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ARTS & LETTERS zines.  Posted 26 March, 1993 by Jerod Pore.
Seth has lumped together all zines that deal with art, non-SF&F fiction
and review, collage zine, poetry zines not reviewed by Luigi and such like.
This file replaces/supercedes the art and lit files.

This file is part of FactSheet Five - Electric.  Questions or comments
regarding FactSheet Five - Electric should be directed to
[e-mail]


If you wish to send zines for review in both the electronic and print
versions of Factsheet Five, the snailmail address is:
Factsheet Five
PO Box 170099
San Francisco CA   94117-0099

Here's where we explain our format, courtesy of Seth's official
Factsheet Five data-entry software.  The %Title: section is, for the most
part, the same, although we've added the date of the zine when available.
%Descr: starts with a general review of the publication, indented thanks
to the joys of FoxPro(tm), then a review of the issue(s) in particular,
then, perhaps, a one or two line summary.  %Info: has the single issue and
subscription prices followed by a carriage return, the number of pages,
page size and the reviewer followed by a carriage return, then the
policies on trading, submissions, reviews, back-issues, age-statements,
ads and such.  This last section will still be somewhat error-prone as
we aren't always clear on these policies when we read a zine.

The paper sizes translate as follows:
S -  Standard, or 8.5 x 11 inches
D -  Digest, or standard folded in half
L -  Legal, or 8.5 x 14 inches
HL - Half Legal, you figure it out
HS - Half Standard, or long digest 4.25 x 11 inches
T -  Tabloid, usually 11 x 17 or thereabouts
B -  Broadsheet, about 14 x 17
O -  Oversized and way bigger than tabloid or broadsheet
M -  Mini, from digest cut in half to postage stamp sized
A4 - Metric Standard, about 21 x 30 centimeters
A5 - Metric Digest (don't have any handy to measure, and why does the
     number get bigger when the paper is getter smaller?)
A2 - Metric Tabloid

Your reviwers for this file are
JP   Jerod Pore ([e-mail])
LRH  L. Reiko Higa ([e-mail])
RSF  R. Seth Friedman

For those who may not know, The Usual means that you can get the zine in
trade for your own zine;  or a thoughtful letter of comment on the zine or
the subject of the zine;  or through the submission of an article or art
work;  or one to three bucks.  Obviously, if you haven't seen the zine, the
first or last options are the best.


First, reviews from the upcomming Issue #47 of F5:

