The Mad Editor's Round-up

Written by John Erianne on - Eyes front, clean the wax out of your ears and cancel those las vegas hotel reservations ! That’s right, it’s time for a new issue of The 13th Warrior Review . In this issue, we have: Poetry by P.Q. Perron, Robert O’Neal, Paul Sohar, Robert Cooperman, Peter Layton,Simon Perchik, Lyn Lifshin, Jene Erick Beardsley, Brady Rhoades, Kathleen M. McCann, William Doreski, Llyn Clague, Dara Barnat, William Meyer, Genine Hanns, Liz Kay, Lafayette Wattles, Bridget Gage-Dixon, and Ron Price. Fiction by Kevin Keating, Stanley B. Trice, Cindy Rosmus, Michelle Reale,Kevin Frazier, and Jared Ward. Reviews of Swimming the Mirror, ... Read Full Story

SPURIOUS PURSUITS Ghandi despaired we would eventually let guns do our talking. Thoreau foresaw pines, ponds, & peace crushed under tons of concrete. would Aesop, here & now, be saying I must really care compromised by consumer culture? Isha, the last of his race, which god carried him away? & what are the rest of us doing with our time? we eat, we fuck, we fight, we find ourselves swinging through leafless trees. -- Robert O'Neal Robert O'Neal is of Dutch-Irish extraction. He was born in Alexandria, Loiusiana in 1959. An Air Force brat, he's had opportunities to reside in many places, including Arizona ... Read Full Story

A year ago this week friends of the Electronic Rights Defence Committee—myself included--were having our day(s) in court. At issue was whether the group, which claims that The Gazette stole work done by freelance writers for use in data bases and on websites, will be able to undertake a class action in order to be compensated for unauthorized electronic use of our work. We had hoped we’d hear after six months or so whether we could proceed to the next step, but 12 months later there still is no news. Apparently it isn’t good form to nudge the judge, either, so we’re sitting here, ... Read Full Story

Simultaneously a short story by Aaron Hellem Maggie was bleeding and the birds were singing. I tried to figure out how that was possible. How the world would let both of those things happen at the same time. It was Bellevue, but not the hospital. She said she couldn't go to the hospital, but there was a free clinic downtown. She was cramping and that's when she told me she might be pregnant. I didn't know what to do. I went to reach out and pick her up, but then I was afraid to touch her. Like she might crumble. She doubled over. She ... Read Full Story

Although, The Mad Editor's Round-up was started primarily to promote my own web sites and will often feature material from those web sites, I am also looking for articles and news items related to the world of small press literature. I will welcome zine and ezine reviews, interviews with noted small press writers and the occasional article about writing and publishing resources.  If you are involved in the small press literary scene and would like to contribute, feel free. Read Full Story