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Outlaws At the Treffpunkt: the 5-2 Crime Poetry Weekly

In co-celebration of National Poetry Month with my friends at The 5-2: Crime Poetry Weekly, I'd like to take a moment to put the spotlight on a writer I am becoming fond of lately. His name is Angel Zapata. He doesn't know I'm doing this. And I don't know Angel at all. I only know him from a few pieces of writing I've seen online. And I think he's doing really interesting work. Angel Zapata strikes me as one of those guys who is writing for the love it. From my review of his website, I can tell that he…
April 4, 2013Posted inWeblog Exclusive1 Comment
Posted inArnzen News Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems

National Poetry Writing Month 2013

[NOTE: The entries containing poems originally appearing on the calendar below were lost during a blog software update... I may be able to recover them at a later time.] I've signed up over at NaPoWriMo.net, committing to try to write and post a new poem every day throughout April for "National Poetry Writing Month". My plan is to mix things up regularly: to post twitter poems, full-length gorelets, some audio recordings, videos, word art, and more Fridge of the Damned magnet poetry pieces. Return to this calendar page for all this, which I'm posting off the main blog to avoid…
April 1, 2013Posted inArnzen News, Gorelets: Unpleasant Poems1 Comment
Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

Goldfisher

borrowing from Bond he brings home the bloated baggie and scoops out blissful killifish, dropping one after the other into his plastic aquarium: the translucent bucket of gold paint these goldfish never swim, and his net is clotted from skimming them back out so often, but he knows he will find the right species eventually -- there are tens of thousands and if he knows his evolution, then only the fittest will survive
March 9, 2013Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
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The Fridge of the Damned Gallery

The Fridge of the Damned is currently landing in backer mailboxes everywhere, and people are having a blast with the weird horror poetry magnets, and sharing their photos online. If you're one of them, I invite you to email me a shot or post a link to one to contribute a photo to the Fridge of the Damned gallery on Flickr. People are also sharing shots on twitter with hashtag #TFOTD. I love what I've seen so far! The Fridge of the Damned is now offered for sale for $12 each by Raw Dog Screaming Press, while supplies last.
March 8, 2013Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Announcing Mastication Publications

I'm pleased to formally announce the resurrection of my old indie press imprint, Mastication Publications! While we've existed since 1991, and printed a number of chapbooks and ephemera over the past twenty years, this really marks a new phase in the press' development, as we will be more aggressively entering the ebook market and developing new projects. Our tagline is "Unusual Ideas to Chew On". Here's a snippet from the mission statement on our "About Us" page which elaborates: We see this press as more of a creative laboratory than some vain enterprise in self-publishing. It is a venue for…
January 10, 2013Posted inArnzen News