Aux./Vox.

25/08/2016

UPDATE: we subscribe to the Frank Ocean Model of Artistic Production, or FOMAP. don't stop loving us just because we've been away. we still love you - dom

10/12/2015

New issue--who dis?

Public apology to our beloved writers and readers. I (Dom) have been trudging through the daedal badlands of graduate school applications since mid-May. But I am finished. It is Magazine Time once more. Rejoice.

Here is a significantly more complicated and less true version of my excuse:

I hadn't seen our other editors for months. Sunlight and sustenance were impossible luxuries. I received scattered transmissions from our headquarters only when I would first whisper the lyrics to Nelly's "Ride Wit Me ft. St. Lunatics" into Siri's sapphire glass ear canal.

My diet consisted of Cracked Pepper and Olive Oil Triscuits which grew like stalactites from the damp ceiling of my Application-Cave.

At some point, both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders responded to the interview request I mentioned several months ago. Media representatives from each camp appeared at the mouth of my Cave. Their faces looked like the candidates faces, if those faces were emojis, their limbs adorned in blades of blinding light.

The following is a full transcription of our dialogue:

Trump-Representative: "I am in charge of a candidate whose mouth recalls a wine cask full of human excrement. This man is Donald J. Trump."

Me: "Sounds fake but ok."

Sanders-Representative: "I am in charge of maintaining the elasticity of Mr. Sanders's flesh. This flesh prima facie seems indistinguishable from Mr. Trump's Wine Cask of Excrement. However, look closer: Sanders's throat is full of Bolshevik Tears."

Sanders-Representative removes from his peacoat pocket a wax simulacra bust of Bernard Sanders. Sanders-Representative pulls open the waxen jowls. From deep within I could hear the sobs of Vladimir Lenin, head of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

Me: "Sounds fake but ok."

Both Trump-Representative and Sanders-Representative gaze into my weary eyes and speak in unison: "White people love us."

Me: "But how good are their poems?"

That is my last memory before waking up in a concrete bunker lined with chapbooks self-published by Trump and Sanders. They were little more than enjambed versions of their stump speeches, garnished with tiny floral accoutrements at the margins.

I had never read such bourgeois trash. I knew then that as soon as I had escaped the badlands of post-graduate applications, Aux./Vox. must return.

We must salvage the sacred name of poetry--together.

This is why it is Magazine Time. Thank you.

19/09/2015

Tomorrow is the last day for submissions for our fall issue! Send all of your work to [email protected]. Spread the word!!!!!

10/09/2015

We are extending the deadline for the upcoming Fall issue! The deadline for consideration is now Sept. 20th!!!! Send us your best work!

21/07/2015

it begins. wish us luck.

-- Dom/ Aux./Vox.

16/07/2015

500! Guess we're committed to emailing The Donald and The Sandman. We are humans of our words in every sense, and we love you. thank you for your continual support!

13/07/2015

if we break 500 likes, i will personally reach out to both Donald J. Trump and Bernie Sanders for interviews to be published in the next issue -- Dom

12/07/2015

Aux./Vox.

we got a new look and our very own domain name! check us out; we're basically the New Yorker now.

www.auxvoxmag.com

s/o to Blaise for the header image art.

-- Dom / Aux./Vox.

an independent, cross-disciplinary magazine showcasing literature, short fiction, and visual art.

10/07/2015

Aux./Vox.'s cover photo

10/07/2015

Summer 2015 Cover Design by Sean Dolan

09/07/2015

Summer Issue 2015

at long last: our summer issue has arrived! available for free at our website. we're so proud of our contributors. and, as always, we love our readers.

Visit the post for more.

25/06/2015

we prooomise issue 3 will be out soon! we have been valiantly defending our headquarters from rogue pagans during the weeks of the summer solstice, and are happy to bring good tidings and bountiful treasure: a brand new (read: working) version of InDesign! see you soon, shinier than ever.

love,

Dom & Aux./Vox.

07/04/2015

We are in the process of reading yr submissions! We apologize that this reading period is taking a little longer than usual, we had a massive number of pieces come in and we're all in school writing papers about books and things. You'll hear updates very soon!!!

22/03/2015

Aux./Vox.

