Impetus premiered in September of 1984 via the networking help of Bruce Combs (Taurus), Merritt Clifton (Samisdat), Ron Androla (Northern Pressure), Mike Hemmingson (MoFo Press), Steve Doering (Random Weirdness) Ric Soos (Realities Library), and a cast of poetry misfits I had met through the small press scene. Implosion Press, the house of Impetus, put out 25 regular issues, 6 Female Only issues, 3 Male Only issues, 3 Erotica issues, 2 review issues and a collection of shorts. Along with each issue was a chapbook of some selected poet.
In 1996, "The Best Of" anthology came out and in June of 2000, the last issue came off my risograph and Impetus was left to dry.
We had 4 awesome issues on line.. e-zines (moocho thanks to Mz Didi Menendez).. and hope to again fill some cyber space.
I invite all Impetus friends to post their poetry freely here. The next step to bringing Impetus back to you.
My literary magazine, The Toronto Quarterly - Issue 2 and 3 are now available at amazon.com. There's some great poetry in each issue along with some cool interviews with up and coming and more established poets. Here is the link:
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SEX AND CONSPIRACY! Swedish punkrocker and painter Karl Backman talks about his art, and the reactions to it from right wing christians, pee fetish girls and conspiracy theorists.
MYTHOLOGIES AND LIFE! French graphic designer and writer Laurent Rivelaygue discuss nightmares and a road movie in bumper cars.
GRACE AND ELEGANCE! American artist Betsy Jones talks about geometric landscapes, happiness and the arts of the geisha.
This is a call to all poets who write about WOMEN. Write about someone who inspires you. You can use a character depiction or can use a triumphant situation or surprise us. "ALL" writers welcomed, original and unpublished entries. Winners will be notified in April, 2009 by Oneal Walters, and their names published here. All poems remain the property of the poet.
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Issue #8 demonstrates why this journal has been hailed as the figurehead publication for absurd and surreal literature. Throughout these pages readers will find a man with an endless supply of money in his pockets, a nun who finds teeth in her ice cream cone, and a giant mechanized Michael Ironside stalking the streets of Galveston, Texas. Readers will also find the apocalypse as experienced by the cast of Friends and a race of chickens that enslaves a man and forces him to eat the last egg ever to be eaten. No one theme or tone dominates this issue. Some stories feature mindless violence or irreal nonsense. Others display sharp cultural satire or brain-tingling wordplay. At a time when most fiction serves up the standard fare of realism and common sense, issue #8 offers a zany feast for the ravenous imagination.
Includes stories by Sam Pink, Blake Butler, D. Harlan Wilson, Rhys Hughes, Ofelia Hunt, Cameron Pierce, Mike Young, Matthew Simmons, Darby Larson, Aaron Sitze, and Adam Breckenridge.
IMPETUS!!! My very first poem to be published was to be in your magazine, and then it went away. I spent many a night crying myself to sleep. If you'd like to take a look at where my poems are at now, feel free to drop by http://stephenandrewpalermo.blogspot.com/.
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