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Since 1857, The Atlantic Monthly (now The Atlantic) has been a mainstay in literature and cultural journalism. This single issue is presented as part of the 1910 Collection, a group of 24 magazines published "on or about December 1910," when, according to Virginia Woolf, "human character changed" and modernity became palpable.

1913

Edited in London by John Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield, and running for just three issues, this was a successor to Rhythm.

1911

The Century was the successor to Scribner's Monthly Magazine in New York City, publishing journalism, fiction, and poetry from 1881-1930. This single issue is presented as part of the 1910 Collection, a group of 24 magazines published "on or about December 1910," when, according to Virginia Woolf, "human character changed" and modernity became palpable.

1919 - 1920

Founded in 1919 by Oxford University law student Chaman Lall, this quarterly review emphasized avant-garde poetry until its conclusion with a double issue in 1921.

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The Egoist was a direct continuation of The New Freewoman (itself a continuation of The Freewoman). With Harriet Weaver becoming editor (as well as financial backer) and Dora Marsden shifting to "Contributing Editor," The Egoist became one of the major magazines of modernism, publishing, as serials, James Joyce's first novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and Wyndham Lewis's novel Tarr, along with important poetry and criticism by Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, with Eliot serving ultimately as its Literary Editor, publishing his own "Tradition and the Individual Talent," and Marsden offering an important series on "The Science of Signs," which anticipated in certain ways later semiotic and deconstructive views of language. In 1918, The Egoist began simultaneous serialization of Joyce's Ulysses with the Little Review, though the the First World War meant that the London-based magazine could only offer installments sporadically.

The Modernist Journals Project would like to thank Princeton University for allowing us to produce this digital edition of The Egoist from their original copies of the journal.

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Egoist. An Individualist Review. Vol. 1, No. 9, Marsden, Dora (editor)
London: The New Freewoman, Ltd., 1914-01 / 1919-12

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My favorite literary movement in American history is that of the Harlem Renaissance. Started in roughly 1917 and spanning through the 1920s, this literary era was born in Harlem and included an incredible time in the celebration of and proliferation of black art, culture, and writing. There's not a single book that really launched the movement, many believe Jean Toomer's sparked and inspired many creators during this period.

The Harlem Renaissance included a rich array of publications called "little magazines." These literary journals could be compared to the 'zine movement of the late twentieth century-the little magazines allowed space for not just poetry and prose, but also for essays of radicalism, of experimental writing, and for space for subversion. Many of the magazines included critiques of not just the established (read: white) culture, but they also were unafraid to comment upon the work of other black leaders. Little magazines were founded by individuals or small groups of creatives, and they were bastions of independence from the established literary culture.

One of the cornerstones of the little magazines of the Harlem Renaissance was their focus on publishing new and little known voices, right alongside some of the powerhouses of black literature. The magazines were primarily distributed locally, though some had a more national reach; this, of course, influenced the voices and perspectives presented and the intended audiences for the magazines.

The Harlem Renaissance emerged at the same time as the modernism movement in American literary history, and many of the discussions that occurred within the modernist movement were mirrored in not just the Harlem Renaissance movement but also within their little magazines. Many felt the magazines should take a political stance. Others, however, felt they should be forums to allow art to stand for art's sake. Even reading through the journals, one sees these divides-a reminder that, despite being part of a flourishing and historically significant movement, no movement is a monolith. It's nuanced, it's complicated, and it's what makes literary history and the growth of powerful writing endure.

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Little magazines, as vital as they were to the Harlem Renaissance and literary history, are exceedingly hard to track down, and because they had such short runs and were spearheaded by a single or small group of individuals, very few still survive. More, many are likely not even known to us today.

