Poetry

From back cover: "...Michelle Noteboom's first collection of poems weaves together obsessions about skin and body, desire and violence, science and sensuality....Noteboom takes us on a poetic exploration of skin as border between self and world, of language as limit between self and meaning."

The Land Line is a quarterly publication based in Chicago invested in furthering print publication. It is a collaborative effort by a collection of artists, writers, activists, and musicians who contribute literary criticism, Chicago history, and various explorations of style and genre. The Land Line is committed to a collective production process, including laying out the paper by hand so that everyone can be involved. The benefit shows, film screenings, and readings they host not only fund the paper but are essential to the project of building a community around the journal.

After Hours is described on the cover as a journal of Chicago writing and art. It is primarily composed of photography and poetry.

Comic poems by Ron Offen with comic drawings by William Anthony. Tends toward dark, mordant humor with some social criticism.

A collection of personal and fictional stories about cooking and the kitchen in a South Indian family.

A collection of writing on the theme of solace, including big concepts like love, truth, and hope.

In this zine, H. Melt interrogates "straight" as a word and as an identity. The experimental format presents a series of dictionary definitions involving permutations of "straight" (e.g., straight forward, straight shooter, straighten, straight and narrow, etc.) and lets the reader ponder the connotations.

Reflection Passed is a book of drawings of car crashes accompanied by short poems.

A collection of poems written by various authors.