Come on back later (sometime in January).
And consider reading the previous issues--and the one coming up in early 2010!
all the best to you all,
Andy Gricevich
editor, CANNOT EXIST
Cannot Exist no.5
Featuring generous selections of amazing new writing by
Nathan Austin
Laura Carter
Kristen Gallagher
Derek Henderson
Tom Hibbard
Brenda Iijima
Paul Foster Johnson
Andrew Levy
Chris Mercer
Chuck Stebelton
Steve Timm
with a cover by Steve Dalachinsky
It's SOLD OUT.
Author Bios and Links
steve dalachinsky was born in 1946, Brooklyn, New York. His work has appeared extensively in journals on & off line including; Big Bridge, Milk, Unlikely Stories, Xpressed, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat Jacket, N.Y. Arts Magazine, 88 and Lost and Found Times. He is included in such anthologies as Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment and the esteemed Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. He has written liner notes for the CDs of many artists including Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle, James "Blood" Ulmer, Rashied Ali, Roy Campbell, Matthew Shipp and Roscoe Mitchell. His 1999 CD, Incomplete Direction (Knitting Factory Records), a collection of his poetry read in collaboration with various musicians, such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Thurston Moore (SonicYouth), Vernon Reid (Living Colour) has garnered much praise. His most recent chapbooks include Musicology (Editions Pioche, Paris 2005), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective 2003), Lautreamont's Laments (Furniture Press 2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse 2005), St. Lucie (King of Mice Press 2005), Are We Not MEN & Fake Book (2 books of collage - 8 Page Press 2005). Dream Book (Avantcular Press 2005). His books include A Superintendent's Eyes (Hozomeen Press 2000) and his PEN Award winning book The Final Nite (complete notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook, Ugly Duckling Presse 2006).
His latest CD is Phenomena of Interference, a collaboration with pianist Matthew Shipp (Hopscotch Records 2005).
He has read throughout the N.Y. area, the U.S., Japan and Europe, including France and Germany.
Paul Foster Johnson’s first collection of poetry, Refrains/Unworkings, was published in 2008 by Apostrophe Books. The poems in this issue are from a new collection to be published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. With E. Tracy Grinnell, he is the author of the g-o-n-g press chapbook Quadriga. His poems have appeared a number of literary journals, including GAM, EOAGH, Pom2, Fence, The Portable Boog Reader 2, Antennae, Bird Dog, andOctopus. From 2003 to 2006, he curated the Experiments and Disorders reading series at Dixon Place. He is an editor at Litmus Press and currently lives in New York, NY.
Andrew Levy teaches at QCC-CUNY, serving as the Faculty Advisor on the student newspaper, Communiqué. He is the author of several books of poetry and essays, including The Big Melt (Factory School), Ashoka (Zasterle Books), Paper Head Last Lyrics(Roof Books), and Curve (O Books). Cracking Up is forthcoming from Truck Press, and Billy Dale Shoots to Kill from Chax. He is editor, with Roberto Harrison, of the arts and poetry journal Crayon.
Chris Mercer's website, which (says the editor) is full of remarkable music and research.
Chuck Stebelton works as Literary Program Director at Woodland Pattern Book Center in Milwaukee. He is author of Circulation Flowers (Tougher Disguises, 2005). Recent chapbooks include A Maximal Object (Mitzvah Chaps, 2008), Flags and Banners (Bronze Skull Press, 2007), and Precious (Answer Tag Home Press, 2005).
http://www.answertaghomepress.
http://www.woodlandpattern.
Cannot Exist launch reading
The Segue Series presents a reading and talk to celebrate the launch of Cannot Exist no.4!
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31st, 4-6 p.m.
Bowery Poetry Club
308 Bowery (just north of Houston)
NYC
with
Rick Burkhardt
Thom Donovan
Lawrence Giffin
Andy Gricevich
Eileen Myles
Laura Sims
Christina Strong
Rodrigo Toscano
what a great roster!
Cannot Exist no.4
Cannot Exist no. 4 is SOLD OUT!
featuring fantastic new political, philosophical, urgent, tender and angry poetry by
Christophe Casamassima
Mark DeCarteret
Thom Donovan
Raymond Farr
Andy Frazee
Jeff Glassman
Nicholas Grider
Robert V. Hale
Carrie Hunter
Jennifer Karmin
Eileen Myles
Steven Salmoni
Rodrigo Toscano
PLUS:
Each copy of Cannot Exist no. 4 features one of 125 unique covers by one of a bunch of contributing painters, collagists, photographers and text artists--mostly reproductions, but a few bona fide original works!