One of the first little magazines was The Messenger, founded by Chandler Owen and A. Philip Randolph in 1917, a black writer and black Civil Rights leader respectively. Originally a magazine with a deep socialist bent, as the 1920s began, it began to publish more black creatives, helping really give a space for discussing and developing black intellectual, political, and creative culture. The Messenger, though it was centered in Harlem, eventually found itself publishing and reaching black creatives throughout the U.S., and they often ran essays about the burgeoning middle class blacks across the country, highlighting their wide ranging successes. Most little magazines kept their reach more locally. Perhaps what The Messenger was known for most was their movement to end the political career of-and indeed, deport -Marcus Garvey.

You can read reprints of some of the issues of The Messenger via the Haiti Trust Digital Library.

Journalist and abolitionist W.E.B. DuBois played a significant role in the history of Harlem Renaissance little magazines. DuBois launched a number of platforms for himself and his writing prior to the 1920s, and it was during the Renaissance when he become a patron for many journals. His influence was felt in The Crisis, which was one of the biggest magazines of the time. Many of the contributors had been patronized by DuBois, and could therefore have their voices heard more widely. Interestingly, as the 1920s growth of little magazines continued, DuBois and his influence on both the little magazines and on black writers waned; this was due to the rift in writers between the belief that art exist for art's sake and art existing for the sake of political statement.

Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life started in 1923 and was founded by the National Urban League as a journal to highlight the literary culture of the Harlem Renaissance. The journal focused on advancing opportunities in all aspects of life (career, education, opportunity) for black people. Although many of the little magazines at the time had essays and critiques of modern practices and rhetoric, Opportunity offered up data and research relating to black lives in America. This practice, as well as its editorial angle toward the middle class, for many, made the magazine feel like it was meant to appeal more to a white audience than to a primarily black one. That the magazine had been partially financed and supported in its renaissance by Ruth Standish Baldwin, a white lady, furthered this perception.

The journal published many outstanding voices of the Harlem Renaissance, as much of its early run offered a forum for literary endeavors. Some of the writers included Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn B. Bennett, and Langston Hughes.

Opportunity isn't readily available online, but archives of the magazine exist in a number of college and university libraries for perusal, most likely in scanned microfilm or fiche versions.

Fire!!, which made its debut-and indeed, its only appearance-in 1926, was one of the little magazines which had a slate of impressive literary talent behind it. Founded by Wallace Thurman, Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett and John P. Davis, the magazine was utterly radical for its time, even among a culture of radical black activism and creativity. Fire!! struggled financially from the beginning and took an even bigger hit when the offices for the magazine burned down shortly after its publication. The magazine gave space for fiction and essays and opened its spaces to talking about topics like homosexuality, bisexuality, prostitution, colorism, and more.

One of the big challenges during the Harlem Renaissance, which played out through its little magazines and other creative ventures, was the varying beliefs among black leaders about the best way forward. Indeed, the Harlem Renaissance's time frame places it post-slavery, during the Jim Crow era, and deep in the era of the Great Migration. Fire!! was one magazine some felt held back progress for the black community, while others saw it as a necessary, indeed subversive, means of claiming their own space. More, it was independent and didn't depend upon patrons or a mother company.

Fire!! can be read in full thanks to the POC Zine Project online, but you can also pick up a reproduction print of the magazine, too. There's also a fantastic and more in-depth history of Fire!! at FIYAH: Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and how the little magazine influenced the contemporary title.

Other magazines that played a significant role in the growth of black writers of the Harlem Renaissance included Crisis, which got its start in the early 1900s and served as the journal for the NAACP; Stylus, which began as a student literary journal at Howard University (an HBCU) and featured the work of then-student Zora Neale Hurston; Harlem, which published one edition under the eye of Fire!! founder Wallace Thurman in the late 1920s; and many, many more.

This is a taste of the rich history of little magazines in the Harlem Renaissance. For a bit of a deeper dive with an academic spin, check out "Forgotten Pages: Black Literary Magazines of the 1920s" from the Journal of American Studies, Volume 8, Number 3, December 1974, by Abby Ann Arthur Johnson and Ronald M. Johnson of Howard University. You can access the article for free via JSTOR (you may need to register).
Want more books about black history and by black authors? Check out these 25 children's books for black history month, black comics by black artists, and these books by black authors that should be on everyone's bookshelves.

