pop art by Fabio Sassi
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pop art by Fabio Sassi
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Issue #17: Five Years of Pop Culture Poems with No Spoilers!
Poetry
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CHASE DIMOCK
When I Was A Child I Wanted To Be Alex Trebek |
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miss macross
Amuro Attends A Mitski Show On A Spring Night In Pittsburgh |
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SARAH NICHOLS
We All Deserve Our Memories: Delores These Violent Delights Darling (Maeve) after Westworld |
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JOHN PAUL MARTINEZ
BOJACK SAYS THE SECRET TO BEING HAPPY IS TO PRETEND THAT YOU ARE AND EVENTUALLY YOU’LL FORGET YOU’RE PRETENDING CUDDLYWHISKERS SAYS ONLY AFTER YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING CAN YOU BEGIN TO FIND A WAY TO BE HAPPY |
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KIMBERLY RAMOS
Portrait of a Tinder User |
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MAX PASAKORN
Self-Portrait as Jonathan Van Ness |
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JULIA GASKILL
a suite of poems about the podcast The Adventure Zone i’m sorry i made you wait. a psalm for sloane from hurley. a pledge to hurley from sloane. a prayer to the McElroy brothers. |
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BRENDAN GILLETT
I Can't Draw So I Describe My Spidersonas |
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MIA S. WILLIS
the first rule (for nathan). |
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SEAN GLATCH
Ode to the Demogorgon from Stranger Things |
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WESTON RICHEY
Land Ho! |
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VALIN PAIGE
It’s Better to Burn Out Than Fade Away Pints of Guinness Make You Strong & Other Lies Things |
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TIM LYNCH
Penry the Mild-Mannered Janitor Reflects on a Calm, New Life Cleaning a Bakery |
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TINA ZAFREEN ALAM
Suite For J Dilla 1. elegy for the next version of fantastic that you might have made 2. & i will always try to listen 3. 12 years & i still can’t shake you 4. fill the [ ] 5. & who will honour you right – the roots |
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ANDY WINTER
Self Portrait As Rainbow Road |
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CHELSEA BODNAR
Always the caretaker, never the bride (from The Shining, 1980) Team Jacob (from Twilight, 2008) Private rituals, private friends, private anxieties (from Hereditary, 2018) |
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DORIS RUBIO
questions for henry rollins' unibrow |
KING UNDER THE MOUNTAIN by Hannah Mitchell
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MORTICIA ADDAMS by Nick Dunkenstein
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JACK by Choong Yoon Lee
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SPECIAL COMIC BOOK FEATURE: MONITOR!
From the desk of writer Damian Wampler:
"Monitor is about a future where everyone has monitors implanted in them from birth. Disconnecting from the network is a capital offense, and the police hunt down 'disconnects' and eliminate them. But when one lonely cop is unplugged from the system by a mysterious woman, he finds himself on the run from the very unit he used to work for.
Our artist is Elisabeth Mkheidze from the Republic of Georgia. Our main colorist is Łukasz Juśkiewicz from Poland. Letters are by Sal Cipriano from the United States. "
From the desk of writer Damian Wampler:
"Monitor is about a future where everyone has monitors implanted in them from birth. Disconnecting from the network is a capital offense, and the police hunt down 'disconnects' and eliminate them. But when one lonely cop is unplugged from the system by a mysterious woman, he finds himself on the run from the very unit he used to work for.
Our artist is Elisabeth Mkheidze from the Republic of Georgia. Our main colorist is Łukasz Juśkiewicz from Poland. Letters are by Sal Cipriano from the United States. "
AND: HARVEY BALL by YRIK-MAX VALENTONIS!
Yrik-Max Valentonis is a writer and cartoonist. His comics and writings have appeared in magazines, e-zines, radio broadcasts, art exhibitions: artiCHOKE, Cliterature, Experimental-Experimental-Literature, Folio 94, Poetry of the People, Re:Verse, Say... Was That a Kiss?, and Taverner’s Koans, the chapbooks: iDEAL and this is visual poetry; the anthologies: Animal Blessings, Divided Again, Sinbad and the Winds of Destiny, and Zombie Nation: St. Pete. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida (BA) and Naropa University (MFA).
Yrik-Max Valentonis is a writer and cartoonist. His comics and writings have appeared in magazines, e-zines, radio broadcasts, art exhibitions: artiCHOKE, Cliterature, Experimental-Experimental-Literature, Folio 94, Poetry of the People, Re:Verse, Say... Was That a Kiss?, and Taverner’s Koans, the chapbooks: iDEAL and this is visual poetry; the anthologies: Animal Blessings, Divided Again, Sinbad and the Winds of Destiny, and Zombie Nation: St. Pete. He is a graduate of the University of South Florida (BA) and Naropa University (MFA).