“peut-être le Messie” by Márton Koppány is now out from Otoliths at Lulu.

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Márton Koppány notes in his introduction: “Lately I’ve been playing with putting together pieces from distant periods. Some recurring topics are: question marks, clouds, ellipses. They overlap, but ellipses outnumber everything else. Any triad can be considered an ellipsis, and occasionally different (or seemingly different) numbers like 1, 2 and 4 serve the same idea even better, because they are elliptical only elliptically.” His ellipses take many forms — buttons, stones, letters, fish, et al —though I profess my favorite among his ellipses is actually invisible. Perched at the intersection of the dado rail that runs along two of the walls of the room I am writing this in, there is a signed postcard-sized print of a singular piece of vispo, a lounge chair with only one leg but still remaining perfectly upright.  It is called Ellipsis No. 5, & is, coincidentally, the first piece in “peut-être le Messie.” “Perhaps the Messiah” is a wide-ranging title, an ellipsis incorporating the millennia between the canonical gospel of St. Luke & the work of Isidore Isou, a Romanian-born French poet, founder of Lettrisme, author of L’Agrégation d’un nom et d’un messie. Márton Koppány’s book is also wide-ranging — perhaps not temporally, but rather attitudinally. I have previously remarked on the “. . . humor, minimalism, satire, genius, art, politics, its multi-faceted et ceteras” of Koppány’s work. This selection of his ellipses evidences every one of those individual characteristics as well as the incredible gestalt when they are combined.

– Mark Young; poet, artist, editor.

Utriculi Submissions Open June 1st

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Utriculi will be open for submissions on June 1 and currently it will be published yearly with new works of textual poetry, vispo, short fiction, flash fiction, essays, reviews, photographic art, and art. We welcome all forms of experimental literature and art that push boundaries. We welcome submissions from artists and poets of all backgrounds and identities. Please click on the Utriculi Submissions link for the guidelines. If you sent a submission on June 1st and have not received a response by now please resubmit. The email address on June 1st was not correct. Please submit to sandypress2021@gmail.com

 

Eileen R. Tabios – Three soundscape poems from The Engkanto’s Diary

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Eileen R. Tabios – Three soundscape poems from The Engkanto’s Diary 

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#72

 

#72

Tell me more of the unending radiance

your eyes discovered when pressed

 

against the hole into a honeycomb.

Say turquoise. Say my uncut hair

 

coiling around your eyes. Say berry.

Say your finger circled hard around

 

my toe. Tell me more of the unending

radiance erupting when eyes pressed

 

against honeyed wombs.  Say my name.

You don’t know my name?  Make it

 

up. Then say my name.  Tell me more

of the unending radiance of honeyed eyes.