%Title:  1-800 SUBWAYS 1993
%Descr:  Poems by Peter Spiro
Pete Spiro paints pictures of people, places, LIFE with words in short
cinematic sketches that stylistically remind me of Kerouac in subject matter
and tone. This chapbook has a great cover--a map of the subway system in New
York City (outside of Manhattan) showing the plethora of pitstops in the Big
Apple's other boroughs such as Queens and Brooklyn, where the real city
lives. Tough poetry slam.
%Info:    Each  to
Lazur Press, 105 Betty Rd.,  E. Meadow, NY 11554-1601
(23 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  AN HONEST HATE: Memoirs of the Plum Creek Evangelical Church '92
%Descr:  Incredible book of poetry from a man whose suicide may be
         attributed in part to the evangelic church.
Poet Nate Faulkner wrote these works between the late 60s and middle '70s
according to An Honest Hate's publisher's notes.  He committed suicide
Christmas eve, 1976.  "He made the fundamental epistemological error of
assuming Sunday School morality had a relationship to reality."
In a series of poems called "The Sinners & Saints," Faulkner wrote about
people he knew at the Plum Creek Evangelical Church in small-town Ohio.
Each poem is titled with real names. Reading these poems is a chilling
experience, for with poetry, poet Faulkner writes one of the most damning
indictments of the right-wing fundamentalist Christian movement in America.
Written long before Bush-era fundamentalist polemic, An Honest Hate
describes "Christians" trapped in loveless, lonely, brutal marriages; child
abusers, homophobia, a good samaritan nurse from his hometown who is killed
on duty in Vietnam and instances of intolerance that makes the church in
America such a frightening symbol of hate and hypocrisy.  Faulkner's poetry
is eloquent and stunning:  this church, his church is like a "cancer" and
everywhere he looks are the "butcher souls" of his compatriots in
Christianity.  Most morbid is the dedication:  to Rv. L.L.B...in hell."
Highly recommended.  You shouldn't live without this.
%Info:    Each  to
Dead Dog Press , ,  Warren, OH
(18 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  ART POLICE INT'L: Unsafe sex issue  Volume 19  Issue 3  Winter '93
%Descr:  Radical art zine emanating out of the Paris of the midwest,
         Minneapolis.
Humorous, biting, shocking, bombastic renderings of porn art, this so-called
"Unsafe Sex" issue contains a lot of graphically arresting and surreal
pictorial of unsafe sex acts executed with panache, originality and style.
>From cartoons with titles like "I Was A Jizz Bag for Hanna-Barbera," to
drawings of giant, penis-headed sirens with phalluses comitting intercouse
with other weird beings, Art Police International is a wonderful addition to
the subversive underground erotic art canon.  Publisher claims to be a
non-profit corp., meaning "donations" are tax exempt and go to the Church of
the Art Police c/o the Chapel of Unsold Paintings.
%Info:   $2.00 Each ,  Subs: $ 5.00 for 3 issues to
1611 Elliott Ave.,  Minneapolis, MN 55404-1621
(20 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  AURAL AUGASM: Scurreligious 13 Dec. '91
%Descr:  Outrageous oral, mental outpourings from artist G. Louden
         lampooning religion in this issue.
Cartoons (Matt Groening satires) parodies (Walt Dismay); games ("Trivia
Hell"), zine reviews, freeflowing, calligraphic, ghoulishly groovey
illustrations, poems, messages from Jesus Christ (as jaded rock star),
Bleeder's Digest, Pee-Wee Herman on the cross, a dissection of the theories
behind the Shroud of Turin, the Ten Suggestions (instead of the 10
Commandments), and the Ten Sexual Commandments, the Lad's Prayer and other
hilariously funny sendups of religious icons done with insane, hellfire &
brimstone anti-establishment fervor.
%Info:   $5.00 Each  to
G. Louden, Arrowville Rd. Aka Aka RD2, Waiuku S. Auckland,               New
Zeland
(36 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  BANANA STRANGLES VICTIM 1989
%Descr:  More poetry from the prolific Paul Weinman.
Cut and paste headlines interspersed with short poems on sex, love,
alienation and loneliness make us this chapbook of poems from Canadian poet
Paul Weinman.
%Info:    Each  to
Plowman Printing House, Box 414,  Whitby, ON L1N 5S4    Canada
(20 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  BEAUTIFUL & ENLIGHTENING VERSES: By Four Midwestern Guys Who Can't
%Descr:  Stand 97% of the People They Meet
         Uncompromising new poetry from the bowels of Oklahoma.
Searing, intense, uncompromising, hard-edged screeches of agony and poetry
by what has to be the best bunch of nom-de-plumes ever...Miriam Unmarried,
Kordo, Rachel and Wolfgang.  And now, the award for best title for a poetry
zine goes to "Beautiful & Enlightening Verses by Four Midwestern Guys Who
Can't Stand 97% of the People They Meet."  I enjoyed the poems by Miriam the
most..."rich people suck."
Highly recommended for discriminating poetry lovers everywhere (especially
those interested in what's going on in Oklahoma.
%Info:   $1.00 Each  to
Ryan Reid, P.O. Box 972, Michelle Lamont Alva, OK 73717
(12 Pages/S/LRH)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  BIG MONEY 1991
%Descr:  Personal poetry zine notable for its high alcohol content.
Angry, alienated poetic outbursts from an angry, thirty-something young man
of London, England.  References to Burroughs' Benway, and Kafka pepper the
dark prose-poetry of author David Crystal reminding one of the intense
energies, rawness and pus of Beat Generation scribe Jack Kerouac and LA's
own original, Charles Bukowski.  Through brief, bitter poems echoing and
evoking depressing streetcorner tableaux taking place in what one assumes is
the fog-bound city of Big Ben, Big Money offers high-octane, inflammatory
images that will most certainly, like the title of one of its pieces, have
you "clawing the walls at happy hour."
%Info:   $1.00/SASE Each  to
Dog-Eared Press, 99 Wallis Rd.,  London,    E9 5LN     England
(28 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  BLACK EYED PEAS  Issue 4
%Descr:  Another generic little homegrown
         literary-cum-collage-cutup-art zine, this time out of the
         middlest part of Middle America, Ohio.
Essays on the morality of killing animals such as deer, abortion,
white/black power and black poetry, by authors with punk names like Xiola
Blu, Ska-T, Nemisis, Jhon Ultraviolence and Jimbob.
%Info:    Each  to
Michelle V., 2102 CR 259,  Fremont, OH 43420
(24 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  CAFE NOIR EDITIONS: Not a Literary Review  Issue 1  1993
%Descr:  Debut issue of radical African-American anti-literary zine.
Think for yourself--no one else will is the brute manifesto which this
militant publication screams as it gives voice to unheard black Americans
everywhere.  The best, angriest, most articulate polemic I've read since
Soul on Ice (that's much too long to wait, brother), Cafe Noir slams hard
poetry, fiction and more addressing topix such as black post-modernism: the
prisonization of the black arts, an oath against Korean shop-owners, and
offering rants against nigger fuckheads (rappers whose work is viewed as
extensions of the white corporate power structure--i.e., Ice-T, Public
Enemy, Big Daddy Kane, et al), plus fragments from publisher Lewis' novel
"Shanghaied".  Violent, thermonuclear in its rage, bitterness and venom, yet
icy clear in its mission, message and conviction, Cafe Noir, because it is
so vitriolic, so hateful (Lewis' defiant compendium of uncompromising
African-American writing and art, scrawled and scabrous cartoons that attack
and insult other races while proscribing the rankest of bigoted conspiracy
theories), if I didn't know better, I might interpret this as the slickest
kind of right-wing anti-abortion fundamentalist neo-nazi propaganda....
Get this zine, read it, tell all your friends, it's the revolution coming,
brother.
%Info:   $3.00 Each  to
Philip Lewis, Cafe Noir Press, ,  Washington, DC
(51 Pages/HL/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  CHILDREN OF A FAR GREATER GOD: An appreciation of "Married with
%Descr:  Children"  Volume 1  Issue 1  Summ. '92
         Fanzine devoted to Fox TV's family situation comedy from
         hell "Married...with Children" produced by an Englishman.
An excellent harbinger of things to come if quality of writing, British
humor and sensibility and thoughtfulness are any indication.  Editor Miles
Wood has a thing for Christina Applegate ("Kelly" in "Married....with
Children"), the sexy blonde teenager in TV's dysfunctional but absolutely
loveable All-American Bundy family.  According to Miles, people in the UK
are either rabid MARRIED fans or haven't heard of it.  Among us MARRIED
cognoscenti here in the San Francisco Bay Area, it's about TIME someone put
out a zine on this very fine fine comedy about America's most upstanding
First Family.  Filled with gossip, stuff about Christina's appearance in
B-movie sleaze "Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead", news about the cast
members and the show, reviews of various episodes, a centerfold, an article
about the Married comic book series and an absolutely hysterical section
called "cutting remarks" featuring comments about Married by so-called
objective types.  All in all, an outstanding example of perfection in the
zine world!
Gotta have it for all you who think Al Bundy is the world's greatest hunk,
like I do.
%Info:   $3 Each  to
Miles Wood, 2nd Fl., 221 Ashmore Rd.,  Queens Pk.London,    W9 3DB     England
(19 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  CIGARETTES, LIPS, THESE FINGERTIPS 1993
%Descr:  Poetry, short fiction, illustrations from the
         ever-ubiquitous and prolific G. Marie Press
There seems to be an awful lot of stuff emanating from East Meadow, NY (at
least from what we can tell here at poetry central, F5).  This is a
self-described "literary anthology of the orally erotic." Features poems and
short fiction by all-too-familiar names such as Richard Swiss, Gina
Bergamino and a host of unfamiliar ones too, all dealing with oral fixations
and related activities such as drinking, kissing, smoking, you can imagine.
Favorite title:  The Dean of Dick.  Favorite poem:  The Smoker's Prayer.
%Info:    Each  to
G. Marie Press, P.O.Box 211,  E. Meadow, NY 11554
(51 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  DEADLINES 1993
%Descr:  Theme art/prose zine by Eileen Arnow of Farmingdale, NY.
>From the artist's promo lit: Deadlines, a cruel and unusual book inspired by
newspaper headlines.  Yes indeed.  Arnow's morbid yet excellently produced
booklet contains outstanding graphics illustrating selections of actual news
reports about people killing their pets and their pets getting back at them.
Includes fold out illustrated mugshot obits poster with each dead person or
animal identified by one of the many tired, worn-out cliches about "biting
the big one."
%Info:   $3.00 Each  to
Eileen Arnow, 3 Miller Road,  Farmingdale, NY 11735
(16 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  DEBBIE & DAN'S QUEER BRUNCH: There's more to life than brunch in the
%Descr:  Castro  Issue 1
         S.F./Bay Area restaurant reviews written from a a humorous,
         queer-positive, punk-Castro, vegetarian-sympathetic
         point-of-view.
This debut issue is a grand effort--hilarious, witty, urbane.  D&D's QB is a
back street guide to various and sundry, high and low-class unconventional
and de-rigeur "brunch" spots in SF and the East Bay.  Each review is
lovingly rendered, like a Flannery O'Connor short story, describing not only
items ordered, but ambiance, guests, fellow diners, and shards of
conversations eavesdropped upon.  Authors Debbie & Dan have a thing about
"hang-time" and judge their brunch spots rigorously by this standard,
solving the NY Times crossword puzzle while waiting for brunch to be served.
It's all so satisfying!  Brnches reviewed include repasts at Spike's, New
Dawn, The Ramp, Brick Hut, Aunt Mary's, Higher Grounds, Just for You,
Hamburger Mary's and the Sidetrack Cafe. Issue #2, written in the same
inimitably sly style covers famous SF spots Miss Pearl's Jam House, Val 21,
Peaches, Sonapas, West Portal Joe's, Simply Shortbread, Max's Opera Cafe,
Tuba Garden, Almost Heaven, Mad Dog in the Fog and that lovely brunch spot
from hell, the Marriott.
%Info:   $2.00 Each  to
519 Castro Box 84,  San Francisco, CA 94114
(14 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  DEEP SKY OBJECTS 1993
%Descr:  Poetry by Lynda S. Silva and John Sweet.
This is interesting, for what it represents and could have been, but failed
in becoming.  The idea of two poets publishing together offers so many
fascinating possibilities, none of which Silva or Sweet decided to do in
this joint venture.  The first and last time I saw two poets working
synergistically and successfully together in print was Exene Cervenka's and
Lydia Lunch's Adulterers Anonymous.  One would start a poem; the other would
end it, in a way that people who are intimate can finish one another's
sentences or thoughts.  Silva's and Sweet's poems are not intertwined; this
is really two short chapbooks stapled into one.  Silva's work is wonderfully
tactile, sensual, sarcastic and kinaesthetic in a Suzanne Vega-lyrical way; Sweet's are also sharply-painted word portraits that describe intensely
personal experiences (loss of love, suicide, horrible people, alienation and
all those other wonderful ideations resulting from 20th century living) in
poems that get to the point quickly, such as that titled, "serial killers."
%Info:    Each  to
Green Meadow Press, 105 Betty Rd.,  East Meadow, NY 11554
(24 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  DEVIL IN DEAD MAN'S UNDERWEAR
%Descr:  More high weirdness from Mr. Metzger.  Please don't confuse
         him with the racist scumbucket of the same name.  This is
         the gentleman who co-wrote "Big Gurl"
This is a fetish about Spam, yams, Jesus and Satan.  Not as mindblowingly
awesome as "This Is Your Final Warning," but still pretty awesome.  "I'm
gonna put on the Iron Jock, and chase Satan round the block.  I'm gonna put
on the Iron Fez, and see what Jahweh says."  "I feel the heat, I sing of
meat, I long for that throbbing luncheon treat.  Unspeakable effulgence of
by-products.  Ancient Anathema Cannibla  Spastic God in a Can.  Eating meat,
spodee-odee eating meat.  It slices, it dices, it sacrifices.  Culture is
dead.  Leat's eat!"
You *need* this.
%Info:   The Usual Each  to
Thom Metzger, Ziggurat, PO Box 25193,  Rochester, NY 14525      USA
(8 Pages/M/JP)
Trades OK/no ads.

