – Sarah Marcus

Set to Music a Wildfire – poems – Ruth Awad

Calling a Wolf a Wolf – poems – Kaveh Akbar

Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly – poems – Darren C Demaree

December 11, 2017 / barton smock

1995

and poem looked to me like the eyesight that stayed behind. claw and wing were the oars of my father’s blank craft. every boy in Ohio was a girl in a bookstore caring for the latest creature of a flat god. sadness hadn’t yet moved on from its stick figures and mothers were still blowing into perfectly round balloons. pale dog drank from a paint can. color could see, and see only, the future. a pinkness left my brother for the wrong kind of milk. sister had been hugging those angels

couldn’t bend their arms. zero

(that wizard
of the non
event)

was buying up land.

December 10, 2017 / barton smock

I have nothing like a film has nothing

her eyes

loot
the imagination

December 10, 2017 / barton smock

{comp}

unfortunately, still true

barton smock's avatarkingsoftrain

through December 11th, Lulu is offering 15% off all print books with coupon code of LULU15

my newest everything I touch remembers being my hand is here:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/everything-i-touch-remembers-being-my-hand/paperback/product-23423003.html

(book preview on site is book entire / free PDF to anyone requesting / free hard copy to anyone interested in writing a review ~ contact bartonsmock@yahoo.com)

~

I also do a partial and pretty horrifying reading of the work, here:

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December 10, 2017 / barton smock

deeper, shape

recovery is a prison run by fish.

light’s one song-

the past is bleeding

December 9, 2017 / barton smock

{person Brian Dawson at isacoustic*}

Brian Dawson has four poems at ~ isacoustic* ~

person Brian Dawson, four poems

 

 

 

December 8, 2017 / barton smock

insomniacs for the health of your ghost

in one dream, a carousel horse. in another, a stomach.

dream is a shortcut

December 8, 2017 / barton smock

{comp}

through December 11th, Lulu is offering 15% off all print books with coupon code of LULU15

my newest everything I touch remembers being my hand is here:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/barton-smock/everything-i-touch-remembers-being-my-hand/paperback/product-23423003.html

(book preview on site is book entire / free PDF to anyone requesting / free hard copy to anyone interested in writing a review ~ contact bartonsmock@yahoo.com)

~

I also do a partial and pretty horrifying reading of the work, here:

December 8, 2017 / barton smock

{AT, further}

barton smock's avatarkingsoftrain

AT isacoustic*

https://isacoustic.wordpress.com/

CONTRIBUTORS:

Jon Cone

and the heart-ache
that occupies the land is yours alone in hope. – {from} YOU ARE NOT LATE, IT IS ONLY THE PRELUDE THAT PLAYS

person Jon Cone, four poems

/

Adam Hughes

Tonight the fugitive gods limp
away, – {from} Kemper Street Hymns

person Adam Hughes, four poems

//

Leanne Drapeau

the body broken,
poured out. – {from} love has all its teeth intact

person Leanne Drapeau, three poems

///

Agnieszka Mauch

I can’t
move my arms enough to create a
notion of the sea – {from} FURTHER DISRUPTIONS

person Agnieszka Mauch, two poems

////

Amelia Kester

I will find
the soft people – {from} BLACKBERRIES

person Amelia Kester, one poem

/////

REVIEWS:

They Were Bears – poems – Sarah Marcus

Set to Music a Wildfire – poems – Ruth Awad

Calling a Wolf a Wolf – poems – Kaveh Akbar

Many Full Hands Applauding Inelegantly – poems – Darren…

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