Issue seventy Date of Publication August 1, 2023.
Individual pieces Copyright © 2023 by their respective creators.

Editor: Mark Young


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Satu Kaikkonen Nine Pieces of Vispo + A Text Poem Martin Edmond Winter Journey Scott MacLeod Three Poems Confederate Monuments Ian Ganassi Five Poems Stephen Bett Three Poems from Song Bu®st Eric Hoffman The Song of the Suffering Servant R L Swihart Two "Poems" S. K. Kelen Five Poems Demosthenes Agrafiotis della notte / of the night fiamma di candela/candle flame + Casa Delle Parole Jack Galmitz Six Poems & Three Paintings Bob Kotyk Two Poems Jon Wesick Not Even Marzi Margo Two Visual Pieces Daniel Lehan from the KODAK Series Vernon Frazer Two Poems Four More Poems Thomas M. McDade Four Poems Jennifer Weigel Three Photographs Giovanni Fontana Three Visual Poems Carlyle Baker Four GIFs Laurie Kuntz Five Poems Lynn Strongin Seven Poems Sanjeev Sethi Four Poems Christopher Barnes Fragments 35 to 40 Ferran Destemple A portrait of the artist as a young man Vaishnavi Kolluru come to me, boy Brandstifter, C. Mehrl Bennett, & John M. Bennett Fourteen Pieces of Vispo Marc Isaac Potter William's Pizza Texas Fontanella Seventeen Pieces of Vispo John Bradley Six Prose Poems Laura Jeannerette Sensitive Fish Heath Brougher Five Poems Nate Logan Three Poems Paul Perilli WORDS OF THE DAY Joseph Buehler Pennsylvania Girl Mike Callaghan to do or say, hand-to-hand combat Benjamin Bennett-Carpenter Three Poems Paul Dickey Four Poems Yuan Changming Emotional Curiosity Grzegorz Wróblewski Earth Research, Plates 24 to 34 Christian ALLE Six Visual Pieces Bill Yarrow Four Comic Panels Jim Leftwich Poems More Poems Dale Jensen Four Poems Judith Roitman Five Poems Richard Kostelanetz from The Quincunx Aphorisms Laurent Grison The Fall Maileen Hamto A Review of Eileen R. Tabios' Because I love you, I become war Sabine Miller Five Poems Alison Ross Three Poems Javant Biarujia E LA COLORATURA ED IL CHIAROSCURO Carla Bertola Fifteen Pieces of Vispo Alberto Vitacchio Elaborazioni su un'opera specifica di Carla Bertola Nathan Anderson Five Poems Ken Poyner Five Drabbles Jim Meirose I Want to Go Pasture in the Sleeping-House Márton Koppány The Open Picture + Post-Visuals + FISH Tom Formaro Two Poems John M. Bennett Twelve Pieces of Vispo Patrick Sweeney Some Short Form Poems Pamela Miller Ghost Stories petro c. k. Five Photographs, Five Poems Karen J. Weyant A Review of Neil Flory's mudtrumbones knotted in the spill C. Mehrl Bennett Arse Doset I to VIII m@ Eleven poems Kirsty Lewin Arrival Hrishikesh Srinivas Three Poems József Bíró well Daniel Barbiero Writing the Invisible Rus Khomutoff Visual Poem Pat Nolan Eleven Prose Poems Kimberly Kuchar Four Photos, Two Micropoems Randee Silv Four Wordslabs

