Reissues
Inventory of digitized magazines
Supplementing the flowing content that characterizes the Jacket2 interface, Reissues offers a stable archive of digitized journals and magazines primarily focused on poetry and poetics. This landing page will feature updated links to the full Reissues inventory as it continues to grow. Reissues is inspired by archival platforms ranging from Eclipse and UbuWeb to The Modernist Journals Project and The International Dada Archive. Just as Jacket2 is built upon the preservation of forty issues of John Tranter’s Jacket magazine, Reissues seeks to re-present periodicals in conversation with contemporary issues in poetics.
We publish fully searchable facsimile PDF editions, scanned in high resolution and organized with bookmarked content for easy navigation to individual works within each magazine. In addition to the PDF features, each issue is accompanied by a full listing of contents arranged by print pagination in an attempt to preserve original formatting where possible. Like PennSound, we focus on free distribution within fair use and permission-based parameters. Links to pages hosting the reissues follow below while the sidebar maintains a complete index to the collection.
Very few magazines offer the wide spectra of critical pleasures the reader might find in Susan Bee and Mira Schor's M/E/A/N/I/N/G. We are honored to release this essential document of alternative aesthetic criticism published in twenty issues from 1986 until 1996. Across a series of forums and articles, the magazine addresses a wide set of “contemporary art issues” that remain as pertinent today as they were when the journal was first distributed. Previous reissues include Roof, Zuk, Chain, Secession, Alcheringa, and Combo. Shortly forthcoming is a large set of recently scanned magazines, including Vanishing Cab, Hills, Big Allis, Wch Way, and Jimmy & Lucy’s House of “K.” For commentary on reissued material, please jump to Of Periodical Transcoding.
— Danny Snelson, 3.4.13
Seccession (1922–1924)
Dir. Gorham B. Munson
Editorial Selections from Secession
Download the complete magazine (81 MB)
Secession, founded in 1922 by Gorham B. Munson, sought to give corner to the “youngest generation” of interwar modernists. Printed at various junctures in Vienna, Berlin, New York, Florence, and Reutte (Tyrol), Secession nevertheless became an important platform distributing literary Dadaism to New York.
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Alcheringa (1970–1980)
Ed. Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg
Dennis Tedlock’s Introduction
Record Inserts [also on PennSound]
External Site [this portion of Reissues operates on ethnopoetics.com]
Download the complete magazine (74 MB)
Alcheringa was a trailblazing ethnopoetics journal edited by Dennis Tedlock and Jerome Rothenberg over a thirteen-issue run from 1970 to 1980. Featuring a diverse array of scholars, ethnologists, poets, and translators, Alcheringa presents a rich and varied historical document while opening a vital set of questions for the practice of poetics and ethnography.
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Vol. 1, No. 1, 1975 |
Vol. 1, No. 2, 1975 |
Vol. 2, No. 1, 1976 |
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Vol. 3, No. 1, 1977 |
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Vol. 4, No. 1, 1978 |
Vol. 4, No. 2, 1980 |
Roof (1976–1979)
Ed. James Sherry
Download the complete magazine (461 MB)
In ten packed issues published between 1976 and 1979, Roof's stable of poets came to define the movement known as Language poetry. The magazine housed an emerging community of writers performing a fantastic — and remarkably focused — set of poetic explorations. A snapshot of the passage from Naropa to the Ear Inn, Roof delivers a captivating narrative of transition in twentieth-century poetry.
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Zuk (1987–1989)
Ed. Claude Royet-Journoud
“La poésie au format Zuk,” translated from the French by Abigail Lang
Download the complete magazine (57 MB)
Redefining the little magazine, Zuk presented a single sheet folded into four delicate pages measuring just 6.3” high and 4.3” wide. Claude Royet-Journoud released twenty-four issues of Zuk in as many months. Printed in Le Revest-les-Eaux, France, the magazine offered new translations of English and American poetry alongside French poets writing under the sign of Zukofsky.
M/E/A/N/I/N/G (1986–1996)
Ed. Susan Bee and Mira Schor
Founded in December of 1986, M/E/A/N/I/N/G provided a timely vehicle for an expanded practice of art criticism from its locus in New York City. In twenty issues published over the course of a decade, M/E/A/N/I/N/G offers a wide range of critical perspectives on “contemporary art issues.” Designed by Susan Bee, the 8.5” by 11” magazine is side stapled for the first four issues and perfect bound thereafter.
Chain (1994–2005)
Ed. Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr
Some Facts About Chain
Chain was founded at the State University of New York, Buffalo in 1994. Each of the twelve issues of Chain is organized around a special topic with the content organized alphabetically by author. Under the editorship of Osman, Spahr, and others, this magazine presents an expansive index to key concerns in poetic practices around the turn of the millenium.
Combo (1998–2003)
Ed. Michael Magee
Editorial Selections from Combo
Download the complete magazine (204 MB)
Edited by Michael Magee and published in association with the Kelly Writers House, Combo published a vital selection of younger poets over its twelve-issue run from 1998 to 2003. Over the course of these twelve issues, a reader might chart the emergence of Flarf and related developments in poetry around the millennium.
