Send work! We're about half-way through our submission period and amazing things are still streaming in. Submit some poetry, fiction, art, weird digital hybrids, philosophy, reviews, etc. if it's fucking good we want it. Join the second issue!
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Next spotlight from Issue 01 is Robert David Carey.
This is a stunning interactive piece with stellar audio and poetics. The dual, overlapping reader performance at the release with @lexamatic was amazing.
More at /magazine/issue-01/robert-david-carey
Robert David Carey is a writer, teacher, and labor organizer currently based in Philadelphia, but he has lived many places and worked many jobs. Limited copies of I WAS NOT ALONE, a spoken-word/field recording cassette, are available by emailing [email protected]@bogscary #litmag
Oscillations Issue 01 virtual release reading was phenomenal! Up now at https://youtu.be/7_It2XUcgE8 Give it a watch!
So much amazing poetry brought to the table. Also: whoops all gallery view! haha, I thought zoom would magically record in speaker view while I could still see everyone during. Lessons learned from a first time hosting. Thanks all for signing on and making this an incredible experience
Next spotlight from Issue 01 is Alex Tretbar!
Insert Bedroom Here is an incredibly compelling piece of fiction, unfolding a surreal world with unknown rules while maintaining tension and psychological depth. Give the full piece a read! Here is Alex reading from the beginning.
Come catch Alex at the virtual release Sun MAY 3rd!
More at /magazine/issue-01/alex-tretbar
Alex Tretbar is the author of the chapbooks toofarwandered (Tilted House, forthcoming 2026), According to the Plat Thereof (Ethel, 2025) and Kansas City Gothic (Broken Sleep, 2025). He works in the Center for Digital and Public Humanities at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where he is currently studying the archive of early issues of New Letters (1934-1951) and assisting with the Kansas City Monuments Coalition. Recent work can be found in 128 Lit, Annulet, Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, Full Stop, VOLT, and elsewhere. Alongside UMKC students, alumni, and faculty, he teaches creative writing at Chillicothe Correctional Center, a women’s prison in Missouri.
@alex_tretbar@tiltedhouse@the_ethelzine #litmags
First Oscillations spotlight from issue 01! Paige Taggert
With gorgeous, interweaving layers here and incredible staccato momentum in her second piece, these are not to be missed.
More at /magazine/issue-01/paige-taggart
Paige Taggart is is the author of two full-length collections, Or Replica (Brooklyn Arts Press) and Want for Lion (Trembling Pillow Press) and 7 chapbooks, most recently LIFE AFTERWARDS (Third Man Books (only available at Third Man Records in London in a randomized literarium machine)), Faux Pas (Factory Hollow Press) and I am Writing To You From Another Country; Translations of Henri Michaux (Greying Ghost Press). She’s an artist, designer and maker with a jewelry line (mactaggartjewelry.com).
@mactaggartjewel@brooklynartspress@trembling_pillow_press@thirdmanbooks
We're back open for submissions for issue 02! Send in work, spread the word! Now to June 30th.
For issue 02, we're looking for phenomenal poetry, fiction, and art as always, and would love to see more hybrid, strange, and unclassifiable works. Also open for reviews and philosophical essays. See /submit and /oscillations/issue-01 for more (though basically Al you need is send something fucking awesome to [email protected] and put the genre or hybrid in the subject)
#litmags #callforsubmissions #poetrycommunity
What an amazing night! Thanks all for coming out to a really special Ghost Harmonics. Here's some pics from the readings and performances. Some video coming soon with incredible recording quality thanks to help from @pgtpt and Jeff.
Meet the reader! Friday!! — Jonathan Todd is a poet, anarchist, and confused individual. His work has been featured in Prolit and Protean Magazine among others. He is the author of 3 chapbooks, Burning Traces (2010), Overtime (Moonstone Press 2020), and Shift Drinks (Dead Mall Press 2023)
@toddjonathon@theperch_musicandarts_workshop@deadmallpress@moonstoneartscenter #phillypoetry
Meet the band!! Playing two sets of electric jazz on Friday! — Untethered, led by Trumpet player and "electronic wiz" Paul Giess (Ropedope), approaches performance through what their drummer G. Calvin Weston (Ornette Coleman, Vernon Reid, James “Blood” Ulmer) describes as “Spontaneous Creative Composition.” Rather than adhering to fixed structures, the group allows sound to unfold in real time. Opening and tightening, cooling down and igniting. Creating music that is fluid, responsive, and alive in the moment. The result is a genre-crossing sonic experience where deep-pocketed funk exists alongside intimate chamber-like passages, and sensitive balladry carries as much weight as sound.
In this performance, the collective is presented as a trio, joined by Mathew "Honey Bee" Little, a Philadelphia-born pianist whose expressive playing adds melodic depth, harmonic complexity and a sweetness to the group’s improvisational language. Little has shared the stage with artists including Musiq Soulchild, Talib Kweli, Bilal, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Haley Reinhart, and Dame Dash, bringing a wide-ranging musical sensibility that expands the trio’s dynamic range.
@pgtpt@gcalvinweston@mattlittle19@theperch_musicandarts_workshop@ropeadope #phillyjazz #phillypoetry
Meet the poet! Apr 10th! — Jericho Jennifer Nelson is the author of four books of poetry, most recently On the Way to the Paintings of Forest Robberies, winner of the Ottoline Prize from Fence. They are also the author of two art history monographs, most recently Lucas Cranach: From German Myth to Reformation. They teach art history at the University of Delaware and live in Philly.
@henkaipantomime@theperch_musicandarts_workshop@fencetagram
Meet the poet! next Friday! — Anselm Berrigan's most recent book is Don’t Forget to Love Me, just out recently from Wave Books. He is the current lecturer for The Bagley-Wright Lecture Series.
@theperch_musicandarts_workshop@zebraicosmologic
