Zine (z)

A fiction and poetry zine published by a "student-curated, interdepartmental reading series" at Columbia College.

A collection of poems by Joseph Jablonski with drawings by Franklin Rosemont.

Billy's next installment in his Proof I Exist series is a reflection on his life from the years 1999 (the year he graduated from high school) to 2004, in lieu of attending his high school reunion. And a nomadic life it was, bringing him from Iowa to Minneapolis to New York to Iowa to Chicago.

Billy (name known from others in the series; he is anonymous in this one) writes a zine about his life as a young punk-rock enthusiast in Chicago, with riffs on his friends, family life, romantic relationships, the writing process, and even fire ants.

"An inquiry into language by the American presurrealist philosopher and poet Benjamin Paul Blood."

Surrealist writings by Paul Garon

A colection of surrealist poems dealing with evil, the macabre and the supernatural.

Dedicated to the very last scream of the last suicide. A small chapbook of poetry by Bill Shields and Jay Marvin published by Strange Press.

In the second installment of his Ultra Local Geography, Larry Shure documents the "functional beauty" of the portals to various buildings in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. An exhaustive zine-cum-architectural-guidebook, it documents and describes the features of eleven doors, including date, architect, building owner, cost, size, building materials, and even the reference information for the City of Chicago building permits. Shure provides drawings of the doors, their building facades, and street addresses/intersections.

A collection of poetry by Chicago poet Beatriz Badikian with scratch board artwork by Lonnie Poco.