Vor tex t

VOR/TEX/T
(pre/text, spring/text, for/text, vortex)

VORTEXT is a mail subscription magazine for poetry, poetics, and other short forms of writing.
It’s founded in the spirit of practices of self-publishing, circulation, and distribution of new writing, tracing the footsteps and tracks of subscription magazine traditions, such as for example Diane Di Prima’s and Amiri Baraka’s The Floating Bear – A newsletter.

As most of the correspondences that reach us through the letterbox are usually bills, advertisement, invoices, and other unpleasant communication, VORTEXT aims to contribute a more enjoyable form of mail correspondence.

Writing is afterlife:
VORTEXT always carries one poem on its cover. We choose poems in honour of the lives and work of poets who have written before our own time, for poems that are lesser known, un- or recovered, newly translated, etc. The cover poem sets the tone for the respective issue of the magazine for which ten poets are invited to submit a response. By response we do not mean necessarily direct responses – or not even poems at all, we are open to drawings and/or other forms of text, too – rather we are looking for works that can and want to sit together with the cover poem, start dialogues, share ideas and sentiments, open conversations and/or enter into a polyvocal chorus with the poem across time and space. The only requirement is that the text/work has to fit on one A4 page.

We imagine VORTEXT as a quarterly publication being mailed on equinoxes and solstices. However as it is solely a labour of love and has to run alongside personal schedules and according to our capacities; it might be published a bit infrequently at times. One of our main credos for this project is: No burnouts!!!

VORTEXT is distributed through a mailing list only. Postage will be covered by the subscribers. We send internationally

VORTEXT is edited by Erin Honeycutt and Katharina Ludwig and printed by Cutt Press.