When Daniel Y. Harris and I began writing together in 2009, we were immediately impressed with the (or at least our) collaborative process, how each of us experienced a heightened sense of creative freedom; venturing into fresh areas, thematically and stylistically; how we organically (and more often than not spontaneously) embraced new voices and forms, directions that, on our own, we probably would not have discovered, but that, when we generated together, clearly and boldly emerged as possibilities. It was later, with The New Arcana, released in 2012 by NYQ Press, that we began to mine (initially, perhaps, inadvertently, but subsequent to discovery with some degree of intention) the “mock” approach: mock academic, mock journalistic, mock memoir, etc. This style, we soon found, enabled us to combine clear and even prescribed forms with a broader fictional orientation, thereby allowing our individual and collective imaginations plenty of room to wander, explore, and invent, but within the precise forms and parameters often associated with certain kinds of exposition, academic writing, journalism, memoir, etc. This particular combination of freedom and structure has proven fertile....
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POETRY
Introduction from the Editor ...
Sara Backer - Moving
Kimberly L. Becker - Interro ...
Trina Burke - Lore
Joan Colby - The Lips
Abbie Copeland - Circus Folk
Laura Davis - One Hundred Wi ...
Ivona Elenton - The Stepsist ...
Daniela Elza - eros/ions (fr ...
T.M. Johnson - Dawn: While Y ...
Michael Kriesel - Biography ...
Dawn Leas - Slipstream
Holaday Mason - The Boy Is t ...
Gerald McCarthy - Mountain p ...
Richard Prins - Pantoum Foun ...
Mehnaz Sahibzada - Remnants
Mark Schoenknecht - A Thousa ...
Dave Shortt - Alcohol
Evelyn A. So - Field Trip to ...
Katherine Soniat - Peaches
Donna Spector - Wedding Morn ...
Sara Backer - Moving
Kimberly L. Becker - Interro ...
Trina Burke - Lore
Joan Colby - The Lips
Abbie Copeland - Circus Folk
Laura Davis - One Hundred Wi ...
Ivona Elenton - The Stepsist ...
Daniela Elza - eros/ions (fr ...
T.M. Johnson - Dawn: While Y ...
Michael Kriesel - Biography ...
Dawn Leas - Slipstream
Holaday Mason - The Boy Is t ...
Gerald McCarthy - Mountain p ...
Richard Prins - Pantoum Foun ...
Mehnaz Sahibzada - Remnants
Mark Schoenknecht - A Thousa ...
Dave Shortt - Alcohol
Evelyn A. So - Field Trip to ...
Katherine Soniat - Peaches
Donna Spector - Wedding Morn ...


REVIEWS
Vincent A. Cellucci's and Ch ...
klipschutz's This Drawn & ...
Ann Cefola's Face Paintin ...
Joseph Hutchison's Thread ...
Sándor Márai's The Wither ...
Coyla Barry's The Flying ...
Natasha Kochicheril Moni's < ...
Virginia Smith Rice's Whe ...
Grezegorz Wróblewski's Le ...
Marjory Wentworth's New a ...
Jared Carter's Darkened R ...
Antonia Clark's Chameleon ...
Bruce Lader's Fugitive Ho ...
Becky Gould Gibson's Head ...
Donald Levering's The Wat ...
Janice Moore Fuller's On ...
klipschutz's This Drawn & ...
Ann Cefola's Face Paintin ...
Joseph Hutchison's Thread ...
Sándor Márai's The Wither ...
Coyla Barry's The Flying ...
Natasha Kochicheril Moni's < ...
Virginia Smith Rice's Whe ...
Grezegorz Wróblewski's Le ...
Marjory Wentworth's New a ...
Jared Carter's Darkened R ...
Antonia Clark's Chameleon ...
Bruce Lader's Fugitive Ho ...
Becky Gould Gibson's Head ...
Donald Levering's The Wat ...
Janice Moore Fuller's On ...


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