Please send us yr beautiful writings and arts for this most beloved of independent literary magazines

Today is the deadline for submissions to our Spring 2015 issue!!! We want to see yer work at [email protected] by tonight

22/03/2015

Today is the deadline for submissions to our Spring 2015 issue!!! We want to see yer work at [email protected] by tonight

12/03/2015

REMINDER Submissions for our next issue are due in eleven days!!!! March 22nd!!!!!! [email protected]!!!!

04/03/2015

Aux./Vox. Winter Issue Release

25/02/2015

reminder & update: our release party is thursday! at 9! come have a drink or ten and listen to our contributors perform angioplasties for the soul. also: deadline for spring issue is sunday, march 22nd. send us your secret feelings!

18/02/2015

broke 400 likes! thank you. we love you.

13/02/2015

Aux./Vox. Winter Issue

our winter issue has officially been released in digital format at our wordpress! check it out//show yr friends!

[[[print editions are making their way out into the material world as we speak.]]]

love,
us

https://auxvoxmag.wordpress.com/2015/02/13/aux-vox-winter-issue/

Visit the post for more.

12/02/2015

Printing copies of our winter issue! Be on the lookout for them!

11/02/2015

"Colorful N**e" by Mary Holmcrans

06/02/2015

our winter issue is nearing completion! if our equipment is kind to us, digital and hard copies will be available in the coming week.

all my love,

Dom / Aux./Vox.

PS: for yr reading pleasure: a poem by one of my favorite contemporary poets//the 2003 poet laureate of the US, Louise Glück

Aubade

The world was very large. Then
the world was small. O
very small, small enough
to fit in a brain.

It had no color, it was all
interior space: nothing
got in or out. But time
seeped in anyway, that
was the tragic dimension.

I took time very seriously in those years,
if I remember accurately.

A room with a chair, a window.
A small window, filled with the patterns light makes.
In its emptiness the world

was whole always, not
a chip of something, with
the self at the center.

And at the center of the self,
grief I thought I couldn't survive.

A room with a bed, a table. Flashes
of light on the naked surfaces.

I had two desires: desire
to be safe and desire to feel. As though

the world were making
a decision against white
because it disdained potential
and wanted in its place substance:

panels
of gold where the light struck.
In the window, reddish
leaves of the copper beech tree.

Out of the stasis, facts, objects
blurred or knitted together: somewhere

time stirring, time
crying to be touched, to be
palpable,

the polished wood
shimmering with distinctions---

and then I was once more
a child in the presence of riches
and I didn't know what the riches were made of.

20/01/2015

congrats to everyone who'll be featured in our next issue! we are mercilessly chiseling your pieces into stone tablets

06/01/2015

Tomorrow is the deadline for issue #2 Submissions! Please send your poetry/prose/visual art as an attachment to [email protected]! Thanks to everyone who has submitted so far, we're very excited!!!!

20/12/2014

Duotrope - Aux./Vox.

Hey all, we are officially listed on Duotrope! Don't forget to submit your poetry, prose and visual art for issue #2 by January 7th! Email them as attachments to [email protected]

Aux./Vox. 0 Fledgling Listing: This project is new and has been listed with us for less than six months. About Aux./Vox. is an independent literary magazine founded in Fall 2014 by Dominick Knowles, Annie Rus, Max Bicking, and Brian Thomas. We focus on experimental and traditional verse, prose, and…

15/12/2014

William Bronk: Online Poems

Submissions have been stacking up already! We'll be accepting new prose, poetry, and visual art for issue #2 until January 7th. In the meantime, here are some poems by a severely underrated American poet, William Bronk. enjoy.

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/bronk/onlinepoems.htm

Metonymy as an Approach to a Real World Whether what we sense of this world is the what of this world only, or the what of which of several possible worlds --which what?--something of what we sense may be true, may be the world, what it is, what we sense. For the rest, a truce is possible, the tol…

08/12/2014

broke 200 likes! thanks ya'll--keep spreading the word.

06/12/2014

submissions for issue #2 are open until january 7th! send us your profundities: [email protected]

06/12/2014

04/12/2014

we're celebrating the release of our first issue tomorrow, so come party with us///listen to our wonderful contributors read their pieces!

xx,
us.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1569063293325723/?ref=br_tf

03/12/2014

Issue 1 is being printed! Stay tuned.

27/11/2014

Thanks to everyone who submitted! We've sent out our acceptance messages so be sure to check your emails! First issue coming soon.

27/11/2014

Cover Art: "small talk" by Blaise Laramee