Description:
Totally multilingual parallel text magazine. Due to COVID19, we're an annual thru 2023. With authors fr. NY, OR, WA, & Croatia, Lithuania, Estonia, the Netherlands (via Brasil), Greece, Slovenia, Sp., & Oz.
Brief description: Leanne Grabel, writer, illustrator, performance poet, teacher & co-founder of Portland's legendary pome-performance space, Café Lena, also teaches performance poetry classes for teens thru var. PDX lit. outreach orgs. Grabel has just completed Tainted Illustrated, an illustrated stretched memoir, which is being serialized in THE OPIATE. Her illustrated flash memoirs will soon be published monthly for a year by Another Chicago Magazine. In love with mixing genres, Grabel has written and produced such spoken-word multi-media shows as "The Lighter Side of Chronic Depression"; and "Anger: The Musical." Her collection of graphic pomes, Gold Shoes, was excerpted in GobQ #27. She returns with another of her illustrated sui generis histories of feminist icons (which in past have included Dorothy Parker & Sylvia Plath, also featured in GobQ), presented trilingually in English, Icelandic, and Spanish: Anne Sexton: She Was a Sexpot/ Anne Sexton hún var kynlífsspottur/ Anne Sexton: ella era una cachonda.
Review Quotes:
Pan-lingual Gobshite Quarterly, where Paul Krassner meets Vénus Khoury-Ghata, is my favorite source for Hungarian fiction that reads like a song ("Hogy jaj. jaj. jaj. semirol semmi fogalma nines..."). In its pages English language poems, short stories, and "reasoned rants" nervously traverse a dark alley, past a gauntlet of hipster Arabs, dangerous Czechs, and Spanish cantoras. - Chris Dodge, Utne Magazine