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#12 Five Stars: Selected Amazon Reviews, Volume 4 by Kevin Killian, selected by Ted Rees & David Buuck, with introductory words from Kevin edited by Dodie Bellamy. Curated from the over 2500 reviews that William Hall has lovingly archived, this latest edition showcases Kevin's incomparable mix of wit and sincerity, pleasure and playfulness, his deep love of popular culture, and his unique critical voice. 70pp, cover image by Anne McGuire. $5 US/$10 International (shipping included). Free PDF.

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#11 RIMBAUD: a fragment by Peter Weiss. Translated by Hunter Bolin, this is the first English appearance of Weiss' text, exploring Weiss' long interest in revolutionary art and praxis. Cover illustration by Colter Jacobsen, a two-handed drawing based on purported photo of Rimbaud taken by Bruno Braquehais at the Place Vendome in May 1871 during the Paris Commune. $3 US/$8 International (shipping included). Free PDF.

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Announcing Tripwire 18: Archive Fervor, with 350 pages of writing, art, reviews, interviews, & translations, with a special section of Poems from the Myanmar Spring!

Poems from the Myanmar Spring, selected & translated by ko ko thett, by K Za Win, Kyi Zaw Aye, Khet Thi, Maung Yu Py, Win Myint, & Lynn Nway Eain, Toppled Monuments Archive, Honora Spicer, Nazanin Moghbeli

Expanding the Archive: Radical Counter-Traditions: Alana Levinson-LaBrosse interviews Zêdan Xelef and Emad Bashar, Cesáreo Martínez translated by Judah Rubin, René Depestre translated by Colin Dayan, José Revueltas translated by Amy Pass, Saïda Menebhi translated by See Red Pass, Lal Singh Dil translated from Telugu by Aditya Bahl, Varavara Rao translated by K. Balagopal, Vasanta Kannabiran, M.T. Khan, N. Venugopal and Jaganmohana Chari

Reprints and Reconsiderations: Inger Christensen translated by Matt Travers and Cecilie Rosendahl, Allison Grimaldi Donahue on Women's Concrete Poetry, Klara du Plessis on M. NourbeSe Philip, Rachel Levitsky on Gail Scott, Gustavo Ojeda (re)introduced by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Caspar Heinemann on Diane di Prima, Matt Travers on Rudolf Broby-Johansen, Rudolf Broby-Johansen translated by Matt Travers and Cecilie Rosendahl

Mining the Archives: Stephanie Syjuco, Lisa Robertson & sabrina soyer translate Na Castelloza, Noa/h Fields transposes Zukofsky, Coco Fitterman and Victor Torres Rodriguez, Rosie Stockton after Rimbaud, Tim Atkins translates Hölderlin, Roger Farr translates Villon, JJJJJerome Ellis, Rodney Ewing

Reviews: Peter Bouscheljong on Galina Rymbu, Sam Moore on We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Simon Crafts on Maxe Crandall, Allison Grimaldi Donahue on Sarah Dowling, Mary Burger on Camille Roy, Mary Burger on Etel Adnan anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Simon Crafts on Maxe Crandall, Allison Grimaldi Donahue on Sarah Dowling, Mary Burger on Camille Roy, Mary Burger on Etel Adnan and Lynn Marie Kirby, Brandon Sward on Cecilia Vicuña, Tony Iantosca on Anna Gurton-Wachter, Peter Valente on Derek McCormack

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Announcing Tripwire 17 - with 245 pages of writing, art, reviews, interviews, & translations, plus 27 pages of "Revolutionary Poetry from Lusophone Africa," selected & translated by Chris Daniels!

