The newest issue of The Kootenay School of Writing’s W Magazine—W12 “All Music”–is available on the KSW website: www.kswnet.org.

W12 features a selection of poetry-as-music, music-as-poetry, poetrymusic, and poetry that engages with music on compositional and topical levels by the following contributors:

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Ted Byrne
David Ito Chokroun
Judith Copithorne
Halvard Johnson
Amdrew Levy/Gerry Hemmingway
R. Mittenthal and N. Vassilakis
Lia Pas
the pppoetry band
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Steven Ross Smith
Colin Smith
Lynn Starheim
Jeremy Turner
Fred Wah/Jason De Couteau/Orith Fogel

Please note that if you would like to download this issue, you will have two options.

The ideal form of the issue–which contains the audio files embedded in an Adobe .pdf file (as opposed to leaving them out to dry as a supplement)–is really huge [466.6 Mb!] and may take several hours to download depending on your connection. (Yes, we did try to compress the file to make it smaller but were confounded by software limitations).

So, as an alternative, we’ve included W12 as two separate files: a .pdf and an .mp3 file.

We will also mail out a CD-rom of the full issue and/or a CD of the audio files that you can play on a conventional CD player to KSW general mailing list members if you send a SASE (with appropriate postage for sending a CD to your area) to: Continua a leggere→