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Hybrid Literature for Mutant Readers
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    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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    FREE DIGITAL EDITIONS

    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 continue to be released online on a bi-annual basis, free to read & share in their entirety … CAROUSEL 44 , 45 and 46 are out now!

    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 2020 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 — to date, we have posted more than 140 archival works (sampled from issues 15-40) for you to enjoy! Check in often, as new work goes up on our BLOG every second weekend.

    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 current reading period (including a themed call on TAROT) opens on Jan 20/22 … deadline is Mar 15!

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