Introduction

Hello and welcome to the Springish issue of BlazeVOX 12. I do want to apologize for the lateness in putting together this issue of the journal, we had a bit of a thing with the National Endowment for the Arts, that is now, thankfully, favorably resolved. So hurray! To find out more about this here is a link to a recent Huffington Post interview: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anis-shivani/blazevox-nea-ban_b_1374042.html

It is my great pleasure to be able to continue on, get back to work and publish fine works such as is represented in this sunny issue, hurray!

Presented here is a world-class issue of BlazeVOX12 featuring poetry, art, fiction, and an arresting work of creative non-fiction, written by authors from around globe. We are introducing a new section in the journal, Book Previews, which as the name describes it is a brief look at some of our new book titles. You will find work from Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Clayton Eshleman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Ted Greenwald, Tom Clark and many others. This is truly a special issue of BlazeVOX. And if you are so moved, please take a tour of our online bookshop. We have 300 titles of weird little books available for sale. So hurray, now get reading! 

Best, Geoffrey

Geoffrey Gatza
Editor  &  Publisher
BlazeVOX [books]
editor@blazevox.org

BlazeVOX12 – Springish 12

Table of Contents 

Poetry

• Amy Whatever
• Andrew Hamilton
• Andrew Kuo
• Austen Roye
• Autumn McClintock
  
• Billy Cancel
  
• C Marie Runyan
  
• Carlo Matos
  
• Christopher Brownsword
• Chuck Richardson
  
• Damian Ward Hey
• Daniel Y Harris
• Dayna Patterson
• Don Cozzette
• Elena Botts
  
• Felino A. Soriano
• Gareth Lee
  
• Jacob Reber
• Jason Stocks
• John Miatech
  
• Juliana M Sartor
  
• Kate Weinberg
• Katherine Arsenault
• Lauren Rebecca Gay
• Luca Penne
• Marisa Malone
• Mark Cunningham
• Matthew Dennis
• Nicholas Alexander Hayes
• Patrick Chapman
  
• Peter Burghardt
• Philip Lewis
  
• Ryan Hilary
• Ryan Stechler
• Sarah Levine
• Sarah Lilius
  
• Scott Abels
• Simon Perchik
  
• Tess Joyce
• Tom Bridger
  
• Vernon Frazer
• William L. Alton
• henry 7 reneau, jr

Fiction

Material Support Hose
Brent Holt

The Sucsas
Bruno Casanova

Spring Snow
Celia Laskey

Me My Motorcycle and a Brick of Coke
C. Davis Fogg

Myra’s Last Dumpster Dive
Riya Aarini

What You Want
Penelope L Mace

Thank Heaven
Juliana Grace

Creative Nonfiction

Ivan de Monbrison (art)

Acta Biographia

Selections from our new and forthcoming BlazeVOX

A N A N A T O M Y O F T H E N I G H T by Clayton Eshleman

Comma Fork / Moving Parts by Ted Greenwald

“now, 1/3” and thepoem by Demosthenes Agrafiotis
Translated by John Sakkis and Angelos Sakkis

Distance by Tom Clark

Transcendental Telemarketer by Beth Copeland

Mylar by Eric Wertheimer

Circles Matter by Brian Lucas

to go without blinking by Aimee Herman

Field Work: Notes, Songs, Poems 1997-2010 by David Hadbawnik

Continental Drifts by Cheryl Pallant

Selected Prose of Bobbie Louise Hawkins Edited by Barbara Henning