%Title:  DROP FORGE MAGAZINE  Issue 1  1993
%Descr:  A magazine of "adventurous expression" out of Reno, Nev.
Experimental prose, art, poetry and caffeine make up the energetic and
chaotic "drop forge" magazine.  Most of the stuff here is pretty incoherent;
within a cyberpunk literary context however, the material makes sense and
has integrity, like that of William Burroughs' work...."Logarithm
blues....." "jacking off your father?" "eyebrows twitching at 62MHz..." that
kind of tone and sensibility.
%Info:   $2.50 Each  to
Sean Winchester, 13450 Mahogany Dr.,  Reno, NV 89511
(18 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  ELEMENTS  Issue 1  Fall '92
%Descr:  Literary zine featuring poetry, fiction, essays and art from
         Austin, TX.
This new Austin-based publication is dedicated to publishing exemplary works
of poetry, short ficiton, essays and art and seeks original art for its
cover and interior pages.  Brief, but not banal, Elements is a promising
first look at some of the creative efforts emanating from Austin's literary
and artistic "scene."
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $12.00 for 4 issues to
P.O. Box 5571,  Austin, TX 78763
(0 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  ELEPHANT DANCE
%Descr:  Personal poetry and collage zine
A collection of poetry, collages, original and appropriated art appears in
"Elephant Dance" by poet Lee Diamond.  The poetry's a bit on the juvenile
side for my taste, but does exhibit a serious degree of PC-social
consciousness.
%Info:   $1.00/SASE Each  to
,  ,
(24 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  FOOTSTRIKES & SPONDEES
%Descr:  Poetry chapbook.
More socially conscious poetry from Michigan-based poet Hank Malone whose
work has been praised (at least from the quotes on the enclosed promo
literature) by the likes of Bukowski, Dickey and Kizer.
%Info:   7.50 Each  to
Parkville Pub., 8419 Rhode,  Utica, MI 48317
(61 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  FRAGMENTS OF A SILENT STORM: An Anthology of Radical Fiction & Art
%Descr:  Excellent avant-garde poetry and fiction.
Powerful, hellish word-imagery, accompanied by nightmarish, and
morbid-to-the-extreme visuals, "Fragments" takes us to the terrifying
bleeding edge of unfamiliar and shocking contexts.  This is timeless,
eternal art that knocks you upside the head with its urgency and truth--the
only kind worth creating and experiencing.  If you're in the mood for
material that makes you question your reasons for being and devastates you
with proof that it is Nothing, then this book's for you.
One of the best collections of new literary work and art coming out of
America.
%Info:   $3.00 Each  to
J. Kahn, Militant Monster Press, P.O. Box 195,  Mesa, AZ 85211
(114 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  FRAME OF REFERENCE  Issue 3
%Descr:  Poetry, art, zine reviews.
Wonderful poetry by gifted unknown Joyce Herzog and others, zine reviews and
hand-scrawled art make up this third issue of Frame of Reference.  A modest
production (first typed version) this zine's poetry has serious potential,
aspiring to greatness by its profound lack of ostentatiousness.
%Info:   $1 Each  to
Susan Groppi, 637 Quackenbush,  Wyckoff, NJ 07481
(12 Pages/D/LRH)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  FUSE  Volume 16  Issue 2  Wint.92-93
%Descr:  Non-profit zine on arts scene in and around Toronto and
         Quebec, Canada
Published by the non-profit arts organization Arton's Cultural Arts Society
and Publishing Inc., Fuse is a beautifully produced art and literary
magazine with gorgeous layout, graphics and design, and incisively written
book, film, arts reviews, articles and columns on topics as diverse as the
fictionalization of Rodney King, censorship, aboriginal performance,
pornography and the rhetoric of degradation from a
gay/lesbian/feminist/HIV-aware perspective.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $16.00 for 5 issues to
183 Bathhurst St.,  Toronto, ON M5T 2R7    Canada
(48 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.

%Title:  GRASSLANDS REVIEW  Issue 8  1992
%Descr:  Unpretentious poetry and fiction chapbook produced by the
         University of North Texas at Denton.
Boasting contributors from all over the country, issue #8 was produced in
conjunction with the spring 1992 mini-course workshop in creative writing
and the dept. of English at the University of North Texas and contains a
broad selection of works in quiet, plain brown-wrapper voices, some of which
are excellent (such as Bruce McCandless' short story about a friend who
discloses he has AIDS) in their ability to capture the magic and color of
life on the grasslands.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $ 4.00 for 2 issues to
Grasslands Review, NT Box 13706,  Denton, TX 76203
(80 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  HOUSEWIFE-WRITER'S FORUM Dec. '92
%Descr:  How-to zine for that anachronistic and lonely character, the
         housewife-writer.
This zine has what I think is a lousy, sexist title, but is actually a
useful "Helpful Hints from Heloise" type guide encouraging women writers of
all types and persuasions, not just housewives.  Housewife-Writer's Forum
offers poetry, fiction, critiques and features on subjects such as how to
become a newspaper columnist, motivating the writer in you and creativity &
the color gray, as well as lists of markets and other resources for women
writers.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $15.00 for 6 issues to
Deneb Pub., P.O. Box 780,  Lyman, WY 82937
(48 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.

