THESE DAYS ZINE CELEBRATES 25 ISSUES — NEIGH!
With the guest-editorship of Ethan Vilu, HORSERBROKE PRESS is humbled to publish its 25th issue (THE BREEDERS' CUP ISSUE) of THESE DAYS. Since March 2020, we've managed to average six issues a year with contributions from dear friends, family, and at least good acquaintances. The new issue features art, comics, poetry, puzzles, nursery rhymes, and honest-to-G-d facts about horse racing. Here at Horsebroke Press we aim for inconsistency...
...this years' issues include THESE DAYS ON FIRE, EH? (#23) featuring the essay-cum-poem Carbon Cost This Poem by Dr. Jennifer Baker, and more forest-fire inspired / impelled poetry and by Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Kate Maxfield, and more ...
... or the TRIBUTE TO HIKERS (#21) issue by Elisha May Rubacha, guest-edited in advance of her 900-km mother-daugher hike of the Bruce Trail, featuring a mix of poetry, video, and memoir by her and her peers ...
... and then there was GREEN SCREEN: POSTCARDS TO THE REAL featuring an interview with Peter Gibbon about this 30 poem, 30 day series written in advance of his daughter's birth. The index cards he typed the poems on are reproduced here, plus new poetry and art by Gary Barwin, Ksenija Spasic, Jordan Chevalier, and Justin Million ... I believe that was issue 22 ...
O! and just a few weeks ago was the 23rd issue (codename: INFINITESIMAL LONGINGS) featuring a banger of a poem by Vera Hadzic, photography by son Andrew Blackman, plus some more poems from my buds Cameron Anstee and Bardia Sinaee.
There'll be one more issue before the year is through. No clue what about. Any suggestions? Follow us on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/thesedayszine.bsky.social.