This issue is dedicated to the memories of Sean Bonney, Cassie Smith, & Diane di Prima

Contributors include:

Wendy Trevino, Tawahum Bige, Galina Rymbu, translated by Joan Brooks, Cait O'Kane, Jesse Darling, Anahita Jamali Rad, Colectivo Frank Ocean, Amitai Ben-Abba, Nkosi Nkululeko, Cean Gamalinda, Giancarlo Huapaya, translated by Ryan Greene, Hawad, translated by Jake Syersak, Nicholas Galanin, Archival: Revolutionary Poetry from Lusophone Africa, selected & translated by Chris Daniels: Amílcar Cabral * Deolinda Rodrigues * Noémia de Sousa * Alda do Espírito Santo * Marcelino dos Santos * Armando Emílio Guebuza * Nicolau Gomes Spencer, Helena Uambembe, Hugo Garcia Manríquez, translated by NAFTA, Mbizo Chirasha, Trish Salah, Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, Listen Chen, Hung Q. Tu, Catriona Strang, Buck Downs, Christodoulos Makris, ko ko thett, Catalina Cariaga. Essays & Reviews: Rossen Ventzislavov on Austyn Rich, Jeanine Onori Webb on Manuel Paul López, Alfredo Aguilar, & Lizz Huerta, Sarah Brouillette on Juliana Spahr, Virginia Konchan on Michael Nardone. 245 pages. $15.

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#10 A town, three cities, a fig, a riot, two blue hyacinths, three beginnings, five letters, a "death", two solitudes, façades, four loose dogs, a doppelgänger, a likeness, three airport floors, thirty-six weeks... by Lotte L.S., gathers four wide-ranging essays that together track a politics and a poetics through the cities of Marseille, Athens, Kyiv, and the town of Great Yarmouth, in order to ask: "When are your poetics, your politics, not implicated in another's?" amidst the crises of our times. With a new afterword, these reflections on riots and collectivity and poetry and solitude seek to understand what is included or excluded in the lived and languaged record of individual and communal memory. $3 US/$8 International (shipping included). Free PDF.

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This remote-access event starts promptly at 12:00 pm Pacific Time, and is free and open to the public. Real-Time Captioning link will be provided at the event. Media Captioning provided after the event, at our YouTube channel and at Poetry Center Digital Archive. For other reasonable accommodations please contact poetry@sfsu.edu

Please note early start-time, to accommodate our guest and audience in the UK, and elsewhere.

For our third program in the Tripwire Cross-Cultural Poetics Series, we are delighted to welcome two of the more outstanding young Black writers and intellectuals at work in the US and UK. Momtaza Mehri, in London, and Zoé Samudzi, here in the Bay Area, will each read from their work, engage in conversation with one another and with emcee alex cruse, and respond to questions from the audience. We welcome this rare opportunity to bring these two Afro-diasporan writers and thinkers together across continents.

"...A poet is drenched in a singularity, sodden with its viscous specificity. A poem speaks for itself exactly when it declares it speaks for others. The Black poet is an isotope of both hope & despair. The Black poet is both a reluctant & enthusiastic interlocutor of what is known as the Black condition, which conditions & structures the World that invented it. The Black poem asks you where it hurts & demands no particular answer. The Black poet knows this is a question one can spend a life trying to answer...."
-Momtaza Mehri, "Harlem Is Hijaz Is Havana Is Harar, Or: The Whole Point of the Black Arts Movement Is That They Were Moving"

"We [Afro-]diasporans joke often about the genre of poetry and prose born out of a longing for a motherland animated only by hungry verses. There's a cowardice to this: nostalgic memory, a narrativized nostalgia for memories and experiences and beauty that never belonged to you, is easy. But situating oneself in the wake and afterlife of those traumas and beautiful/beautified struggles is far harder still."
-Zoé Samudzi on Momtaza Mehri, The Poetry Project Newsletter, Summer 2020

Momtaza Mehri is a poet and independent researcher. Her work has been widely anthologised and has appeared in Granta, Artforum, The Guardian, BOMB, and Real Life Mag. She is the former Young People's Laureate for London. Her latest pamphlet, Doing the Most with the Least, was published in 2019 by Goldsmiths Press. More here.