%Title:  I'M NOT A WHITE MAN '92
%Descr:  Single long poem by Evert Eden.
Evert Eden from the notes inside the jacket of this single poem chapbook is
a South African writer living in New York, whose plays have been banned in
his native country.  He is a white man writing powerfully and poignantly
about the ignominy of being white and male as he enumerates the long list of
white man's sins against man and womankind, people of color, nature, the
world in this long, epic and mostly excellent poem.
%Info:    Each  to
G. Marie Press, P.O. Box 211,  E. Meadow, NY 11554
(6 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  I'M YOUR DADDY
%Descr:  Poetry by Scottish transplant Richard Swiss from New York
         City.
Performance artist, poet, singer, and songwriter Richard Swiss hails
originally from Glasgow.  This collection of poetry is honest, plain, simple
and highly personal; reflecting Swiss' own moments of torment, pain, anger,
lust, and passion with sublimity.  Swiss' hallmark is colorful, in-your-face
tableaux with titles such as "Illegal Alien" and "Head Mistress."
%Info:    Each  to
Mulberry Press, 105 Betty Rd.,  E. Meadows, NY 11554
(20 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  INDEFINITE SPACE  Volume 1  Issue 2  Aut. '92
%Descr:  Another generic poetry zine from beautiful downtown
         Pasadena.
Poems ranging from whimsical wordplay to dense academic exercises fill the
pages of this generic, nicely produced but rather vague collection of works
by a variety of poets about whom we know nothing since the publication
failed to include any background information on its contributors.
%Info:   $3.00 Each ,  Subs: $ 5.00 for 2 issues to
P.O. Box 40101,  Pasadena, CA 91114
(39 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  IRIS EYES/ANGEL SIGNS  Issue 1  Dec. '92
%Descr:  Illustrated book of poetry by Marcel & Meredith Feldman
Outstanding graphics grace this little chapbook of poems and images by the
Feldmans of Vancouver, BC.  Munch-like, existential pen and ink figures of
anguish loop around poetic pieces on subjects such as love, alienation,
being and nothingness.
%Info:   $2.50 Each  to
Mocha Louder Prods., 1663 W. 12 #205,  Vancouver, BC V6J 2E3    Canada
(24 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  JITTERING MICROSCOPE: Spoonrest  Issue 5  May '92
%Descr:  Eccentric literary zine exhibiting advanced case of
         uncivilized discontent.
Thought-provoking editorial on the dangers of high-fructose corn syrup
greets you in this issue of a zine with a wonderfully imaginative title.
Poems, collages, drawings, cartoons, and short fiction make up this
well-produced zine which appears to devote itself to up-close examination of
the various phenomena of modern culture from chemistry to computers through
the loopy lens of artistic expression.
Highly recommended, entertaining and original
%Info:   3.00 Each ,  Subs: $11.00 for 4 issues to
Blake Robinson, P.O. Box 1179,  Newark, DE 19715-1179
(24 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  KANGAROOS AND BEANS  Volume 2  Issue 1  1993
%Descr:  Poetry zine from Michigan
Contains a smattering of poems by writers whom we assume to be
Michigan-based, this poetry publication fits into the category of zine
"finds":  1) because it is extremely modestly produced and unostentatious 2)
yet it offers interesting, substantial wordworks on a range of subjects by a
spectrum of people types.
%Info:   $1 Each  to
Gregg Nannini, P.O.B. 40231,  Redford, MI 48240
(10 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  LHOOQ  Issue 3
%Descr:  Surrealist zine of poetry, fiction and cartoons.
Lhooq is a hilarious combination of surrealistic, dadistic, nihilistic and
sarcastic poetry, short fiction, cartoons and ads.
%Info:   $1.00 Each  to
Bob Bloomington, P.O. Box 4144,  Springfield, MO 65808
(20 Pages/HL/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  LIGHT: A Quarterly of Humorous, Occasional, Ephemeral and Light Verse
%Descr:  Issue 1  Spg. '92
         Extra-lite poetry for those who like Bud Lite.
Cartoons, satire, puns, puzzles, parodies and other mental entertainment
galore, including poetry by American literary heavyweights Updike, Kenney
and Stafford grace the pages of "Light," done in the urbane and breezy style
reminiscent of the pre-Tina Brown-edited New Yorker magazine.  For serious
armchair literati only.
%Info:   4.00 Each ,  Subs: $12.00 for 4 issues to
Box 7500,  Chicago, IL 60680
(40 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  MEMES  Issue 7
%Descr:  Occult-flavored literary zine
Promoting work that integrates magick, science, and the occult within a
wider literary context, Memes is chock-a-block full of stimulating poetry,
essays, thinkpieces and art from England.  Taut, startling, intense,
bleeding edge stuff including book, zine and pamphlet reviews.
Worth reading.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $10.00 for 3 issues to
38 Molesworth Rd., Plympton Plymouth Devon,    PL7 4NT    UK
(44 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  MIXED MEDIA  Volume 1  Issue 1  Fall 1992
%Descr:  Literary and art journal coming from New Jersey's Mental
         Press.
Mixed Media is, say its editors, intended to be a "forum for the kind of
artistic expression that we look for, but when you consider that the five of
us have little in common, you'll understand why this magazine is a varied
pastiche of styles and subject matter." Nicely yet inexpensively produced,
MM contains some excellent and arresting poetry, experimental and
experiential short fiction, tense and striking graphics, acquatint etchings,
pen-and-ink illustrations, cartoons by a group of contributors with
amazingly diverse and interesting backgrounds from around the world...rock
musicians. mythmakers to industrialists.
%Info:   $3 Each  to
Paul Semel, Mental Press, 33 Aspen Rd.,  W. Orange, NJ 07052
(31 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  MOBIUS  Volume 3  Issue 1  Wint.'92
%Descr:  Another generic literary zine from a midwestern American
         college town.
Undistinguished collection of short fiction, poetry and ads from local
coffeehouses, bookstores and a pharmacy in the Madison, WI college community
area.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $ 5.00 for 4 issues to
1149 E. Mifflin,  Madison, WI 53703
(0 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.

%Title:  MONGREL: Ubiquitous issue  Issue 2  Summ. '92
%Descr:  Another fine product made in that bastion of bleeding edge
         literary forms, New York City.
Smart, funny, bitchy--fiction, art, collages, new wave poetry and cartoons
are what make up "Mongrel," which may be a sly reference to the ethnic
makeup of its editors and co-creators.  Especially good was a surrealistic
short story about an anonymous bar patron who is picked up by what has to be
the most innovative proposition of the week--something about housesitting
some pot-smoking iguanas.  Shades of "Naked Lunch!"
Read this or die!
%Info:   $1.00/SASE Each  to
260 Devoe St.,  Brooklyn, NY 11211
(30 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  NEXT EXIT 20
%Descr:  Another generic literary zine.
Haiku-like experimental poetry, zine and book reviews and prose pieces show
off the Canadian literary sensibility of the editors of Next Exit, although
contributions are from writers and artists as far away as Chicago and
Australia.  The renga challenge on the cover is a nice touch.  Otherwise,
fairly forgettable.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $12.00 for 4 issues to
92 Helen St.,  Kingston, ON K7L 4P3    Canada
(30 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  NEXT PHASE  Volume 1  Issue 7
%Descr:  Literary zine out of Yale-New Haven, Connecticut axis.
Ads, poetry, art, interviews with maverick artist Danny Hellman (of High
Times, Screw Magazine fame), short fiction, scary ink drawings by master
illustration Larry Forte make up Next Phase's content.  No unifying theme
there, just artists and contributors from all over and mostly excellent
quality.
%Info:    Each  to
Michael White, Phantom Press, 33 Court St.,  New Haven, CT 06511
(0 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  NO MORE NATURE 1993
%Descr:  Poems by Terry Wright, a fellow Clintonian Arkansan.
Lots o' interesting titles and potential here ("Why I Hate Tennis," "Garbage
In") but being the Crab Nebula when it comes to poetry (even though poet
Terry Wright's from Little Rock), I have to say there's not much
distinguishing this chapbook from the millions of others written and
published by English professors on the faculty of some university or
another, with a personal vision that can be characterized as cynical and a
lyrical signature that I find dense, suffocating and inaccessible.
%Info:    Each  to
Kairos Editions, 947 Mississippi Apt. B,  Lawrence, KS 66044
(25 Pages/D/LRH)
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%Title:  NOTES FROM THE HELLBOX  Volume 2  Issue 1  Mar. '92
%Descr:  Mysterious, eclectic personal zine from Vermont with a
         sideways focus and opinionated commentary on the printing
         and publishing industries.
Numerous references to old-time printing industry jargon (such as the title)
make me suspect the producer of "Notes from the Hellbox" is somehow involved
with this arcane biz.  This issue is chockful of editorial, art, cartoons,
non-sequiturs and satire all executed without any seeming connective mental
tissue, but well done and easy on the eyes none-the-less.
%Info:   $1.00 Each  to
S. Chant, 83 Chase St.,  Burlington, VT 05401
(20 Pages/HL/LRH)
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%Title:  NOTES FROM THE LIGHTHOUSE  Issue 4  Apr. '92
%Descr:  Personal art and literary zine by Joshua Baker of wonderful
         Arcata, Calif.
Messily concocted (manually typed, replete with typos) melange of personal
musings, recollections, thoughts, illustrations and diary-like prose by the
young bi-coastal, peripatetic, probably twentysomething, couch traveler Josh
Baker. Nice color xerox photo covers.
%Info:   $2.00 Each  to
Joshua Baker, 22 Bruce St,  Scotia, NY 12302
(44 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  OPEN SEASON '92
%Descr:  Poetry by Gina Bergamino.
The prolific Ms. Bergamino presents us with a group of "found poems" in her
chapbook called "Open Season," a truly ironic title indeed.  These pieces
offer intriguing titles, grist for any celebrity-lover's mill, such as
"Madonna Interview," "Marilyn Monroe Entertaining Troops in Korea," "Rob
Lowe Interview," "Johnny Depp Interview," and "Dolly Parton in Waikiki."
Assuming these fragments are actual quotes culled from magazine interviews
and documentaries with real stars, this collection is highly memorable for
the insights it gives into the pain and agony of being famous and the loss
of privacy.  Gina sent us eight other titles, similar looking chapbooks with
similar poems, different covers, produced by various small presses
throughout the country.  The work in these books ranged from startlingly
fresh to pedestrian, e.e. cummings-like love poems to poetic,
Christian-themed "revelations."
%Info:    Each  to
Ancient Mariner Press, 229 N. Fountain,  Wichita, KS 67208
(26 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  OXALIS 17  Issue 17  Mar. '92
%Descr:  Generic poetry journal emanating from around the Catskills.
Sponsored by the Stone Ridge Poetry Society in Kingston, NY, Oxalis is a
well-produced publication, with contest issue #17 showcasing awardwinning
prose, poetry and art from writers across the country, as well as book
reviews and ads.
%Info:   5.00 Each ,  Subs: $18.00 for 4 issues to
Stone Ridge Poetry Society, P.O. Box 3993,  Kingston, NY 12401
(48 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.

