Survival of the Fittest

the 01/09-04/09 issues & supplements of cc&d


The Unreligious, Non-Family-Oriented Literary and Art Magazine
print ISSN 1068-5154, Internet ISSN 1555-1555

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This is a collection of the writings from the January through April 2009 issues of cc&d magazine (v192 through v195), including the editorials (and editorials which only appeared in Internet issues of cc&d) and chapbooks as supplement issues of cc&d, into one perfect-bound book. The issues are kept in the order the way they appeared when the print issues were released, and the cover of each issue is even printed on a page before each issue is displayed in this book.
To see what materials and what writers appear in this book, peruse through the issues of cc&d magazine and chapbooks below.


Writers included in this collection book:

Aaron Wilder
Alisa Steinberg
Barry Pawelek
Benjamin E Nardolilli
Bev Jafek
C.B. Anderson
Carl T. Abt
CEE
Chad Newbill
Charles Craven
Chris Butler
Clint DrewsKolb
David Backer
David J. Thompson
David LaBounty
David McLean
David Spiering
David W. Landrum
Duane Locke
Edward Michael
O’Durr Supranowicz
Eli Perlow
Eric Bonholtzer
Eric Muhr
Eric Obame
Frank Holland
frankm
Fredrick Zydek
Heidi Kenyon
I.B. Rad
J. Neff Lind
Jack HenryJack Henry
Janet E. Sever
Janet Kuypers
Je’free
Jim Meirose
John Duncklee
John Grey
Joshua Copeland
Julia O’Donovan
Junior McLean
Kathryn A. Graves
Kenneth DiMaggio
Kenneth Pobo
Kenneth W. Anderson
Kristina Marie Darling
Liana Vrajitoru Andreasen
Louie Crew
Marc Tamargo
Marilyn Raff
Mark Graham
Martins Iyoboyi
MaryAnn Kohenskey
Mel Waldman
Michael Ceraolo
Michael Lee Johnson
Paul Baker
Peter Bates
Raghbir Dhillon
Roseann Geiger
Sam Brown
Sami Schalk
Serena Spinello
Sergio Ortiz
Suzanne Richardson Harvey
Timothy Wallace
Tom Vanderman
Tracy M. Rogers

This is the first time a Scars Publications collection book has been released in such a wide variety of formats. It is available as a digest-sized book (perfect-bound digest book at 5.5" x 8.5" with b&w interior pages), as well as in a cc&d supplement release 6" x 9" perfect-bound book (with the cc&d ISSN number bar code).

as a download: only $5.00
(which contains color interior artwork on all pages)

digest-sized paperback book
(5.5" x 8.5" with b&w interior pages): $16.95

6" x 9" paperback book (ISSN# with b&w interior pages): $17.95
6" x 9" hardcover book (ISSN# with b&w interior pages): $34.95

6" x 9" paperback book (ISSN# with color interior pages): $84.95
6" x 9" hardcover book (ISSN# with color interior pages): $99.95




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writing from these issues and chapbooks are in this book:












from v192, 01/09

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(Artists whose name appears in the listing at the top of the page may have artowrk from this issue also in the book. If you are interested in finding out about a particular piece of artwork from this issue, contact Scars Publications.)












from the January 9 2009 chapbook
the Cana-Dixie Union

the Cana-Dixie Union

(The above link is to a web page about the evening of poetry with C Ra McGuirt of Penny Dreadful Press, with Janet Kuypers of Scars Publications, with links to the chapbook e-book/PDF file)

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from the January 19 2009 chapbook
Rhododendron in a Time of War

hododendron in a Time of War

with poetry by Corey Clook

(The above link is to the chapbook e-book/PDF file)

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from the January 25 2009 chapbook
Taking Poetry to the Streets

the C|ana-Dixie Union

(The above link is to a web page about the readings. After seeing an image of a Chicago poet reading poetry in the streets of Chicago for an event, Kuypers decided to collect some poems and read them not only in the streets, but also at parks, resaurants, a gas station and even a mall in Nashville (in from of the life-sized replica of the Parthenon), New Orleans and Naples in December 2008 (one poem was even read on the street on Christmas day).

You can also view the Taking Poetry to the Streets for video from reading poetry in the streets.
)

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from v193, 02/09

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in the collection book release Survival of the Fittest.

(Artists whose name appears in the listing at the top of the page may have artowrk from this issue also in the book. If you are interested in finding out about a particular piece of artwork from this issue, contact Scars Publications.)












from v194, 03/09

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Click above to see all of the writing that appear
in the collection book release Survival of the Fittest.