"As Black as Resistance [by Zoé Samudzi and William C. Anderson] is an urgently needed book...a call to action through an embrace of the anarchy of blackness as a recognition and a refusal of the deathly logics of liberalism and consumption. In the face of the ever expanding carceral state, levels of inequality, environmental degradation, and resurgent fascism, this book offers a map to imagining the liberated futures that we can and mus and do make."
-Christina Sharpe, author of In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Zoé Samudzi is a writer, photographer, and a doctoral candidate in Medical Sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. Her writing has appeared in The New Inquiry, Warscapes, Truthout, ROAR Magazine, Teen Vogue, BGD, Bitch Media, Open Space, and Verso, among others. With William C. Anderson, Samudzi is coauthor of As Black as Resistance: Finding the Conditions for Liberation (foreword by Mariame Kaba, AK Press, 2018). More here.

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todas las cajas están vacías / all the boxes are empty, by Sara Uribe, translated by JD Pluecker.

Este manifiesto apuesta por una escritura acuerpada, por escribir en, desde y con el cuerpo: con los cuerpos presentes y los ausentes. Se trata de texto y subtexto que construye, deconstruye y resiste en torno a la poesía como devenir, reescritura y reciclaje: reverberaciones, resonancias, loops, archivos desestabilizadores y un desdecir de fronteras lingüísticas. Se trata de una política escritural que se propone robar tiempo y lenguaje de las fauces del capital y las constricciones de la cultura orquestada por el estado. Es un llamado a re-producir el presente, colectivamente, todos los días.

This manifesto insists on an embodied writing, writing in, from, and with the body: with the bodies, whether present or absent. This is a text and subtext that construct, deconstruct, and resist through an idea of poetry as becoming, re-writing, and recycling: reverberations, echoes, loops, archives that unsettle, and an unspeaking of linguistic boundaries. This is a politic of writing that proposes to steal time and language from the jaws of capital and the constrictions of state-orchestrated culture. A call to re-produce the present, collectively, each and every day. $3 US/$8 International (shipping included). Free PDF.

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The Processes, a factographic proem, by Peter Bouscheljong, translated by David Vichnar, Louis Armand & Tim König.

Announcing Tripwire Pamphlet #8: The Processes, a factographical proem, by Peter Bouscheljong, translated by David Vichnar, Louis Armand & Tim König. A dialectical poetics of radical history that asks what kind of resistance and poetry is possible under conditions of capitalist repression, if we do not simply want to return to everyday life? Synthesizing documentary poetics (the lives of George Jackson, Luxemburg, Verlaine, Pasolini, Anna Mendelssohn, Dalton, Vallejo, and others) with the capitalist alchemy of surveillance and repression, the long "proem" tracks the processes with which those in power react to the social struggles of political movements and the works of revolutionary poets, who strike back into a corner and contribute to our understanding of social upheavals, illuminated by the solar flares of Marx & Rimbaud. $3/$5 int'l. Free PDF.

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Making Ruins, by Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber

Published in conjunction with their exhibition at Republic Gallery, and their ongoing investigative work into architecture, public space, and collective memory, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber explore the legacy of architectural designs and debates in Skopje, Macedonia, where attempts to erase traces of the city's sociaist history has resulted in uncanny conjunctures of nationalist ideologies, urban history, and attempts to stage such ruptures in the built environment. Making Ruins points to the corpses of architecture hidden away under foamy camouflage. Artistic intervention is meant to rework the still visible architectural remains into ruins, acting to interrupt the linearity of false historization, preserving memories of a particular moment of past international solidarity and claiming an alternative future. FREE COLOR PDF.

