Issues #2 is in the works!
We've got all the work lined up for #2 (we're currently taking work for #3). We don't have a final release date yet, but things are in the works and things are shaking. #2 will include poetry, prose, and we're expanding to non-fiction in #3! So stay tuned, and look for the following authors in #2 and #3.
Willis Barnstone, James Bertolino, Erin M. Bertram, Todd Boss, Elizabeth Bradfield, Denver Butson, Elizabeth J. Colen, Luis Cremades, Denise Duhamel, Kelly Madigan Erlandson, Blas Falconer, Sarah Rairden Flynn, RJ Gibson, Jessica Halliday, Christopher Howell, Louis Jenkins, Melissa Kwasny, Rika Lesser, Molli Liedel, Jessica Moll, Kristine Ong Muslim, Kathryn Nuernberger, Stephen O'Connor, Shira Richman, Rainer Maria Rilke, Elisabeth Rynell, Michael J. Rosen, Lawrence Schimel, Reginald Shepherd, Edward Snow, Göran Sonnevi, Stacey Waite, Nathan Whiting, Joe Wilkins, Ruth Williams, Nance Van Winckel, Robert Wrigley, and Maya Jewell Zeller, Rosemary Melia.
Issue #1
Better late than never. Originally scheduled for a late September release, KNOCKOUT #1, was released Spring of 2008. We printed 1000 copies. The first issue, all poetry, includes work by a number of well-known writers, including Marvin Bell, Thomas Lux, Todd Boss, Aaron Smith, Carl Phillips, Carol Guess, Larissa Szporluk, Laurie Blauner, Lynn Levin, Timothy Liu, Jonathan Williams, Thomas Meyer, Jim Elledge, Christopher Hennessy, Ronald H. Bayes, CAConrad, Gerard Wozek, Jeff Mann, Michael Montlack, Jeffery Beam, Robert Bly, Ger Killeen, Denver Butson, Dan Pinkerton, Charles Jensen, Brent Goodman, Theodore Enslin, Alberto Rios, David Mason, Billy Collins, Mabel Yu, Kim Lambright and Joseph Massey, among others.
In particular, KNOCKOUT contains nearly as many poems by queer writers as poems by straight writers, nearly a 50/50 mix -- something unseen in contemporary literary magazines.
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