Issue forty-nine Date of Publication May 1, 2018.
Individual pieces Copyright © 2018 by their respective creators

Editor: Mark Young

This issue of Otoliths is dedicated to the memory of Jill Chan, Spencer Selby, & Philip Byron Oakes, all regular contributors, & who will all be deeply missed.

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Mercedes Webb-Pullman Three Poems Lauren O'Connor An interview with Louise Landes Levi Aditya Shankar Two Centos Simon Perchik Two Poems tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE Butt Poem #001, for Karen Lillis Dawn Nelson Wardrope Eight Visual Pieces Kyle Hemmings pages from A Nuclear Fallout Shelter Primer George Messo Visual Translations of Some Poems by Asaf Halet Çelebi Sanjeev Sethi Three Poems R. Keith 3825 Joseph Cooper Ghost Sonnets 20 & 21 Mary Cresswell LUNAR ECLIPSE Drew B. David Four Pieces of Vispo Jim Leftwich Expositions & Commentaries John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich Fourteen Visual Poems Jim Leftwich & Steve Dalachinsky Eight Poems Lynn Strongin Two Poems Daniel de Culla CRAZY JOKER MOTHERFUCKER Seth Howard Four Poems David Lohrey What It Means to Be Human Rose Knapp Four Poems Philip Byron Oakes Three Poems Darren C. Demaree Three Poems Francesco Levato from Arsenal/Sin Documentos Holly Friedlander Liddicoat The Ministry of Immigrant Absorption Kathleen Reichelt & Randee Silv Responding to Farnessity Olivier Schopfer Trees Willie Smith Two Prose Pieces John M. Bennett Ten Text Poems Five Visual Poems John M. Bennett & Thomas M. Cassidy Seven Visual Poems Steve Dalachinsky Two Poems Carol Stetser & Andrew Topel Echoes Michael Thomas Nelmida Filipino translations of Hay(na)ku by Eileen R. Tabios Dah Two Poems Pete Spence Three Poems Jasmine Nihmey-Vasdi Breakfast J. Crouse Said in the Preface to the First Edition Heath Brougher Four Poems

Clara B. Jones Love Sonnet fátima queiroz Five Pieces of Typewriter Poetry Andrew Hale Three Poems Penelope Weiss Two Poems Adriána Kóbor from As Well As The Mirror József Bíró from As Well As The Mirror M.J. Iuppa Three Short Prose Pieces Linda King Two Poems Alyson Torns Three Visuals J. Ray Paradiso from 4th Church Suite Sheila E. Murphy & Douglas Barbour Continuations CVIII: & CIX: hiromi suzuki joyeux l'oiseau AG Davis On Despair Márton Koppány Angel — for Peter O'Leary Francine Witte When I'm Done Andrew Topel marks Jeff Bagato The World According to Gonch Joe Balaz Three Poems & A Visual Izzy Oneiric from Bibliomantic Poetica Daniel f. Bradley from P.w.a.t.h. Jesse Glass Four Visuals Jeff Harrison Eleven Poems Karl Kempton Discourses 7-14 Discourses 15-21 Richard Kostelanetz Four Quadrigraphs Eileen R. Tabios COMMUNITY OF VOWELS Scott MacLeod & Texas Fontanella Stop Every Tragedy Except This One Panels 1-12 Panels 13-24 Panels 25-36 Cecelia Chapman Post-Postcard john sweet Two Poems Lakey Comess Three Poems Michael Mc Aloran from nowhereon: Section III Tony Beyer Two Poems Sudhanshu Chopra Tautology Bruno Neiva Coverage Sites Jon Cone Poems Joseph V. Milford Five Poems from After The Mermaids Have Gone, Vol. 1 Mark DuCharme Three Poems Raymond Farr Two Poems Five More Poems Keith Polette A Photograph Matthew Jenkins bots

David Baptiste Chirot Eight rubBEings, mainly Asemic Three DEATH FROM THIS WINDOW & Five Other Visuals HEADS, FACES gobscure five visuals Sabine Miller & Richard Gilbert from Poetry as Consciousness John Levy Two Poems Tom Montag Three Poems Natsuko Hirata Rainy bamboo garden Linc Madison Seven Days Make A Week Pat Geyer Faces in the Forest Eduardo Padilla, trans. by Anne Gorrick from Hotel Hastings Joseph Salvatore Aversano Four Poems Keith Nunes Three Visuals & A Poem Bob Heman from INFORMATION Simon Brown USES OF MOUTH (NEW AND OLD) Jack Galmitz Five Visuals Pat Nolan Eight Poems Marcia Arrieta Four Collages & Seven Poems Jack Kelly contradict Strategy Cake Johannes S H. Bjerg Eleven Pieces of Vispo M; Margo Four Visual Poems Carla Bertola Six Visual Pieces F. J. Bergmann Five Poems Ruggero Maggi Diptych Michael Gould Four Visual Pieces Robert Ford Two Poems Carolina Skibinski Two Poems Alberto Vitacchio Eight Visual Pieces Tim Wright on garnet and tinning Michael Brandonisio Three Visuals essa may ranapiri Three Poems Thom Sullivan ‘Diesel & Dust’ homestead [a landscape] Brendan Slater Three Visuals with incorporated text Madeline McGovern LEAVING/FINDING/DREAMING/HAUNTING Ken Bolton Two Poems Paul T. Lambert Seven Visuals J. D. Nelson Two Poems Shloka Shankar Five Visuals Gavin Yates Gessamine John Pursch Four Poems Matthew Hall Brno Marilyn Stablein Correspondences

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