In My Own Recognizance, Ronald Sukenick

Breathtaking and fascinating statements, posted in tribute to Sukenick, 1932-2004.

“If you don’t use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.”

Ronald Sukenick. FC2. Profiled here in the Modern Word.

alt-x online network, where the digerati meet the literati

alt-x is huge.

I could get an education here.

failbetter, an online literary magazine that publishes original works of fiction, poetry and art.

Sorry, I can’t find much to say about failbetter.

They have a nice name, from Beckett, and nice color scheme.

They are good to their alumni.

They exist.

They are a proud member of the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses.

They have a humongo list of links (not annotated). Why did I link that? Door to nowhere.

papertiger media, electronic poetry publishers

Interesting things about papertiger:

They’re Australian.
They offer services that presumably help pay their bills.
They have a vast collection of links. It’s organized into categories, but not annotated.
They make CDs.
They have some kind of nifty navigational dropdowns on the home page.

Other than that —
their most current news is dated November 2003
and I didn’t see anything funny there

eyeshot.net, online litter for the ill and illiterate

I like this site. It has a rude sense of humor. It is navigationally weird, which I find refreshing, when I don’t find it annoying.

Their submission guidelines are funny. I think it’s funny that they say “PLEASE REALIZE we tend to respond very quickly, often in mere minutes…”

I think their rejection letters are funny – they’ve stored five volumes of samples on the site, and that’s funny.

I think it’s funny that they call the Home page “the Last Resort of the Navigationally Fucked.”

I think it’s really funny that they’ve published a blank page (no words) at www.eyeshot.net/___.html (link).

They call themselves “aquarian.” That’s a good adjective to look for in sites that I find compatible.

“We tend to like things that are denser (not so quick to include space breaks between sentences), that are somewhat elusive and inventive and overblown languagewise and not-so-sane aesthetically.” I like that a lot. Denser. I’m still wondering about some advice I received to keep my rants down to a page or less.

I like eyeshot. I’ll go back. I signed up for their Friendly & Infrequent Update.