PSA. Nearly all issues of small town are on the brink of being sold out (except for 4, which I think there are still plenty of). There's something like less than 5 copies left of most of the rest. So hurry up and get buying before it's too late.
. rob mclennan talks a little bit about the new small town (scroll down to "San Francisco, CA"). You can purchase that issue in the bottom of the sidebar.
. Step right up to the spectacle that is THE RESURRECTION! Yes, folks, you heard that right. With no bells and no whistles, and no yelps from the mountaintops-- and, most importantly, with very little bloodshed, small town, yr favorite little poetry-mag-that-could, is BACK!
Yes, sir! And yes, madame! Do we have an issue for you, full of everything promised: Yr favorite tasty bits of poetry AND a reborn mag with MORE LO-FI! Yes! MORE LO-FI! What have we got here, you ask? Well, we've got ya about 50 pages of poetry printed on lovely pink paper the Mayor of Small Town had left over and layin' around, as well as a snifty-- that's right --SNIFTY light blue cover made COMPLETELY out of... you guessed it: PAPER! Yes sir, and YES, madame-- PAPER! That's the good stuff, alright.
As you all know, THE MAYOR OF SMALL TOWN is in a perpetual financial crisis but is STILL DETERMINED to bring ye masses of the subculture this thing called: OTHER PEOPLE'S POETRY.
A-A-A-A-MAZING!
And just what can I do, you ask, to get my hot little subcultural hands on this piece of sweet poetry meat? Well, it's simple, I tell ya. All ya do is press the little PayPal button in the sidebar and yr on yr way to poetic bliss! And if ya don't swing that way, you can always send a check made out to Logan Ryan Smith for the wee, wee price of $3.50 and send it here:
711 Leavenworth St., #35 San Francisco, CA 94109
What? What's that I hear? You, too, may be in a perpetual state of financial crisis in much the same way THE MAYOR OF SMALL TOWN is? Well, listen here, folks! If you got something to trade, make an offer! And, listen, ye gentle people of the listless, if you've simply got nothing-- NOTHING! --to offer but a simple request and need of the poetry, you need only ask, and perhaps something can be worked out.
Don't dilly-dally, dont' delay! Get to it before SMALL TOWN XII, THE COMEBACK ISSUE, is all gone. You wouldn't want to miss the magic and daredevil stunts performed by such players as:
rob mclennan Arielle Guy Michael Slosek Robin Demers Carrie Hunter kathryn l. pringle John Sakkis Dorothea Lasky Brandon Brown
What's that? You're having a "mofuckin' heart attack" from all the excitement??? Never fear...
small town (info). small town is published irregularly, and will usually be around 40 to 50 pages and staplebound. From now on the format will change on a whim-- it could be a pamphlet, a side-stapled and 8.5 x 11 mag, or a legalhalf one, or whatever seems appropriate. You can purchase small town in the sidebar of the main page of the blog.
I do not currently accept unsolicted submissions for small town, but feel free to inquire by email (loganryansmithATgmailDOTcom) if you feel you have something that really should be in this little mag.
SMALL TOWN PZA, VOL. #2
from DATING TIPS WITH THE GANGLAND MASSACRE OF THE HEART
Parker Zane Allen
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This is the second issue devoted to my late friend, Parker Zane Allen. Like the first SMALL TOWN PZA, this issue will not go out of print. It contains these Dating Tips: .
SMALL TOWN X Jess Mynes, Susana Gardner, Gina Myers, K. Lorraine Graham, Joseph S. Cooper, Suzanne Stein, kathryn l. pringle, Sabrina Calle, Joseph Massey, Cynthia Sailers, Maureen Thorson, Michael Farrell, kari edwards, Mairead Byrne .
SMALL TOWN PZA Parker Zane Allen . This issue was originally put together for Parker's wake, but was made available to the public because everyone should be aware of Parker's work. This issue contains a selection of his short prose pieces titled DATING TIPS FROM THE GANGLAND MASSACRE OF THE HEART. This issue will never go out of print. Here's the TOC (click on the links to read that piece):
Elizabeth Robinson, Anne Heide, Andy Peterson, Kevin Killian, Alli Warren, Feliz Molina, Noah Eli Gordon, Joseph S. Cooper, Michael Slosek, Jared Hayes, Larry Kearney, Michael Koshkin, Jennifer Rogers
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Larry Kearney, Michael Slosek, Sabrina Calle, Luke Daly, Jeremiah Bowen, Brandon Brown, M.S. Arnone, Christophe Casamassima, Michael Rothenberg, Anna Moschovakis, Eric Gelsinger, Demosthenes Agrafiotis (translated by John Sakkis), Akilah Oliver
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small town, issue four
the last of the perfect bound issues .
Suzanne Stein, Kelly Holt, Stephanie Young, Larry Kearney, Lisa Ludden, Kevin Killian interviews Herb Selwyn, a previously unpublished poem by Jack Spicer, Ryan Philip Kulefsky, Matthew Arnone, Lauren Shufran, Armand F. Capanna II, Michael Slosek, Stefania Iryne Marthakis, Lisa Jarnot, Aaron Lowinger, Ric M. Cleary, Gregory Pokarney, Sarah Menefee, Chris Stroffolino, kari edwards, John Sakkis interviews Andrew Schelling, Andrew Schelling
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small town, issue three (perfect bound) . Sean Mclain Brown, Duncan McNaughton, Paul Vangelisti, William Corbett, George Albon, Sarah Menefee, S. Giancarlo Campagna, Erin Donnell, Brandon Brown, Larry Kearney, Ammiel Alcalay, Nicholas Buzanski, Chad Sweeney, Paul Hoover, Stacy Doris, John Sakkis, Maxine Chernoff, Benjamin Hollander
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small town, issue two SOLD OUT . Sarah Menefee, Nicholas Buzanski, kris t kahn, Robert Mezey, S. Giancarlo Campagna, Julia Bloch, Elise Ficarra, Brandon Brown, John Sakkis, Stephen Kelley, Benjamin Hollander, Nina Schuyler, Parker Zane Allen
small town, issue one SOLD OUT . Tyurina Allen, Grace Bedwell, Kristy Bowen, Janet Buck, Nicholas Buzanski, Catullus (translated by Brandon Brown), Daniel Coshnear, Erin Elizabeth, Stephen Kelley, Ward Kelley, Joseph Lisowski, David A. Porter, Jennifer Poteet, Kelley Rockhill, John Sakkis, Frank Barry Smith, Daniel Sumrall, Chris Grant, Alexander Purugganan, Stephen Wiley
You're going to read the word "fuck" a lot. And probably "holy shit" just as much. Other than that, you'll get disjointed thoughts on baseball and poetry, and also my favorite TV shows, apparently; oh, and news on TRANSMISSION PRESS publications and small town magazine, which you can purchase in the sidebar below. C'est la fuck it.
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