On July 1, Martin Stannard, who lives in China and who posted here some time ago, put out a call for contributions to what would be a one-time only on-line journal. Here's how Martin describes his project:
On July 1st I
invited a number of poets whose work I admire to contribute one of their poems
to what would be a one-off online publication to go "live" on August
1st. I also asked them to pass on the same invitation to a poet or
poets they knew and admired. My plan was for the resulting collection of poems
to be entirely chosen by the poets themselves, and for there to be threads of
friendship and mutual admiration linking the work. I've done no editing or
selecting. Poems arrived, and they are here to read.It was also my (probably
futile) intention to kind of take poetry publishing back to recapture something
of the spirit of the mimeo age, which is where I began some 35 years ago: quick
and simple publications that concentrated on the poem because the means of
production gave you almost no alternative. Sometimes it's a relief to leave the
flashy sophistications of state of the art websites behind, isn’t it? (Please
feel free to disagree and/or to point out the paradox of saying all this here
online.)
By my count, sixty-two poets contributed work, from C.J. Allen to Larry Zirlin, John Ashbery to Bill Zavatsky and many in between.
Read the complete publication here.
— sdh