I’m so sporadic with putting out newsletters that I have not one but two new zines out since I last sent one.
One is called Ransom Notes, which I made during International Zine Month this year. It’s got five collage poems and one blackout poem.
The other is Reckless Chants #27: to resist despair. It’s a text-heavy zine with some collages (+ a comic and a pull-out centerfold), and includes pieces about growing up as a queer punk in a mid-sized Midwest city, favorite bands, old friends lost and found, Wisconsin and Chicago, disappointment and sadness, resisting despair, still believing in punk after all these years, and so much more.
I made a little trailer for it, because I just really like making trailers for my literary projects, okay?
Both zines are available via my Ko-fi, but as always, if you live outside the U.S. and wanna order one, or just prefer to order a different way, or wanna set up a trade, shoot me a message at coeur.de.fantome@gmail.com.
It won’t be too long until you next hear from me, as I’m starting a new themed series here on this newsletter, and I’ve already gotten the first one written and the second one half-finished. No spoilers, though. All I’ll say is it involves music and nostalgia.
Until then—
to resist despair in this world is what it is to be free,
JLM