%Title:  PANIC!  Issue 1  1992
%Descr:  Art and literary zine out of the East Bay's own Soho,
         Emeryville.
Publisher/editor Dave Wells requests dangerously imaginative art and writing
to fill the pages of Panic!  This debut issue is impressively laid out and
designed, offering bold, tight graphics, interspersed with interviews on
local jazz outfit The Broun Fellinis; a fabulous poem-collage paying homage
to the cartoon goddess with the round hairdo of fuzz, Nancy by Scott Hacker,
an anti-mind control essay, poetry and various and assorted other rants and
short fiction dissecting such familiar topics as the crumbling state of
society.
First zine received with the critical data on a card inside the front cover.
High marks for being able to follow simple directions.
%Info:   $3.50 Each  to
Dave Wells, Conari Press, 1144 65th St. Ste. B,  Emeryville, CA 94608
(30 Pages/S/LRH)
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.

%Title:  PAST IMPERFECT, FUTURE TENSE
%Descr:  Personal zine of poetry, collage art and clippings
Calling itself The Love Zine, this little publication is another one of
those hard-to-read pastiches of poetry, art and personal musings on
everything from Jesus had a penis to Christianity the Japanese way.  Almost
too much trouble to deal with, but if you have the time to take the time to
decipher this, you might find some interesting gems o'er which to cogitate.
%Info:    Each  to
The Bubela Press, 1568 B 7th Ave.,  Santa Cruz, CA 95062
(30 Pages/M/LRH)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  PRETERNATURALLY YOURS
%Descr:  Horror and vampire-themed poetry
Poet Denise Dumars is a member of the Undead Poets Society, a group which
performs vampire and horror-related themes throughout the greater LA and
Orange county areas.  This is a collection of poems written and presented by
Dumars at these performances and it's a first-rate chapbook from the Anne
Rice school of deadly serious-but-all-in-good-fun vampire personae.  A
sampling of titles:  The Necrophile, The Claustrophobiac (about two vamps
sharing a tight coffin) and Nightwork (if you can get it.).  The publication
can be ordered directly from poet Dumars at P.O. Box 83, Manhattan Beach, CA
90266.
%Info:   4.00 Each  to
Meg Reed, Preternatural Press Prods., 267 Corona "C",  Long Beach, CA 90803
(0 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  RADICAL BEAUTY: Rearranging the Furniture in Your Head
%Descr:  Reader-supported poetry zine soliciting contributions.
Poems, bizarrely arranged and typed facing all four compass points sit on
the pages of this spare, unentrancing literary zine that includes short
fiction pieces but no art whatsoever.
%Info:   $1.00/SASE Each  to
Rachel Creager, 1001 Lawrence,  Emporia, KS 66801
(10 Pages/T/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  READ MY LIPS: NO MORE MADONNA POEMS: Strikes Back '93
%Descr:  Poetry by Joyce Araby
This rather uneven collection of poems by New York poet Joyce Araby proves
entertaining despite its subjective limitations.  Some of Araby's poems are
hard to read because of the poor resolution of the dot matrix printer used,
a shame because the poems are amusing and exhibit occasional flashes of
poetic limber.  A first person prose denial-confessional about ripping off a
student's poem in pursuit of artistic immortality and in the name of poetic
license is bitingly funny and unforgiving, as well as a piece on being
eternally "39" and exorcising this demon through cathartic acts of poetry.
%Info:    Each  to
Green Meadow Press, 105 Betty Rd.,  E. Meadow, NY 11554
(24 Pages/D/LRH)
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%Title:  SCRATCH  Issue 7  Spg. '92
%Descr:  British poetry zine.
Issue #7 of this British poetry zine is a "Born in the 60s" special
featuring work by poets, uh, born in the 60's, meaning these are all
twentysomethings going through the now stereotypical "search" for meaning in
their lives.  There is also work by poets older and younger, a couple of
prose pieces, book reviews, but all in all a rather unremarkable collection.
%Info:   L2.25 Each  to
24 Nelson St. The Groves,  York,    Y03 7NJ    England
(64 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  SHARED FRUIT
%Descr:  Poetry by Sarah Wyman
Outstanding graphics, so-so poetry from North Carolina poet Sarah Wyman
whose work finds itself in what I call the "generic" category.  Good titles,
occcasionally visceral, kinetic turns-of-phrase, bruising images, but
nothing more that distinguishes these quiet, unassuming poems from countless
others written by generally fortunate, sheltered, middle-class white people.
%Info:   $3.95 Each  to
Audrey Underwood, DeMedici Press, P.O. Box 492,  Burlington, NC 27616-0492
(28 Pages/D/LRH)
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%Title:  SLUGFEST, LTD.  Volume 2  Issue 4  Spg. '92
%Descr:  Generic literary zine.
Book reviews, letters, poetry, short fiction and essays fill the pages of
this self-titled "magazine of free expression."  About the only thing that
distinguishes it from thousands of similar publications is its corny title
and its own crossword puzzle (for you puzzle demons out there).
%Info:   $5.50 Each ,  Subs: $20.00 for 4 issues to
P.O. Box 536,  Leominster, MA 01453
(45 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  SQUIB: A magazine  Volume 1  Issue 6
%Descr:  Underground, alternative arts & literary zine emanating from
         Alberta, Canada, birthplace of k.d. lang.
A potpourri of post-modern cutups, collage art, poetry, experimental prose,
manifestos, reviews, computer-generated art, cartoons, essays and other
"self-invented means of expression," Squib offers glimpses into life and art
at the "brink of the 21st century" (from a Canadian perspective I might
add).  Energetic, chaotic but an entertaining read none-the-less, Squib's
more interesting pieces include the negativist poem "Lucky Ducks" by Phil
Harves, and exceptional, trenchant collages by editor Mave Gibson, both good
examples of the mindset existing at the fringes of Canadian cafe
intellectual society.
%Info:    Each  to
P.O. Box 1586,  Edmonton, AL T2J 2N9    Canada
(66 Pages/S/LRH)                                                              No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  TATMAG Wint. '92
%Descr:  Quarterly journal on tattoo culture, tattoos and history.
This tattoo zine claims to have come into being because of the scarcity of
tattoo magazines in Canada.  "Tatmag is one of the few tattoo zines...more
interested in the exploration of the cultural significance" of tattoos than
simple presentation of images.  "Tatmag is concerned with the history of
tattoos.." their meaning and art, and the total experience of tattoing as an
idea, a process.  Tatmag is gratis for those whose submissions are accepted.
Next issue features a color centrefold.
%Info:   $3.00 Each ,  Subs: $12.00 for 4 issues to
Anna Roosen-Runge, Funky ol'Planet Publishing, P.O. Box 24058 Postal Outlet,
900 Dufferin ST. Toronto, ON M6H 4H6
(19 Pages/HL/LRH)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads. email [e-mail]

