Issue No. 7: QUAR + TIME Now available online!
Our first digital issue is designed to print-at-home so that you may display the zine in tiles, unbound, on your stay-at-home wall.
ADVENTURES OF PUSSY by Demi Demirkol
Demi Demirkol is an L.A.-based poet and artist. She has participated in poetry workshops at University of Tennessee, Knoxville and University of California, Irvine, where she now studies.
“Eleven Oxidations of Iron” by Connor Rice
Connor Douglas Rice writes poetry between stints at progressive political organizations. His work has appeared in print and online in the Kudzu Review and Weirderary magazine and more. He is currently based in Brooklyn.
“WAITING FOR THE END OF THE WORLD” by Ryan Skaryd
Ryan Skaryd lives, writes, and teaches in Orlando where he is currently an MFA candidate in nonfiction at the University of Central Florida. Find him on Instagram @ryanohrama.
Text Message Interview with Alice Bag, by Julia Gibson
To call Alice Bag a powerhouse is an understatement. In our latest installment of Text Message Interviews, DUM Music Staffer Julia Gibson chats with Alice all about punk songwriting, the importance of DIY spaces and harnessing your own personal power. Read on t0 #GetDuM in advance of a slew of shows she's playing this...
XOXO #DuMjams V-Day Mixtape!
Will you be our Valentine, DUMmies? We made a lil' mini mix of sweet and dreamy #DUMjams just for you...
“The Patron Saint of Useless Causes” by Howie Good
Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements, winner of the 2015 Press Americana Prize for Poetry. He co-edits White Knuckle Press with Dale Wisely. Read more on his blog.
“Currency” by Christian Anton Gerard
Christian Anton Gerard is the author of Holdfast (C&R Press, early 2018) and Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella (WordTech, 2014). He’s received Pushcart Prize nominations and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarships. He loves love and woodworking. Gerard is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith.
RECAP: “VOX & Voices” Kickoff Photo Gallery!
DUM DUM Zine brought back our rockin’ "VOX & Voices" last weekend with a Kickoff Party in collaboration with Beating Lights! Peep the gallery to #GetDUM...
“VOX & Voices” Returns with 2017 Kickoff Party!
For our 2017 Kickoff we give you a spinoff in collaboration with Beating Lights...3 BANDS and 3 READERS going toe-to-toe in our first show of the year.
“Shades of Blue” by Charlie Baylis
Charlie Baylis is from Nottingham, England. He studies irony in the back of his mind. He has two pamphlets Elizabeth (agave press) and hilda doolittle´s carl jung t-shirt (erbacce), a poem of his will be featured in the ‘best new British and Irish poets 2017’ (Eyewear Press).
FUCK FEAR 2016: DUM DUM Zine End of Year Mixtape
We at DUM DUM Zine have teamed up to select our favorite #DUMjams of 2016: all by local LA artists, all centered on the theme of FUCK FEAR. These songs reflect our anger, terror, and dissent, as well as our decision to embrace our radness and personal power.
“Visionary” by Eric Cline
Eric Cline is a Pushcart Prize nominee, weekly columnist for Five 2 One Magazine, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Calamus Journal. His debut poetry chapbook, his strange boy eve, was published by Yellow Chair Press in September 2016. Twitter: @ericclinepoet