http://www.anomalouspress.org/ Copyright 2011 Anomalous Press is an multi-modal, multi-format, experimental literary journal that publishes fiction, nonfiction, poetry, literary translation and hybrid and new media literary art forms. Wed, 04 May 2011 13:02:36 +0000 en Guru - Hymn in Eight Stanzas by Mani Rao translating anonymous, attributed to Śankara, from the Sanskrit is contemporary literary translation of 8th century Sanskrit poetry. This is the third issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/1.rao.guru.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/1.rao.guru.php Duet for Piano and Poem by Anna Rosen Guercio is contemporary literary poetry. Anna Rosen Guercio is a translator and poet living in Los Angeles. Her work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from The Kenyon Review, Pool, Painted Bride Quarterly, inter|rupture, Prime Number, Eleven Eleven, Faultline, Entasis, and Words Without Borders. She is the translator of José Eugenio Sánchez's Suite Prelude a/H1N1, published by Toad Press. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Irvine. This is the third issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/2.guercio.duet.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/2.guercio.duet.php Too Cold For Clouds by Anna Rosen Guercio is contemporary literary poetry. Anna Rosen Guercio is a translator and poet living in Los Angeles. Her work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from The Kenyon Review, Pool, Painted Bride Quarterly, inter|rupture, Prime Number, Eleven Eleven, Faultline, Entasis, and Words Without Borders. She is the translator of José Eugenio Sánchez's Suite Prelude a/H1N1, published by Toad Press. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Irvine. This is the third issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/3.guercio.cold.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/3.guercio.cold.php like a carriage return by Anna Rosen Guercio is contemporary literary poetry. Anna Rosen Guercio is a translator and poet living in Los Angeles. Her work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from The Kenyon Review, Pool, Painted Bride Quarterly, inter|rupture, Prime Number, Eleven Eleven, Faultline, Entasis, and Words Without Borders. She is the translator of José Eugenio Sánchez's Suite Prelude a/H1N1, published by Toad Press. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Irvine. This is the third issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/4.guercio.carriage.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/4.guercio.carriage.php This life the most charmed still by Anna Rosen Guercio is contemporary literary poetry. Anna Rosen Guercio is a translator and poet living in Los Angeles. Her work has recently appeared in or is forthcoming from The Kenyon Review, Pool, Painted Bride Quarterly, inter|rupture, Prime Number, Eleven Eleven, Faultline, Entasis, and Words Without Borders. She is the translator of José Eugenio Sánchez's Suite Prelude a/H1N1, published by Toad Press. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Irvine. This is the third issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/5.guercio.life.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/3/5.guercio.life.php Citizens and Nationals is contemporary literary fiction written by Merritt Tierce. Merritt Tierce is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in New Stories from the South, Southwest Review, PANK, Cutbank, and Reunion: The Dallas Review. She is the director of the Texas Equal Access Fund and lives in Dallas with her children. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/30.tierce.citizens.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/30.tierce.citizens.php Brie Describes the Snail is literary poetry by Joel Griffith. Joel Griffith is a fiction writer, poet, musician and all round bon vivant. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/32.griffith.brie.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/32.griffith.brie.php Born from the computerless land of farmers and spring thunderstorms, Jason Nelson somehow stumbled into creating awkward and wondrous digital poems/art games and interactive stories of odd lives. Currently, he teaches/researches Net Art and Electronic Literature at Griffith University in the Gold Coast's contradictory lands. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/33.nelson.tree.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/33.nelson.tree.php From My Window is literary poetry by Nicholas YB Wong. Nicholas YB Wong is the author of Cities of Sameness (Desperanto, late 2011) and the winner of Sentinel Quarterly Poetry Competition. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Assaracus, Cha, Drunken Boat, Lambda Literary Foundation Poet Spotlight, Mascara Literary Review, Moon Milk Review, Nano Fiction, San Pedro River Review, Third Wednesday, Zaum and many others. He serves as a poetry editor for THIS Literary Magazine and a poetry reader for Drunken Boat. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/25.wong.window.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/25.wong.window.php A Guide to Towns and Cities is contemporary literary non-fiction written by Casey Plett. Casey Plett is from Southern Manitoba and the Pacific Northwest. She writes the column Balls Out: A Column on Being Transgendered URL: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/ballsout/ for McSweeneys Internet Tendency. She will be teaching at Columbia University next year. She is an MFA candidate there. She likes books. She likes you. She also likes night driving, fluorescently colored tights, old buildings, and spicy things, in that order. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/26.plett.guide.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/26.plett.guide.php Cleo and Hal Visit Milan is literary poetry by Francine Rubin. Francine Rubins poetry has appeared in Blue Earth Review, Cavalier Literary Couture, Fringe Magazine, Fuselit, J Journal: New Writing on Justice, Long Island Pulse, Ozone Park Journal, Pank, and Rougarou. An English teacher, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College and an MA in English Education from Columbia University. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/27.rubin.cleo.