Call for Cover Art--Cannot Exist #4
Cannot Exist #4 will come out (I hope) sometime in December. We're seeking cover art in accordance with the following idea:
AN IDEAL:
There will be 100 copies of the fourth issue of Cannot Exist. Each of at least 50 will feature a unique cover, an original work of art not to be found anywhere else. If you make drawings, paintings, photographs, collages, visual poems, etc., either habitually or only for the purposes of such proposals, and you're interested in contributing a single cover, we'd love to hear from you. This proposal isn't restricted to professionals. We're interested in everything from happy accidents to single marks to virtuosic productions.
THE SPECIFICS:
Your work will most likely wrap around the cardstock cover of the magazine. That does mean that it will be folded in half, with three staples along the spine, and two additional folds on the ends for the wraparound (like the dust jacket of a hardcover book--plus staples, and sans spine).
It should be no more than 8 inches high by 18 inches wide. The piece of paper, canvas, etc. it's on should be at least 16 inches wide (18 is ideal), but there are no minimum height requirements, and the work itself need not take up the entire surface.
The front and back cover of the magazine (i.e., the parts that don't wrap around to the inside of the cover) together measure just over 11 inches across. A work, therefore, might be 11 inches wide with a fold down the middle, or might be two works, each around 5-and-one-half inches. It might also take up the entire 18 inches, including the folded-over sections (they aren't glued to the cardstock, so the reader will be able to lay the entire cover sheet out and view it all at once)... or any other permutation on this.
If the work is to be a wraparound outside cover, it should be on material that isn't too heavy. For comparative purposes: we usually use a 70 lb. text weight glossy paper for the wraparounds; a thin cardstock (70 lb. cardstock weight) also works, but if it gets much heavier than that, it won't fold well (it'll crack), and the staples won't want to go through it (so I'll have to tear them out multiple times, and risk damaging the cover).
You're also welcome to work directly on cardstock, or to decide to affix a work to a piece of cardstock of the correct size. If you do that, try to use a nice piece of stock that's close to the weight we usually use for the cover. If you have a copy of the magazine, you can look at the card cover to determine this. If not, it's about the same thickness as an average chapbook cover, just a bit thinner than a manila folder (and folds better). We like Mi-Teintes Acid Free Art stock, which is pretty cheap and nicely textured.
If you decide on this option, the piece of cardstock will need to ultimately be eight and three-quarters inches high by eleven and three-eighths inches wide. It can be an eighth of an inch or so wider in either dimension, but no smaller. I can cut whatever you send me, if that's necessary.
If the magazine's title can be present either literally or conceptually in the work, that would be ideal--but it's not required.
You can put your name somewhere on the work (or on the back of it), I can write it by hand in the copy whose contents it graces, or you can choose to remain anonymous.
An individual artist may choose to contribute more than one work; I have no problem printing five unique covers by the same artist.
WE ARE NOT UNCATEGORICALLY AVERSE
to the idea of using a scanned image of a work for the cover. We will understand if you really don't want to send an original and have a staple driven through the middle. If the work is in a digital medium (either a scanned copy, a digital photograph or other work in a format intrinsically given to reproduction), we may decide to use it for three or four or five or six copies. It's all in the perverse kind of math in which we deal over here at the editorial office.
EACH ARTIST GETS
our admiration and gratitude, as well as a copy of the magazine (which may or may not have a one-time-only cover; again, it depends on the math).
THE DEADLINE:
The issue will (hopefully) be out in mid-December, so getting the covers to me by the end of November would be great.
FOR QUESTIONS AND PROPOSALS
write to Andy at cantexist@gmail.com. If you've been specifically invited (e.g., we're acquainted), I probably already trust you, and you don't need to make a proposal.
Works can be sent by mail to:
Andy Gricevich
3417 Stevens St.
Madison, WI 53705
AN IDEAL:
There will be 100 copies of the fourth issue of Cannot Exist. Each of at least 50 will feature a unique cover, an original work of art not to be found anywhere else. If you make drawings, paintings, photographs, collages, visual poems, etc., either habitually or only for the purposes of such proposals, and you're interested in contributing a single cover, we'd love to hear from you. This proposal isn't restricted to professionals. We're interested in everything from happy accidents to single marks to virtuosic productions.
THE SPECIFICS:
Your work will most likely wrap around the cardstock cover of the magazine. That does mean that it will be folded in half, with three staples along the spine, and two additional folds on the ends for the wraparound (like the dust jacket of a hardcover book--plus staples, and sans spine).
It should be no more than 8 inches high by 18 inches wide. The piece of paper, canvas, etc. it's on should be at least 16 inches wide (18 is ideal), but there are no minimum height requirements, and the work itself need not take up the entire surface.
