an Orphean tale, inspired by the Kalevala We are very excited to announce the release of Joshua Rothes' William Atlas. A mythical tale of walking and the discovery of points A to B, or no points in-between. Based in Seattle, Washington, Joshua Rothes is a writer and editor at Sublunary Editions. William Atlas is available … Continue reading OSMANTHUS announces: Joshua Rothes’ William Atlas
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WILLIAM ATLAS by Joshua Rothes
WILLIAM ATLAS by Joshua Rothes ChapbookFirst edition, 65 copies. Joshua Rothes is the author of several brief, difficult to classify books, including An Unspecific Dog, The Ethnographer, and The Art of the Great Dictators. We Later Cities, a novel written with the aid of machine learning, will be released by Inside the Castle in late … Continue reading WILLIAM ATLAS by Joshua Rothes
TAP ACOUSTIC
BY Kenzo Tobechukwu Oh, hail the bodies who succeed to look at their flesh in the mirror without pity. You have mastered the art of acceptance and of denial. I have only mastered one. It brings dense nothingness to my shoulders. Though, I will admit, this might be the greatest love affair. I remember the … Continue reading TAP ACOUSTIC
FLAGS FLUTTERING (REMEMBER YOUR ANCESTORS)
BY CARL WATTS I Without a salaam or ceremony, hole of the rock, other following him; brightness washed from a winter swimmer as peoples made small, finely chipped arrowheads. Skiffs scuffed to look sufficiently skiff, mottled globe to a continent of glaring peaks nearer and nearer the beholder, translated from one world to another. Utterly … Continue reading FLAGS FLUTTERING (REMEMBER YOUR ANCESTORS)
OSMANTHUS TALE
BY G. LEPY Write write and write again After joy slowly tame pain I was writing and it was the year two thousand and nineteen I was hunting for words unseen Through fans they were empty I asked friends they laughed at me For who can pretend To end Humans glorious, mute, vain, pompous, deafening … Continue reading OSMANTHUS TALE
EATING MEAT
BY LaVana Colebrooke “Do you still do that?” he asked me and his eye turned down and his face turned in. And I felt all my internal shift begin. GUILT Feeling caught by the net of friendship and rope burned by the bondage's of emotional relationships. NERVOUS I’m not completely sure of this process of … Continue reading EATING MEAT
FULL OF HOLES
2019 comes to an end and Osmanthus publishes another collection of things we wrote down recently whilst the winter nights were growing long and hard to remember but before the memories had fully expired. Writing can be full of holes like that. It's what keeps us interested. FULL OF HOLESDownload Read excerpts below: Download our … Continue reading FULL OF HOLES
AGAPE by Brian Clifton
AGAPE by Brian Clifton. Chapbook.First printing, 100 copies. Brian Clifton has work in: Pleiades, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Colorado Review, The Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines. Brian is an avid record collector and curator of curiosities. Brian also published MOT with us.
MOT by Brian Clifton
MOT by Brian Clifton A poem, 27 pages.First printing, 100 copies. Brian Clifton has work in: Pleiades, Guernica, Cincinnati Review, Salt Hill, Colorado Review, The Journal, Beloit Poetry Journal, and other magazines. Brian is an avid record collector and curator of curiosities. Read excerpts from MOT below.
THREE EXQUISITE CORPSES
A game of chance and handwriting. I remember playing Exquisite Corpse (the drawing version) on long car rides with friends, but it is a game that dates back farther than that. It has passed on, generation to generation. It itself truly is the exquisite corpse of our times. During the Introduction to Mythology class that … Continue reading THREE EXQUISITE CORPSES
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