Submissions are still closed

We've been getting a good number of submissions, and just wanted to make it clear, since it doesn't seem to be: if this site doesn't say, somewhere, that submissions are currently open, they aren't. Hopefully, that doesn't sound chiding or otherwise unfriendly; we just want to make sure people aren't sending stuff into the void, which can be what it amounts to, as we get very busy very often and therefore take forever to write back to people who have sent work during a "closed" period.

Cannot Exist no. 6 is out!

What a pleasure it is to announce the appearance of Cannot Exist no.6!

Such pleasure derives from the 60 pages of mind-bendingly strange, heartbr(e)aking, hilarious, urgent work contributed thereto by the following masters of contemporary versification:

Michael Bernstein

David Buuck

Mairead Byrne

Jordan Dunn

Lewis Freedman

Steve Gilmartin

Bob Heman

Crag Hill

Mary Kasimor

Monica Mody

The Nonsense Company
Nicholas Ravnikar

Juliana Spahr

Jordan Stempleman

David Wolach

Joey Yearous-Algozin

You can buy the issue by clicking on the PayPal button below, or by sending a check for $6.00, made out to "Andy Gricevich," to:

Andy Gricevich
4454-D Hillcrest Dr.
Madison, WI 53705

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS AND LINKS

David Buuck:

buuckbarge.wordpress.com

Mairéad Byrne emigrated from Ireland to the United States in 1994, for poetry. Her books include The Best of (What's Left of) Heaven (Publishing Genius 2010), Talk Poetry (Miami University Press 2007), SOS Poetry (/ubu Editions 2007), and Nelson & The Huruburu Bird (Wild Honey Press 2003). She lives in Providence and teaches at Rhode Island School of Design. Check out the new book at http://www.whatsleftofheaven.

Jordan Dunn currently lives in Madison, WI, with his girlfriend and their infant son. He supports farms, bicycles, and parallax. He can be reached here: jordancdunn AT gmail DOT com.

With Nico Vassilakis, Crag Hill is editing a major international anthology of visual poetry, The Last Vispo Anthology. Over 130 contributors from over 20 countries.

Mary Kasimor has two books, Silk String Arias (BlazeVox Books) and & cruel red (Otoliths). She also has had poems published in online and print journals. She lives in the cruel heart of the heart country where writing poetry is necessary for survival.

Monica Mody is an MFA candidate in poetry at the University of Notre Dame. Her poems have been published in Wasafiri, Nthposition, Pratilipi, Midway Journal and other online and print publications.

The Nonsense Company (Rick Burkhardt, Andy Gricevich and Ryan Higgins) has toured nationally and internationally with its pieces of innovative chamber music and strange political theater. Its most recent project is Storm Still, an extended meditation on King Lear.

Jordan Stempleman's newest book is Doubled Over (BlazeVOX, 2009). He teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute and is the Associate Editor of The Continental Review.

David Wolach is editor of Wheelhouse Magazine & Press and a participant in Nonsite Collective. His most recent books are Occultations (Black Radish Books, 2010), Prefab Eulogies Volume 1: Nothings Houses (BlazeVox [books], 2010), Hospitalogy (Scantily Clad Press, forth. 2010), and book alter(ed) (Ungovernable Press, 2009). A former union organizer and multi-media artist, Wolach's work often begins as site-specific and interactive performance and ends up as shaped, written language. Critical work on the poetics of spatial practice and the body has appeared most recently in Jacket and Sibila: Poesia y Cultura (Brazil). He's currently at work with composer Arun Chandra on a 4-channel sound-text composition for four voices, a set of pieces which includes "modular arterial cacophony" from Occultations. Wolach is professor of text arts, poetics, and aesthetics at The Evergreen State College, and visiting professor in Bard College's Workshop In Language & Thinking. For current projects, including Wheelhouse calls for submissions, visit him at http://davidwolach.blogspot.com/

Joey Yearous-Algozin is the author of Kensington Notebook (Lean-To Press) and BOSTON STREET/TREES (Lean-To Press). His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from Forage and the Robert Walser Society of Massachusetts. He is currently a PhD student in Poetics at SUNY-Buffalo.