Hey there readers, here we go with DIAGRAM 25.3, which you can find here: http://thediagram.com/25_3/
So, the issue:
TEXT / IMAGE / / / Brent Armendinger, Mohammad Azarm trans Kaveh Bassiri, Lily Blackburn, Leia K Bradley, Christine Byrne, Patricia Clark, Jie Venus Cohen, Ella Flores, Jane Freiman, Heather M Godden, Jacob Griffin Hall, Matt Hart, Eva Heisler, Amanda Hodes, Jake Levine, Betsy Mitchell Martinez, Edward Mayes, Sati Mookherjee, Alicia Rebecca Myers, Emily Rosko, Scott Withiam, Rachel Franklin Wood
REVIEWS / / / Joe Sacksteder on Lindsey Drager, Connor Arakaki on Jamaica Osorio
SCHEMATICA / / / Atlantean Crystal Headband, Cluster Field Layout, Interdimensional Portal, Rod Field Layout, Spiral Dynamics, What Have You Got Going For You?
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A sample from the issue, from Lily Blackburn's "Notes of Ozone":
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The new hallucination is a phantosmia, a scent that doesn't belong, a sensory projection. Its source an incense cone burning in the corner-shrine of my bedroom, a soon-to-be ash curling smoke in a shallow gold bowl, this next to a heavy black box resting on my bookshelf; itself also filled with ash, though more like sand I'd come to find one curious night on my knees than the pillowy density of wood-ash, bits of bone I can pearl between two fingers caked in a fine dust easily lost to a casual breeze or later found clung to the cracks of hands.
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The smoke smells like Marlboro Reds despite all signs to the contrary; the fine print on the label reads sea salt and eucalyptus with notes of ozone. My roommates don't smoke and I only smoke when I've had one too many Rainier-backed whiskeys, and the bar patio is a talky cloud of blue American Spirit. When the whiskey has singed a hole that can only be filled by the combinatory melodrama of oral fixation and conscious breath.
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A gas made of three oxygen atoms, an ozone occurs above and below characterized by its reactivity and instability. between sleep and wakefulness, an ozone is both everywhere and nowhere. It's a dream-heap of accumulated blame.
Cool, right? Read the whole thing here.
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We're deep in our Chapbook Contest reading this year; our deadline was a little later than usual, so we expect to have results in by the end of October.
We're so stoked to be bringing you new work in our 25th year! It's an honor and a privilege to keep reading and publishing your work, so keep sending.
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