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      • Poems: Nabaneeta Dev Sen
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      • Trish Crapo
      • Kelly Egan
      • Michael Franco
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      • INTRODUCTION: Babel
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      • Djembe
    • Christina Lago
    • Editors' Pocket Anthology >
      • Our Reflections
    • Insight2 Seasonal
    • Troublemaker
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      • Nuran Akkaya
    • Ngugi
    • Vintage Amphora
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      • Peter Brook
      • A FLOCK
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      • Jimi Zhivago
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      • Paul Mugur
      • Brandon Rushton
      • Marcela Sulak
    • COLOPHON
    • Contributors18
  • ISSUE 17
    • Table of Contents
    • A WORD17
    • InSight 1
    • Flash Pocket >
      • Flash fiction intro
      • Susanna Drbal
      • Melanie Bush
      • Matt Gordon
    • POETRY >
      • G. Greene
      • Norman Fischer
      • David Robertson
      • Lisa Bourbeau
    • Essays >
      • THE BARD-
      • LORCA IN CUBA
    • Ad Astra >
      • Beatrix Gates
    • Romanian Pocket >
      • Seven Romanians
    • URBAN LEGENDS >
      • Randolph Petsche
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      • Steve Cannon
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      • Cheb Khaled
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      • Couteau and David
    • Ngugi
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      • Tiller of Waters
      • Sentsov
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      • Kaminsky
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NEWS

Selections from Cable Street editor Eric Darton’s collection-in-process Under the Linden Boardwalk have recently appeared in Galway Review and Gargoyle Magazine: 
              
https://gargoylemagazine.com/eric-darton/ 
​                    https://thegalwayreview.com/2022/08/15/eric-darton-you-got-it 
In Spring 2022, our consulting poetry editor, Dana Delibovi, published one of her own poems in Moria, as well as translations of St. Teresa of Ávila in Presence and US Catholic. Dana has poetry and translations forthcoming in Psaltery & Lyre, US Catholic, and Ezra Translations.

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Modfellows Gallery in Nashville recently hosted a month-long solo exhibition by our friend and contributor Bill Gubbins, whose This American Carnage photographs were featured in back-to-back Portfolios in Issues 5 & 6. A montage of images from the show accompanied by a score by Mike Gubbins.
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We are happy to anounce that Witty 13 fiction contributor Alexander Shalom Joseph’s premiere short story collection, American Wasteland, will be published by Owl Canyon Press on August 15.
 
Witty editor Eric Darton writes: “Alexander Shalom Joseph unflinchingly details the myriad micro-tragedies that make up our American Wasteland. Many of the stories in this debut collection are intense, at  times hypnotic meditations on psychic loss rendered in highly attuned language. In the deeply familiar, yet disconcerting world the author narrates, our vanities and repetitive gestures alone remain to tell of our humanity.”
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Devotions and Desecrations on the Downtown Bus
 by JD Rage
 has been recently published by Venom Press. Her poetry was featured in a “Remembrance” for her in Issue #6 of Witty Partition, then called The Wall.

This new book, subtitled a poetic memoir, chronicles her life—and the life of New York City—in the 1990s, as she rode the M15 and M9 buses to and from her home on Clinton Street and her job near the World Trade Centers. Exploding with wit, rage, and even a rare dash of joy, this book is available for pre-order at Bookshop.org, as well as the usual sources.


The book release party was held on July 11, 2021, JD Rage’s birthday, at Lady Stardust Lounge above 2A Bar, with readers including: Edward Arrocha, Charlene Cambridge, Patricia Carragon, Chris Iconocide, David Huberman, Ptr Kozlowski, Puma Perl, Su Polo, Nicca Ray, Thad Rutkowski, Jan Schmidt.
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​Of continuing interest, JALADA is a Pan African journal in which Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been featured, along with many important African writers.  (You can hear him read in both his mother tongue, Gikuyu, and in English, his "Why Human Beings Walk Upright." We have reviewed Ngugi's modern epic, The Perfect Nine, in Issue 14's Remarkable Reads. 
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Francesca Gargallo (México), whose poems in translation appeared in Witty Partition Issue #12, has published a new book of Italian translations of her poetry.  Se posso partecipo (Si puedo participo) is a bilingual edition of Gargallo’s recent poems of migration and activism viewed through a feminist lens. Three of the poems in the book were among the poems that Witty published.
Francesca Gargallo. Se posso partecipo. Translated by Valeria Manca. Rome: Aracne Editrice, 2020; ISBN: 978-88-255-3590-7. Ebook available free.

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Novel Slices, founded by Witty co-editor Hardy Griffin, is the only literary magazine dedicated solely to novel excerpts.

​Each issue features the winners of the two annual contests, one in March/April and one in September/ October. For more information on the publication and contests, see 
NovelSlices.com.
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​Witty Partition co-editor Eric Darton’s novel Free City, recently republished by Dalkey Archive Press, has become the source text for a series of ten remarkable short films.

​Created by renowned photographer Bill Hayward, Free City Filmtrips has garnered prizes for Best Experimental Short at LA Indies, LA Independent Film Channel and Vegas Shorts, and awards and honorable mentions at several other festivals. Free City Filmtrips may be seen at billhayward.com under Films.

Hayward’s award-winning feature-length film Asphalt, Muscle & Bone was featured in Witty 7.

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​FREE CITY
POLITICAL HISTORICAL FANTASY
 
Free City reissued by Dalkey Archive
 
First published in 1996 to international acclaim, Eric Darton’s Free City  is the fictional journal of L., a seventeenth-century inventor caught in a precarious love triangle, even as his beloved northern European port town teeters on the brink of catastrophe.

In a tale laced with bawdy humor and flights of the fantastical, L. must balance the demands of his patron – a rapacious entrepreneur – against those of his sorceress lover. As L. attempts to avert calamity, he finds himself joined, literally out of the blue, by the most unlikely of allies.
           
Weaving together historical, political and absurdist elements, Free City resonates more profoundly today than ever.
 

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Please raise your voice in solidarity with City Lights author Aslı Erdoğan who is being persecuted by the Turkish government.

Aslı Erdoğan’s life-threatening situation is emblematic of the human rights crisis that has transformed civic life in Turkey. Carrying out an unrelenting "purge," since 2016, the government has persecuted and imprisoned hundreds of journalists, artists, writers, academics and civic workers on baseless charges, often calling for life sentences. As Aslı has said, "The government has crossed all barriers of  ethics, and even shame." Aslı currently lives in what will probably become permanent exile from her home, friends and family, but even abroad she is not free from death threats, harassment, and ongoing State torment. She has suffered a series of debilitating physical consequences as a result of the Turkish government’s ongoing psychological torture, and this sudden push to sentence her in absentia is meant to further threaten those who would speak out. Please add your voice to the international protest against Turkey’s treatment of Aslı Erdoğan, and of all who attempt to speak truth to power. City Lights proudly published Aslı Erdoğan’s most recent book, The Stone Building and Other Places (translated by Sevinç Türkkan), in 2018. Please join us and add your voice to the international campaign of support.

       - Elaine Katzenberger, Publisher and Executive Director, City Lights Books
 


TAKE ACTION
Please publish articles and opinion in your national or local press highlighting the case of Aslı Erdoğan and freedom of expression in Turkey.

Share information about the case and your activities on social media; please use the hashtag #FreeTurkeyMedia.


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