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/27.rubin.cleo.php Not Enough is literary poetry by Shana Wolstein. Shana Wolsteins poems have been published or are forthcoming in The New Verse News, La Fovea, Anomalous, and Third Coast Magazine. Awarded The Herb Scott Award for Excellence in Poetry, she also received her MFA in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. While at Western Michigan University she has held positions as Assistant Poetry Editor and Layout Editor at Third Coast Magazine as well as Publications Intern and Copy and Layout Editor at New Issues Press. She currently lives in Kalamazoo with her boyfriend and two cats and blogs regularly at theredspeechballoon.wordpress.com. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/28.wolstein.enough.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/28.wolstein.enough.php Permeance is literary poetry by Shana Wolstein. Shana Wolsteins poems have been published or are forthcoming in The New Verse News, La Fovea, Anomalous, and Third Coast Magazine. Awarded The Herb Scott Award for Excellence in Poetry, she also received her MFA in Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. While at Western Michigan University she has held positions as Assistant Poetry Editor and Layout Editor at Third Coast Magazine as well as Publications Intern and Copy and Layout Editor at New Issues Press. She currently lives in Kalamazoo with her boyfriend and two cats and blogs regularly at theredspeechballoon.wordpress.com. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/29.wolstein.permeance.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/29.wolstein.permeance.php (to a fish) is a literary translation of poetry by Brandon Holmquest translating the Spanish of Julia Ferrer. Brandon Holmquest edits the poetry and criticism sections at Asymptote and writes poems and translates things, usually poems. Julia Ferrer (1925-1995) was born in Lima, Peru. In her lifetime she published only two books and had a few poems in small magazines. She also wrote theatrical works for stage and radio, and taught theater at the university level. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/21.holmquest.fish.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/21.holmquest.fish.php i've always lived leaning out onto my water balcony is a literary translation of poetry by Brandon Holmquest translating the Spanish of Julia Ferrer. Brandon Holmquest edits the poetry and criticism sections at Asymptote and writes poems and translates things, usually poems. Julia Ferrer (1925-1995) was born in Lima, Peru. In her lifetime she published only two books and had a few poems in small magazines. She also wrote theatrical works for stage and radio, and taught theater at the university level. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/22.holmquest.balcony.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/22.holmquest.balcony.php i've always lived leaning out onto my water balcony is a literary translation of poetry by Brandon Holmquest translating the Spanish of Julia Ferrer. Brandon Holmquest edits the poetry and criticism sections at Asymptote and writes poems and translates things, usually poems. Julia Ferrer (1925-1995) was born in Lima, Peru. In her lifetime she published only two books and had a few poems in small magazines. She also wrote theatrical works for stage and radio, and taught theater at the university level. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/23.holmquest.words.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/23.holmquest.words.php The Roofer is contemporary literary fiction written by Christina Murphy. Christina Murphy lives and writes in a 100 year-old Arts and Crafts style house along the Ohio River. Her writing appears in a number of journals and anthologies, including, most recently, ABJECTIVE, A cappella Zoo, PANK, Word Riot, Boston Literary Magazine, and LITnIMAGE. Her work has received Special Mention for a Pushcart Prize and the 2011 Andre Dubus Award for Short Fiction from Words and Images. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/24.murphy.roofer.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/24.murphy.roofer.php 1728 Dashes Equal a Gallon is contemporary literary poetry written by Corey Mesler. Corey Mesler has published in numerous journals and anthologies. He has published four novels, 2 books of short stories, numerous chapbooks and two full-length poetry collections. He has been nominated for a Pushcart numerous times, and two of his poems have been chosen for Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac. He runs a bookstore in Memphis. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/16.mesler.dashes.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/16.mesler.dashes.php Making the Knock is contemporary literary non-fiction written by Scott Esposito. Scott Esposito's contribution to Issue 2 is from a completed work of creative nonfiction currently titled The Other Side. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, Tin House, The Los Angeles Times, The National, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, and numerous others. He edits an online magazine of book reviews and essays, The Quarterly Conversation. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/17.esposito.knock.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/17.esposito.knock.php Imaginary Landscape No. 5 is contemporary literary poetry written by Howie Good. Howie Good, a journalism professor at SUNY New Paltz, is the author of the full-length poetry collections Lovesick (Press Americana, 2009), Heart With a Dirty Windshield (BeWrite Books, 2010), and Everything Reminds Me of Me (Desperanto, 2011), as well as 29 print and digital poetry chapbooks. He has been nominated multiple times for the Pushcart Prize and the Best of the Net and Web anthologies. He is a contributing editor to the online literary journal Common-Line, co-editor of the online nonfiction journal Left Hand Waving, and co-founder and -editor (with Dale Wisely) of the digital chapbook publisher White Knuckle Press, www.whiteknucklepress.com This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/18.good.imaginary.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/18.good.imaginary.php Ocean Audience (3) is contemporary literary poetry written by Robert Lietz. Robert Lietz has a lot of publications. If you google him, you'll find many of them. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/19.lietz.ocean.