Arnzen News

Some bits and bites of news... The new dark poetry webzine, Spiderwords, has posted a fantastic review of my Fairwood Press chapbook, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems. Reviewer Geoffrey Goodwin writes: In eleven lines or less, no line greater than eight words, Arnzen has created bite-sized bits of insistent terror...these poems are definitive and powerful as sexy as surgery. Bound by the little rules that shaped his dark vision, like Picasso embracing the constraints of the Blue Period or Cubism, these poems are stronger for their little glimpses into Arnzen's febrile imagination. Spiderwords is also running a fun contest for an essay…

Here's the just-released cover graphic for Poe's Lighthouse -- a collection of "collaborations" between modern day writers and Edgar Allan Poe! This book should be released within the next month; it's a limited edition, so it's likely to sell out. If you find that you can't get it directly from CD Books, try Shocklines.com. My contribution, "The Dead Lantern," expands on Poe's unfinished fragment, "The Lighthouse." And there are too many other great writers inside the book to mention here. Read more on The Goreletter, or head right over to Cemetery Dance Books. For more on the cover artist, visit…

A handful of new poems appear in the latest issue of the UK litzine, SPOKES. Of note are the great illustrations throughout the magazine by Deena Warner. I also just heard that the next issue (#4) of the dark poetry journal, POE LITTLE THING, is almost ready to be delivered to subscribers. I've got a poem in there called "The Goth Birthday Clown." If you buy a copy of my zombie chapbook, RIGORMAROLE, direct from the publisher (for $9.95 + s/h) you can still nab a free subscription to PLT as a bonus. Order it at the NSP bookstore.

I'm happy to announce that Jim Minton Design Studio is coordinating "Exquisite Corpse" -- a collaborative compilation of short-short films and animations based on my poetry and flash fiction. International contributors lined up for the project so far include the directors Jim Minton (USA), Jeff Pomeroy (USA), and Lucas Tripodi (Chile) -- other talents from Italy and Israel may also contribute. The film is in the early stages of production, but the project looks very exciting. Above you can see a sample production sketch for Minton's adaptation of my poem, "The Scab" (this poem first appeared in my book, Freakcidents).…