Pom2 Magazine

From the archives: When we were putting together Issue 5, we were thinking about ways to map how the artists in previous issues were responding to one another — with the idea of eventually creating an interactive online experience. Here's Sue Landers' visual attempt to make sense of those response lines.

For ease of reference, here are links to PDFs of all six issues of POM2

Issue 1

Issue 2

Issue 3

Issue 4

Issue 5

From 2001 – 2006, Pom2 published over 170 artists in 6 issues. The following is the contributor list for our last issue (#6), and a link to a PDF of the issue. Sláinte!

Contributors for Issue 6

Rodrigo Toscano | Carol Mirakove | Dana Ward | Laura Elrick | Anselm Berrigan | Gareth Lee | Shonni Enelow | William Gallien | Kish Song Bear | Dennis Somera | Michael Koshkin | Eddie Watkins | Gordon Kennedy | Arlene Ang | Kim Bernstein | Loretta Clodfelter | Eric Elshtain | Gale Nelson | Allyssa Wolf | Derek White | Elijah oberman | Stan Apps | Emily Lloyd | Heather Sweeney | Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle | Sara Anne Cox | David Perry | Patrick James Dunagan | Deborah Meadows | Frances Sjoberg | William Owen | Francis Raven | Gregory Severance | Susan M. Schultz

From 2001 – 2006, Pom2 published over 170 artists in 6 issues. Here is the contributor list for Issue #5 and a link to a PDF of the issue. Prost!

Charles Bernstein | Joel Bettridge | Daniel Borzutzky | Michael C. Boyko | Sherry Brennan | Jenna Cardinale | Brian Clements | Albert Flynn DeSilver | Chris Ebbe | Monica Fauble | Bill Friend | David Harrison Horton | Mark Kanak | Stephen Kirbach | Drew Kunz | Erika Mikkalo | Susan Mills | Laura Mullen | Christian Peet | Rodney Philips | Kristin Prevallet | Karen Randall | Kaia Sand | Matthew Sargent | Elizabeth Treadwell | Robin Tremblay-McGaw | Sara Veglahn | Gautam Verma | Anne Waldman | Mark Wallace

From 2001 – 2006, Pom2 published over 170 artists in 6 issues. The following is splash art by Tucker Nichols, the editorial from Issue #4, the contributor list, and a link to a PDF of the issue. Excelsior!

From the Editors

We began this magazine with the intention of provoking response...The following are certain notions...What we found is that response occurs constantly—and increasingly, in this political moment, in these most provoking times, we’ve just to put our ears to the ground. She turned into a rat, then a flowerpot, then a story. She said ‘nothing shall make you afraid.’

What emerges is a “still” of response. (We freeze the film’s frame. We coax the liquor out.) The stillness of the magazine, the artifact, can be clarity, like silt settling in water. Still, the magazine creates a verb: “to pom.” Before anything else could happen, there had to be an attraction. Gravity. (Seriously.)

Perhaps Pom2 is a record of response to vertigo? If vertigo is falling into the accumulated language layers, as in the tomato found as paradise fruit used as rat bait. So you are involved in the methodical, well-planned, ruthless, and stubborn destruction of the very ground of Paradise.

This issue is dated, in the marked sense of the word. A magazine of contemporary and predominantly United States-ian poetry. Authors respond to this particular moment of suppressed expression, when imagination can be curtailed or

Not not suppressing exactly but not hesitating either and in this the      tendency to be an instrument of grief less than it once was an expectancy’s life crisis so as to speak and not not speak of it

The editors felt a need to speak: this page. If Pom2 isn’t deep enough, it won’t float. Don’t touch the images or symbols, they can actually hurt. We’ve found our half-formed ideas about a magazine produce wellconsidered surprises, where myriad things are made, separate yet not separate. Goodbye tiny industrialist. Property of Many is ego and erasure of ego resting on one another? The magazine becoming an ah-ha: the way the trees smell.

Note: For this issue Pom2, we asked some contributors to write about the experience of “pomming” or “being pommed.” Responses appear on pages 43, 48, and 92.

Contributors to Issue 4

Camille Roy | Carla Harryman | Etel Adnan | Marcella Durand | Sarah Mangold | Betsy Fagin | Albert Flynn DeSilver | Joel Lipman | Corina Copp | Eileen Myles | Lyn Hejinian | Jefferson Hansen | Yedda Morrison | Christina Strong | Bill Marsh | Brenda Coultas | Anne Tardos | Holly Bittner | Daniel Borzutzky | Michael Farrell | Simon Pettet | Sheila E. Murphy | Andrew Riley Clark | Chuck Stebelton | Sarah Smith | kari edwards | Chris Martin | Lisa Samuels | Edwin Torres | Noah Eli Gordon | Barbara Cole | Sarah Rehmer | Kristin Prevallet | Kerri Sonnenberg | Dana Ward | Karen Weiser

From 2001 – 2006, Pom2 published over 170 artists in 6 issues. The following from Issue #3 is an acknowledgement in which we thank a whole lot of people, the contributor list, and a link to a PDF of the issue. Cheers!

Acknowlegements

The editors would like to thank all of our subscribers, as well as the following venues: The Bowery Poetry Club, New York City; Kelly Writers House, Philadelphia; the Ruthless Grip Reading Series, Washington, D.C.; St. Marks Poetry Project, New York City; and Wordsworth Books, Cambridge.

Contributors for Issue 3

Betsy Andrews | Michael Basinski | Edmund Berrigan | Jules Boykoff | Chris Carnevale | Mark DuCharme | Danielle Dutton | Robert Fitterman | Bill Freind | Lara Glenum | Chris Glomski | Russell Helms | Jason Jensen | Paul Foster Johnson | John Keene | Jake Kennedy | Stephen Kirbach | Pattie McCarthy | Edward Mycue | Chris Nealon | Hoa Nguyen | Redell Olsen | William Pettit | Marc Robbemond | Cynthia Sailers | Fred Schmalz | Brian Kim Stefans | Chris Tysh | Dana Ward | Dylan Willoughby