Inspirations
We were inspired to create concīs by too many other sites, zines, journals and poems to ever fully list. But here are some of the more prominent.
Other Publications
Some alive, some fondly remembered. Some online, some print, some hybrid. All care(d) about concise, powerful work. In no particular order:
First Stop Fiction / hobart / jmww / One Sentence Poems / NANO Fiction / Smokelong Quarterly / Word Riot / Cease, Cows / Cleaver Magazine / Corium Magazine / Brevity / The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts / Boston Literary Magazine / The Bookends Review / Spork / Dogzplot Flash Fiction / Right Hand Pointing / white knuckle press / Monkeybicycle / Alba / Short, Fast, and Deadly / Camroc Press Review / 100 Word Story / Vestal Review / Flash / Oblong / A-Minor
A Commonplace Collection
Specific works that inspire us…for your reading pleasure and your writing knowledge (in case you want to submit your work). Almost all of these have appeared in our Katexic Clippings newsletter, which is probably the best place to get a feel for what we like (and it’s pretty darn good on its own)!
- "Against Surrealism" by Joseph Stroud
- "Blandeur" by Kay Ryan
- "Chromatic" by Meghan Privitello
- "Clothing the Dead" - Traditional Malagasy
- [cold rain] by Fay Aoyagi
- from Submergence by J.M. Ledgard
- from The Book of Evidence by John Banville
- "Gilding the Lily" by Lisa Ampleman
- [I saw myself] by Lew Welch
- [inside a bat's ear] by Eve Luckring
- "lighght" by Aram Saroyan
- on Poet & Vampire (henry 7. reneau, jr.)
- [the boy drinks his milk] by Tomas Tranströmer
- "The Egg" by Jean Follain
- "The Jewel" by James Wright
- "The Quiver" by Frank Stanford
- from The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
- "The Three Oddest Words" by Wisława Szymborska
- "The Trees" by Philip Larkin
- "Trains" by David Shumate
- "Vienna" by Richie Hoffmann
- "Weather" by Zbigniew Herbert
- "You’re the Tower and I Am Rapunzel, She Says" by Christopher Lowe