The April Reader

INDUSTRIAL LUNCH NO. 1 HAS ARRIVED

POETRY • ART • GLORIOUS JUNK

The Brasilia Review #4 is a house of brick in the face of wolfish weather.

Fiction

Depression and Joy by Abdulaziz Abdurhman

    ”our neighbors sat into their windows listening to our singing”

Foreign Correspondence by Royee Zvi Atadgy

    ”she loved to see herself all naked-foggy and illusion-like”

Loyalty Lies by India Renee

    ”Most of all I never want you to do me the way I just did him.”

Non-Fiction

Lessing the Ex-Patriot by Dan Souder

    ”A great human emotion is the feeling when one’s foreignness slips away.”

Poetry

I Am Created in the Image of a Star by Silvia Angulo

    ”I am a smaller but equally puissant replica”

What We Saw #1: Flight by Josh MacLeod

    ”we who are about to die / inside salute you”

An Ordinall IX: A Pharmacy for the Common Man (1592) by Christopher Schaeffer

    ”I won’t watch the shows bro”

Something to Take the Edge Off by Sanbud Tehrani

    ”some tightropes you find out are too short only mid-cross”

A Literation, Volume 2 A collective of original prose and poetry from writers who post on Tumblr.

/!\ CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS /!\

WHAT IS AN INDUSTRIAL LUNCH

Jack Spicer said that if you wanted to be a political poet write letters to the editor. We say a poem and a letter to the editor aren’t so far apart so long as you aren’t boring about it.

Industrial Lunch is a new magazine for writing and art that’s selfish enough to call itself poetry. What kind of work are we looking for? We don’t really know. We don’t really “have” an aesthetic but we know what we like and it tends not to look like what people who say “we know what we like” would usually like. But we do. We like to feel the earth move under our feet. We like to have comfort and possibility jostled around with, without feeling like we’re being exploited or manipulated. We like honesty that isn’t really worried about how honest it is or can be, that is we like things that take power relations into account, that think about how they might impact others who are not themselves or however one might phrase it. We long for ethical lives, we try and fail, and we like to read and look at work that confronts that failure, that impossibility, by saying “things could be different but they’re not but they could be.” We like to have fun and we like to be in love. We like to shout indoors. We like a lot of stuff.

And we would like YOU to send us your poems and visual art for our first issue! And tell your friends, too. We don’t really know what we’re doing but we’re sure together, you and us, we’ll figure it out.

SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES: Please send all submissions to [email protected]. For writing, please send 1-3 poems in a Word document (.doc or .docx preferably) or a PDF (if you are doing something that relies heavily on a visual “field” for the poem, PDF is recommended).

For visual art, please send your work to us in PDF or TIFF format. In the body of your email please indicate your medium––painting, mixed media, illustration, photography, etc.

A review of kathryn l. pringle’s “dizzying, suffocating, brilliant fault tree” (Omnidawn 2012) is over at The Volta. Christopher Schaeffer writes of reading Pringle’s new collection that it was for him reminiscent of a bed-ridden, visceral experience he had with a couple of Philip K. Dick novels–”one which I didn’t really expect to experience again.” […]