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rez Magazine rings
in the new year with an unusually stellar collection of prose and poetry this
month from some of the most gifted writers on the grid. And from the look of it, this trend is sure
to continue for the balance of the year.
We begin 2017 with the monthly reprinting of select pages from Molly
Bloom’s classic 2017 calendar, The Queen
is Not Amused. As we did earlier
with Bryn Oh’s 2015 calendar, each month we’ll excerpt a month from Molly’s
hilarious and always original collection of 3-D motifs. As for literature, Cyberphoria is back with
this month’s lead story, Art is Born, which opens with a quote from Art
Blue: “If you control time, you control knowledge.” If going back to Victorian England is in a
sense controlling time, then we have Cassie Parker to thank for that. She not only illuminates the LEA grant
process for eager artists and even more eager audiences, but also lifts the
curtain on TerpsiCorps’ own upcoming LEA installation, which will bring back to
life the illustrious world of Penny Dreadfuls. With a single word “Hope,” Huckleberry Hax exquisitely describes how we’ve wrestled
with the term over the past eight years.
And what issue would be complete without one of Cat Boccaccio’s amazing short
short fiction pieces. This month’s The
Cave Dweller is an eerie glimpse into the world of solitary confinement. With no apologies to Disney, Flint
Firebrand’s Frozen brings a wintry chill to our pages, as you can close your
eyes and hear the ice cracking beneath your feet. I Cried
a Tear on a Cornflake is DonJuan Writer’s epic poem about the devastation
of a house fire and some of the surprising things that are forgotten in the
damage assessment. Drover Mahogany’s
third installment of his beautiful and insightful introspections, Footfalls Echo, is about learning – in
this case, coaxing out the mysteries of the ancient Chinese board game, Go,
with his devoted and always bewildered pupil.
Our own Jullianna Juliesse dazzles us again with her vision, telescoping
into the heavens and bringing us back down to earth with the pigeons in Bryant
Park. And finally, newcomer Coquette
Montague provides an apt close to our January issue with her examination of the
puzzling intricacies of virtual romance.
We look forward to hearing from Coquette again soon. As we like to say at rez, if you only have time to read one thing this month, read
rez. Enjoy!