DS Maolalai Three Poems Michael J. Leach Uamh Bhin, or The Melodious Cave Mark Cunningham Five (owl) Poems Dmitriy Shandra The Eyes in the Sky Kept Buzzing Carol Stetser An Art History Mash-up Sterling Warner Three Poems Texas Fontanella & Michael Orr blckout 1 to 6 David Wolf Fourmi Dave Read Twelve Pieces of Asemic Writing Sheila E. Murphy Two Poems Sheila E. Murphy & K.S. Ernst Three Poems Tony Beyer Two Poems harry k stammer Four Poems John M. Bennett TESTAMENTO TESTARUDO TESTAMENTO TESTARUDO (cont'd) Tom Beckett NOTES TO SELF Rosella Quintini VOCALIZZI E PAUSE SU ROSSO DI SERA Michael Gottlieb Selections from Collected Memoirs from THE COLORAMA, 50s – 60s from THE EMPIRE CITY, 70s – 80s from THE LIFE WE HAVE CHOSEN, 90s – 2000s Karl Kempton portraiture: oceano dunes to tide line part seven: blinks blinks (cont'd) Joshua Martin Four Poems Cecelia Chapman Four Videos Shinzo Co-Star Mark DuCharme Eight Poems Réka Nyitrai Three Poems jim mccrary Comments on lines from Leslie Scalapino Doren Robbins Ten Visual Pieces Three Prose Pieces Philip Kobylarz Three poems George Myers Jr. I Still Remember Joe Collage & Literature: Re-Membering the Pieces Adam Fieled from Equations: #37 Hugh Tribbey Three Poems Alan Chong Lau Four Poems Jacklyn Henry Four Poems Harrison Fisher Feels of Dissolving Fact Kenneth Rexroth Six Columns from the San Francisco Magazine Five More Columns from the San Francisco Magazine Another Five Columns from the San Francisco Magazine Thomas Fink Two Poems Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal Three Desk Calendar Drawings & Two Poems Ed Go Four Poems Pete Spence Four Poems Adriána Kóbor from Cléverre Jerome Berglund Three Poems Roberta Beach Jacobson Five Short-form Poems & A Visual Scott MacLeod Asemic Quintrains Joseph Salvatore Aversano Nine Poems Jeff Harrison Two Poems Stephen Nelson Eight Pieces of Vispo + Four Journal Poems Joe Balaz One Visual & Two Poems Bob Heman Two Collages INFORMATION Bob Lucky Seven Poems Liz Teuber Riddle for the Age John McCluskey An excerpt from A Moment of Fireflies Gavin Lucky Four Prose Poems Elaine Woo It’s All in the Vibes: Hate is Blind. Rahul Santhanam Six Narrow Poems Debbie Strange Six Visual Pieces Steve Carll Three Poems Diana Magallón Three Visual Pieces Opal Louis Nations & Peter Cherches Three Poems KJ Hannah Greenberg Two Visual Pieces Susan Gangel 5 Reasons to Stay Jeff Bagato Ten Poems New Brain Imprint Nathan Whiting HERE AND THERE Guy R. Beining Two Visuals with Text Series Javant Biarujia Poems & Other Things Tim Frank Two Pieces of Flash Fiction John Levy & Alan Chong Lau the music of the street Linda King Three Poems J.I. Kleinberg Five Collage Poems Ella O'Keefe & Tim Wright Anagrams Old & New Jurate Sasnaitis the fork Hifsa Ashraf and R.C. Thomas Seven Tan-Renga

Harvey Huddleston Learning to Tell Time with Elvis Glenn Ingersoll Five Poems David A. Bishop Shower Glitches dan raphael Three Poems Dennis Andrew S. Aguinaldo Seven Visual Pieces Karl Kempton Two Reviews Jonathan Cant Three Poems Pam Brown Two Poems Penelope Weiss Two Poems & a Photograph Bernie Earley Three Poems Keith Nunes Doors of Perception, 1 to 5, + Thusly Anne-Marie Jeanjean Two for Carla Bertola Eddie Heaton Two Poems Robert Burton Four Poems Alan Catlin from Memories John Kucera Three Poems Steven Salmoni from Kos Jessica Grim Five Poems Rick Henry Traces Cherie Hunter Day Five Collages Pete Smith Fourteen Poems Tony Cosentino and K.S. Ernst Bear Code 2 K.S. Ernst Three Pieces of Vispo Charles Freeland Four Poems The Modigliani is on Loan Tejaswinee Roychowdhury Hollow + Self-Preservation Jane Downing Three Poems David Jalajel SONNETS, QASIDAS, ETC… Antonio Devicienti Two Asemic Visuals Eileen R. Tabios Momentum's Profile Damon Hubbs Five poems Eric Lunde Somnium John Tustin Three Poems Robert Frede Kenter Four Pieces of Vispo, Four Poems Keith Higginbotham Five Poems John Digby & Bill Wolak Eight Collages Bill Wolak Eight Collages berni m janssen Two Poems Jill Jones Six Poems Barnaby Smith A Poem & a Collage Marty Hiatt Two Poems Peter Yovu Seven Prose Poems Mark DeCarteret ear bone Mark DeCarteret & Wayne Atherton Two Collaborations Bruno Neiva Seven Visual Pieces Susan Connolly The Year in Ireland Irmak Canevi I AM NEW Irena Tall Four Drawings Michael Vecchio faucetry John Levy Four Poems Tatiana Novikova from Systems and Nets Caitlyn Steer Five Poems Edward Kulemin Rudimentary poetry Olchar E. Lindsann Nine Poems from Arthur Dies, Second Chronicle, Book 1 Matthew Platakos Two Poems Jessica Dejanovic Two Poems Colleen Woods Four Poems Sarah Legow Two Visuals, A Sculpture, & a Poem Bobbi Lurie Five Poems Rico Cleffi Two Collages, Four Poems Linda M. Walker Five Poems Pearl Button Poem by Painting Kit Kennedy Five Poems J. D. Nelson Three Poems & Seven Monostichs Mark Melnicove Six Photographs nick nelson an incident fred flynn assault on k-28 Paul Pfleuger, Jr. Three Poems Cy Forrest Three Poems nicky melville MY homage Edinburgh Mews Opposites Tract: A Mews’ Bouche Language Event Volodymyr Bilyk from the cyberpunk poetry book Marcia Arrieta Five Poems, Five Visuals Makenzie Matthews-Beard Dear Diary Mark Young Un vers de Charles Trenet / A line from Charles Trenet

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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.

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