The Tricking Hour, by Irene Silt

Gathering columns written over the last two years by New Orleans-based sex worker Irene Silt for a local alt monthly, The Tricking Hour explores work, sex, criminalization, resistance, joy, solidarity and queer love in the alternative political economies of sex work. A fervently anti-capitalist missive through the intersectional lens of anti-work feminist praxis, where struggles for autonomy and survival are deeply embedded in gendered bodies clandestinely organizing new modes of political identity and rebellion. As Silt asks, "How do we use our bodies, each other, animals, objects in the world, without making claims of possession over them? How do we take our refusal so seriously that we do not return to business as usual-ever?"

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Announcing Tripwire 16 - the Performance/Writing issue - with over 325 pages of writing, scores, reviews interviews, & translations, plus a 80 page Kevin Killian Poets Theater tribute! Contributors include:

Tanya Lukin Linklater (with Michael Nardone), Jibade-Khalil Huffman & Simone White, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Claudina Domingo (trans. Ryan Greene), Kim Rosenfield, Nathan Walker, Liz Knox, Rona Lorimer, Léo Richard, & Hector Uniacke, Mohamed A. Gawad & Dalia Neis, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge & Teddy Yoshikami, interviewed by Michelle N. Huang, Kyoo Lee and Jocelyn Saidenberg, Adriana Garriga-López, Gabrielle Civil, plus a Kevin Killian Tribute, with Eileen Myles * Scott Hewicker * Cliff Hengst * Karla Milosevich * Craig Goodman * Michelle Rollman * Anne McGuire * Wayne Smith * Tanya Hollis * Steve Orth * Lindsey Boldt * Maxe Crandall * Arnold J. Kemp * Carla Harryman, Lee Ann Brown & Tony Torn * Susan Gevirtz * Laynie Browne * Patrick Durgin * Norma Cole * Jo Giardini. & reviews: Jessica Lopez Lyman & Jocelyn E. Marshall on Gabrielle Civil, alex cruse on Merce Cunningham, Rob Stanton on Anne Boyer, Jack Chelgren on Miyó Vestrini, David Grundy on Stephen Jonas, Virginia Konchan on Sarah Vap. 340 pages. $15. $12. 20% off!

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Supplementing the flowing content that characterizes the Jacket2 interface, Reissues offers a stable archive of digitized journals and magazines primarily focused on poetry and poetics. This landing page will feature updated links to the full Reissues inventory as it continues to grow. Reissues is inspired by archival platforms ranging from Eclipse and UbuWeb to The Modernist Journals Project and The International Dada Archive. Just as Jacket2 is built upon the preservation of forty issues of John Tranter's magazine, Reissues seeks to re-present periodicals in conversation with contemporary issues in poetics.

We publish fully searchable facsimile PDF editions, scanned in high resolution and organized with bookmarked content for easy navigation to individual works within each magazine. In addition to the PDF features, each issue is accompanied by a full listing of contents arranged by print pagination in an attempt to preserve original formatting where possible. Like PennSound, we focus on free distribution within fair use and permission-based parameters. Links to pages hosting the reissues follow below while the sidebar maintains a complete index to the collection.

Reissues is thrilled to partner with Open Door Archive (ed. Harris Feinsod et al.) to cohost the digital afterlife of the extraordinary journal, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics (ed. Mark Nowak). If ever a journal might inspire elaborate forms of postdigital crossposting, it's this one. XCP likely needs no introduction to readers of Jacket2. Over thirteen years and across twenty-three stacked issues, XCP forged a network of global poetics and protest rarely seen in an editorial project. Find full contents and PDFs for each issue here, or download the entire set as a ZIP file [ 2.3 GB] to read at your leisure. Previous reissues include O Books, Pages, Aufgabe, Calque, Reality Studios, Infolio, New Wilderness Letter, Big Allis, M/E/A/N/I/N/G, Roof, Zuk, Chain, Secession, Alcheringa, and Combo. Shortly forthcoming is an ongoing set of recently scanned magazines including Object, Antennae,, Vanishing Cab, Hills, Wch Way, and Jimmy & Lucy's House of " K."For commentary on reissued material, please jump to Of Periodical Transcoding.

