Issue 3: Blue Vegetarian Lions

Issue 3: Blue Vegetarian Lions (Apr-May 2015) is an unthemed issue featuring poetry, prose, videos, and artwork from writers and artists around the world.

Everything but the Sky

by on Apr 10, 2015
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(watch Swoon’s video of “Everything but the sky” on Vimeo)

 

Filmmaker’s notes:

Film (concept, add. camera, editing & music) by Swoon for 2 poems from the collaboration chapbook Everything but the Sky by Meg Tuite and David Tomaloff

Poem “No Code” & voice by David Tomaloff
Poem “I am walking beside me” by Meg Tuite

Essentially, EVERYTHING BUT THE SKY explores the way that dream logic and interpretation often work in context to ordinary events taking place within our daily lives. Think of it as reverse dream interpretation–each of David Tomaloff’s  poems is a dream poem whose images might have been the manifestation of the thoughts, emotions, and events that each of Meg Tuite’s flash pieces describe before it. In this way, each pair of poems is a complete set, and, likely, one could begin to see a greater narrative as one begins joining these sets. –David Tomaloff

I created a soundtrack around David’s own narration of his poem and presented that scape with a (horizontal split screen) film composition with Meg’s poem appearing as text on screen. –Swoon

 

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Swoon (a.k.a. Marc Neys) is a videopoetry addict and has more than 200 international collaborations to his name. His videos and soundscapes were selected for festivals everywhere. In 2014 Already Dead tapes released Swoon’s first album Words/No Words. You can dive into his works at swoon-videopoetry.com and soundcloud.com/swoon_aka_marc_neys

& in the dream

by on Apr 9, 2015

I saw

a white flower star

(there could have been a bee)

&  upon awakening

I looked at the mountains

&  the imprint of the white flower star

became an owl became a heart

 

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Marcia Arrieta is a poet, artist, teacher, who enjoys nature and travel. Her work has appeared in Otoliths, BlazeVOX, Catch & Release, Melusine, Eratio, and Web Conjunctions. She edits and publishes Indefinite Space, a poetry/art journal.

Column

by , on Apr 8, 2015

Column

I wake at the edge
of the garden
in a cloud colored nightgown.
This was not my idea
but since there is no one here
I gather the dark to my face.
Since there is no one
I toss the pall from
one moment to the next.

Soon I’ll turn my face away.
The moon has a blank stare
but it blinks relentlessly, tearing
the night I carry inside me.
When I lived in the light,
I had all the shadow I needed.

 

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Janet and Cheryl Snell are sisters who collaborate on art and word projects. One of their collections, Prisoner’s Dilemma, won the Lopside Press Chapbook Competition. Both Snells regularly publish in the small magazines, and recently had work in PANK, Mixitini Matrix, and Deep Water literary Journal. They keep a blog of art and poetry called Scattered Light.

crescent moon

by on Apr 7, 2015

 

crescent moon–
I press your yellow rose
in Revelations

 

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Texas native Laurie Kolp, author of Upon the Blue Couch (Winter Goose Publishing, 2014), serves as president of Texas Gulf Coast Writers and gathers monthly with local members of the Poetry Society of Texas. Laurie’s poems have appeared in more than four dozen print and online journals including Blue Fifth Review, the 2015 Poet’s Market and Pirene’s Fountain. You can find out more about Laurie on her website, lauriekolp.com.

Love Is in the Air

by on Apr 6, 2015

Throw Molotovs
in clear-blue jars
as if they were flowers
and watch them grow and
explode like spring in bloom
with the scent of roses
and gasoline on fire
their purple burn on skin—
the sun is high
the equinox has come
and love is in the air.

 

(Ekphrastic poem written in response to “Love is in the Air” a work of graffiti art by Banksy)

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Neil Ellman, a poet from New Jersey, has been published in numerous journals, anthologies and chapbooks throughout the world.  He has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize and twice for Best of the Net.