Author Archive
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: CLOCKWISE CHATTE
CLOCKWISE CHATTE: SMASH THE PATRIARCHY/PRAISE THE MATRIARCHY Hey you! Yes, you – pesky patriarchy! I’m talking to your bloated ass. And to your ugly face! It’s time you are smashed to oblivion – amirite, or ami-fucking-rite? So that is what Clockwise Cat aims to do with the fall/winter issue (Issue 44) – smash the patriarchy […]
CLOCKY KITTY ISSUE 43
CLOCKY KITTY ISSUE 43 Greetings, Clockwise Kitties and Catwise Clockies (not to mention wise-asses of all shapes and sizes)! Spring is springin’, and possibly sprangin’, and so I figger it’s a great tyme to UNCAGE the CAT. Issue 43 is finally here, after decades of delays (well, okay, months), due to profound family loss (see […]
ISSUE 42: THE FELINE TIMES
Clockwise Cat has issues. Forty-two of them to be exact! But this issue, #42, has no issues at all, because it’s PACKED with literary and artistic flavor from all corners of the universe! Well, maybe not ALL corners. But who’s keeping track? After all, the universe is eternally expanding, so it’s impossible to encompass EVERY […]
CLOCKWISE CAT RE-MEOW
CLOCKWISE CAT is FINALLY clawing its way back into consciousness. The issue has been many months in the making, because we alternate purrs with hisses – that is, we love putting Clockwise Cat together (purrrr), but it’s also a lot of grueling work (hissss). BUT, we are so proud to announce Clocky Kitty’s ferociously ebullient […]
FELINO SORIANO TRIBUTE ISSUE
After periodic postponements due to permissions request and submissions delays (as well as stemming from the editor’s job transition and off and on health concerns), we are finally releasing the long-awaited Felino Soriano Tribute Issue, arriving almost a year to his untimely passing in October 2018. We are pleased to present scribes and artists of […]
FELINO SORIANO TRIBUTE ISSUE GUIDELINES
To honor the memory of our late friend and genius poet, Felino Soriano, we will be doing a special Felino Soriano Tribute Issue in the new year. If you knew Felino personally or through his poetry – i.e., you admired his verse, you edited a journal that published his verse, you collaborated with him poetically […]
ISSUE 40
Issue 40 of Clockwise Cat is lovingly dedicated to our dearly departed (Perpetual) Poet-in-Residence, Felino Soriano. He was a good friend, and we mourn the loss of one of America’s greatest versifiers. And no, that’s not hyperbole. We offer up a mini-tribute to Felino in this issue (including a poetic tribute by Heath Brougher), with […]
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENT NUMBER ONE (ISSUE 40 DELAY): ISSUE 40 has been severely delayed, but will hopefully be out before the end of the year. The delay is due to a confluence of factors – the editor’s continuing chronic health issues have played a large part, but also playing a sizable role is the shocking and […]
BOURGE-WISE CAT: ISSUE 39
After months of dreaded delay, Bourge-wise Cat, aka Issue 39 of Clockwise Cat, has finally arrived to virtual bookshelves the world over. This issue is dedicated to the spirit of the late, great artist Louise Bourgeois (yes, we know she died in 2010; we are a bit belated in honoring her, so SUCK IT (but really, […]
KLOX AND KATZ INK: ISSUE 38
Clockwise Cat Issue 38, aka Klox and Katz Ink, is dripping with delightful decoration of the Verse, Visual, reView and inVective variety! Poems exploding from our inkwells include those from authors Mary Newell, Jeri Thompson, Heath Brougher, Featured Femme Tara Roeder, Holly Day, AJ Huffman, Daniel Crocker, Ken Allan Dronsfeld, Austin Alexis, Judith Huang, CL […]
THUGWISE CAT: ISSUE 37
Tupac’s Thug Life is the guiding ethos of Issue 37, Thugwise Cat. Read the Editor’s Scratching Post for more information, and make of it what you will. This issue is bleeding with invigorating verse, invective, visuals, and reviews, all of which in some way deride and defy conventional modes of prose/poesie/picture. Our Featured Femme is […]
SCRIBEWISE CAT: FOWLPOX PRESS
Fowlpox Press was Dada before Dada was Dada, Dada Dada Dada. Fowlpox Press, in fact, is post-Dada and has never even heard of Dada. Fowlpox Press is your babyDada. Luke, Fowlpox Press is your Dada. Fowlpox Press
SCRIBEWISE CAT: TENEBRAED TO HELLER: MR. LEVINSON’S HINGE THEORY EXPANDS AND COMPLEXIFIES
