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8 wonderful issues, 100s of poems by contemporary poets, Q and A interviews, and video poetry. Discover and submit to V(9) Magazine.
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Painting, blogs, titles and surreal, changing worlds—
Q and A with legendary poet Mark Young around his work From the Cave’s Jukebox
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Find samples of this fascinating work, Apoems, first published here:
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Many thanks to Version (9). An interview about what went into writing the apoems and how this works for future projects.
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Linguistics, subjectivity, and the ethics of the contemporary and digitally mechanized ‘everyday’— Q and A with prose poet mwtempleton.bsky.social around his latest work, Apoems.
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8 wonderful issues, 100s of poems by contemporary poets, Q and A interviews, and video poetry. Make 2026 the year to discover and submit to V(9) Magazine.
All very best wishes for 2026!
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The practice of poetics and the involvements of publishing—Q and A with poet @seangmeggeson.bsky.social around his latest work, soma synthesis
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Ten sonnets in volume 8 of Version9 magazine. @version9magazine.bsky.social
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"So — a determined indignation
Well — a sheepish hesitation
Okay — a resigned capitulation
Anyway — an annoyed continuation"
Turns of phrase and the poetics of wordplay; discover the work of Lucien Levant in this our latest--
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Once
John Heath-
Stubbs, Basil
Bunting, Michael
Hamburger, Peter
Levi, and Adrian
Henri used silly numbers
of syllables (...) a totally
superb, uninteresting,
successful, spurious,
useful, redundant,
diminishing
exercise
in the
end
by Mark Saunders
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"What is
revealed is another painting that the critic has determined
will be more glorious than the Goddess we behold. It’s not."
Of Clement Greenberg, art critic extraordinaire.
Discover the work of Penn Kemp in this our latest.
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Parabolic Alterity by Vernon Frazer out now from C22 Open Editions @c22press.bsky.social ! A recontextualization of language into an altogether unfamiliar form. Read the book for free!
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Exciting project, & thrilled to have Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social as progenitor & reader w/ me on this project / @icefloepress.bsky.social
Remember to think of "Marginalia" in the broadest of textures: dislocation/ alienation (at the margins); the margins of the text, inlay in a book, etc.
"That nothingness, peripheral, erring,
Hath, final jest, turned into everything."
Discover the wonderful sonneteering by Mark Wartenberg in this our latest.
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My review of Joshua Martin's newest book, Mutations. @c22press.bsky.social
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"I don’t get the sense that we so much descend into ourselves as stumble, headfirst, into ourselves and land broken-necked somewhere along the entrails of our own subconscious."
Good morning.
This is Part 1 of my Experimental Poetry Criticism—
a prelude, a first movement.
Read it before Part 2 begins to unwrite it.
Ready or not— I am.
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"Membranous ringlets drip, expelling flesh from legacy."
Discover the complex and musical work of @seankilpatrick.bsky.social
in this our latest.
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“The sonnet is a script, a timeworn frame”
Poetic forms, AI and timely re-assessments all involve in the profound work of @ericracher.bsky.social
showcased in this our latest.
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Issue 8 of Version (9) Magazine is now live. Heartfelt thanks to all contributors, without whom its manifold display of poetry contemporary, avant-garde, and experimental could not occur.
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Hi, friends. If you read Record of Dissent and it resonated with you, we’d be grateful if you took a minute to leave a review. Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Bookshop, wherever you like. It helps the book find its way to new readers. Thanks for the support. thechaossectionpoetryproject.com/record-of-di...
Tuesday poem #646 : arien wolf : I can see my mother’s outline but not her shape
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recently on periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics: / @periodicities.bsky.social ;
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Thank you so much @wildtwin.bsky.social x:) There are tons of wonderful Nightjars available @nightjarpress.bsky.social: nightjarpress.weebly.com including @arthurmandal.bsky.social's excellent Old Tutor, New Tutor
NEW EPISODE
sorry for the hiatus. we didn’t mean to. wanna read some poems?
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Check out my chapbook skeleton shivers from C22 Open Editions @c22press.bsky.social . A kaleidoscopic DaDa text. Spinning: KABOOM! Fragments of playful Bric-a-Brac and Knick-Knacks. Curving: dynamic riddles without answers. Read for free/buy in print.
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