for the co-editor of killpoet and ridiculously passionate lover of Your words

billy was a fine man, with one of the biggest hearts ever.



when i think about a world without billy
it is pretty tough.


his daily morning, "yo" on google talk to me.


one that meant it was time to start bantering
under the guise of working.


how i constantly annoyed him and he constantly annoyed me
and how it didn't matter.

that at the end of that day
we would never end mad at each other.


this is the type of man billy was.

this is the type of man that billy
made me want to be.

his ridiculous passion for keeping things
pure, made me a better man, better thinker.


when he called me,"brother"
i actually believed it.


because he meant it so very much when he said it.



it's not news that his smile could light up a room,
it is fascinating to me
how easily he could smile.


the first time i met him face to face
that smile was so very big, it just made me smile.


and im more of a grinner.




when i think about killpoet without him
it is pretty tough.


we have a family with you all. he considered you all his family.


we spent many hours talking and laughing about this machine
and how we all found one another through it.

how tom
might have opened up the door to digital hell, but fuck
we were so very glad he did.


the words, while so very important to billy, were no more so
than the actuality of a live event that brought all of us together.


that poetry could live and breathe beyond the coffee shop reads
that were primarily restricted to a regional level.


he had such wonderful ideas about killpoet and your words
and how to get them out.



these were the things that made billy most happy.


he would want me to tell you that.



i know now as i cry while typing this
that billy was one of the most passionate people
i ever met.

and i really hope that everyone can remember him
in that regard. because he made us all better for it.



i love you very much billy.



jas

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issue 4
Category: Writing and Poetry

is alive.


keep an eyeball open for a new word.s
art show at lestats
update on kc
essay/fiction section
print anthology

along with a short snuff film
detailing the end of ignorence.

a love story.

cheers,
kp





click on the show off.

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issue 3 is up
Category: Writing and Poetry

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guidelines for issue 3.

well then.
back again.
we need your words.
we need your bleeding hearts.
your fluttering darkness and uplifting sickness
for issue 3.

we are now taking submissions.


submit
and feel good about it.

also.  if you want to just leave
us your email, get on the mailing list and not submit..please
use same mailbox....visual artists
please drop us a line too.  we will
be dedicated many issues to that.

you will want to be updated
for the actual website launch.

killpoet will be a fancy little village
for all of us to play.  our words and art
showcased.  a community drawn in ink
and paint and pencil.

you will be able to make your own profile
and take off.  let us keep you updated on that.
sign up on the mailing list.

cheers.
kp

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ISSUE 3.  GUIDELINES.


   1. Send 2 to 4 pieces in the body of an email or as an attachment to
killpoet mailbox
....headline the email ISSUE 3 SUBMISSIONS.  you don't actually have to cap it. ;)  make sure the TITLE is easily visible before each poem submitted.
   2. like ISSUE 2....our theme for this issue is the jarred residue of your psyche...however that may come out.  a cohesive amalgam  of work will be featured in ISSUE 3.
   3. Expect 2 to 4 weeks to hear back a reply on whether or not the piece will be used in an upcoming issue.  Deliberations over each piece will consist of 7 total readers scouring your hotness.  The other 5 members are shadows.  Unbiased third party lovers of word art and visual art.  Like the unknown members of the MPAA, we will keep their identities secret so as to not tempt any of you all to murder them if the results turn out bad.  Feel free to conduct such violence against Billy and Jason.  They need it anyway and would look upon the gesture as highly favorable.  And.  Remember that if you don't get into that issue, no worries, we will be putting these out very regularly.  More than likely they didn't fit in to the feel of that specific issue.  Not because they weren't good.  You are all made of stars.
   4. Include a BIO and PICTURE and WEBLINK to your site of choice with your submissions. 

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS NOV. 14TH.

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submission guidlines for issue two.
Category: Writing and Poetry

Dose us. 
With hi-grade ink.  Each letter each word each stanza each feel each moment sliced up and placed on the tips of our tongues are welcome.  Monday feels like an appropriate day to open submissions up, so run with it..  It's the freak out juicing us up.  Killpoet wants to play.   

SUBMISSION GUIDLINE IDEAS FOR ISSUE 2

1. Send 2 to 4 pieces in the body of an email or as an attachment.  Preferably in the body of an email to myspace.com/killpoet .....or to this email address.....jasnn@hotmail.com.....be sure to HEADLINE it.....issue two submissions.
   
2. Any theme is welcomed barring EROTICA.  Sorry, everybody over here is destroyed by love and the juicy hot writings about it and its acts induce suicidal thoughts.
3. Expect 2 to 4 weeks to hear back a reply on whether or not the piece will be used in an upcoming issue.  Deliberations over each piece will consist of 7 total readers scouring your hotness.  The other 5 members are shadows.  Unbiased third party lovers of word art and visual art.  Like the unknown members of the MPAA we will keep their identities secret so as to not tempt any of you all to murder them if the results turn out bad.  Feel free to conduct such violence against Billy and Jason.  They need it anyway and would look upon the gesture as highly favorable.  And.  Remember that if you don't get into that issue, no worries, we will be putting these out very regularly.  More than likely they didn't fit in to the theme or feel of that specific issue.  Not because they weren't good.  You are all made of stars.
4. Include a bio with your submissions.  Feel free to be devious andor truthful. 

DEADLINE is SEPT.  5^TH.

(Random note)  In this issue it will just be the written word BUT we want to put up your visual art on our page while we continue to place muscle tissue and arteries into the website core. 

KP

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let it begin friends.
Category: Writing and Poetry

Greetings.
Killpoet is back.  Reanimating this body.  Possessing this skin and bones.  Freak dancing under the hot hot lights.  In need of action.  Of words.  Paintings.  Sketches.  Cool sips of art.
Yawning and stiff, but slowly loosening the muscles.  Unatrophying the brain.  We're pleasantly unraveling the ratty carpet.  The grinding road to words…to pictures….to surreal landscapes dripped on the canvas starts here.  The ink stained trail has been dry too long.  We forgot how to get back to that kingdom.  That is over.    
It is ready to be splashed wildly with Your colors.  
Drenched and inundated with our collective consciousness.  This savior comes in lyricism.  In jarring phrases.  Or the internal hum of rhyme dripping in a vaulted vocab.  In slices and moments.  
The drug dumb bliss from typing and poking at a keyboard.  Long hand jotting in cursive the emotion of what you are in new ways.  Painting, doodling, sketching alike.  Our bones ache for all of that.  From You.  
The semantics of art fades away and Killpoet opens its arms for you to breathe in deep the dark recesses of whatever you are.  Or were.  That sacred moment.  Vomit out the sickness of beauty.  Or shine of passion.  Line break the pain away.  Play in words.  Feel up stanzas in beautifully lude ways.  Cry alien junk all over the paper.  Just do.  Come play with us.  Killpoet is only here to save the world.
cheers


*We are putting humpty dumpty back together.  Stay tuned.  Submission calls will recommence very soon.  Along with updates on chapbooks, print mags, art showcasing*




KP

The new faces of horror people.

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Our first issue is up...
Category: Writing and Poetry

Our first issue of Kill Poet is now up HERE

Please leave us your thoughts.

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