ISSUE 46: THE FUK ICE EDITION
Since its inception in 2007, Clockwise Cat has been vociferously anti- tyranny. We are ANTIFA, if you will (even if you won’t). And for quite a while during our tenure, among our poetry and art we have also featured radical rants – towering tirades and searing satire full of bile against those who would circumscribe […]
ISSUE 45: THE DADA VERSE AND ITS HISS-CONTENTS
CLOCKWiSE CAT: THE DADA VERSE, ISSUE 45, is finally hissing its way to life! This is our first issue with our new focus, PROSE POESIE. Read our Editor’s Scratching Post, appearing in the issue, for more about why we are choosing this new focus on our most favored form of verse! And once you have […]
Issue 44: CLOCKWISE MAT-RIARCHY
Are you ready for the Clockwise Mat-riarchy? Better yet, is the WORLD ready for the Clockwise Mat-riarchy? In these distressingly dark tymez – I mean, the world was ALWAYS dark as oblivion’s asshole, amirite or amirite? – we need art: verse, visuals, the works. Specifically, we need women’s art. Why? Because women rule, that’s why. […]
CLOCKY KITTY ISSUE 43
CLOCKY KITTY ISSUE 43 Greetings, Clockwise Kitties and Catwise Clockies (not to mention wise-asses of all shapes and sizes)! Spring is springin’, and possibly sprangin’, and so I figger it’s a great tyme to UNCAGE the CAT. Issue 43 is finally here, after decades of delays (well, okay, months), due to profound family loss (see […]
ISSUE 42: THE FELINE TIMES
Clockwise Cat has issues. Forty-two of them to be exact! But this issue, #42, has no issues at all, because it’s PACKED with literary and artistic flavor from all corners of the universe! Well, maybe not ALL corners. But who’s keeping track? After all, the universe is eternally expanding, so it’s impossible to encompass EVERY […]
CLOCKWISE CAT RE-MEOW
CLOCKWISE CAT is FINALLY clawing its way back into consciousness. The issue has been many months in the making, because we alternate purrs with hisses – that is, we love putting Clockwise Cat together (purrrr), but it’s also a lot of grueling work (hissss). BUT, we are so proud to announce Clocky Kitty’s ferociously ebullient […]
FELINO SORIANO TRIBUTE ISSUE
After periodic postponements due to permissions request and submissions delays (as well as stemming from the editor’s job transition and off and on health concerns), we are finally releasing the long-awaited Felino Soriano Tribute Issue, arriving almost a year to his untimely passing in October 2018. We are pleased to present scribes and artists of […]
ISSUE 40
Issue 40 of Clockwise Cat is lovingly dedicated to our dearly departed (Perpetual) Poet-in-Residence, Felino Soriano. He was a good friend, and we mourn the loss of one of America’s greatest versifiers. And no, that’s not hyperbole. We offer up a mini-tribute to Felino in this issue (including a poetic tribute by Heath Brougher), with […]
BOURGE-WISE CAT: ISSUE 39
After months of dreaded delay, Bourge-wise Cat, aka Issue 39 of Clockwise Cat, has finally arrived to virtual bookshelves the world over. This issue is dedicated to the spirit of the late, great artist Louise Bourgeois (yes, we know she died in 2010; we are a bit belated in honoring her, so SUCK IT (but really, […]
KLOX AND KATZ INK: ISSUE 38
Clockwise Cat Issue 38, aka Klox and Katz Ink, is dripping with delightful decoration of the Verse, Visual, reView and inVective variety! Poems exploding from our inkwells include those from authors Mary Newell, Jeri Thompson, Heath Brougher, Featured Femme Tara Roeder, Holly Day, AJ Huffman, Daniel Crocker, Ken Allan Dronsfeld, Austin Alexis, Judith Huang, CL […]
THUGWISE CAT: ISSUE 37
Tupac’s Thug Life is the guiding ethos of Issue 37, Thugwise Cat. Read the Editor’s Scratching Post for more information, and make of it what you will. This issue is bleeding with invigorating verse, invective, visuals, and reviews, all of which in some way deride and defy conventional modes of prose/poesie/picture. Our Featured Femme is […]
SKULLWISE CAT: ISSUE 36
Skullwise Cat is dedicated to an AmeriKKKa flailing toward the final death throes of democracy. The pieces herein were not all necessarily sculpted with that vividly in mind, but the editor is ever-vigilant of the fact that Donald J. Trump’s “election” to the presidency is the last nail in the coffin of what was always […]
CATWISE CLOCK: ISSUE 35
Issue 35, aka CATWISE Clock, will CLOCK any mofo that don’t CAT to our WISE-ass approach. We have been proudly raggedy, Dada-esque, and pretension-free since 2007. This issue is heavy with art by underground art-world heavy-hitters such as Irene Koronas, Bob Heman, Nelly Sanchez, Jacob Russel, Oscar Varona, Bill Wolack. Our Featured Femme is the […]
CLOCKWISE RAIN: ISSUE 34
Clockwise Rain, dedicated to the memory of legendary visionary NELSON PRINCE ROGERS, has gathered up a storm of artists and writers to rock you like a hurricane so you can party like it’s 9999. In this, our 34th issue of progressive invective, rad reviews, and innovative visuals and verse, we lampoon the goons of our gun-crazy culture, scathingly […]
ISSUE 33: CATSTAR/STARCAT
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home. In this issue, we feature pieces directly inspired by the man from Mars by Ally Malinenko, Simone Keane, and Marie Lecrivain. As if that isn’t enough, our Featured Femme is Jessica Wiseman Lawrence, whose […]
CLOCKWISE CAT STRIKES BACK: EPISODE XXXII
Clockwise Cat Strikes Back is dedicated to the memory of Michelle Greenblatt. This issue is brimming with vigorous verse, rad reviews, incendiary invective, and vivid visuals. Sarah Frances Moran is our feisty Featured Femme. Vernon Frazer serves up texto-visuals that will set your brain ablaze. Bob Heman cuts up with classy collages. Jessica Wiseman Lawrence shoots from the […]