- Danny Snelson, 2.26.2021

Seccession (1922-1924)
Dir. Gorham B. Munson
Editorial Selections from Secession
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Secession, founded in 1922 by Gorham B. Munson, sought to give corner to the "youngest generation" of interwar modernists. Printed at various junctures in Vienna, Berlin, New York, Florence, and Reutte (Tyrol), Secession nevertheless became an important platform distributing literary Dadaism to New York.

Alcheringa (1970-1980)
Ed. Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg
Dennis Tedlock's Introduction
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Alcheringa was a trailblazing ethnopoetics journal edited by Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg over a thirteen-issue run from 1970 to 1980. Featuring a diverse array of scholars, ethnologists, poets, and translators, Alcheringa presents a rich and varied historical document while opening a vital set of questions for the practice of poetics and ethnography.

Roof (1976-1979)
Ed. James Sherry
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In ten packed issues published between 1976 and 1979, Roof's stable of poets came to define the movement known as Language poetry. The magazine housed an emerging community of writers performing a fantastic - and remarkably focused - set of poetic explorations. A snapshot of the passage from Naropa to the Ear Inn, Roof delivers a captivating narrative of transition in twentieth-century poetry.

(1977-1984)
Ed. Jerome Rothenberg
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Immediately following the ethnopoetics journal Alcheringa, Rothenberg's New Wilderness Letter sends its readers into the "coarse and broad" expanse of poesis. Shaking out the unlikely - and uncharted - wilds of prosodic experiment, the magazine features the anthologizing Rothenberg in top form. Twelve numbers in ten editions, with special issues on the poetry of number, performance, the book, and many other explorations into the news that stays news.

Reality Studios (1978-1988)
Ed. Ken Edwards
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From a monthly mimeograph to the interface of Apple II, Reality Studios gathered a wide range of experiments in language arts across its ten collected volumes. This poetry and poetics magazine hosted, evaluated, and intertwined various strands of international writing, with a special emphasis on Language poetry in the US and the British Poetry Revival in the UK. Questioning the possibilities of oppositional poetics throughout, the magazine adds another layer of complexity to any tidy narrative of late twentieth century poetry.

(1986-1991)
Ed. Tom Raworth
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With forty daily issues, sixty weekly issues, and sixteen biweekly alphabetical issues, Infolio presented an incredible array of art and poetry over the course of its four years of publication. While inspired by Royet-Journoud's L'In Plano (and anticipates Zuk, featured here), the aesthetic of Infolio could not be more different. Handwritten editorial notes, just-in-time sketches and collages, colorful cork stamps, and scaled reproductions of manuscript submissions mark Infolio 's exceptional approach to the magazine format.

(1987-1989)
Ed. Claude Royet-Journoud
"La poésie au format Zuk," translated from the French by Abigail Lang
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Redefining the little magazine, Zuk presented a single sheet folded into four delicate pages measuring just 6.3" high and 4.3" wide. Claude Royet-Journoud released twenty-four issues of Zuk in as many months. Printed in Le Revest-les-Eaux, France, the magazine offered new translations of English and American poetry alongside French poets writing under the sign of Zukofsky.

(1987-1990)
Ed. Robert Sheppard
"On Pages," an interview between Joey Frances and Robert Sheppard
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Sheppard's singular Pages reopens the poetics of the page alongside a snapshot of "linguistically innovative poetries" in the UK from 1987 to 1990. Breaking with Reissues standards, these scans instead feature the paste-ups for each photocopied edition, as evidenced by a variety of revealing textures, tapes, pastes, and inks throughout. While these material traces seem to affix the magazine to the moment of its production, a close inspection of this "cut-and-paste" digitization may yet turn the reader to the poetics of the present.

