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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
Welcome to issue nine of Feel The Word Magazine.
Come on, can it get any better than this?
Possibly, but it would probably land us in jail.
Some pretty sharp work across the board this month. Short stories and poetry have become increasingly difficult to pick over the last three or so issues, mainly due to the fact that the ever-growing volume of material we’ve been getting. Which roughly means that the three stories we’ve gone with this month by an exceptionally talented group of writers, Daniel M. Ridges, Jennifer Khoury and Jeremy Trumble are truly the best of an incredible body of work that we had to get through these past few weeks. Three distinctive approaches to short fiction, and we’re honored to have them highlight our ninth issue.
Variety seems to be the theme for our poetry selctions this month as well. Tristan Franz, Steven Roden, Bobby Calero, Matthew Sharp, Bill Toad, Grace Faller, Alejandro G. and Amanda Boschetto all step in to Feel The Word Magazine this month with poetry that ranges from the broken-hearted (because what’s any collection of poetry without a couple of pissed-off love poems done to original effect?) to the nightmarish with eyes widen open to catch every grim detail, and then straight on into something that might very well qualify as children’s poetry.
It’s a strange combination, but it might just work.
We’ve got two terrific interviews lined up for you as well. Although musically different, Melissa Smith’s interview with DJ HWY 7 and our own Amber Vilate’s conversation with Schuyler Fisk do have one notable feature in common. Both interviews involve incredibly talented, underrated musicians who are still making a lot of headway and picking up a lot of attention through the sheer force of their attention to the work. That’s generally been the core idea of the interviews we’ve gone after so far, and this month’s interviews do a more than worthy job making that clear.
Basically, if there’s anything about these interviews that grabs you, then definitely move from here into some great music.
Reviews? We might have a couple around. For both film and music we’ve managed to secure a few wonderful new writers to match up to the usual talent we’ve been bringing month after month. For film, Patrick Wood, Leslie Dufresne and Roberto Azula join Kanaka Sathasivan, Dan Schneider, Oliver X., Adventures In Netflix columnist Gabriel Ricard and Eric Smith for the odd range of old classics and new titles this side of the endless drive-in. Music-wise, we’re pleased to welcome James Pitts and Simon Staake to Feel The Word Magazine standards Michael Tenzer, Constantine Koutsoutis, Oliver X. and J.D. Butter. All of whom turn in some of the best reviews we’ve published so far. But even so, it’s Simon Staake’s concert review on Tom McRae and The Hotel Cafe tour that might be worth checking out first. We’ve been wanting to run concert reviews since this whole show started, and we couldn’t ask for a better one to start with.
The talent just seems to get stronger and stronger as we move closer to our one-year-anniversary.
All in all, it’s a pretty safe bet that we’ve got something for everyone as we head into a summer full of wonder and adventure.
And by wonder and adventure, we mean high gas prices, tornadoes, hurricanes and temperatures that bring to mind an old episode of The Twilight Zone.
So, relax, wonder why Bill Hicks is long dead and Carlos Mencia is alive and getting rich on lame ethnic jokes, and then check out at the latest issue of the magazine that metaphorically speaking isn’t afraid to steal all the liqour in your freezer while you sleep.
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