Howdy folks,

Today we have the first in what will, hopefully, be a long line of fun and productive (scratch that, let’s just go with “fun”) interviews. We are doing our best to say hello to, and to shamelessly ride on the coattails of, fledgling web journals and web-literary luminaries alike. It’s our way of saying “Happy MLK day!” to all of you, completely by accident but sincerely nonetheless. Those of you with gub’mint or university gigs, enjoy your slack.

Our honored guests this evening are Angie Palsak and Scott Topping, editors of the journal uglycousin. Their main thing is publishing good work that was, for reasons often inexplicable after reading, rejected from other journals. They have two issues online at the moment, both of which you should read if you’re into things like “enjoying yourself” and tossing your head-noodle a bit. Definitely check out the Frankenpoem at the beginning of Issue 3. Some of the stories frankly shocked me when I remembered that someone else had originally passed on them first – no accounting for taste, I suppose. Anyhow, give our illustrious uglycousins a look-see, and read on to the end of this blurb for the interview link.

By the way, uglycousin’s current deadline for submissions is April 7th, 2008, so if you have a rejected gem sitting around, why not have a gander at their submissions page while you’re at it?

On to the interview!

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