20200423

Issue fifty-seven Date of Publication May 1, 2020.
Individual pieces Copyright © 2020 by their respective creators

Editor: Mark Young

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This issue of Otoliths is dedicated
to the memory of
Peter Ganick, poet, publisher, & piano teacher.



Mason McClay
A Field's Motility, 1 – 3

Michael Ruby
from VISIONS

Brandstifter & Texas Fontanella
"it would be enough, the image."

Sanjeev Sethi
Five Poems

bofa xesjum
benny and his neighbors

Dylan Williams
an untitled poem

Andrew Topel
from a framework series

Jim Meirose
In Memory of Ron Scamp, Journeyman Carpenter

bart plantenga
The Long March + The Useful Useless Visual Poetic Upheaval: 3 Examples

Willie Smith
A short prose piece & a poem

J. D. Nelson
Seven Poems

David Matthews
Two Poems

Demosthenes Agrafiotis
"Cracking Poem"

Tom Montag
Five Poems after Han-Shan
Five Poems after the Chinese Masters

Ed Higgins
barricades / barracuda

Olivier Schopfer
Abstract
Abstract (cont'd)

Clara B. Jones
Two Poems

Christian ALLE
Eight Works on French scratch lottery tickets

Lynn Strongin
from THE LAKE'S UNREADABLE EYE

David Harrison Horton & Hidesaburo Saito
ON + TO

Daniel de Culla
Eight Visuals

J. Crouse
Apostle Apolo

John M. Bennett, Diane Keys, & Jim Leftwich
Six Pieces of Vispo

Jim Leftwich
Photos
Poems

Jim Leftwich & John M. Bennett
Five Pieces of Vispo

Matthew Stolte, John M. Bennett, & Jim Leftwich
Five Pieces of Vispo

Pete Spence
Four Poems

Mike Callaghan
behavorial contagion

Jack Galmitz
Five Poems

Guy R. Beining
Two Sequences

Rich Murphy
Two Poems

Robert van Vliet
Four Poems

Cecelia Chapman
Bleeding Between the Lines

Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah
from The Joy of Safety + Four Paintings

Adam Fieled
Two Ballads

John Levy
Five Poems

Alexander Jorgensen
Archimedes Eureka

Stacey Allam & John M. Bennett
Four Poems

John M. Bennett
Four Pieces of Vispo
Five Poems

Xe M. Sánchez
Three Poems In & From the Asturian

Joann Renee Boswell
Hinterland Collective

Texas Fontanella & Jim Leftwich
Six Visual Pieces

Anna Cates
Old Faithful

Isabel Gómez de Diego
Five Photographs


dan raphael
Five Poems

Elaine Woo
Four Visuals

DAH
Three Poems

Thomas Fink
GAMBLER'S VERTIGO

Michael Grotsky
Doctor End, I Presume?

Januário Esteves
CATHEDRAL

Seth A. Howard
Five Poems

Linda King
Three Poems

R. Keith
Honeydew

hiromi suzuki
un chocolat chaud

Joanna Walkden Harris & Pete Spence
Three Poems

Scott Helmes & Andrew Topel
Six Haiku

Joseph Salvatore Aversano
Selected Verses from The Gospel of Longeinos

Randee Silv & Miriam Bloom
Two Stills / Two Wordslabs

Joel Ephraims
Two Poems

Richard Kostelanetz
from Quadrigons

Carol Stetser
The Present Past

Kristin Garth
Man With Beak

Sean Negus & Amelia Dale
from an untitled sequence

Barry Allen & Nika
Three Haiga

Stuart Wheatley & Texas Fontanella
Three Visual Pieces

Kenneth Rexroth
Four Columns from the San Francisco Examiner of 1965
Four More Columns from the San Francisco Examiner of 1965

Lila Dunlap
Two Sets of Variations

John Sweet
an epilogue

Kim Trainor
from Seeds

H. Mark Webster
Mensa devouring her young

Eric Hoffman
Lustres: 77 poems

Tony Beyer
Five Poems

Jeff Bagato
Ten Pieces of Visual Poetry
Sparkle Plenty (12x12)

Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
Seven Visuals

Keith Higginbotham
Four Poems

Bill Wolak
Seven Collages

M.J. Iuppa
Two one hundred word stories

Barnaby Smith
Two Visuals

Karl Kempton
A Typoglif
weaver: discourse 8

Jonathan Minton
Five Poems from LETTERS

John McCluskey
Maple

Simon Perchik
Three Poems

Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo
Two Visual Pieces

Tim Gaze
accidental glitches of pages from Glyphs of Uncertain Meaning

Charles J. March III
Altruistically Inspired Panhandling Art Project

Anna Hedenrud
euneuneu

Kelly Sauvage Angel
Eight Asemic Pieces

Elmedin Kadric
Three Visual Pieces

Kell Nelson
Two Visuals

John C. Goodman
Three Poems


gobscure
from some languages ov lunacy

Jim Leftwich
HigHligHt aNd dElEtE

Keith Nunes
Three Visuals

Bob Heman
from INFORMATION + Fleeing the Large Future

Jen Schneider
Five Text Pieces

Tom Beckett
My Aspects

Michael O'Brien
the eggs and ants of helsinki

Robert Beveridge
SUBQUERY

Judith Skillman
Four Paintings

Hrishikesh Srinivas
Two Poems

Dave Read
Pages from an Asemic Journal

Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal
Wooden Leg

C. Mehrl Bennett, Brandstifter, & John M. Bennett
Nine Pieces of Vispo

Piet Nieuwland
Three Poems

Penelope Weiss
Two Poems

Nathan Anderson
Two Poems

billy cancel
HOT RAIN HARD TOWN 1 to 3

Taofeek Ayeyemi
from AUDACITY OF THE MYSTICS

Paul Pfleuger, Jr.
Twelve Poems

Alberto Vitacchio & Carla Bertola
BREACHES
BREACHES (cont'd)

Ric Carfagna
from Symphony No. 13

Gareth Morgan
Two Poems

Texas Fontanella & John M. Bennett
Six Pieces of Vispo

Valery Oisteanu
Three Poems

Kristian Patruno
Días de muertos

Francesco Aprile
words. grassland

Kyle Hemmings
Four Visuals

Katrinka Moore
Three Visual Pieces

Marilyn Stablein
Acquired Calamities

RC deWinter
three squares

Mark Danowsky
Seven Short Poems

Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Mother Nature v. idealized machines

Michael Brandonisio
Two Visuals & Two Short Prose Pieces

Eileen R. Tabios
TINY STICKERS: A COVID-19 AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Chris Brown
Six Poems

Marcia Arrieta
Five Collages, Seven Poems

Joshua Wilkerson
Three Poems

Bruno Neiva
Dough

Edward Kulemin
from Circulation

Paul Rossiter
Local Ingredients

J.D. Rage
Three Poems and an Accompanying Drawing

Tim Wright
Three Relics

Marilyn R. Rosenberg
An Asemic Week
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
ASEMIC DECEMBER 2019



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Otoliths would like to acknowledge the Juru People who are the traditional custodians of the land where this journal is prepared.