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Palooka is an international literary magazine of unique fiction, poetry, nonfiction, artwork, photography, and graphic narratives. For fifteen years we've featured new, up-and-coming, and established writers, artists, and photographers from United States, Canada, Australia, India, United Kingdom, China, Mexico, Pakistan, Spain, France, Japan, Ireland, Brazil, South Korea, Israel, Croatia, Finland, Italy, and Austria. See what we're about: Mission Statement and interview with the editor. |
FUTURE PALOOKAS
AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT:
Tana MILLER & jan zlotnik schmidt
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Joseph Cornell: The Man Who Loved Sparrows (Kelsay Books), a collection of poems by Tana Miller and Jan Zlotnik Schmidt These poems are inspired by the life and works of Joseph Cornell, focusing on Cornell’s process, the people in his life, and themes of enclosure vs. transfiguration, memory, desire, loss, and the permanence gained through artistic creation. As one critic noted, the artist was obsessed both with the "ruins" of life and the desire to capture fleeting moments. Purchase your copy of this fantastic chapbook at Kelsay Books! |
CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: DEREK UPDEGRAFF (ISSUE 6)
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Derek's novel, Whole, is available now from Slant Books!
On the first day of spring in the Inland Empire of Southern California, our narrator, Joe, inadvertently rams his car into Ronnie, a homeless man riding a bicycle. The bike is crushed, aluminum cans are scattered, but a new relationship is formed. Reminiscent of John Fante’s Ask the Dust, Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, this novel explores themes of solitude, companionship, and personal fulfillment. As the oppressive heat of summer creeps closer to the Inland Empire, Joe acts with a surprising ferocity that will leave him and those around him forever changed.
On the first day of spring in the Inland Empire of Southern California, our narrator, Joe, inadvertently rams his car into Ronnie, a homeless man riding a bicycle. The bike is crushed, aluminum cans are scattered, but a new relationship is formed. Reminiscent of John Fante’s Ask the Dust, Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away, and Denis Johnson’s Train Dreams, this novel explores themes of solitude, companionship, and personal fulfillment. As the oppressive heat of summer creeps closer to the Inland Empire, Joe acts with a surprising ferocity that will leave him and those around him forever changed.
CONTRIBUTOR SPOTLIGHT: DEVEN PHILBRICK (ISSUE 12)
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Deven Philbrick's debut poetry collection, Snow Drifts, is available now from Spuyten Duyvil Press!
"Philbrick’s beautifully braided music elaborates on that 'way out' tradition of philosophical poets riffing—errantly, unexpectedly—on themes of rupture and rapture, finitude and freedom. With the sensuousness of Nate Mackey, and the lyric acumen of Ed Roberson, this collection augurs something singular, a new way of making meanings crest and slope within the spun drift of possibility." — Zack Finch
"Philbrick’s beautifully braided music elaborates on that 'way out' tradition of philosophical poets riffing—errantly, unexpectedly—on themes of rupture and rapture, finitude and freedom. With the sensuousness of Nate Mackey, and the lyric acumen of Ed Roberson, this collection augurs something singular, a new way of making meanings crest and slope within the spun drift of possibility." — Zack Finch
PALOOKA 14
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SOME OTHER APRIL
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Purchase your copy of Joel Scarfe's Some Other April, our newest chapbook.
"A thoughtful look at the complexity of nature, opening up its beauty with graceful lines and delicate observations."
"A thoughtful look at the complexity of nature, opening up its beauty with graceful lines and delicate observations."
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