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yes more covers

Published on December 9, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

moremoremoremore

Published on December 4, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

Denver has really good used bookstores and many of them

Published on December 1, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

covers

Published on November 30, 2022November 28, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

Iowa is a nightmare. Iowa City is a nightmare within one. Some DLM covers

Published on November 26, 2022November 28, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

I hope that some Iowans read this because I want them to know it. I hate Iowa

ISSUE #3 COVERS

Published on November 23, 2022November 23, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

it’s coming along. i’m getting back to all the submissions these days. Collecting for volume 4 now. Been in the desert for 40 days can’t wait to go home (but not before I put these lit mags in all the used book stores from Pheonix back to Detroit)

Artsy Fall Issue photos

Published on August 31, 2022August 26, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

My wife took some artsy photos with her nice camera. Everything’s ready. There are some two hundred issues for now. I’m driving out of state to put them in the bookstores. The poems will be posted on the blog over the course of the next two months, starting tomorrow. Every 3 days or so I’ll publish another one.

doodles

Published on August 26, 2022August 17, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

It Is Good for Man to be Alone / Yazan Alali

Published on August 20, 2022August 19, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

FALL ISSUE COMING SEPTEMBER—it’s a damned good one, too

Published on August 13, 2022August 14, 2022 by Detroit Lit MagLeave a comment

I’m going to print several hundred (here are a mere 25) for distribution, in September, in Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, Marquette, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and ideally any of the surrounding cities. Some are stapled, some sewn beautifully by my wife, who has a sewing machine. I have yet to make the covers, but they will be as sloppy as ever. I was quite surprised by the number of submissions coming in this last month! I was sort of drowning in the slush pile for some days, but now I think I’ve hit my groove. This issue is some 6 pages longer as a result, and as far as the work itself goes, I an very proud to say that it seems to show a harmonic thread throughout, and a definite sustainment of the quality of the first mag, and even an improvement (with no offense to those first contributors).

I was too lazy to distribute the last 10 or so copies of the summer DLM, and as I struggled to pay all of our Fall contributors, I decided that it would be wisest to begin selling copies to help defray the cost of those remunerations. They are 15 bucks on my wife’s Etsy page, PaintedLit.etsy.com. Alternately, you could buy a Fall issue, and prescribe the doodle, if you so desire.

Thanks to all the contributors and submitters and readers! Thanks to anyone who has said a kind word in our favor—it lifts our spirits immensely! Thanks to the bookstores putting the mag on display! Thanks!