20180421

Issue forty-nine Date of Publication May 1, 2018.
Individual pieces Copyright © 2018 by their respective creators

Editor: Mark Young











This issue of Otoliths is dedicated to the memory of
Jill Chan, Spencer Selby, & Philip Byron Oakes, all regular contributors,
& who will all be deeply missed.

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Mercedes Webb-Pullman
Three Poems

Lauren O'Connor
An interview with Louise Landes Levi

Aditya Shankar
Two Centos

Simon Perchik
Two Poems

tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Butt Poem #001, for Karen Lillis

Dawn Nelson Wardrope
Eight Visual Pieces

Kyle Hemmings
pages from A Nuclear Fallout Shelter Primer

George Messo
Visual Translations of Some Poems by Asaf Halet Çelebi

Sanjeev Sethi
Three Poems

R. Keith
3825

Joseph Cooper
Ghost Sonnets 20 & 21

Mary Cresswell
LUNAR ECLIPSE

Drew B. David
Four Pieces of Vispo

Jim Leftwich
Expositions & Commentaries

John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich
Fourteen Visual Poems

Jim Leftwich & Steve Dalachinsky
Eight Poems

Lynn Strongin
Two Poems

Daniel de Culla
CRAZY JOKER MOTHERFUCKER

Seth Howard
Four Poems

David Lohrey
What It Means to Be Human

Rose Knapp
Four Poems

Philip Byron Oakes
Three Poems

Darren C. Demaree
Three Poems

Francesco Levato
from Arsenal/Sin Documentos

Holly Friedlander Liddicoat
The Ministry of Immigrant Absorption

Kathleen Reichelt & Randee Silv
Responding to Farnessity

Olivier Schopfer
Trees

Willie Smith
Two Prose Pieces

John M. Bennett
Ten Text Poems
Five Visual Poems

John M. Bennett & Thomas M. Cassidy
Seven Visual Poems

Steve Dalachinsky
Two Poems

Carol Stetser & Andrew Topel
Echoes

Michael Thomas Nelmida
Filipino translations of Hay(na)ku by Eileen R. Tabios

Dah
Two Poems

Pete Spence
Three Poems

Jasmine Nihmey-Vasdi
Breakfast

J. Crouse
Said in the Preface to the First Edition

Heath Brougher
Four Poems

Clara B. Jones
Love Sonnet

fátima queiroz
Five Pieces of Typewriter Poetry

Andrew Hale
Three Poems

Penelope Weiss
Two Poems

Adriána Kóbor
from As Well As The Mirror

József Bíró
from As Well As The Mirror

M.J. Iuppa
Three Short Prose Pieces

Linda King
Two Poems

Alyson Torns
Three Visuals

J. Ray Paradiso
from 4th Church Suite

Sheila E. Murphy & Douglas Barbour
Continuations CVIII: & CIX:

hiromi suzuki
joyeux l'oiseau

AG Davis
On Despair

Márton Koppány
Angel — for Peter O'Leary

Francine Witte
When I'm Done

Andrew Topel
marks

Jeff Bagato
The World According to Gonch

Joe Balaz
Three Poems & A Visual

Izzy Oneiric
from Bibliomantic Poetica

Daniel f. Bradley
from P.w.a.t.h.

Jesse Glass
Four Visuals

Jeff Harrison
Eleven Poems

Karl Kempton
Discourses 7-14
Discourses 15-21

Richard Kostelanetz
Four Quadrigraphs

Eileen R. Tabios
COMMUNITY OF VOWELS

Scott MacLeod & Texas Fontanella
Stop Every Tragedy Except This One
Panels 1-12
Panels 13-24
Panels 25-36

Cecelia Chapman
Post-Postcard

john sweet
Two Poems

Lakey Comess
Three Poems

Michael Mc Aloran
from nowhereon: Section III

Tony Beyer
Two Poems

Sudhanshu Chopra
Tautology

Bruno Neiva
Coverage Sites

Jon Cone
Poems

Joseph V. Milford
Five Poems from After The Mermaids Have Gone, Vol. 1

Mark DuCharme
Three Poems

Raymond Farr
Two Poems
Five More Poems

Keith Polette
A Photograph

Matthew Jenkins
bots

David Baptiste Chirot
Eight rubBEings, mainly Asemic
Three DEATH FROM THIS WINDOW & Five Other Visuals
HEADS, FACES

gobscure
five visuals

Sabine Miller & Richard Gilbert
from Poetry as Consciousness

John Levy
Two Poems

Tom Montag
Three Poems

Natsuko Hirata
Rainy bamboo garden

Linc Madison
Seven Days Make A Week

Pat Geyer
Faces in the Forest

Eduardo Padilla, trans. by Anne Gorrick
from Hotel Hastings

Joseph Salvatore Aversano
Four Poems

Keith Nunes
Three Visuals & A Poem

Bob Heman
from INFORMATION

Simon Brown
USES OF MOUTH (NEW AND OLD)

Jack Galmitz
Five Visuals

Pat Nolan
Eight Poems

Marcia Arrieta
Four Collages & Seven Poems

Jack Kelly
contradict Strategy Cake

Johannes S H. Bjerg
Eleven Pieces of Vispo

M; Margo
Four Visual Poems

Carla Bertola
Six Visual Pieces

F. J. Bergmann
Five Poems

Ruggero Maggi
Diptych

Michael Gould
Four Visual Pieces

Robert Ford
Two Poems

Carolina Skibinski
Two Poems

Alberto Vitacchio
Eight Visual Pieces

Tim Wright
on garnet and tinning

Michael Brandonisio
Three Visuals

essa may ranapiri
Three Poems

Thom Sullivan
‘Diesel & Dust’ homestead [a landscape]

Brendan Slater
Three Visuals with incorporated text

Madeline McGovern
LEAVING/FINDING/DREAMING/HAUNTING

Ken Bolton
Two Poems

Paul T. Lambert
Seven Visuals

J. D. Nelson
Two Poems

Shloka Shankar
Five Visuals

Gavin Yates
Gessamine

John Pursch
Four Poems

Matthew Hall
Brno

Marilyn Stablein
Correspondences

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Otoliths would like to acknowledge the Juru People who are the traditional custodians of the land where this journal is prepared.