No Frills. That's the Lo-Ball motto. Actually, the Lo-Ball motto is Our Reputation Rests in Your Mouth. But that's kind of the same...
T.J. DiFrancesco and I are happy to announce that the first issue of Lo-Ball is out, and available at Prairie Lights Bookstore in Iowa City, plus other select locations. Or you can buy it on the world wide web at Lo-Ball. The cost per issue is $4.99. That's right. Cheaper than most of the high-brow print journals, but with twice the quality.
Contributors for issue one: Alex Lemon, John Casteen, Camille T. Dungy, Ryan Call, Erin Belieu, Paisley Rekdal, Ely Shipley, Kristin Hatch, Benjamin Paloff, David Trinidad, Katie Ford, Rachel Zucker, Ryan Courtwright, John Beer, Stephen Elliot, J. Peter Moore, CJ Evans, Luke Sykora, Kristen Tracy, Peter Covino, Ash Bowen, Rachel Loden, Derek Mong, Randall Mann, Timothy O'Keefe and Ilya Kaminsky's translation of a poem by Alexander Blok.
Stop by our table at AWP. Actually, we don't have our own table. We're mooching space from Parthenon West. We're plenty proud of the fact that we're as cheap as we are. Every dime we get goes directly into printing. And stuff. So if our website looks extremely low-budget: it is.
We're producing a very limited run of each issue, so if you want to be guaranteed a copy of issue 2, pony up and subscribe. Issue 1 is nearly gone, so act fast. Free Preview:
Ryan Courtwright
Nutbush City Limits
And there you are in the middle of shirtless
water tossing you back and forth on its pecs;
bobbing in a canary raft that's split up the side and
you're rescuscitating it through the nipple—another
modest disaster on the street or in the market
eyes launch you like boys hopping a freight train to anywhere without
the wet hay, anywhere without viscious small town gossip; dawn
and I'm a-sweat at the thought of tracing the tracks down your spine,
reaming around your thighs, careening through your shoulder blades,
steaming across your abdomen—clunky bodysleep, we are habit;
there is no squirmy patch and the first time is religiously free,
listen for the switch in the night
and come away with me, you can work the broken toothed brake and
I'll cover myself with soot, shoveling coal. building speed.
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