The front and back cover of the magazine (i.e., the parts that don't wrap around to the inside of the cover) together measure just over 11 inches across. A work, therefore, might be 11 inches wide with a fold down the middle, or might be two works, each around 5-and-one-half inches. It might also take up the entire 18 inches, including the folded-over sections (they aren't glued to the cardstock, so the reader will be able to lay the entire cover sheet out and view it all at once)... or any other permutation on this.
If the work is to be a wraparound outside cover, it should be on material that isn't too heavy. For comparative purposes: we usually use a 70 lb. text weight glossy paper for the wraparounds; a thin cardstock (70 lb. cardstock weight) also works, but if it gets much heavier than that, it won't fold well (it'll crack), and the staples won't want to go through it (so I'll have to tear them out multiple times, and risk damaging the cover).
You're also welcome to work directly on cardstock, or to decide to affix a work to a piece of cardstock of the correct size. If you do that, try to use a nice piece of stock that's close to the weight we usually use for the cover. If you have a copy of the magazine, you can look at the card cover to determine this. If not, it's about the same thickness as an average chapbook cover, just a bit thinner than a manila folder (and folds better). We like Mi-Teintes Acid Free Art stock, which is pretty cheap and nicely textured.
If you decide on this option, the piece of cardstock will need to ultimately be eight and three-quarters inches high by eleven and three-eighths inches wide. It can be an eighth of an inch or so wider in either dimension, but no smaller. I can cut whatever you send me, if that's necessary.
If the magazine's title can be present either literally or conceptually in the work, that would be ideal--but it's not required.
You can put your name somewhere on the work (or on the back of it), I can write it by hand in the copy whose contents it graces, or you can choose to remain anonymous.
An individual artist may choose to contribute more than one work; I have no problem printing five unique covers by the same artist.
WE ARE NOT UNCATEGORICALLY AVERSE
to the idea of using a scanned image of a work for the cover. We will understand if you really don't want to send an original and have a staple driven through the middle. If the work is in a digital medium (either a scanned copy, a digital photograph or other work in a format intrinsically given to reproduction), we may decide to use it for three or four or five or six copies. It's all in the perverse kind of math in which we deal over here at the editorial office.
EACH ARTIST GETS
our admiration and gratitude, as well as a copy of the magazine (which may or may not have a one-time-only cover; again, it depends on the math).
THE DEADLINE:
The issue will (hopefully) be out in mid-December, so getting the covers to me by the end of November would be great.
FOR QUESTIONS AND PROPOSALS
write to Andy at cantexist@gmail.com. If you've been specifically invited (e.g., we're acquainted), I probably already trust you, and you don't need to make a proposal.
Works can be sent by mail to:
Andy Gricevich
3417 Stevens St.
Madison, WI 53705
Issue 3 is here!
Hooray! Cannot Exist no.3 is available!
It's a stupendous issue, with 50 pages of poetry by
Alex Burford
Mark Cunningham
Carrie Etter
Lawrence Giffin
William Gillespie
Kevin Killian
Mark Lamoureux
Bonnie Jean Michalski
Sheila E. Murphy
Andy Nicholson
Dirk Stratton
Now that we've had the chance to read it as non-editors, it's blowing our mind with even greater oomph.
Like the first three issues, it features a glossy wraparound cover with odd art (in this case, by the editor), over a cardstock cover, saddle-stapled and assembled by hand in Madison, Wisconsin. As with previous issues, the materials are all acid-free and (except for the cardstock) partially recycled, and all the printing was done at Lakeside Press, our local IWW printing co-op, where even the neighbors are friendly enough to refrain from yelling at me when I block their driveway as I run inside to pick up the copies.
All this for a mere four bucks, plus shipping. Send a check to the address below, or buy it via PayPal.
Subscribe, and get the first four issues for a mere $15. Oh, such good poetry.
Submissions are open for issue 4 (to come out in December), and will remain so through October 31st. Click the link on the sidebar for guidelines.
All the best to you all!
Make checks out to Andy Gricevich, and send to:
Cannot Exist
c/o Andy Gricevich
3417 Stevens St.
Madison, WI 53705
Coming Next Week
CANNOT EXIST no. 3 is back from the printer, and will be out as soon as the editor returns from the RNC protests.
It's a great issue, featuring Alex Burford, Mark Cunningham, Carrie Etter, Lawrence Giffin, William Gillespie, Kevin Killian, Mark Lamoureux, Bonnie Jean Michalski, Sheila E. Murphy, Andy Nicholson and Dirk Stratton.
Submissions for issue 4 will open soon as well.
It's a great issue, featuring Alex Burford, Mark Cunningham, Carrie Etter, Lawrence Giffin, William Gillespie, Kevin Killian, Mark Lamoureux, Bonnie Jean Michalski, Sheila E. Murphy, Andy Nicholson and Dirk Stratton.
Submissions for issue 4 will open soon as well.
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