%Title:  TEMPORARY CULTURE: Numerological Mumbo Jumbo  Issue 6  Violet
%Descr:  Anti-linear conceptual literary journal with different theme
         issues.
Issue #6 is a random, non-linear dadaist-like exegesis of the concept of
"numbers" and affiliated "ideas" using print media vehicles such as poetry,
short stories and typography as art.  Very anarcho-nihilistic stuff, too
disjointed and fragmented for my taste, or perhaps just over my head in its
pretentious leanings towards post-modern profundity (in this case, a
euphemism for nothing).  Each issue has a "theme"--this one's "violet."
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $ 5.00 for 2 issues to
P.O. Box 43072,  Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
(22 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  TEMPORARY CULTURE: Anti-narrative (Indigo)  Issue 7  Nov. '92
%Descr:  Another issue of this non-linear, literary "concept"
         journal.
Issue #7 begins with Temporary Culture's "manifesto" as it were...that valid
stories exist and are told outside rigid conventional narrative structure
and proselytizes that old styles be abandoned and replaced by the
"organizing power of narrative incoherence."  Here, here!  More power to the
creators of Temporary Culture if that's their schtick.  It's definitively
anti-establishment in its approach, with book reviews, short fiction,
original art and found "literature" fragments and poetry.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $ 5.00 for 2 issues to
P.O. Box 43072,  Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
(20 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  THE BOLOGNA POGNA  Issue 1
%Descr:  Ascerbic personal literary zine that breaks new ground in
         the area of cynicism
Acid-tongued poetry, short sarcastic prose and ironic lists of favorite
words, records, things that happened in '91, from Tom "The Fish" who carries
on in his own unique vein a literary tradition started by Jack Kerouac, yet
another infamous denizen hailing from Lowell, MA.
Funny.
%Info:   Free Each  to
Birdhouse Books, 18 Walk Hill St. #1,  Jamaica Plains, MA 02130
(12 Pages/D/LRH)
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%Title:  THE DIRGE OF THE THIN AIR DANCERS
%Descr:  Poetry for the ivory tower crowd.
Self-indulgent, didactic and erudite, The Dirge of the Thin Air Dancers by
Ovid Neal III, a poet based in Boston, but whose sensibility was apparently
influenced by his upbringing in Dallas, TX, is typical of the work emanating
from the groves of academe.  In other words, dry and dull and thoroughly
esoteric.
%Info:   $6.00 Each  to
Crying Dog Books, P.O. Box 850018,  Mesquite, TX 75185-0018
(46 Pages/D/LRH)
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%Title:  THE METAMORPH: A Novellette 1993
%Descr:  Fantasy-philosophic novella about two lovers who came of age
         in the '60s and continue to compare notes as they make their
         way through personal odysseys.
>From the author's own promo piece, "Peter and Melissa were lovers in the
psychedelic euphoria of the 60s counterculture.  At decade's end they
parted...Melissa sought wealth and success...while Peter remained on the
furry fringes..." Illustrated with collage art.
%Info:   $3.00 Each  to
Joseph Kerrick, P.O. Box 41032,  Philadelphia, PA 19127
(40 Pages/S/LRH)
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%Title:  THE MOWER  Issue 1  1991
%Descr:  German-based journal of experimental literature, art and
         media.
Mykel Board and Paul Weinman are among the many co-conspirators in this
exceptionally well-produced multimedia jamboree.  A bilingual
(German-English) collection of words, pictures, music (includes a 7") The
Mower showers you with altnative poetry, fiction, and art by creators with
names like Bomb, Tit Wrench and Quasimodo.  While issue #1 appears to have
no uniform ideological, political or theoretical conceptual framework,
Mower's publishers promise the theme for issue #2 will be angst/fear.  So
send your submissions in now!
%Info:   $1.00/SASE Each  to
Memoria Pulp, Bachgasse 1 7758,  Meersburg,               Germany
(0 Pages/A2/LRY)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  THE PLASTIC TOWER: A Poetry Kind of Place  Issue 12  9/92
%Descr:  Better living through poetry.
The Plastic Tower (great name for a poetry journal) unfortunately delivers
less sizzle than its wonderful title promises.  This issue showcases mostly
middle-of-the-road quality poems and artwork by myriad contributors,
including familiar names such as Lyn Lifshin, Richard Kostelanetz, and Bob
Z, punctuated by the occasional frenzied outburst of unconventional
creativity.  There are also detailed reviews of various poetry chapbooks,
broadsides, journals and small press efforts (I'm glad somebody's
publicizing these worthy efforts) and delightful, whimsical illustrations of
the New York magazine style and variety.  Issue #13, subtitled Poetry For
Working Stiffs Everywhere, offers more of the same.
%Info:   $2.50 Each ,  Subs: $ 8.00 for 4 issues to
P.O. Box 702,  Bowie, MD 20718
(40 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  THE PROS & CONS: Basket of Weaving  Volume 1  Issue 1  Spg. 92
%Descr:  Brash new literary zine straight outta Tennessee (Al Gore's
         home state)
Nihilistic, outrageous poetry, short humor pieces, collage art, cartoons and
ads from The Useless Press, a publishing venture dedicated to "publishing
art, poetry, observations out of the brilliant mediocrity of upper East
Tennessee."
A must-read.
%Info:   $1.50 Each  to
Greg Matherly, The Useless Press, P.O. Box 413,  Bristol, TN 37621-0413
(18 Pages/D/LRH)
Trades OK/submissions OK/takes ads.

%Title:  THE RIOT ACT  Issue 1  Jan/Feb.'93
%Descr:  Zine of disturbing fiction and dark humor produced by
         Silicon Valley cyber-denizens.
Failing in its mission to be a place for dark fiction, The Riot Act aspires
to be downright silly and will publish anything dealing with hedgehogs,
serial killers, the Internet, crackers, conspiracies, ads for other zines or
bulletin board systems, body piercing, music, book or film reviews and club
dates for bands.  Looking also for experimental photography, articles about
censorship, stuff from left field. Produced by Harrison Page who works at
Adobe Systems, this premier ish features poetry and definitely disturbing
short fiction by obviously disturbed individuals.
%Info:   $2.00 Each  to
Harrison Page, Compound Fracture Productions, P.O. Box 4436,  Mountain View,
CA 94040
(20 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads. email [e-mail]

