INSIDE 

Rhiannon Thornberg has a bone to pick with Existence

Finance puts words in Thom Donovan’s mouth

Paul Maliszewski on how to move a dead squirrel

Alban Fischer on editorial seamlessness

Katherine Marty explains what a tangent is

Dennis Cooper on British Pizza Hut, ventriloquism, and Gisèle Vienne’s dorky humor

Marco Giovenale’s fake blot cuckoo of doom

Harold Jaffe gives us Billie Holiday

Susan Tepper gets butterflies

Tony Melton is a hard bean of nostalgia

James Wagner on keeping a journal

Gerard Sander’s freakishly large heart

Corey Mesler chats with his dog

AS WELL AS

Mandy Burrow’s Musée de Booze Arts

Troy Stouten burns it up

Carl R. Martin was born and raised in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he still resides.  He is the author of Go Your Stations, Girl (Arion Press, 1991), Genii Over Salzburg (Dalkey Archive, 1998), and Rogue Hemlocks (Fence Books, 2008).  If you don’t already know his work, you will surely come to count him among your favorites.  Here are some links to what little can found about him online:

Poetry

“The Prescription Drug Challenge,” “No Sop, No Possum, No Jive,” and “White Cargo” in The American Poetry Review

“A Victorian Murder” in Del Sol Review

“Hippie Mores In the Age of Chivalry,” “Pumping Station Two,” and “A Nocturnal Order” in MiPOesias (Ed. Evie Shockley)

“Custodian of the Dark” and “Coward’s Bible or (After the Séance)” in MiPOesias (Ed. Gabriel Gudding)

“Rufus the Obscure,” “Tanned Legged ‘Lil Bess,” “Creating a Safe Distance at Sea,” “At the Heathen Gates,” “Dangerous,” and “A Subliminal Corker” in Fascicle

Anthology

Visiting Wallace: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Wallace Stevens Edited by Dennis Barone and James Finnegan (University of Iowa Press, 2009)

Audio

Martin reading at the 2004 Carrboro Poetry Festival (mp3)

Interview

Martin on Lance Phillips’ Here Comes Everybody

Reviews 

Robert West on Genii Over Salzburg in Oyster Boy Review

Ben Mirov on Rogue Hemlocks in Coldfront Magazine

David Lau on Rogue Hemlocks in Lana Turner 

Josh Cook on Rogue Hemlocks at Bookslut.com

Etc.

Look inside Genii Over Salzburg

Look inside Rogue Hemlocks

• Mastermind eats asparagus

• Future heaves against man 

• Whiskey and whiskey: Synonymous? 

• Airship destroyed as man turns into baby

• Group forced to wade through huge vat of poetry

• Boy, ten, stunted in some fundamental way

• Man’s heart expanded to ridiculous proportions

• Woman decides, at last, what is real

• Wounded creek dragged from wreck

• Massive dream crushes city

• All deaths to end “for a time”

• Woman pulls “feebleminded” bore from purse

The Freaks Responsible

Alban Fischer, Grammarpuss

Gerard Sander, Workie

20 WORDS YOU CAN LOOK UP NOW BEFORE READING JOHN ASHBERY!

• algolagnic        • bloviate

• bowsprit        • bumptious

• cardoon        • catamite

• convolvulus        • eglantine

• kick-pleats        • loggia

• machicolation        • parentitis

• planisphere        • pyrrhic

• scapegrace        • scrofulous

• spludge        • tergiversation

• vultural        • widdershins

The debut issue of trnsfr should pub sometime in July.