Reminder – 10th Anniversary Issue Callout
Hi all. I have been pretty busy since the spring issue of Jack, but am now accepting submissions for the 2010 10th-anniversary summer issue. Please see http://www.jackmagazine.com/submit.html for submission and content guidelines. I am still also looking for a feature artist, though do have some queries out there. Please e-mail me if you are interested.
The theme of the next publication will be travel-related.
Updates
We had a fantastic road trip through the Okanagan Valley recently, which included hiking in a wetland where cougars have been sighted recently, seeing pictographs by Ktunaxa First Nation tribes near Canal Flats, and sitting in a hot spring near a cold and rushing Lussier River. I might include pieces of this trip in the next issue. The next issue’s theme is travel, and though is slated for spring probably won’t go up until summer 2010 due to my work on Big Bridge at the same time.
Laki Vazakas video and Charles Plymell interview
Laki Vazakas sent this video he made for his his friend Grant Hart’s song “Nobody Rides For Free.” Charles Plymell is featured prominently, and Ray Bremser, Mary Beach, Charles Henri Ford, and Claude Pelieu make cameos.
Paul Hawkins contributed The Benzedrine Highway Interview interview with Charles Plymell in the current issue of Jack Magazine.
Call for Papers
Call For Papers
The Transnational/Global Beats: A Collection of Essays
Editors: Jennie Skerl and Nancy Grace
Deadline for abstracts: June 1, 2009
Tamalpais Walking
Gary Snyder’s new book, with illustrator Tom Killion, is coming out in May. Some book signing dates are here.
Remember my old site, Beat News?
Well I still have all that stuff on my hard drive, and though I’ve kept some things around, like Larry Keenan’s beat galleries, they aren’t very prominent. I’m slowly revamping the entire site at http://beatnews.jackmagazine.com, because I think it’s important to have around, a good resource. So the trio of the actual magazine, which is an annual publication, the old site that is a beat generation resource, and the combination of blog/twitter to keep things up-to-date, I hope this stuff is useful. It’s sure fun to do. Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter News
http://twitter.com/jackmagazine is the link to my Twitter site. I think it’s a great place to post news links and shorts. If that would have been around during the days of my Beat Generation News site, it would’ve been great. I’m pretty sure you can RSS that feed if you want to. I’ll try to keep up-to-date on relevant news around the world.
Polis is This, airing this month on PBS
More about Henry Ferrini’s Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place.
Swim Drink Fish Music Club – Uniting Artists with Activists
I’m copying a call of submissions from the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper, regarding a new project that they are launching called the Swim Drink Fish Music Club. I might add that this is a project looking for exclusive content. Read the rest of this entry »
