<p>"Moments are the elements of profit." - Karl Marx, Capital Vol. 1</p>
<p>Composed primarily through the co-optation and recombination of internet search results, FAKE MATH is a poetic intervention into the ways the motive for profit structures our lives. Each poem exposes the fallacies, fake logics, and sheer idiocies that constrict our decision-making processes in terms of our art, industry, educational system, and our day-to-day lives, while questioning our tendency to resort to institutionalized social violence. FAKE MATH draws its inspiration from diverse sources from Marx to Freud, from Archimedes to Oprah, sending them all downstream on rapidly pulsating waves of schizophrenic glee and political gravity, often creating startling juxtapositions when mismatched ideas and images are torn from their original contexts. The effects are at once humorous and stomach-churning. Ultimately, these are poems about how we live, work, and play within larger structures of capitalism and how our attempts to move past these structures are largely failed attempts at rebellion, not real attempts at revolution or, better yet, escape.</p>

Fake Math: poems

Literature & Fiction

Fitzpatrick, Ryan

Poetry

Invisible Publishing

Welcome to Gehenna & Hinnom. Where things go bump in the night and dimensions fold within one another. Beasts lurk in shadows and nightmares take physical form. In this magazine, you will find the most exciting horror and science fiction from the best up-and-coming authors in the genres. In this issue, new fiction from Ryan Fitzpatrick, Kurt Newton, G.A. Miller, John Leahy, and Michelle Mellon await your eyes and minds. An interview with Lovecraftian scholar S.T. Joshi awaits to quench your thirst for new knowledge of the iconic horror master himself. Last but not least, a review for Alien: Covenant requests your opinions and thoughts on the new Ridley Scott science fiction blockbuster. Embrace the unknown

Hinnom Magazine Issue 001

Newton, Kurt

Dunphey, C. P.

Mellon, Michelle

Leahy, John

Miller, G.A.

Short Stories & Anthologies

Gehenna Publishing House

Despite a reputation for dead seriousness, poetry has a long relationship with humour, from Catullus’ complaints to Chaucer’s ribald tales to Kenneth Goldsmith’s appearance on The Colbert Report. Focusing on our contemporary moment, Why Poetry Sucks scrutinizes Canada’s poetic avant-gardes for signs of humorous life. Moving deftly between entertainment, attack, and critique, this poetry makes us laugh while making us wonder why we’re laughing at all. The authors in Why Poetry Sucks draw from deep traditions in both poetry and comedy, often challenging the rigid literary and political impasses they encounter. In our current social and cultural game of Blockado (the game of barricades), humour can act as an important sledge, taking a swing at the institutions and ideologies we might wish changed — all the while acknowledging, with bitter laughter and tongue in cheek, our apparent inability to change them.

Why Poetry Sucks

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Insomniac Press

Kzine Issue 22

Science Fiction & Fantasy

McGrath, Ken

DiChellis, Peter

Bilsborough, Mark

Hurry, Graeme

Palmerino, Louis

Morozov, E V

Gardner, Ana

Fantasy

Independently published

Sunny Ways

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