%Title:  UNION SHOP BLUFF  Issue 4  2/14/92
%Descr:  Radical poetry zine emanating from Ontario, Canada.
Avante-garde poetry, collage art, prose pieces and a short history of Noam
Chomsky and Guelph, the town from which this zine originates make up USB's
entertaining though brief collection of underground Canadian zeitgeist.
Recommended.
%Info:   $2.00 Each  to
Coryza Press, 205A Liverpool St.,  Guelph, ON N1H 2L6    Canada
(12 Pages/D/LRH)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  UNSHAVED TRUTHS  Issue 3  Aut/Wint.92
%Descr:  Cyberpunk fiction and reportage
Nicely produced cyberzine out of the new cyberpunk hotbed of America,
Austin, Texas, home of sci-fi god and hacker crackdown documentarian Bruce
Sterling, contains fiction by our very own Jerod Pore (of Factsheet 5
Electric fame), articles, essays ("Rave NOT!") and a multiplicity of
primitive, yet curiously engaging computer generated illusions.  Produced by
the same group which reviews/sells technoid gadgets and wares such as brain
toys, power gloves, etc. through its FringeWare Review and retail location
in (where else) beautiful downtown Austin.
%Info:   $3.95 Each  to
Jon Lebkowsky, Fringeware Inc., 2507 Rochampton Dr.,  Austin, TX 78745-6964
(26 Pages/S/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  UNVEILED: A semiautomatic text/illustrations
%Descr:  Avante garde found poetry in mini-format.
This tiny, little booklet features poetry from the non-sequitur school of
automatic writing, pen & ink drawings and collages.  Using a William
Burroughs-like cut-up method, poet Mike Jennings has created poetry derived
from editing "found" words in random typing.
%Info:   $1.00/SASE Each  to
Small Noise Press, 105 Skipton Rd.,  Harrogate N. Yorks,    HG1 4LJ    England
(8 Pages/M/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  URBANUS 3  Issue 3  '92 annual
%Descr:  Literary and arts journal zine dedicated to "small artists."
Including works by small artist-big names like Charles Bukowski, Urbanus 3
is a fascinating lit mag produced in San Francisco.  Excellent poetry, short
fiction (including Berlin is a place you can still be free by Juliet
Faithfull), graphics and photography illustrating the diverse and subversive
intelligence of urban artists.
%Info:   $5 Each ,  Subs: $ 8.00 to
Peter Drizhal, Urbanus Press, P.O.B. 192561,  San Francisco, CA 94119-2561
(41 Pages/D/LRH)
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%Title:  VERANDAH PLACE
%Descr:  Poetry by New Yorker Bob Balo.
Angry poems by an angry young Vietnam veteran/directory assistance operator
with New York Telephone addressing a variety of urban angst themes.
%Info:    Each  to
Mulberry Press, 105 Betty Rd.,  E. Meadow, NY 11554
(16 Pages/D/LRH)
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%Title:  WEAVINGS: A Journal of the Christian Spiritual LIfe  Volume 7  Issue 2
%Descr:  Mar/Apr. 92
         Excellent example of objective, well-written theologia.
Beautifully producer journal of Christian essays, poetry, art, short fiction
and book reviews.  Theme of issue #2 is forgiveness, which is thoughtfully
explored in several philosophic thinkpieces written by various and sundry
theologians, from Christian to Jesuit to Catholic.  "The Execution," a poem
by Theodore Tracy, about the crucifixion of Jesus as told from the
point-of-view of one of his executioners is arresting in its graphic
evocations of the bloody horror of the act juxtaposed against the Christ's
own seemingly serene acceptance of his fate.  It makes "Weavings" worth the
price of admission.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $19.00 for 6 issues to
The Upper Room, 1908 Grand Ave., POB 189,  Nashville, TN 37202
(48 Pages/D/LRH)
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%Title:  WET INK WISDOM: Express Yourself  Volume 3  Issue 3  June '92
%Descr:  Another generic art/trash culture/poetry enterprise produced
         by adolescents or someone who passes for one.
Special tribute to Robert Reed (who played TV dad Mike Brady of "The Brady
Bunch" and who passed away from AIDs); a smattering of poetry (some puerile,
some profound), diary entries and adolescent utterances on the pain of
growing up, struggles with friendship and similar themes. Chaotic production
values and messily put-together. July '92 issue is more of the same
energetic, slapdash production; exhorts you to order your very own Brady
Bunch key chain.  More Brady Brunch fan-slather between poems, thoughts,
recipes, reader contributions, trivia, drawings, collages, photos. 18 pps.
%Info:   $1.00 Each  to
Amy Susan, 1402A Summit St.,  College Sta., TX 77840
(18 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  WHITE BOY'S PITCH  Volume 53  Issue 3  '89
%Descr:  Another collection of poetry from the ubiquitous Paul
         Weinman.
Socially conscious collection of poems inspired by baseball.  Paul Weinman's
poetry is generally good, intelligent stuff.  This is no different.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $20.00 to
Samisdat, Box 129,  Richford, VT 05476
(12 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  WIND MAGAZINE  Volume 22  Issue 71
%Descr:  Strictly literary journal out of Kentucky.
Claiming to be irregularly published, Wind Magazine is a dense, full of gray
type little chapbook chockful of poems, short stories and a few book reviews
by writers from all over.  The overall look and feel is academic and quiet;
many of the pieces are too.  Obviously, a labor of love, put together by
someone who is dedicated to preserving and conserving literary efforts that
would otherwise go unnoticed in our great big, loud and noisy media world.
%Info:   $2.50 Each ,  Subs: $ 7.00 for 2 issues to
Quentin Howard, RF Rt. 1 Box 809K,  Pikeville, KY 41501
(119 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  WORD
%Descr:  Thick collection of poetry and collages from the Big Apple.
Interesting collage pieces, arresting graphics, poetry, short fiction,
interviews and found art fill the voluminous pages of this premier issue
illustrating the best of gay/lesbian Manhattanite thought.  Interviews with
Jill, a college educated escort service employee; a gay male who recounts
his move from NY to San Francisco; a lesbian; a story on the gay publication
My Comrad/Sister; Linda Evanglista's Manifesto; an obscene poem penned by
"Anita Bryant" addressing George Bush; a humorous paean to Angie Dickinson
written through the eyes of a lesbian fan and ads.
%Info:    Each  to
Vinnie Vanessa, 516 E. 11th St. #4B,  New York, NY
(64 Pages/D/LRH)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.

%Title:  WORDS TWO  Volume 1  Issue 2  Jan. '93
%Descr:  Excellent collection of poetry from North Carolina writers.
Astounding collection, ostensibly by North Carolina-resident poets, Words
Two contains some of the best contemporary voices this reviewer's seen in a
long time.  These are highly charged atomic bombs disguised as poems,
dealing with issues small to large, such as the frailty of human emotions,
and the palpable blatancy of car crashes, with sublimity and simplicity.
Kudos to editors Elizabeth Baker and Audrey Underwood for selecting and
cementing together these diverse, powerful sensibilities into a tightly
coherent, powerful whole.  The hot new names in poetry here include:  Chris
Tannlund, Autumn, R. David Fulcher, John Grey, W. Gregory Stewart, William
P. Robertson, Holly Day, HL Truelove, James Gerald Koch, Robert Haase, T.G.
Valdeloecht, Dayne D'Arcy, and R. Monk Habjan.
%Info:    Each  to
Audrie Underwood, DeMedici Press, P.O. Box 492,  Burlington, NC 24716-0492
(34 Pages/D/LRH)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.


Now, Seth's reviews from Issue #46 of F5:


%Title:  BAD NEWS BINGO  Issue 7  Fall 91
%Descr:  A bold design highlights this underground literary journal
         with some interesting essays and vagely pornographic
         collages.
The highlight in this one is a story about Eastern Europe that reminded me
of my trip there last year.  Also a short story about a Spanish grandmother,
a short porn piece, some poems, and very good collages.
%Info:   $2.00 Each  to
Bad News Bingo, 1200 W 49 1/2,  Austin, TX 78756
(32 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  BORDER/LINES  Issue 22  Summer 91
%Descr:  A slick lefty/arts magazine cover the arts scene of Canada
         and around the world.  Very theoretical but nicely
         presented.
An informative article on the history of oil, Isreal, perfomance art,
Midcontinental magazine, landscape design, Sorel Cohen, feminist aestetics,
and art reviews.
%Info:   $5.00 Each ,  Subs: $20.00 for 4 issues to
Border/Lines, Bethune College, York U, 4700 Keele St North York, ONT,    5MT
2R7    Canada
(48 Pages/T/RSF)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  CAVEAT LECTOR Dec 91
%Descr:  Poetry, short fiction, and collages from right around here
         in SanFran.
Feelings about bookstores, short fiction about fireflys, and a long essay
about structuralism.
%Info:    Each ,  Subs: $10.00 for 4 issues to
Caveat Lector, 1655 1/2 A Mason St,  San Francisco, CA 94133
(24 Pages/D/RSF)
No trades/no ads.

