It’s been a long time coming but ng12 is done and ready for your literary/artistic enjoyment. In ng12 you’ll find a short story by Mylène Dressler and an imaginative painting by Sarah Stone. We’re really excited about the way Mylène’s essay and Sarah’s painting work together on the metaphoric level. As always, we hope that you enjoy this issue of new graffiti: Literature on the Streets. Please feel free to visit our downloadable page to snag a PDF of this month’s issue. Then you can print it off and help cover the streets of your town in literature and art.
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Almost Like a Prayer for the Lost: new graffiti #11
The eleventh issue of new graffiti: Literature on the Streets is now up and ready for you to read, download and spread out around your town. This month’s issue features a dramatic painting by Sandy Parsons and a sad, yet thought provoking, poem by Sheri Gabbert. With each month’s issue we hope to create a unique story through the combination of visual art and writing; if we’ve been successful, this months story will feel like a little like a prayer for the lost. Click on the image to the right to be redirected to the issue.
Coming Soon: new graffiti #11
new graffiti: Literature on the Streets’ eleventh issue will feature a delicately sad poem by Sheri Gabbert and a moving painting by Sandy Parsons. One of the things we love to do here at new graffiti Publishing is to help spread the word about the accomplishments and activities of the writers and artist we feature. As such, we’d love to let you all know about a show Sandy Parson, and Melinda Parsons have coming up soon. The show is called “Humans and Nature.” If you’d like more information on the show, which runs Sept 16th-Oct 1st, click HERE. If you’d like to get a preview of Sandy’s work, click on her photo to the right and you’ll be redirected to her website.
As human beings we’re constantly pulled by the gravitation of those people and things around us: Art, Humanity, Lovers, Family, the Divine, the Unknowable. I remember, as a child, looking at a map of our solar system marked out with the paths of the plants and their various moons. There was so much going on that I could barely handle it. Paths and gravitational pulls overlapped and competed. This months issue of new graffiti: Literature on the Streets is dedicated to these cosmically human forces that push and pull against us everyday, and to the painfully beautiful moments when they all line up and, for a moment, the universe makes perfect sense.
Announcing new graffiti #10
This issue of new graffiti: Literature on the Streets is all about beauty. As a writer I’ve always felt that the highest compliment someone could give my work was saying that it was beautifully written. As poets, writers, artists…as humans, that is what we’re seeking…beauty. We look for the beauty in everything from the ordinary to the sublime or the apparently grotesque. So, here in ng #10, we bring you beauty presented by the prose of Jacqueline Morril, and the painting of Jacob Wayne Bryner.
new graffiti Issue 9 now available!
At long last, our 1 year anniversary issue is here. Sorry for the wait but we hope, as you enjoy Blake Palmer’s art and the poetry of Bryan Thomas Rice, you will find that it was well worth it. Thanks to both our artist and our poet, and all of our patient readers! Click on the photo to be redirected to Issue #9.
Happy Birthday To Us!
The first issue of new graffiti: Literature on the Streets hit the presses and the internet just over a year ago. Issue #1 came out in July of 2010. While we’re a little late getting this year’s July issue out (by about a week) we’re certain that it’s worth the wait. In what we’re dubbing our anniversary issue, you’ll get to see a subtle and moving painting by Blake Palmer paired with the poetry of Bryan Thomas Rice. new graffiti: Literature on the Streets Issue #9 should be available before the end of the week. Click on either picture to be redirected to our artist’s or poet’s websites respectively.
Come Catch new graffiti Publishing at the Alt Press Fest!
This Saturday, July 9th, from 1-9pm you can catch our editors at the new graffiti Publishing table during Salt Lake City Downtown Library’s Alternative Press Festival. Come say hi, pick up some free copies of new graffiti: Literature on the Streets, and just hang out in general.
Here is the blurb off of the festival’s facebook page:
“On July 9, 2011, the Downtown Library will be hosting its third annual Alternative Press Festival. Featuring local zinesters such as Kayla Porter, Emily Moroz, John Andrews, Birdbrain Press and so much more! Also including local musicians VCR5, 6335, Birthquake, Virgin Sophia and Bramble. We’ll have on-site screen printing from Copper Palate Press and Erin and Nick Potter of Potter Press will have some fantastic local artwork. Swinj’s Trent Call and Spencer Charles of Calamity Industries will also be there. The University of Utah’s Bookarts Program will have some of their talented students’ work on hand. Not to mention exciting workshops, panel discussions, mini-comics, theater and so much more!”
new graffiti Issue 8 now available
Memory is a tricky and often unreliable thing. I always admire when essayists acknowledge this in their writing rather than pretending that their recollection of things is perfect, or the only version that matters. In her essay “Black and White” Jesse Carty gives us a great example of how a writer can smoothly clue the reader in on these “tricky” moments of memory, and she does it in a way that only adds to the overall style of her essay. When you pair that with the disjointed, yet lovely, feel of Michelle Montrose Larsen’s painting, this issue of new graffiti: Literature on the Streets provides readers with unique picture of memory in action.
Announcing new graffiti #8
new graffiti: Literature on the Streets‘ first national call for submissions is over. We are grateful for the number of outstanding submissions we have received over the past couple of months. Deciding whom to feature in new graffiti was very difficult, but we are pleased to say that we now have a fantastic summer/fall lineup. To start things off, we’re excited to announce that new graffiti: Literature on the Streets #8 will feature the work of Jessie Carty–an amazing writer/editor from North Carolina–and a lovely painting by Michelle Montrose Larsen. Issue #8 will be on the web and on the streets by the end of the month.