(Artists whose name appears in the listing at the top of the page may have artowrk from this issue also in the book. If you are interested in finding out about a particular piece of artwork from this issue, contact Scars Publications.)












from the March 17 2009 chapbook
Once Took Poetry to the Streets

Once Took Poetry
to the Streets

The above link is to a web page about the readings.

Kuypers also After the release of “Taking Poetry to the Streets” (after reading poetry in Nashville, New Orleans and Naples in December 22nd thru December 28th, 2008), Kuypers decided that an archived collection of her writings read on different streets was due. So enjoy this collection of videos of poetry readings literally on the streets, or in restaurants, or bars... in hotel rooms and swimming pools, on mountains, at gravesites, and even at the hangar while waiting to jump from an airplane. These poems are read in assorted cities over the years.

This collection of poems and videos does not include studio recordings of her reading poetry for audio sampling, nor does it include any poetry from performance art shows. This collection also does not include and poems that were samples with Galapagos video footage or Pacific Ocean footage for video display.

Kuypers also released a chapbook ofpoems read while reading poetry in the streets (and in cafes and restaurants too), called Once Took Poetry to the Streets.


Click above to see all of the writing that appear
in the collection book release Survival of the Fittest.












from v195, 04/09

ccd fc

Click above to see all of the writing that appear
in the collection book release Survival of the Fittest.

(Artists whose name appears in the listing at the top of the page may have artowrk from this issue also in the book. If you are interested in finding out about a particular piece of artwork from this issue, contact Scars Publications.)












Survival of the Fittest






Nick DiSpoldo, Small Press Review (on “Children, Churches and Daddies,” April 1997)

Kuypers is the widely-published poet of particular perspectives and not a little existential rage, but she does not impose her personal or artistic agenda on her magazine. CC+D is a provocative potpourri of news stories, poetry, humor, art and the “dirty underwear” of politics.
One piece in this issue is “Crazy,” an interview Kuypers conducted with “Madeline,” a murderess who was found insane, and is confined to West Virginia’s Arronsville Correctional Center. Madeline, whose elevator definitely doesn’t go to the top, killed her boyfriend during sex with an ice pick and a chef’s knife, far surpassing the butchery of Elena Bobbitt. Madeline, herself covered with blood, sat beside her lover’s remains for three days, talking to herself, and that is how the police found her. For effect, Kuypers publishes Madeline’s monologue in different-sized type, and the result is something between a sense of Dali’s surrealism and Kafka-like craziness.



Debra Purdy Kong, writer, British Columbia, Canada
I like the magazine a lot. I like the spacious lay-out and the different coloured pages and the variety of writer’s styles. Too many literary magazines read as if everyone graduated from the same course. We need to collect more voices like these and send them everywhere.

Ed Hamilton, writer

#85 (of Children, Churches and Daddies) turned out well. I really enjoyed the humor section, especially the test score answers. And, the cup-holder story is hilarious. I’m not a big fan of poetry - since much of it is so hard to decipher - but I was impressed by the work here, which tends toward the straightforward and unpretentious.
As for the fiction, the piece by Anderson is quite perceptive: I liked the way the self-deluding situation of the character is gradually, subtly revealed. (Kuypers’) story is good too: the way it switches narrative perspective via the letter device is a nice touch.



Children, Churches and Daddies.
It speaks for itself.
Write to Scars Publications to submit poetry, prose and artwork to Children, Churches and Daddies literary magazine, or to inquire about having your own chapbook, and maybe a few reviews like these.

Jim Maddocks, GLASGOW, via the Internet

I’ll be totally honest, of the material in Issue (either 83 or 86 of Children, Churches and Daddies) the only ones I really took to were Kuypers’. TRYING was so simple but most truths are, aren’t they?




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C Ra McGuirt, Editor, The Penny Dreadful Review (on Children, Churches and Daddies)

cc&d is obviously a labor of love ... I just have to smile when I go through it. (Janet Kuypers) uses her space and her poets to best effect, and the illos attest to her skill as a graphic artist.
I really like (“Writing Your Name”). It’s one of those kind of things where your eye isn’t exactly pulled along, but falls effortlessly down the poem.
I liked “knowledge” for its mix of disgust and acceptance. Janet Kuypers does good little movies, by which I mean her stuff provokes moving imagery for me. Color, no dialogue; the voice of the poem is the narrator over the film.



