09/24/2014
Lungfull's server was terribly naughty today and sent a great many emails to the netherworld. Perhaps yours — check to see if you got a "fatal error" and let us know! We emailed this invitation last night but who knows if it actually went, so, well, here's an encore...
Hello. Fifteen years ago Robert Creeley sent a postcard to LUNGFULL! magazine. "Thanks," it said. "But I'm not going to send you any poems." On the flip side was a photo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in midair.
Now it's your turn. Fire off a Letter To The Editor right now, before you second quess yourself and make the ghost of William Blake weep into his First Thought Best Thought mug of ghost coffee. You'll be letting us/the world know of your disdain/misplaced love for something/one connected to LUNGFULL! — and you'll be advancing the epistolary tradition begun by Creely in like 1999.
Just send an email to [email protected] or a fb message to brendan lorber and profess what's what. I DARE YOU.
Perhaps it's too much pressure, so here's our Official Letter to the Editor Policy to let you know we understand the world considerably less than you do, and very much need your help:
"Anything you send that’s not a submission or cash will be considered a Letter to the Editor and printed in the next issue. This includes “misdelivered” mail and “illegally” wiretapped phone calls. Also any communiqués through Facebook, Twitter, texts, or comments overheard at parties. Haughty demands that we not print your letter will be interpreted as double dares & printed along with the original missive. Nobody reads poetry magazines, so your secret is safer here than with your therapist who is definitely going to mention to someone it at some point. Nobody is more depraved than you — except everyone else, especially everyone reading this. But perhaps you’d like to focus on what’s with what we did to poetry? Or what we ought to have done. Let us in on the latest from your private nightmare world of demons & shadows. Perhaps, despite our best efforts, we did something right —let us know so we can get the recall out right away. For the safety of the Editors, all correspondence is opened first by children at the Tiny Sunshine Unlicensed Daycare Center under the old cement factory by the highway. Letters should be extremely concise. One word is fine. Or none. Do not try to be funny — it’s not working. Like too tight pants, your jokes reveal things best kept to yourself. We may edit your letter for space or to make ourselves appear smarter/more culturally relevant. We enjoy letters that include: suggestions, drunken screeds, well-reasoned arguments, praise for a specific writer, praise for your own work, complaints about Lungfull!, complaints about other magazines, letters to editors of other magazines, anger at having been rejected, anger at having had poems accepted that turn out to have been terrible, infinitely recursive anger at having had a previous letter printed, experimental letters that foreground the texture/nature of the epistle above its assumed transparent ability to communicate, drunken screeds cleverly disguised as experimental letters. What can Personism bring us, O’Hara asked — well here it is — and it’s not just Pierre who’s lucky."
http://www.lungfull.org/lte has examples of some recent letters.
dash off an email to [email protected] or a fb message to brendan lorber -- send us that letter to the editor, okay?
Yours,
Brendan, Dean, and Jerry
