Harbinger Asylum: Summer 2019

by Dustin Pickering (Editor), Stuti Shree (Editor), A. Chambers (Editor)

Harbinger Asylum is a long standing journal for poetry and the arts based on Houston, Texas. Houston has one of the oldest creative writing departments in the country. Harbinger Asylum seeks to reflect a range of contemporary aesthetics and approaches to poetry in its pages. This edition includes a prose writing by Sarah Mukami to show the horror of female circumcision in her country, an essay by Reza Parchizadeh on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and why they are considered a terrorist organization, a long essay on Lisa Marie Basile's poetry chapbook Andalucia by our chief editor, a generous selection of poems from people of a diverse field of interests and approaches, and art from Gregg Dotoli, and Mario Loprete of Italy. Harbinger Asylum's service to the poetry community at large is not something to be missed!

120 pages, Paperback

Published July 14, 2019

About the author

Dustin D. Pickering founded Transcendent Zero Press in 2010 with the quarterly magazine Harbinger Asylum, the poet describes himself as "the outcome of many traumatic life experiences." Nevertheless, Pickering embraces the optimistic personal attitude that destiny is what we make of it. He has attended several festivals, including Austin International Poetry Fest and Beat fest, and has published work appearing in the di-verse-city 2013anthology. When he is not hosting poetry readings around town or coordinating events, he enjoys music and time alone. He currently lives in the Clear Lake area of Houston, Texas.