Children, Churches and Daddies no longer distributes free contributor’s copies of issues. In order to receive issues of Children, Churches and Daddies, contact Janet Kuypers at the cc&d e-mail addres. Free electronic subscriptions are available via email. All you need to do is email ccandd@scars.tv... and ask to be added to the free cc+d electronic subscription mailing list. And you can still see issues every month at the Children, Churches and Daddies website, located at http://scars.tv

Mark Blickley, writer

The precursor to the magazine title (Children, Churches and Daddies) is very moving. “Scars” is also an excellent prose poem. I never really thought about scars as being a form of nostalgia. But in the poem it also represents courage and warmth. I look forward to finishing her book.






MIT Vegetarian Support Group (VSG)

functions:
* To show the MIT Food Service that there is a large community of vegetarians at MIT (and other health-conscious people) whom they are alienating with current menus, and to give positive suggestions for change.
* To exchange recipes and names of Boston area veg restaurants
* To provide a resource to people seeking communal vegetarian cooking
* To provide an option for vegetarian freshmen

We also have a discussion group for all issues related to vegetarianism, which currently has about 150 members, many of whom are outside the Boston area. The group is focusing more toward outreach and evolving from what it has been in years past. We welcome new members, as well as the opportunity to inform people about the benefits of vegetarianism, to our health, the environment, animal welfare, and a variety of other issues.




Gary, Editor, The Road Out of Town (on the Children, Churches and Daddies Web Site)

I just checked out the site. It looks great.



Dusty Dog Reviews: These poems document a very complicated internal response to the feminine side of social existence. And as the book proceeds the poems become increasingly psychologically complex and, ultimately, fascinating and genuinely rewarding.

John Sweet, writer (on chapbook designs)

Visuals were awesome. They’ve got a nice enigmatic quality to them. Front cover reminds me of the Roman sculptures of angels from way back when. Loved the staggered tire lettering, too. Way cool.

(on “Hope Chest in the Attic”)
Some excellent writing in “Hope Chest in the Attic.” I thought “Children, Churches and Daddies” and “The Room of the Rape” were particularly powerful pieces.



Dusty Dog Reviews: She opens with a poem of her own devising, which has that wintry atmosphere demonstrated in the movie version of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. The atmosphere of wintry white and cold, gloriously murderous cold, stark raging cold, numbing and brutalizing cold, appears almost as a character who announces to his audience, “Wisdom occurs only after a laboriously magnificent disappointment.” Alas, that our Dusty Dog for mat cannot do justice to Ms. Kuypers’ very personal layering of her poem across the page.

Cheryl Townsend, Editor, Impetus (on Children, Churches and Daddies)

The new cc&d looks absolutely amazing. It’s a wonderful lay-out, looks really professional - all you need is the glossy pages. Truly impressive AND the calendar, too. Can’t wait to actually start reading all the stuff inside.. Wanted to just say, it looks good so far!!!



Fithian Press, Santa Barbara, CA
Indeed, there’s a healthy balance here between wit and dark vision, romance and reality, just as there’s a good balance between words and graphics. The work shows brave self-exploration, and serves as a reminder of mortality and the fragile beauty of friendship.

Mark Blickley, writer
The precursor to the magazine title (Children, Churches and Daddies) is very moving. “Scars” is also an excellent prose poem. I never really thought about scars as being a form of nostalgia. But in the poem it also represents courage and warmth. I look forward to finishing her book.

You Have to be Published to be Appreciated.

Do you want to be heard? Contact Children, Churches and Daddies about book or chapbook publishing. These reviews can be yours. Scars Publications, attention J. Kuypers. We’re only an e-mail away. Write to us.






Brian B. Braddock, Writer (on 1996 Children, Churches and Daddies)

I passed on a copy to my brother who is the director of the St. Camillus AIDS programs. We found (Children, Churches and Daddies’) obvious dedication along this line admirable.



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Brian B. Braddock, WrBrian B. Braddock, Writer (on 1996 Children, Churches and Daddies)

Brian B. Braddock, WrI passed on a copy to my brother who is the director of the St. Camillus AIDS programs. We found (Children, Churches and Daddies’) obvious dedication along this line admirable.


Dorrance Publishing Co., Pittsburgh, PA
“Hope Chest in the Attic” captures the complexity of human nature and reveals startling yet profound discernments about the travesties that surge through the course of life. This collection of poetry, prose and artwork reflects sensitivity toward feminist issues concerning abuse, sexism and equality. It also probes the emotional torrent that people may experience as a reaction to the delicate topics of death, love and family.
“Chain Smoking” depicts the emotional distress that afflicted a friend while he struggled to clarify his sexual ambiguity. Not only does this thought-provoking profile address the plight that homosexuals face in a homophobic society, it also characterizes the essence of friendship. “The room of the rape” is a passionate representation of the suffering rape victims experience. Vivid descriptions, rich symbolism, and candid expressions paint a shocking portrait of victory over the gripping fear that consumes the soul after a painful exploitation.

