Lilliput Review #155
edited by Don Wentworth, $1
—a 16-page lilliputian literary magazine

Don Wentworth has been publishing the Lilliput Review every few months since 1989. Lillie is always 4.25 x 3.5" in size and publishes only poems of 10 lines or less, hence the name. Issue #155 is filled with little gems by writers from around the world. There are haiku, short titled pieces, and a few visual pieces throughout. Each issue is put together with care and attention to detail and is an absolute treat to read.

Lilliput Review #156
edited by Don Wentworth, $1
—a 16-page lilliputian literary magazine

Issue #156 of Lillie is as reliable as ever, featuring interesting short poems and artwork from contributors around the world. My favorite poem in this issue is an excerpt from a performance piece by Richard Kostelanetz called Minimal Aphorisms. It is prefaced by instructions for people who wish to perform the piece. The whole issue is comprised of mind-opening little moments like this. I highly recommend Lillie.

Lilliput Review #157
edited by Don Wentworth, $1
—a 16-page lilliputian literary magazine

Another issue of Lilliput Review = more carefully chosen short poems. Some are haiku, and one is a tiny story about the heat, rain, and people of "Old Delhi, India." As always, there is a lot to take in and think about.

Lilliput Review #158: Butterfly, Corkboard
by Mark Hartenbach, edited by Don Wentworth, $1
—an 8-page broadside with a beautiful woodcut cover illustration

Every fourth issue of Lillie is a broadside, which means a collection of poems by one featured writer. These are by Mark Hartenbach. His Beat-ish poems have a dark sense of humor and read like prose-y cautionary tales or scraps of philosophy. Interesting. The cover art is a beautiful woodcut by the noirish Art Deco artist Lynd Ward.

Lilliput Review #159
edited by Don Wentworth, $1
—a 16-page lilliputian literary magazine

This issue of Lillie contains a few nice translations of Japanese poems by Dennis Maloney and a couple of inventive and very short prose poems, among other pieces. My favorite moment is the poem "His Music Red" by Abbey Taylor, which appears on the same page as that wonderful poem by Emily Dickinson, the one where she talks about splitting the lark to find the music. The parallel between the two poems is interesting, a thoughtful editorial choice. Give Lillie a try, won't you? There's an awful lot in each issue.


Lilliput Review #160
edited by Don Wentworth, $1
—a 16-page lilliputian literary magazine

Good looking skritchy sketch on the cover and a number of spare, striking poems in this issue of Lilliput Review. Translations, haiku, and other things that will ring inside you if you read them in a quiet mood. And what a treat to find a poem by the great and excellent friend to One-Room Schoolhouse, Laura-Marie Taylor!

Lilys Liver
by Gina Abelkop, 50 cents
—a 40-page, half-size zine

Forty pages filled to brimming with the very able Gina Abelkop's poems. They are darkly feminine, highly imaginative, something like scary fairy tales meets disturbing world history. A few are linked sequences; there are small photo collages throughout. These poems are literary, heavy, even gory. Affecting. "I'm dangling electric. These batted lashes, two thick onyx pairs, fixed on for days."

October Poems & Prose
by Jo for Loveanarchist Press, $3.75
—a 36-page half-size zine with color cover

Jo has packed a lot of fine writing into this chapbook-like zine. Observation Diaries is a series of short descriptions of the comings and goings and weird little habits of the narrator's neighbors; it could be fictional or real. "Bushfires" is a poem that shows us how a tiny spark can create mass destruction. There are several other good pieces in here, including a poem about the hemorrhoids on a man's rear. Hee. One wonderful line leaps out at me now from a poem about a friend who has died: "Where do all the memories go,/ with no vessel to contain them?"