Assaracus Issue 26

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After years away </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Assaracus</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> roars back to life: fluid defiant unapologetic and gloriously multiple. </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Assaracus</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Issue 26 revives the journal that never played it safe. This time it's louder queerer and more unruly cracking open the doors to a wilder range of voices. In the spirit of the gritty imperfect bold poetry magazines and presses of the '70s and '80s this issue hums with risk bite and desire. </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This isn't for tenure. This is tenacity. </strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Featuring work from:</strong></p><p></p><ul><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chen Chen</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - award-winning poet of tenderness wit and unabashed gay joy.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Daniel Diamond</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - rediscovered AIDS-era poet bringing archival fire back to light.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Anthony DiPietro</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - writing sex survival and queer ecstasy.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Jack Drago</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - punk ritualist of lust and revelation.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mattie Frye</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - narratives of gender survival and Southern lineage.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Andrew Hahn</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - fierce queer reckonings with God and the body.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Baruch Porras Hernandez</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - bold comedic erotic and full of heat.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Amir Rabiyah</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - trans poetics of cartography resilience and redefinition.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Megan Volpert</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - incisive sharp-witted queer intellectual play.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ian Young</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - legendary Canadian poet and archivist returning to the page.</span></li><li><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bryan Borland</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> - editor founder and poet claiming his space with Bryan's Poem. </span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This issue is both a homecoming and a departure: the gay poetry of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Assaracus</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> now cracked open to a chorus of identities and lineages. It's all </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>disturb / enrapture </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>and a necessary reminder that queer poetry saves disrupts and survives.</span></p>