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CAROUSEL

CAROUSEL

Hybrid Literature for Mutant Readers
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Category: Poem

Poem Special Project

CHAIN 8: Hibernate, Sweet Ghostess

Staff April 8, 2021 CAROUSELChainChris TompkinsPoempoetry

Suddenly we sweep out, after death,felled from Madonna’s sweet hibernation,we find the old country of wild places,where the many colours of sunshine warmand loosen rust-choked…

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CHAIN 7: Virgins of the Rocks

Staff March 8, 2021 CAROUSELChainGraeme BezansonPoempoetry

1 Wingbone hollow, the winkingCavemouth: two paintings / eight figuresForegrounded and absent ofAttributes (Paris version)Or haloed by thin loops of goldNearly identical otherwise saveA gesture…

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CHAIN 6: Trundlesung

Staff February 9, 2021 CAROUSELChainNatalie WilkinsonPoempoetry

there are margins down the middle of ussides inside and we blunder somewhere in betweenthere are rocks in Butte, Montana that ring / immaculately shatteredeach…

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CHAIN 5: Foe Names

Staff January 8, 2021 CAROUSELChainJeremy ColangeloPoempoetry

six ‘degreens of sapiencerepleating bleating passencore homologiesabseance ghostly gasting for breadthunlively these scorned metaphorsthe sound an error makesloose fingers on the wrong piano keynoisy as…

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CHAIN 4: Lady Mondegreen

Staff December 1, 2020 CAROUSELChainkerry rawlinsonPoempoetry

if we at all labyrinthed hearing onething, the synthesis twixt ear / lip trips             wrong. if songs longing to ring true crack             apart, so sound…

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CHAIN 3: Ménière’s Apophenia

Staff October 30, 2020 CAROUSELChainPoempoetryRoxanna Bennett

If I ever hear anything at alllicked clear of the fuzz beneath the rushingwater falling, Giddyup partiallyglue-trapped hammipedes shushing upstream,porcine extrusions sidewind gutter balling,if I…

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CHAIN 2: Tinnitus as a Form of Pareidolia

Staff September 23, 2020 CAROUSELChainPoempoetryZackary Medlin

Within a whisper, a wispof her ringing. An offering:here there be monsters, terseas a hearse, her iris rife with if,a fire irate at aching, achinga…

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CHAIN 1: Delusional Structures of the Inner Ear

Staff August 25, 2020 Andy VerboomCAROUSELChainPoempoetry

Fregoli’s Hammer Everyone sherries a gâteau now and then or      rums a ham secretly, tips a flask in coffee,     guzzles pure ethanol soon as I stop…

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Reading Queer in the GTA (5)

Staff June 25, 2020 Banoo ZanCAROUSELCAROUSEL 42CAROUSEL 42GTApoetryqueerToronto

BÄNOO ZAN The Land of Orange Blossoms * You journey to me I circle your squarelike a pilgrim farewellto Kaaba Your womenin farmers’ market sell…

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Reading Queer in the GTA (4)

Staff June 24, 2020 CAROUSELCAROUSEL 42CAROUSEL 42GTAKamila RinapoetryqueerToronto

KAMILA RINA Imprints                                                  Last night, my ass pressed against the sink, the dish drainer rattling behind me, my teeth against your shoulders, your arm holding…

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A NOTE ON FORMAT CHANGE: FROM PRINT TO DIGITAL

CAROUSEL 43 was our final print issue — this lovely 80-page full-colour issue, and many other exceptional back issues, are available for purchase in our online shop! New issues of the journal will continue to be released online on a bi-annual basis,  free to read & share in their entirety beginning with CAROUSEL 44, out now!

FREE CONTENT FROM THE ARCHIVES …

Did you know? As part of our journal’s pandemic / social distancing efforts, we have been releasing tons of free content on our BLOG as a gift just for you: starting in July with CAROUSEL 15, we have been selecting a few exciting sample works from a featured back issue every week and are releasing them into the wild — as of December 01, we’ll have posted more than 100 archival works for you to enjoy! Check in often, as new work goes up on our BLOG almost every day.

NO READING FEES!

We’re very happy to remind you that it is free to submit to CAROUSEL (in all categories except Contests) via Submittable — Take note: our next reading period will open on Jan 15/21 …

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  • CHAIN 8: Hibernate, Sweet Ghostess
  • CHAIN 7: Virgins of the Rocks
  • CHAIN 6: Trundlesung
  • CHAIN 5: Foe Names
  • CHAIN 4: Lady Mondegreen
  • CHAIN 3: Ménière’s Apophenia
  • CHAIN 2: Tinnitus as a Form of Pareidolia
  • CHAIN 1: Delusional Structures of the Inner Ear
  • CAROUSEL 43 — out now!
  • 4PANEL Supplement No. 16 now free online (from CAROUSEL 42)
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  • Reading Queer in the GTA (3)
  • Reading Queer in the GTA (2)
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