March 2012
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BIG ANNOUNCEMENT: BANANGO STREET
Banango Lit is pleased to announce we are starting an online journal. Submissions are now open. It will be called Banango Street. Our first issue includes contributions from people we all know and love, including Russ Woods, DJ Berndt, and Neon Glittery. Theron Jacobs will be providing artwork. The only thing missing right now? You!
Submit through Submishmash here. There are 2 categories: poetry...
February 2012
13 posts
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WatchEver by Blake Butler (read by Jackson Nieuwland)
Ever is Blake’s first book but it makes a lot more sense to me after reading Scorch Atlas (the book of stories that came after). Much of Blake’s work is set in the same world, a world that takes time to get used to. I believe Blake has improved with every book but that is not to say that this one is of low quality. This was one of the...
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A List Of Books That I Have Not Read That I Should...
by: Justin Carter
Section 1: Books That I Own/ Have Ordered
Light Boxes by Shane Jones: Russ Woods suggested this book to me on gchat. I don’t know much about it. I flipped through the pages and it looks very stylistically interesting. I think this will be the next book I read.
I Am A Productive Entrepreneur by Mathias Svalina: I ordered this book. I hope it comes in soon. Svalina wrote a...
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Interview with Jordan Castro
Jordan Castro is a writer living in Ohio. He is the co-author of Cute (Thumbscrews Press, 2011) and author of Supercomputer (Deckfight Press, 2011) and the recently-published KADIAN (hiphiphooray press, 2012). Banango writer Jackson Nieuwland interviews him here.
Jackson: How is college so far?
Jordan: I like it.
How long have you been there now?
Since August 25, 2011.
What are you...
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Review: SIGH NO MORE, A Collection, by T.L. Kirk
BY: THOM JAMES
I remember when the Mumford and Sons album first came out in Britain. I gave it a few listens, and did not think much of it. I moved on to the next thing. I think it was the XX.
T.L. Kirk has written a collection of poems within a chapbook whilst being inspired by the music he heard from Mumford and Sons. After being given this piece to review, I thought, “why not listen to...
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Valentine's Day Megapost
Many things came out on Valentine’s Day 2012. Most of them will be reviewed here. Some of the bigger things will be given due consideration and reviewed at a later point. Read on. OKSTUPID by Walter Mackey reviewed by Justin Carter Walter Mackey wrote a story about love for Valentines Day. It is about Sarah and Greg. They meet through OkCupid. They are both depressed. Greg is in an emo...
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Unorganized Thoughts in Response to Jordan...
by Matt Margo
KADIAN Jordan Castro Hip Hip Hooray Press, February 2012 Buy from Animal Sorrow
KADIAN is a morphine sulfate extended-release capsule. KADIAN is intended to alleviate your pain. KADIAN can easily lead to an overdose if chewed, crushed, dissolved, snorted, or injected in excess. KADIAN, Jordan Castro’s poetry chapbook published by Hip Hip Hooray Press,...
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Review: PANIC ATTACK, U.S.A. by Nate Slawson
By: Diana Salier
i first read nate slawson last year on linelinelineline — he wrote an echap of love poems to zooey deschanel, and i share his love for zooey d, so i really enjoyed that. last month i bought PANIC ATTACK USA at powell’s and started reading it on donald dunbar’s living room couch. i read it on a plane from portland back to san...
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Review: Less of Everything by Dave Shaw
Dave Shaw can be found on Tumblr here. He also runs the website Lit Mixtapes.
By: Rachel Hyman It’s funny that Dave Shaw’s newest chapbook, recently released through NAP, is called Less of Everything. It’s chock-full of images (the word kind), details, people, places, things. Less of Everything centers around a character named Anxiety. I like this, this idea that Big Things...
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Notes on 4 Chapbooks
by Justin Carter
I recently received the following chapbooks in my mail box: tiny people by Russ Woods, He Is Talking to the Fat Lady by xTx, I Don’t Respect Female Expression by Frank Hinton, and make-believe love-making by Ana C.
I am going to write short reviews of each one and tell you why you should acquire them.
tiny people
Russ Woods is one of my favorite poets right now. I...
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Thoughts on "Everything" Poems
by Justin Carter
I just got out of a craft talk/ lecture by Mark Halliday and J Allyn Rosser (which also featured Tony Hoagland and Kevin Prufer and Ange Mlinko asking questions (who needs AWP, this was probably better) ~10 minutes ago. The craft talk was about “everything” poems, by which they meant poems that attempt to discuss everything and the inability to be able to discuss...
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Guest Post: Jackson Nieuwland reviews The Oregon...
By: Jackson Nieuwland
The Oregon Trail is the Oregon Trail (Mud Luscious Press) by Gregory Sherl
I had been waiting for this book for a long time and I am excited that it is now in my hands,
which is surprising because I haven’t read any of Greg’s poetry
(well I have read a couple poems from his blog in the last couple days but mentioning that takes away a lot of the power of what I’m...
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Review: All Her Father's Guns
By: Rachel Hyman All Her Father’s Guns is a novel by James Warner. It was published by Vox Novus in 2011. Disclosure: I was sent a complementary copy of this book. As the 2012 primaries and eventual presidential race get under way, as the hope and change touchstones of Obama’s 2008 campaign ring hollow, as we find ourselves faced with new movements like the Tea Party and...
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Review: The Black Dot Series by Gabby Gabby
by: Justin Carter
edit: link to the actual collection is HERE.
I don’t know who Gabby Gabby is. The best I can figure out is that she lives in Williamsburg, Virginia (thanks Beach Sloth) and that she surfaced on the ‘alt-lit’ scene fairly recently. She had a poem published in the first issue of a new online journal called ‘screaming seahorse’. She has something...