LUMMOX Journal.; The Poetry Issue. March/April 2005
San Pedro, Ca. Lummox Press, March/April 2005. ZINE; stapled; 32pp including covers.
Near fine; top corner of top cover slightly rounded, two light rust marks from staples at the centre page. Item #1389
Lummox was a West Coast USA print zine dedicated to poetry theorising around poetry and creative processes. It ran in print form from 1995 until going online in 2007. In 2007 poet and contributorTodd Moore described Lummox, and its editor Raindog Armstrong, in a short essay reflecting on the zine's contribution to small press and the poetry community:
Part of being a good poetry editor is discovering what a poetry generation has to offer and then creating a kind of ensemble much like those early ensemble casts Orson Welles put together for CITIZEN KANE or THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. Good poetry zines are not that much different from good films. The trick is to discover those voices that both bounce off and resonate against and with each other and Raindog instinctively found a whole decade of voices that echo wonderfully through all of Lummox.
And, I think the reason for this is that not long after Charles Bukowski died in 1994, a vacuum occurred in small press poetry. Up until that time, most poets who knew and respected him more or less expected that he would be around for a very long time. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. And, I know from talking to Raindog, Bukowski’s example had inspired him to start Lummox. I’m not sure whether Raindog realized it or not, what he actually did was offer a space, a canvas, a place for the Post Bukowski generation to reinvent itself." (Lummox Jounral Online; accessed September 15, 2020).
Contributors to the this issue include QLD based American/Australian poet and artist Billy Jones, together with: Anonymous, RD Armstrong, Thomas Robert Barnes, Hank Buekema, Douglas Blazek, Neeli Cherkovski, John Dorsey, G. Hagen-Hill, Christopher Harter, Ed Jameison, Jr., Michael Kriesel, Julie Leehevsky, Linda Lerner, Victoria Locke, Ellaraine Lockie, Angela Consolo Manckikwik, Brian McGettrick, Todd Moore, Tamara Miles, Claudio Parentela, Lorine Parks, Robert L. Penick, Charles P. Reis, Robert Roden, Wallace Stevens, Will Taylor, Jr., H. Lamar Thomas, Scott Wannberg, Patricia Wellingham-Jones.
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