26 Contributor Bios Are Up Now!
and the list keeps growing…
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Sarah Jean Alexander [coming soon]
Mario Ariza [coming soon]
Augusto de Campos (*1931, São Paulo, Brazil), poet, translator, critic. In 1952, with his brother Haroldo and Décio Pignatari, he launched the literary magazine “Noigandres,” the origin of the Noigandres Group, which introduced the international movement of concrete poetry in Brazil.
Natalie Chin (b. 1992) is a girl who grew up in Singapore and is studying Politics, Philosophy and Law at University College London. She is here sometimes: http://blog.herbonestructure.com
Matthew Donahoo [coming soon]
Victor Heringer (b. Rio de Janeiro, 1988) has published Glória (novel, 7Letras, 2012) and automatógrafo (poetry, 7Letras, 2011), as well as two e-chapbooks: Quando você foi árvore (2010) and canção do sumidouro (2010). He also produced the audiovisual series Arquespélago (2012), Misantropical (with Dimitri BR, 2012-2013) and Q (2013). His work was shown in Rio de Janeiro at the Museum of Modern Art (2011) and at the 30ª Bienal de São Paulo (2012). Website: http://automatografo.org.
Heiko Julién [coming soon]
Leonardo Torres Londoño (Bogotá, 1959) (biographic note : he has prepared the non-publications of four or five books of poetry; he feeds the blog tajalapiz ; generous journals have hung up one or two of his texts. Despite love for his own city, he lives in France.)
Lonely Christopher [coming soon]
Meghan O’Connor [coming soon]
Mariana Roca [coming soon]
Elaine Sun [coming soon]
Russ Woods is the author of Wolf Doctors (Artifice Books, 2014) and Sara (Mud Luscious Press, 2014/15). He lives in Chicago where runs Love Symbol Press and the reading series Poetry Made of Diamonds with Jeannette Gomes.
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The first list of confirmed contributors to Cityscapes 2 is up! As more submissions are approved, we’ll add to the list.
14 out of over 40 pieces solicited for Cityscapes 2 are in! Just one month to go…
Luna Miguel
Barcelona –El Raval
DESPERTAR EN LA RAMBLA DEL RAVAL
No sé si sabes que por las mañanas el portal de nuestra casa huele a carne, que en la acera el pollo se amontona en cajas de plástico junto al contenedor de vidrio, y que las vacas y los corderos esperan tendidos en el suelo, mientras alguna gaviota picotea las cuencas de sus ojos aparentemente muertos.
―Te lo cuento porque ya no me da asco.
Ya no temo ese lugar en donde las moscas
pequeñas
bailan en espiral
chocándose
las unas contra las otras
en celebración de la leche vertida
las moscas van hacia el deshecho
hacia el excremento
pero también danzan en la carne
anidan en ella
se quedan, para siempre,
en el hueco coagulado de su sangre.
No sé si sabes que los gatos eran bestias cazadoras, que los perros se creen iguales al hombre pero más desgraciados. No sé si sabes que los hombres desprecian lo viviente atreviéndose a adorar iconos invisibles. La cuestión…
la cuestión…
la cuestión no es Qué hago aquí
sino
Qué hago Ahora que me han traído a este lugar.
Hay hilos que se arrastran por la acera.
―Te lo cuento porque es irremediable.
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Luna Miguel.
Nací en Madrid en 1990 pero vivo en Barcelona, donde trabajo como editora y periodista. Soy autora de los libros de poemas Estar enfermo, Poetry is not dead, Pensamientos estériles, Bluebird y otros tatuajes, Musa enferma y La tumba del marinero; así como del relato Exhumación, escrito junto con Antonio J. Rodríguez.
He elegido Barcelona y El Raval porque son la ciudad y el barrio que mejor me han acogido a pesar de su hostilidad. Mi gato. Mis drogas. Mis amigos. Mis insectos muertos.
Luna Miguel’s “Waking Up On the Rambla del Raval” has been featured on Ciudades esqueleto today.
‘Snails’ by Stacey Teague for Cityscapes - Auckland, NZ
This upcoming Saturday there will be a Cityscapes reading with Ana Carrete and Aurelio Meza in San Diego!! I encourage anybody in that area to go hear these two excellent readers!!
Cityscapes 2 is under way…
Alt Lit Gossip Awards (Winners)
Wow. Cityscapes won the Best New Litzine award last night at the 2nd Annual Alt Lit Gossip Awards and I had left for another party like a shithead and wasn’t there! :(
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“Seventeen Snowflakes And I Still Haven’t Caught You On My Tongue.” (A Christmascape) by Walter Mackey
This Christmascape takes place in St. John’s, Newfoundland. Check out the first volume of Cityscapes for non-holiday themed cityscapes, and check back for updates on volume 2, coming Summer 2013.
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The Basilica rose like Kilimanjaro before our noses and I forgot what it was like to be alone.
Our chests were tight from excessive smoking and the long walk up Prescott Street.
I couldn’t stop complaining about how vertical the street was but knew it would pay off when I’d get horizontal with you later.
Your cheeks, from the salty Atlantic wind, matched the skin of the stolen apple in your pocket. I couldn’t wait to take a bite.
Merrymeeting, Barnes, Dardanelles, Hayward Ave.
I shook the snow off my boots, unbuttoned my vulnerability, and pulled the quilt to my neck.
Waiting to be warmed in St. John’s by you.
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Walter Mackey is a 22 year old Shopping Channel enthusiast and wood nymph from the forests of Newfoundland.
neatomosquitoaltlitfireworksshow:
The idea for this project was born one day this past winter in Buenos Aires. As I walked to the subway, I remembered my third year of college, when a friend of mine took a seminar about space and our relationship to it. She explained to me how there are meaningful spaces (our dwellings, where…
