Tag: poetry zine
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Preview: Heroically Found
Issue #9, Heroically Found 24-Page, Full-Color, 5 x 7 Booklet + Inserts and Curated Spotify Playlist, $8.00 or subscribe and get 4 issues for $25.00 You can pay through PayPal using a PayPal account or any standard credit card. If you prefer the old school approach, please send your check, made payable to Jen Payne,…
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NOW ON SALE: MANIFEST (zine): Endemic
On May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers, and wounded seventeen other people, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. MANIFEST (zine): Endemic is a response that event. The proceeds from this issue will be donated to Sandy Hook Promise, a national nonprofit organization founded…
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MANIFEST (zine): Endemic
On May 24, 2022, an 18-year-old with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle fatally shot nineteen students and two teachers, and wounded seventeen other people, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The victims were Makenna Lee Elrod, 10, Layla Salazar, 11, Maranda Mathis, 11, Nevaeh Bravo, 10, Jose Manuel Flores Jr., 10, Xavier Lopez, 10, Tess…
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Huzzah! Broken Pencil!
HUZZAH! BROKEN PENCIL! Broken Pencil Magazine has been supporting zine culture and independent creative action for more than 25 years. Published four times a year, each issue of Broken Pencil features reviews of hundreds of zines and small press books, plus comics, excerpts from the best of the underground press, interviews, original fiction and commentary…
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It’s a Collaborative Effort, Really
MANIFEST (zine) #7: Water The water and its shoreline has been home to all of the creative people you are about to meet in this issue of MANIFEST [zine]. The theme – Water – was inspired by the release of Water Under the Bridge: A Sort-of Love Story by Jen Payne, and is a collaborative…
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MANIFEST (zine): Divine Intervention
Issue #1, DIVINE INTERVENTION What is the force that moves us? Changes us? Propels us with such acceleration that we hardly recognize ourselves. Is it grief, heartbreak, indignation? Or joy, courage, determination? Perhaps it is DIVINE INTERVENTION — masked for our benefit as demon or angel or a hurried white rabbit who intrigues us just…
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Every body wants to be a cat…sing along!
Did you know that each issue of MANIFEST (zine) includes a Spotify playlist especially curated for readers? For the CAT LADY CONFESSIONS issue, I explore all things cat, with songs by artists like Dee-Lite, Peggy Polk, Psapp, Alexis Saski, Lee Ann Womak, and Janet Jackson. It’s purr-fect! Take a listen now!
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MANIFEST (zine): Cat Lady Confessions
Issue #2, CAT LADY CONFESSIONSPoor Cat Lady. She always gets a bum rap. No one ever makes fun of Ernest Hemingway, whose Key West home was filled with cats — and he of a certain age. His strapping action figure includes a typewriter and a shotgun. Cat Lady? She gets six cats, bed head, and…
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Do you remember the time…you fell in love with a Spotify playlist?
Did you know that each issue of MANIFEST (zine) includes a Spotify playlist especially curated for readers? For the IT’S ABOUT TIME issue, I had fun playing off the themes of time, time travel, and sci-f. It features an eclectic set of songs by artists like Styx, Michael Jackson,Imagine Dragons, Lana Del Rey, Green Day,…
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MANIFEST (zine)…It’s About Time
MANIFEST ZINEIssue #3, It’s About Time!Poems & More by Jen Payne We humans sure are creative with time, aren’t we? This arbitrary turning clocks backward or forward twice a year, assigning time to zones and lines and frames. I myself try to trick time, setting clocks randomly wrong and always fast as if I can…
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Hold-in-Your-Hand Art Installation
When I published my first book, LOOK UP! Musings on the Nature of Mindfulness, I imagined a complementary art installation: framed photos from the book, poems printed large and hung like tapestries, a CD of woodland sounds in the background. I had other ideas, too. (I still do.) A show at New Haven’s Kehler Liddell…
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MANIFEST (zine): It’s About Time
MANIFEST ZINEIssue #3, It’s About Time!Poems & More by Jen Payne We humans sure are creative with time, aren’t we? This arbitrary turning clocks backward or forward twice a year, assigning time to zones and lines and frames. I myself try to trick time, setting clocks randomly wrong and always fast, as if I can…
