[Alternate Route]
Welcome to [Alternate Route], an (in)appropriate place for your
writing. Some may say they value rebellious, transgressive writing with(out) attitude and meaning.
For your information, some examples of beat poets include Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Elise Cowan,
Diane di Prima, and William Burroughs. Some examples of non-beat poets include Pablo Neruda,
Anne Sexton, Joseph Brodsky, Alice Oswald, and E.E. Cummings.
The submission window for summer 2024 is now closed and the site is under construction. I don't even know if it's up.
Thank you to all writers and artists who
contributed their work for consideration in Issue 14 Summer 2024. Note that if you don't get
a response after the end of July, you can consider your piece(s) unpublished.
Paperback will be out 2 weeks (approximately) after people complain about all the errors
in their pieces and the printing style of the zine, and after the month of August.
Please keep litter in the bins and don't forget to sterilize your wrists. Thank you for your time and please enjoy the journal!
Zines
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Paperback can be found on Lulu.com here: <www.lulu.com>.
- eBook purchases have moved to the Patreon. Please reroute if you are interested in forking it over.
- [Alternate Route] is now open to publishing of poetry chapbooks and poetry books with our printing provider Lulu.com. Inquire with us electronically for more information.
- Worried that we'll go out of business and your publication history will be tarnished? Fear no more! [Alternate Route]
is now listed on the Internet Archives at <https://archive.org/details/@alternate_route>! (Issues 1-11 thus far). Check it out! (Should last about 10^5 weeks, or 1000 years).
- [Alternate Route] is investigating funding opportunities and hopes to pay the creators of accepted submissions in the near future.
- Our hard disk crashed and most files were lost. All emails for Issue 14 are still good, but anything before about June 1 is gone. This includes that childrens' poetry manuscript that we were trying to review. (Hopefully this message finds safe).
Also note that the template for the zine is deleted. Please upload your poems directly to the website.
Always welcome, never necessary.
![Paper love from [AR]](images/fullsizeoutput_1.jpeg)