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Paul Weinman, Writer (on 1996 Children, Churches and Daddies)

Wonderful new direction (Children, Churches and Daddies has) taken - great articles, etc. (especially those on AIDS). Great stories - all sorts of hot info!





The magazine Children Churches and Daddies is Copyright © 1993 through 2009 Scars Publications and Design. The rights of the individual pieces remain with the authors. No material may be reprinted without express permission from the author.

Okay, nilla wafer. Listen up and listen good. How to save your life. Submit, or I’ll have to kill you.
Okay, it’s this simple: send me published or unpublished poetry, prose or art work (do not send originals), along with a bio, to us - then sit around and wait... Pretty soon you’ll hear from the happy people at cc&d that says (a) Your work sucks, or (b) This is fancy crap, and we’re gonna print it. It’s that simple!

Okay, butt-munch. Tough guy. This is how to win the editors over.
Hope Chest in the Attic is a 200 page, perfect-bound book of 13 years of poetry, prose and art by Janet Kuypers. It’s a really classy thing, if you know what I mean. We also have a few extra sopies of the 1999 book “Rinse and Repeat”, the 2001 book “Survive and Thrive”, the 2001 books “Torture and Triumph” and “(no so) Warm and Fuzzy”,which all have issues of cc&d crammed into one book. And you can have either one of these things at just five bucks a pop if you just contact us and tell us you saw this ad space. It’s an offer you can’t refuse...

Carlton Press, New York, NY: HOPE CHEST IN THE ATTIC is a collection of well-fashioned, often elegant poems and short prose that deals in many instances, with the most mysterious and awesome of human experiences: love... Janet Kuypers draws from a vast range of experiences and transforms thoughts into lyrical and succinct verse... Recommended as poetic fare that will titillate the palate in its imagery and imaginative creations.

Mark Blickley, writer: The precursor to the magazine title (Children, Churches and Daddies) is very moving. “Scars” is also an excellent prose poem. I never really thought about scars as being a form of nostalgia. But in the poem it also represents courage and warmth. I look forward to finishing the book.

You Have to be Published to be Appreciated.
Do you want to be heard? Contact Children, Churches and Daddies about book and chapbook publishing. These reviews can be yours. Scars Publications, attention J. Kuypers - you can write for yourself or you can write for an audience. It’s your call...

Dorrance Publishing Co., Pittsburgh, PA: “Hope Chest in the Attic” captures the complexity of human nature and reveals startling yet profound discernments about the travesties that surge through the course of life. This collection of poetry, prose and artwork reflects sensitivity toward feminist issues concerning abuse, sexism and equality. It also probes the emotional torrent that people may experience as a reaction to the delicate topics of death, love and family. “Chain Smoking” depicts the emotional distress that afflicted a friend while he struggled to clarify his sexual ambiguity. Not only does this thought-provoking profile address the plight that homosexuals face in a homophobic society, it also characterizes the essence of friendship. “The room of the rape” is a passionate representation of the suffering rape victims experience. Vivid descriptions, rich symbolism, and candid expressions paint a shocking portrait of victory over the gripping fear that consumes the soul after a painful exploitation.

Dusty Dog Reviews, CA (on knife): These poems document a very complicated internal response to the feminine side of social existence. And as the book proceeds the poems become increasingly psychologically complex and, ultimately, fascinating and genuinely rewarding.
Children, Churches and Daddies. It speaks for itself.

Dusty Dog Reviews (on Without You): She open with a poem of her own devising, which has that wintry atmosphere demonstrated in the movie version of Boris Pasternak’s Doctor Zhivago. The atmosphere of wintry white and cold, gloriously murderous cold, stark raging cold, numbing and brutalizing cold, appears almost as a character who announces to his audience, “Wisdom occurs only after a laboriously magnificent disappointment.” Alas, that our Dusty Dog for mat cannot do justice to Ms. Kuypers’ very personal layering of her poem across the page.
Children, Churches and Daddies. It speaks for itself.

Debra Purdy Kong, writer, British Columbia, Canada (on Children, Churches and Daddies): I like the magazine a lot. I like the spacious lay-out and the different coloured pages and the variety of writer’s styles. Too many literary magazines read as if everyone graduated from the same course. We need to collect more voices like these and send them everywhere.

Fithian Press, Santa Barbara, CA: Indeed, there’s a healthy balance here between wit and dark vision, romance and reality, just as there’s a good balance between words and graphics. The work shows brave self-exploration, and serves as a reminder of mortality and the fragile beauty of friendship.



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