Diaphanous micro

from The Dream Quartet

The stitching of the series reveals our nomad names.

It’s not too late to play the shortest day against the new hour of ice-moon. Hello.

The new book climbed the house with prognostications we could't claim.

The dream neurologists said I forgot I had forgotten you.

The spinal cord refusing.

Others would be looking, not for us, but for themselves

I can’t feel anymore, she said.

We're frozen to the empty skating pond.

He said, the muse tangled your hair through tree branches gone thin.

Away from sun.

Take heart, he said--

It's all temporary.

[December 25, 2024
Krysia Jopek
Founding Editor of diaphanous micro}

DIRGE: a ballet for 13 dancers" is timeless, dreamy, elusive, mystical, mythical, philosophical, and highly experimental–prose poetry"--PiPierian Springs Press
If interested, please see comments for links to purchase my full-length book of poetry in hardcover, to listen to the beautiful recording of the book by Miguel Escobar, and to read excerpts from my website www.krysiajopek.com. Thank you so much for all of your poetic support over the years.

DIRGE: a ballet for 13 dancers, my first full-length book of poetry, is now available in hardcover! Thank you to Kurt Lovelace at Pierian Springs Press for this beautifully-crafted book, including its exquisite typesetting and design.

Please see the comments for links to purchase DIRGE from Pierian Springs Press and Amazon, 2 sample sections from my website, and for a free audio preview of the book, read by Miguel Escobar. The entire book read by Miguel Escobar is available for purchase on bandcamp.

A full audiobook of DIRGE, read by Miguel Escobar, is forthcoming as well as a paperback edition, but the hardcover with a beautiful dust jacket and thick spine is stunning, I have to humbly admit. Please contact me if interested in writing a full review.

Thank you to anyone who purchases DIRGE. I poured my soul into this book that took almost 2 years to write.

Please enjoy the new issue of diaphanous micro, featuring impeccable writing by Richard Wayne Horton. Feel free to share, like, leave comments, and invite friends to like this page. Thank you for the continuing diaphanous micro love!

5.2: breached surfaces | Richard Wayne Horton — poetry, flash fiction, & hybrid proseforms       new poetry: WALKING TO DALLAS (unpublished chapbook) OUTSIDE DALLAS At the horizon rooftops Jitter angles angels On noisy wheels of light Oh sweet arrival Play backwards gospe…

Please enjoy the beautiful poetry and visual hybrid art by Paulette Claire Turcotte in the first 2022 issue of diaphanous micro! Comments are shares are welcome!

5.1: beyond this place there be dragons | Paulette Claire Turcotte — new poetry & hybrid, mixed media art new poetry: our lady of sorrows has entered the building. (excerpt) 1 after love the terrible divide. today I am dancing in a whirlwind. I have blood under my fingernails. dance, lady, dance. grief…

diaphanous micro: an e-journal of literary and visual art is OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS. Each issue of diaphanous micro features one writer and/or visual artist or collaboration of two or more poets, short fiction (under 750 words) writers, and visual artists.

Please read the mission statement, the submission guidelines (see first comment), and a few issues of diaphanous micro before submitting. This highly unique e-journal "leans toward the experimental" and embraces experimentation that directly engages the reader/viewer. When querying to [email protected], please include a sample of your writing/visual art.

I’m always on the lookout for micro fiction (under 50 words each) often in a sequence with an overarching title, hybrid and asemic writing, sculpture, architecture, abstract expressionistic works, poem videos/video poems, and text-based visual art.

The individual issues of diaphanous micro ideally alternate between male and female literary/visual artists. I'm always looking for female talent since I receive more male submissions than female--and for short fiction since I receive more poetry than short fiction submissions. All genres are open, however, and everyone should feel welcome to submit.

I look forward to reading your writing and viewing your visual art. Please share this post or link to diaphanouspress.com to individuals whose poetics/aesthetics is in line with the diaphanous micro mission statement.

Best wishes for 2022 to everyone,
Krysia Jopek
Founding editor

mission statement STATEMENT OF POETICS AND AESTHETICS diaphanous micro features cutting-edge, contemporary literary and visual artists via our free, online literary journal. We are unique: each issue focuses on one …

Please enjoy the new issue of diaphanous micro featuring the absolutely stellar prose poetry of Charles Rafferty! Charles will be reading from his new novel, Moscodelphia, via Zoom this evening at 8 PM EST. See comments for details.

4.8: the problem with philosophers | Charles Rafferty–new prose poetry & interview new prose poetry by Charles Rafferty

Check out this amazing cutting-edge poetry in the new issue of diaphanous micro: my e-journal of literary and visual art. You won’t be disappointed, I promise!

4.7: the day’s dissolutions | Mike Cole–poetry & poetics   introduction by krysia jopek: I fell in love with the prose poems (in from Innuendos in a Minor Key) that Mike Cole sent me—the six seeds that morphed and evolved into this full-grown, granu…

I'm thrilled and proud to present this new issue of diaphanous micro! Please enjoy.

4.7: the day’s dissolutions | Mike Cole–poetry & poetics   introduction by krysia jopek: I fell in love with the prose poems (in from Innuendos in a Minor Key) that Mike Cole sent me—the six seeds that morphed and evolved into this full-grown, granu…

Check out this virtual art show--beautiful digital glitches by Kristine Snodgrass!

4.6: groundid | Kristine Snodgrass–visual art (digital glitches)                                                   ARTIST STATEMENT: FEMM…

Please enjoy a sequence of stunning poetry by Gordon Hilgers in the new issue of diaphanous micro!

4.5: Scant Moments, Heavy Coats | Gordon Hilgers—poetry new poetry–Gordon Hilgers ETERNITY BESIDE A DOOR I think I finally reached the human inside myself. He was no homunculus, or simulacrum. Bitter yowling at the sun that echoes inside the uncer…

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4.4: a love song to chaos | Sylvia Van Nooten—asemic art (multimedia collage) introduction—Krysia Jopek The moment I saw Sylvia Van Nooten’s “Tango Dance” in a Facebook group, I knew I wanted to feature a virtual show of her asemic art in diaphanous micro. Her multimedia col…