%Title:  DISTURBING DREAMS & DRIED BLOOD: An idiot's wost nightmare  Issue 11
%Descr:  A little zine with lots of poetry and zine reviews.
This one's got a bunch of depressing poems, a short story an fun poem by
C.F. Roberts, and a bunch of zine reviews.  Check out the next issue,
expected to be an audio tape, $1.00.
%Info:   $1.00 Each  to
Disturbing Dreams & Dried Blood, 43 Frent St,  Lititz, PA 17543
(12 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  FUSE MAGAZINE  Volume 15  Issue 3  Winter 92
%Descr:  A Toronto based arts magazine with a strong emphiasis on
         gay/lesbian, native people, the avant-garde, and minority
         issues.  Highly politcally and covering all forms including
         painting, film, video, performance, installation, and books.
This issue covers the Montreal AIDS conference, inter-ratial relationships,
Native American culture, and a bunch of festival reviews.
%Info:   $3.50 Each ,  Subs: $18.00 for 5 issues to
Arton's Cultrual Affairs Society, 183 Bathurst St,  Toronto,    M5T 2R7
Canada
(40 Pages/S/RSF)
No trades/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  HAND TURKEY  Volume 1  Issue 3  Dec 1, 91
%Descr:  An interesting politcal literary-arts magazine.  Lots of
         found clips from a wide range of sources.
Found inside #2 is an interesting clip on industrial color identification, a
longer piece on CalArts, some collages, a recipe, a medical text, some
comments on gay porn, and some reviews.  #3 features some interesting and
amusing illustrations, and a few short essays on conceptual art.
%Info:   $2.00 Each  to
Cal Arts, 24700 McBean Pkwy, Hand Turkey, Art School Valencia, CA 91355
(36 Pages/HL/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  HOPEFUL MONSTER  Volume 3  Issue 1  Summer/Fall 92
%Descr:  Short stories, poetry, features, illustrations, and cool
         comics.  There's also a regular feature on bar hoping in
         SanFran.  Nice clean layout, not too heavy on the poetry,
         but a bit pricey.
There's a poetic road story, another story about ridin' the New York City
subways, a fun comic story about a reggae fest,
%Info:   $4.00 Each ,  Subs: $15.00 for 4 issues to
Tiki Bob Publishing & Design, 842 Folsom Street #102,  San Francisco, CA 94107
(32 Pages/S/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  IGUANAGILA  Issue 9  Dec 91
%Descr:  A large collection of longer literary pieces.
Included here is a play about homelessness, a novel in progress about
Californian gangs, moveie reviews, poems, and an interesting play done in
print.
%Info:   $5.00 Each  to
Iguanagila, P.O. Box 347150,  San Francisco, CA 94134-7150
(74 Pages/S/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  JITTERING MICROSCOPE: A Magazine of Writing, art, and Other Fun  Issue
%Descr:  6  Sept. 92
         A literary zine with about 1/3 poetry, 1/3 fiction and 1/3
         illustrations.  Very friendly with a clean layout, lots of
         white space.
Issue #6 has a really nice phonotraph on the cover, inside are a bunch of
poems and a very atmosphereic story about angels.  Very pleasant.  My
favorate part are the convoluted ads in the back.  They look like real ads
but read like dada poems.
Very entertaining.
%Info:   $3.00 Each ,  Subs: $11.00 for 4 issues to
Blake Robinson, Jittering Microscope, P.O. Box 1179,  Newark, DE 19715-1179
(30 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  MISS FIT'S FREE PRESS  Issue 7  Winter 92
%Descr:  A Politically Correct arts zine with lots of poems and xerox
         art.
#6 has an essay on the anniversary of Columbus, poems about women, the Gulf
War, homelessness, and more.  #7 has an essay on taking action, another one
on adiction, more poetry and xerox art.
%Info:   $1 + SASE Each  to
Food Stamp Gallery, 107 Havenmeyer St #33,  Brooklyn, NY 11211
(16 Pages/HL/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  PSYCHO TRAIN  Issue 1
%Descr:  A big chuncky literary zine that has high-quality writing
         but unforunately suffers from bad production values.
         Hopefully, with time, Shannon will be able to improve them.
         That asside, I liked this package.  Poems, arts, essays, and
         more, with enough variety to please everyone.
Some book reviews by Bob Black, a fuck poem by Malok, a short story by Greg
Nymam, and much more including this great quote by J. Edgar Hoover: "I
regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in case of
oral-genital inimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate
commerce."
%Info:   $4.00 Each  to
Shannon Frach, Hyacinth House Publications, 290 Wiles St,  Morgantown, WV
26505
(45 Pages/S/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  STATIC  Issue 8  Summer 92
%Descr:  I love this local avant-arts freebie.  It's fun, intelegent,
         informative, political, and very visually appealing.
An essay about airial spraying, another on about communities, a critique on
virtual reality, and some industrial music reviews are featured in this
issue.  I hope they can keep puttin' this thing out and making it available
to us.
Of interest to people in the arts community especially in Nothern
California.
%Info:   free/$2.00 Each ,  Subs: $12.00 for 4 issues to
Static, P.O. Box 2818,  Redwood City, CA 94064
(16 Pages/T/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/takes ads.

%Title:  SUN AND THE MOOD  Issue 2  1992
%Descr:  Poetry, essays and graphics.  Mostly of it in a friendly
         personal vein.
This seems to be the big "shopping carts" issue.  Funny stories and photos
of shopping carts, hunting shopping carts, using shoping carts.  A few other
essays and some poems.
%Info:   $1.00 Each  to
Kurt Boucher, Sun and the Mood, P.O. Box 322,  Sandy Hook, CT 06482
(18 Pages/D/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  TALKING RAVEN: A Journal of Imaginative Trouble  Volume 2  Issue 2
%Descr:  Autumn 92
         Big, bold and extreme with poems about decay.  Lots of cool
         collages, stories of conspiracy, and end of the world
         scenerios.  Free to those lucky ones livin' in Seattle,
         otherwise $2.00
%Info:   $2.00 Each  to
Talking Raven, P.O. Box 45758,  Seattle, WA 98145
(16 Pages/T/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.

%Title:  TEMPORARAY CULTURE: Numerological Mumbo Jumbo  Issue 6  Dec 91
%Descr:  sortova experimental/poetry/numeroligy/technology thang.
         Poems with words, poems with numbers, poems with words &
         numbers, words, numbers, and words & numbers & letters.  I
         like it, it's pretty cool, really.
This numbers thing might be just for issue #6.  Write them for more info but
it looks like they might have back issues so ask for #6 (violet).
%Info:   $5.00 Each  to
Temporaray Culture, P.O. Box 43072,  Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
(22 Pages/HS/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  THE SECRET ALAMEDA: Art, Humor & Other Ideas from the San Francsico
         Bay Area  Issue 4
%Descr:  A nicely produced slick magazine devoted to exposing writers
         and cartoonist of the Bay Area.  Short fiction, local
         gossip, comentary, and some very fine photographs.
An interview with the artist Corban LePell, a personal story about
parenting, a love story, a story about consumerism, and a review of the book
Money and the Meaning of Life.
%Info:   $4.00 Each ,  Subs: $11.00 for 4 issues to
The Secret Alameda, P.O. Box 527,  Alameda, CA 94501
(44 Pages/S/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/back issues/takes ads.

%Title:  TWILIGHT OF THE IDOLS  Issue 6
%Descr:  TOTOI is a relatively new literary magazine with an emphasis
         on the extreme.  With a big clean readable format and many
         amusing stories.  Comics, reviews stories, and poems, many
         of them dealing with sex, death, and sex & death.
The most recent issue has some useful instructions on making explosives,
some recipes for semi-inedible food, an evening out at the Zam Zam, a fable
by Bob Black, drunk driving, unemployment, buying a pet clown, The Bible,
ingrown hair, and a bunch of cool comics.
%Info:   $3.00 Each ,  Subs: $10.00 for 3 issues to
John Marmysz, 3739 Balboa Street, Suite #142,  SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94121
(40 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  UNIROD  Issue 4  Dec 91
%Descr:  A literary magazine mostly containing short fiction.  Many
         of the stories have a gritty urban feel to them.  They tend
         not to be too long so overall I'd say it a good collection.
         Not too many poems too.
Lots of Blair Wilson illustrations in this one.
%Info:   $2.00 Each  to
Kenward Bradley, Unirod, 4214-B Filbert Ave,  Atlantic City, NJ 08401-1070
(22 Pages/S/RSF)
Trades OK/submissions OK/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  VOX: Contemporary Art & Culture  Volume 3  Issue 4  Summer 92
%Descr:  A San Francisco based contemporary arts magazine mostly
         focusing on painting but also covering sculpture and
         performance.  A strong spiritual emphaisis with a leftist
         PoMo critique.  Nicely laid out and printed.
This issue extensively covers the healing abilities of art, with an
interview with Ed Aulerich-Sugai, Anna Halprin, Caryl Henry, Jack Weller,
art in hospitals, Art Brut, and galery listings.
%Info:   $3.50 Each ,  Subs: $10.00 for 4 issues to
VOX, 142 Filmore Street,  San Francisco, CA 94117
(25 Pages/S/RSF)
No trades/back issues/no ads.

%Title:  WORM  Issue 27  Dec 91
%Descr:  A brooklyn NY arts zine focusing on listing and documenting
         the arts scene in North Brooklyn.  A few interesting essays,
         some graphic art, and gallery listings.
This issue documents a performance by Yvette Helin in Brooklyn.
%Info:   $1.00 Each ,  Subs: $10.00 for 12 issues to
Worm, 115 Grand St.,  Brooklyn, NY 11211-4123
(10 Pages/S/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/no ads.

%Title:  YAZZYK MAGAZINE: Mostly Writing from Eastern Europe  Issue 1
         Summer 1992
%Descr:  Stories, poems, essays, and graphics from Eastern Europe and
         around the world.  It's a nice compendium giving us exposure
         to Czech writers and giving Western writers exposure in the
         East.
The Western writers Jennifer Blowdryer, Hakim Bey, join the 20 native and
ex-patriot Czech writers.
I wanted to move to Prague for the longest time.  Yazzyk gives a glimpse
into this exploding cultural capitol.
%Info:   $6.00 Each ,  Subs: $20.00 for 4 issues to
Yazzyk Magazine, Ripska 21, 130 00,  Praha 3,               Czechoslovakia
(80 Pages/A4/RSF)
No trades/submissions OK/takes ads.


Happy reading!

-jerod