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October 2026
What a whopper! No, not that unfeasibly large Halloween
pumpkin, but the October edition of Winamop!
This has taken me flippin' ages to put together and I've
had to leave some stuff out but what's done is done and so am I.
The next edition isn't going to be this big I can promise
you.
It's good to be welcoming several new contributors, you
will meet them down below, and it's great to renew acquaintances with many old
stalwarts too, thank-you everyone.
Do you think A.I. is going to clog up the internet with
slop? We have some A.I. generated poetry here now, what do you think of it? Is
it the first? How would I know? We need to talk about this!
Maybe later.
Let us begin..
Joey
McIntyre is a new name on Winamop and I'm happy to have him
on-board. He introduces himself with this story of childhood. The title is
Mom Ventura.
Subramani
Mani is also new this month and his story about a day on the beach
is called OMG, You Look Exactly Like Our Dad. Is that a good
thing?
Simon
King takes back to the year three-hundred and something, the Roman
emperor Diocletian abdicated some years ago and two envoys are on
their way to see him.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg presents three tiny flash pieces for your entertainment
this month. They are: Hagar - Emry and Dzintra. All
will be revealed in very short order.
Clifford K.
Watkins, JR. (RoTun) Is going global with some of his recorded work
but now we're about to visit the Daniel Boone Trailer Court where life is hard,
the men are men etc etc. The title is Shady Ponds.
Terry Brinkman has a great new
piece of art called Ghost at Sabastion's window . It's on his art
page along with all his other pictures too.
Frucht-Schleifen brings us two
more tunes from his "Big Apple Loops" album called Empire State
and Grand Central.
KJ Hannah Greenberg presents some
more of her photographs. This time with no particular theme, just interesting
subjects .
Gary
Beck is back! That's good news if you like thoughtful poetry with a
point. Here we have: Westward - Siren Dirge - Bus Ride - Wasted
and Manhattan Byways.
Richard
LeDue has three new poems for us this month. They are: Fuel -
Backstory and Beneath Complaints About the Weather. I
hope you like them!
Bob
Carlton. I admire Bob Carlton's poetry for it's pointedness. There's
no padding here! Read “the thick mist...” - “intent/cannot
be...” - Schism and Terroir and see.
Tony
Dawson has excelled himself this time, first with an epic poem on
Noah's Ark (with a lovely sting in its tail) and then another two little gems.
Read The True Story of Noah’s Ark - Sunday’s Child 16 July
1967 and Hispania a Land of Drunkards.
Terry
Brinkman brings us five strangely fascinating poems. Medieval
- Brown Lawns - Intellect’s Pitfall - Sage Methadone and
Covered in Moss.
Pawel
Markiewicz has submitted a new poem called Behind the dreamy
rainbow. The revived in homeland dream; I think that is all that needs
to be said..
Al Pal. Here's a controversial
one.. these poems, presented by Al Pal, were in fact written by Chat GPT to his
specifications. I'm amazed by how good the results are, and it makes me wonder
whether I could tell if any submission was AI generated. Is this the end of the
e-zine? If AI can write all the material and build the web-site then why bother
eh? Discuss! The poems are: After the Pin - heat Map and
Verification.
Guillermo
Bowie is new to Winamop and here presents us with a suite of
musically inspired poems in English and Spanish. The English titles are:
The Various Pronunciations Of George Jones - “It’s Coming
Around Again” - “Even More Than The Sea, The Air” and
Are They Looking At This In Finland From Brooks And Dunn’s
“Boot Scootin’ Boogie”?.
KJ Hannah
Greenberg's poems this time have excellent titles. Who can resist
Collywobbles - Taradiddle and Gruntled? You rarely
hear of anyone being "gruntled" these days do you?
Have you read everything? Are you sure?
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It's Thursday evening as I write this and that's a pub
night so I'm off for a pint.
Down the hatch!
Ed.
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