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/19.lietz.ocean.php Things That Are Already Dead is contemporary literary fiction written by Shannon Derby. Shannon Derby received her MFA from Emerson College. After teaching courses in writing and literature at Emerson College, Suffolk University and Quincy College for five years, she decided to return to the other side of the classroom. She currently lives in Dublin, where she is pursuing a masters in Irish Writing at Trinity College, and plans to return to Boston upon completing her MPhil dissertation this fall. Her fiction has appeared in apt: a literary journal, STORYGLOSSIA and The Molotov Cocktail. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/20.derby.things.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/20.derby.things.php The Aerostat Room is a literary translation of prose by Edward Gauvin translating the French of Marcel Béalu. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/10.gauvin.aerostat.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/10.gauvin.aerostat.php The Bus of No Return is a literary translation of prose by Edward Gauvin translating the French of Marcel Béalu. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/11.gauvin.noreturn.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/11.gauvin.noreturn.php The Honest Illusionist is a literary translation of fiction by by Edward Gauvin translating the French of Marcel Béalu. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/12.gauvin.illusionist.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/12.gauvin.illusionist.php Palmistry is a literary translation of prose by by Edward Gauvin translating the French of Marcel Béalu. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/13.gauvin.palmistry.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/13.gauvin.palmistry.php Meridiend is contemporary literary net art poetry written by Michael Filimowicz. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/15.filimowicz.meridiend.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/15.filimowicz.meridiend.php From The Heroic Age is contemporary literary fiction written by Richard Chetwynd. Richard Chetwynd was born and raised in Boston. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/6.chetwynd.heroicage.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/6.chetwynd.heroicage.php Plastic Afternoon is contemporary literary poetry written by Tresha Haefner. Tresha Faye Haefner was born in California, and has lived in the state for most of her life. She earned her B.A. degree in Modern Literary Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently makes her home in San Jose, CA, where she teaches English and social studies. Her work appears in Amarillo Bay, BloodLotus, Zygote in My Coffee, and Alien Sloth Sex. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/7.haefner.plastic.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/7.haefner.plastic.php What Distinguishes One Crow from Another in Its Flock? is contemporary literary poetry written by Tresha Faye Haefner. Tresha Faye Haefner was born in California, and has lived in the state for most of her life. She earned her B.A. degree in Modern Literary Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and currently makes her home in San Jose, CA, where she teaches English and social studies. Her work appears in Amarillo Bay, BloodLotus, Zygote in My Coffee, and Alien Sloth Sex. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/8.haefner.onecrow.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/8.haefner.onecrow.php Stork is contemporary literary fiction written by Justine Tal Goldberg. Justine Tal Goldberg is a professional writer and editor of both fiction and non-fiction. Her short stories have appeared in Meeting House, Fringe Magazine, and Whiskey Island. Her features and columns have appeared in The Weekly Dig, The Review Review, and The Texas Observer, among others. Justine owns and operates WriteByNight, a writing center and writers' service headquartered in Austin, Texas. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/9.goldberg.stork.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/9.goldberg.stork.php Cielito Lindo is contemporary literary poetry written by Brandon Holmquest. Brandon Holmquest edits the poetry and criticism sections at Asymptote and writes poems and translates things, usually poems. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/1.holmquest.cielito.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/1.holmquest.cielito.php For the repose of the soul of Lindsey Buckingham is contemporary literary poetry written by Brandon Holmquest. Brandon Holmquest edits the poetry and criticism sections at Asymptote and writes poems and translates things, usually poems. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/2.holmquest.repose.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/2.holmquest.repose.php For the repose of the soul of Lindsey Buckingham is contemporary literary poetry written by Brandon Holmquest. Brandon Holmquest edits the poetry and criticism sections at Asymptote and writes poems and translates things, usually poems. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/3.holmquest.norpause.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/3.holmquest.norpause.php Antagonistes is contemporary literary fiction written by Nalini Abhiraman. Nalini Abhiraman lives in Providence, RI. She was born in 1983 in the Atlanta suburbs, and spent her childhood scratching at insect bites in exotic locations. Nalini has worked as an editor, writer, and teacher in Seoul, South Korea, and New York City. She is currently pursuing an MFA in electronic writing at Brown University. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/4.abhiraman.antagonistes.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/4.abhiraman.antagonistes.php Antagonistes is contemporary literary fiction written by Nalini Abhiraman. Nalini Abhiraman lives in Providence, RI. She was born in 1983 in the Atlanta suburbs, and spent her childhood scratching at insect bites in exotic locations. Nalini has worked as an editor, writer, and teacher in Seoul, South Korea, and New York City. She is currently pursuing an MFA in electronic writing at Brown University. This is the second issue of Anomalous Press. http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/5.abhiraman.trytoscream.php http://www.anomalouspress.org/2/5.abhiraman.trytoscream.php