Heller Levinson’s philosophy of poetics is something that can only be described as “accessibly elusive.” Or is that “elusively accessible”? Either way, this paradox encapsulates Heller’s approach, which on the surface seems overly cerebral but in actuality is intuitively ascertainable. His is a paragon of experimental verse, aloof and excessively premised on the tenets of logos […]
SKULLWISE CAT: ISSUE 36
Skullwise Cat is dedicated to an AmeriKKKa flailing toward the final death throes of democracy. The pieces herein were not all necessarily sculpted with that vividly in mind, but the editor is ever-vigilant of the fact that Donald J. Trump’s “election” to the presidency is the last nail in the coffin of what was always […]
CATWISE CLOCK: ISSUE 35
Issue 35, aka CATWISE Clock, will CLOCK any mofo that don’t CAT to our WISE-ass approach. We have been proudly raggedy, Dada-esque, and pretension-free since 2007. This issue is heavy with art by underground art-world heavy-hitters such as Irene Koronas, Bob Heman, Nelly Sanchez, Jacob Russel, Oscar Varona, Bill Wolack. Our Featured Femme is the […]
CLOCKWISE RAIN: ISSUE 34
Clockwise Rain, dedicated to the memory of legendary visionary NELSON PRINCE ROGERS, has gathered up a storm of artists and writers to rock you like a hurricane so you can party like it’s 9999. In this, our 34th issue of progressive invective, rad reviews, and innovative visuals and verse, we lampoon the goons of our gun-crazy culture, scathingly […]
SCRIBEWISE CAT: HELLER LEVINSON AND WRACK LARIAT
The Carefully Constructed Chaos of Heller Levinson’s Wrack Lariat by Alison Ross Just thinking about writing a review about Heller Levinson’s Wrack Lariat frankly induces a bit of panic in me. Heller seems to inhabit another dimension altogether, a frenzied domain where language and ideas trippily transcend time’s pesky constraints, where they are given free reign to be as […]
ISSUE 33: CATSTAR/STARCAT
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home. In this issue, we feature pieces directly inspired by the man from Mars by Ally Malinenko, Simone Keane, and Marie Lecrivain. As if that isn’t enough, our Featured Femme is Jessica Wiseman Lawrence, whose […]
FELINE AND NOTHINGNESS PRESS (CHAPBOOK PUBLISHER)
Nation of Nate: A Dongo Pork Mixtape of Melancholy and Madness/Selected Poetry by Nathaniel S. Rounds/Edited and with a Foreword by Alison Ross Feline and Nothingness Press/Clockwise Cat has collaborated with the venerable Fowlpox Press to put out a “mixtape” of Nathaniel Rounds’ best writings, entitled, “Nation of Nate: A Dongo Pork Mixtape of Melancholy […]
CLOCKWISE CAT STRIKES BACK: EPISODE XXXII
Clockwise Cat Strikes Back is dedicated to the memory of Michelle Greenblatt. This issue is brimming with vigorous verse, rad reviews, incendiary invective, and vivid visuals. Sarah Frances Moran is our feisty Featured Femme. Vernon Frazer serves up texto-visuals that will set your brain ablaze. Bob Heman cuts up with classy collages. Jessica Wiseman Lawrence shoots from the […]
ISSUE 31: CLOCKCAT ORANGE
Clockwise Cat Issue 31 aka Spring/Summer Issue 2015 aka ClockCAT Orange is now LIVE and fully electrified, capable of electrocuting even the most fortified of BRANES. We gots SICK-ASS talent in the form of ReViews, InVective, Visuals, and VERSE. Our scribes are scandalously savvy and their wit and wisdom will incinerate your cerebral cortex; our […]
FEMMEWISE CAT (ISSUE 30)
Verse, Visuals, InVectiVe, NarratiVes, ReViews, and InterViews by Wickedly Wise Femmes Femmewise Cat very humbly attempts to redress the immoral asymmetry of men dominating the artistic conversation. I do believe in equilibrium, and I do believe that feminism is humanism, but I also believe that women have a peculiar angle on things, and therefore merit […]
DIANE DI PRIMA: SCRIBEWISE CAT
HISTORY OF DIANE DI PRIMA Feminist Beat poet Diane di Prima was born in Brooklyn, New York. She attended Swarthmore College for two years before moving to Greenwich Village in Manhattan and becoming a writer in the emerging Beat movement. There, she developed friendships with poets Amiri Bakaka, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Frank O’Hara. After joining […]
DAVID WOJNAROWICZ: ARTWISE CAT
WOJNAROWICZ OBITUARY David Wojnarowicz, one of the most individual artists of the 1980’s, whose impassioned and outspoken work about AIDS thrust him into the center of the recent debates involving the National Endowment for the Arts, died [in 1992] at his home in Manhattan. He was 37 years old. He died of AIDS, said his companion, Tom […]