(1986-1996)
Ed. Susan Bee and Mira Schor
Founded in December of 1986, M/E/A/N/I/N/G provided a timely vehicle for an expanded practice of art criticism from its locus in New York City. In twenty issues published over the course of a decade, M/E/A/N/I/N/G offers a wide range of critical perspectives on "contemporary art issues." Designed by Susan Bee, the 8.5" by 11" magazine is side stapled for the first four issues and perfect bound thereafter.

(1988-2009)
Ed. Leslie Scalapino et al.
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Tracking a range of editorial projects initiated by Leslie Scalapino, this reissue includes four groundbreaking O Books anthologies, an urgent one-off periodical with Rick London, and the expansive War & Peace magazine project coedited with Judith Goldman. These projects offer a concentrated distillation and an expansive addition to Scalpino's unparalleled and prolific publishing work at O Books over the same period. Throughout, these experiments circle the points at which politics and poetics might meet.

(1989-2000)
Ed. Melanie Neilson and Jessica Grim
Introduction and Commentary on the Digital Reissue of Big Allis
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Rising out of New York City in the nineties, Big Allis generated a wide array of innovative writings - primarily composed by women - over a vibrant decade in American poetics. The magazine pays homage to its supergenerator namesake with an electrifying body of literary experiment arcing across its nine tightly constructed issues.

(1994-2005)
Ed. Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr
Some Facts About Chain
Chain was founded at the State University of New York, Buffalo in 1994. Each of the twelve issues of Chain is organized around a special topic with the content organized alphabetically by author. Under the editorship of Osman, Spahr, and others, this magazine presents an expansive index to key concerns in poetic practices around the turn of the millenium.

(1998-2003)
Ed. Michael Magee
Editorial Selections from Combo
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Edited by Michael Magee and published in association with the Kelly Writers House, Combo published a vital selection of younger poets over its twelve-issue run from 1998 to 2003. Over the course of these twelve issues, a reader might chart the emergence of Flarf and related developments in poetry around the millennium.

(ed. Mark Nowak). Over thirteen years and across twenty-three stacked issues, forged a network of global poetics and protest rarely seen in an editorial project. Anticipating the dynamic cross-cultural conversations that came to shape poetry and poetics online in the 2010s, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics (1997-2010)
Ed. Mark Novak
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Reissues is thrilled to partner with Open Door Archive (ed. Harris Feinsod et al.) to cohost the digital afterlife of the extraordinary journal, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics XCP XCP remains an inspiring model for thinking poetry against borders.

Aufgabe (2001-2014)
Ed. E. Tracy Grinnell et al.
Aufgabe was initiated by E. Tracy Grinnell in the Bay Area in 1999 to challenge "static cultural modes of thinking and being," through poetry and poetics in dialog with translation. The first issue was released in 2001. Each issue features a special section on a geographically-focused area of translation paired with selections of contemporaneous poetry and poetics. In every instance, Aufgabe is in the service of the co-elaboration, among the operations of translation, poetics, and publication, between intimate communities and the most dispersed international audiences. Aufgabe presents a singular perspective on the urgency of global poetic practice, speaking directly to the present from each page of the thirteen volumes digitized below.

(2007-2009)
Ed. Brandon Holmquest and Steve Dolph
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Over the course of five issues, Calque published a tremendous set of translations of new and archival works with an emphasis on the transformative poetics of translation as a creative act. Drawing from a global range of experimental poetry, Calque distinctively includes extensive translators' notes preceding translations published en face with original texts.

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Supplementing the flowing content that characterizes the Jacket2 interface, Reissues offers a stable archive of digitized journals and magazines primarily focused on poetry and poetics. This landing page will feature updated links to the full Reissues inventory as it continues to grow.