Utriculi Submissions Open June 1st

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Utriculi will be open for submissions on June 1 and currently it will be published yearly with new works of textual poetry, vispo, short fiction, flash fiction, essays, reviews, photographic art, and art. We welcome all forms of experimental literature and art that push boundaries. We welcome submissions from artists and poets of all backgrounds and identities. Please click on the Utriculi Submissions link for the guidelines. If you sent a submission on June 1st and have not received a response by now please resubmit. The email address on June 1st was not correct. Please submit to sandypress2021@gmail.com

 

Eileen R. Tabios – Three soundscape poems from The Engkanto’s Diary

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Eileen R. Tabios – Three soundscape poems from The Engkanto’s Diary 

Music harry k stammer

#72

 

#72

Tell me more of the unending radiance

your eyes discovered when pressed

 

against the hole into a honeycomb.

Say turquoise. Say my uncut hair

 

coiling around your eyes. Say berry.

Say your finger circled hard around

 

my toe. Tell me more of the unending

radiance erupting when eyes pressed

 

against honeyed wombs.  Say my name.

You don’t know my name?  Make it

 

up. Then say my name.  Tell me more

of the unending radiance of honeyed eyes.

Mark Cunningham – Dented Breeze out on Lulu

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Mark Cunningham’s new book Dented Breeze is now on sale at Lulu.com

Highly recommended. He published this under his own name and as he has said:

“Donald Sutherland, who wrote on both the English Romantics and Gertrude Stein, said that one of the traits of Romanticism was its attempt to include as much of the world and experience (if those can be distinguished) as possible–an attempt that would become never-ending task as experience would constantly increase, or at least change. Dented Breeze is my attempt to help out. Each piece here adds a bit of information about one piece of information in the sentence of the original poem it glosses. Unfortunately, Donald Sutherland the actor does not appear as a guest star.
This doesn’t cover every aspect of the book of course–particularly the reduction of romantic wonder, political agitation, despair, whatever, to what are basically banal sentences found on Wikipedia, the opposite of all of the above.

 

Drawing The Six Directions – New book by Eileen Tabios

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Eileen R. Tabios. Drawing The Six Directions now out on Sandy Press

Click on the cover below for book purchase information.

In her drawings, Eileen Tabios brings vibrantly colored multiple gourd patterns within diverse geometric ensembles into fruitfully diverse and dynamic compositional arrangements. Sometimes I recall suprematist canvases; at other times, the drawings hark back to the placement of stones in a Japanese garden.

— Thomas Fink, poet-painter & author of Zeugma

Eileen R. Tabios began her “Poems Form/From the Six Directions” partly because she was trying to create a poem in a new way. Creating mixed-media sculptures whose processes engendered verse-poems fit that impetus. But, unexpectedly, the sculpting process made her focus for the first time on working with physical material. As a writer working with imagination and words, she was surprised by the pleasurable frisson of dealing with the tangible as found materials made their way into her mixed-media sculptures. Such materials included old coasters, used magazines, ribbons, recycled cardboard, department store shopping bags, and so on. The sculpting process created a “simmer” in her belly, like the physical effect she often feels when chasing down a poem into written form. She, therefore, decided to try her hand at working more consciously as a visual artist. She hadn’t intended to go this route but allowed herself to follow the impulse because such an “opening” manifested what she considers wonderful about all Art and Poetry: how they lead its maker and viewer/reader into new experiences. She would end up creating about a dozen sculptures before sculpting led her to drawing.

Her drawings and sculptures were just part of Six Directions, a multidisciplinary and
interactive project that encompassed several performances, exhibitions, and readings in California’s Bay Area (San Francisco, Berkeley, and Sonoma). Because of her initial focus on the project’s interactive aspects with audience, the Six Directions drawings are the project’s least known element. This book offers the entire series of drawings, most of which have never been seen in public.