pLopLop #14 now accepting submissions! (Interview with John Clark)

A few days ago, while doom-scrolling on my phone — my feed dense with fresh news of death in Ukraine — I came upon an announcement that pleased me to no end.  I saw that pLopLop #14 is accepting submissions!  pLopLop is an “Antholozine” of poetry, prose, and artwork that — often enough — recalls the soldiers of Europe who created Dadaism and Surrealism in the trenches during World War I as a way to laugh in the face of the killing machine. Laughter is important for pLopLop which is, above everything else, playful and fun.  Solidly DIY in its approach to publication, pLopLop has nevertheless published the likes of Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Eileen Miles, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kurt Vonnegut, and other notable writers of the mid-to-late 20th century.  John Clark founded pLopLop in 1992 and he has dropped editions of the Antholozine occasionally over the past 30 years as he’s seen fit. And now he’s asking you, dear reader, for submissions of 100 words or less.  The deadline is August 1.

I thought would be a fine occasion to publish an interview I gave John last July.  You can read the full text of that interview by clicking here.  

— Dan Grossman