October 20th, 2010 / 5:00 pm
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Absent

There’s a new issue of Absent. They’ve done 5 issues since 2006, which isn’t a brisk pace, but I’m glad they’re still plugging away. One of the most radical things a journal or press can do is exist (even if they are Cannot Exist), so good job everyone who’s still at it.

What are some of the things you’ve published in defunct places? How did that make you feel?

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8 Comments

  1. October 20th, 2010 / 9:44 pm darby—

      i could put a collection together of work published in now defuncts. i think ive developed the mind that the internet is mud, so we know what we’re diving into. i feel the most pinch that opium’s old archives have never become available again. absent is really cool by the way, the new issue is rock. …before opium was a print. i had some of my first i felt really creatively brave pieces there six or seven years ago. launch pads. all calvin lius guys, although the glut seems to have appeared again somehow. places like mitochondria i miss though.

  2. October 20th, 2010 / 10:25 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      haven’t had any defuncts yet, but storyglossia’s blog disappeared, it seems, along w/ my interview there which I’m sad I didn’t think to save my own copy of. Maybe in my outbox somewhere.

  3. October 20th, 2010 / 11:28 pm or here—

      I’ve been in the closing issues of so many places it make me feel like Candide.

  4. October 21st, 2010 / 3:10 am Sean—

      Well don’t blame the internet. You publish in print and it’s at some library, dusty, yellow, gone.

      I think all net work can be/is archived.

      Not so print.

  5. October 21st, 2010 / 3:13 am MM—

      y’all keep your own archives, right?
      cardboard box kind.

  6. October 21st, 2010 / 3:41 am darby—

      disagrhee. the internet is still more malleable. its existence depends on third party humans. someone who is not the author knows a password that gives them access to the file of the work that can be changed or deleted and re-saved whenever. you can’t change print once its print. the author owns a contrib copy to show their grandpets.

  7. October 21st, 2010 / 7:20 pm Elisa—

      I actually meant to reply to this, not like it. (Sorry.) I was going to say you can print out your poem from the Internet and keep it. :)

  8. October 21st, 2010 / 8:02 pm darby—

      i liked yours. i meant it. ;)

      but i mean, what you are saying is proving my point. in order for it be something, it needs to be printed, right? even if you somehow printed out like a hundred copies and negotiated the internet version be taken down, you basically just became your own print press.