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500 Favourite Words Kallima Hamilton studies philosophy and creates abstract art in Mid-Michigan. Email: kallimahamilton@gmail.com |
100 samples, as teaser: verboten, quiver, bodacious, pachyderm, skedaddle, catawampus, clairvoyant, largesse, avoirdupois, scintillating, scruffy, subterranean, phantasmagorical, eureka, outlandish, flabbergasted, turquoise, astonish, goblets, ensconce, verisimilitude, cumulous, Wyoming, baklava, karma, wigwam, volley, sandalwood, telescope, chartreuse, scoot, Nefertiti, crazy, taciturn, buffoon, pleasurable, honeysuckle, calypso, relish, aqueous, chalcopyrite, flesh, whirl, fathom, Krishna, flamboyant, gleam, earthy, whimsical, blonde, ripples, spume, rambunctious, kimono, kumquat, zaftig, titillate, onomatopoeia, splendiferous, verklempt, fragrant, giraffe, scrutiny, freak, jacaranda, rapscallion, patchouli, alacritous, kinetic, cozy, jazz, sea-green, succotash, cosmic, resonant, quirky, burrito, patchwork, cactus, geology, arch, wedge, nebulae, crustacean, coincide, cowgirl, earlobes, imbue, oscillate, tangy, anklet, detonate, booze, poltergeist, succulent, flickers, catastrophic, unlatch, viscous, torque. by Kallima Hamilton tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words An interdisciplinary artist based in Singapore, Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé contemplates what a Mongol warrior might have thought of Gongsun Long, when the Chinese philosopher and pacifist proposed the paradox: “One and one cannot be two, since neither is two.” A project borne from reading Reuven Tsur’s book, Kubla Khan: Poetic Structure, Hypnotic Quality & Cognitive Style. Email: desmondkon@yahoo.com.sg |
100 samples, as teaser: cartouche, acacia, wrestle, stonemason, genealogy, farmland, moresca, dystopia, tillage, pulse, promissory, sonic, boom, Barthes, Baudrillard, artifice, aggrandisement, disenfranchisement, baroque, tangential, foregrounding, terracotta, inland, hinterland, idiomatic, Mencius, reciprocity, subjectivity, consecration, euphoria, eurocentrism, phonocentrism, logocentrism, flagstone, polysemy, poetics, metaphysics, metanarrative, myrtle, agrarian, atlas, oubliette, import, florid, actuality, Sorkaktani, Constantinople, realism, orientalism, ridicule, zeugma, hardship, Hanshan, notational, coupling, Verlaine, Laforgue, searing, simulacrum, cobalt, cornflower, bobcat, caricature, historicity, aporia, Horace, hagiography, Democritus, ersatz, lighthouse, filigree, sabre, impresario, misanthrope, tethered, shackles, eremitic, archival, imagistic, vernissage, voluptuary, apportion, portal, poplar, tamarisk, hypogeum, mendicant, meditation, ambit, tautology, buzzard, coyote, climate, inchoate, ineffable, denouement, catastrophe, ennui, contretemps, colonialism. by Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bob Heman has been writing a lot of pieces that bounce off of fairy tales and legends. Email: clwnwr@earthlink.net |
100 samples, as teaser: elves, frogs, kisses, trolls, bridges, gnomes, witches, oven, hunter, princess, sleeping, bells, lost, birds, breadcrumbs, fox, bears, storks, babies, wolves, hunger, gun, stream, cries, desire, shadows, bride, groom, pastor, pond, boat, damned, dead, whispers, devours, evil, safe, exposed, punished, strap, switch, eyes, mouth, hunger, water, sink, float, fire, monkeys, roads, wagons, straw, burn, horses, goats, pigs, barn, fish, crone, creeps, dances, mushrooms, apples, serpent, poison, sword, barrel, stick, dreams, forgets, remembers, explains, embers, coals, hands, light, stars, toy, bed, chair, bottle, moon, trees, grass, wizard, box, blankets, born, kills, widow, window, cookie, cake, lizard, snail, ants, mirror, hair, beard, scarecrow. by Bob Heman tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Susan Gangel lives in San Francisco, teaches and creates primitive modernism, and edits the online blueprintzine. Email: sgang123@earthlink.net |
100 samples, as teaser: now, Kit, is, falling, out, of, my, car, and, the, stallions, cannot, stem, their, hot, breath, all, red, dirt, in, piles, near, by, intelligent, aphorisms, have, no, business, picking, up, garbage, it, goes, struggling, from, its, moorings, young, man, holds, on, he, hands, them, dissolved, soap, suds, asks, for, mercy, one, more, time, she, will, bathe, unaware, didn’t, rocket, mine, fruitless, fields, her, arid, delivery, stockpiles, situations, furtive, word, unopened, salty, preferences, cannery, coax, air, firmament, laying, about, under, crucifix, what, doesn’t, want, trouble, just, a, striation, to, mark, epochs, wood, interacting, further, considerations, could, console, chaos, embraces, observed, feathers. by Susan Gangel tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Charlotte Lewis is training to be the village witch. Email: lycanthropehope@yahoo.com |
100 samples, as teaser: bruja, rusalka, transcontinental, cunt, coyote, cackle, brontide, thunder, Saturn, underworld, underground, feral, wanderer, primitivist, ramble, rye, menstrual, crepuscular, cistern, sisters, kitties, grandmother, sub rosa, crux, mystery, gutheart, surrender, resistance, redwood, coastal, deciduous, evergreen, shudder, wick, constellation, submission, necromancer, recluse, deadbeat, thorax, viola, crossroads, fire-escape, threshold, rooftop, basement, abandoned, doom, bane, sludge, overcast, evasion, spiderweb, cello, spell, weaving, wild, rewilding, meanwhile, Cioci, ennui, sphinx, lynx, gallows, jezebel, whore, sapphic, harlequin, harlot, mannequin, slut, matrilineal, raw, wavelength, animus, luna, lunacy, madness, collective, sustainable, holistic, habitual, ultramarine, coven, autonomy, boneshaker, chainbreaker, umbilical, bloodthirsty, tarot, lycanthrope, werewolf, daemon, faery, satyr, dryad, radical, centaur, shamanic, labyrinth. by Charlotte Lewis tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Samantha Duncan writes fiction and poetry and enjoys the rhythm and taste of many words. Email: sam8834@gmail.com |
100 samples, as teaser: sequester, barnacle, plaster, corpulence, honeyed, napalm, palaver, deckle, portly, egg, pulley, component, waif, era, retract, crinkle, quite, crux, Paris, duct, vocal, cookie, savage, wrist, fungible, derail, equality, product, asinine, twelve, lunar, sham, empathy, hype, palate, décor, breathe, bereaved, halogen, backlash, hut, dialogue, petticoat, increment, homophone, sienna, milk, amorphous, blitz, livid, thus, igneous, detritus, triplicate, vocation, abode, aphid, glacial, unbeknownst, detrimental, puree, trivet, camisole, anointed, wept, burlap, cloak, magma, gloom, dichotomy, chicken, aside, flapjack, vicious, gumdrop, kettle, contrived, court, killjoy, entitlement, ephemera, torque, habitat, ferret, rover, aisle, gorgeous, loafer, goat, adobe, flit, penultimate, inasmuch, exponential, propaganda, sponge, amoeba, hutch, trough, viscous. by Samantha Duncan tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Peter G Res is a poet/musician and an avid enthusiast for the state of New Jersey.
Email: resextenza@gmail.com |
100 samples, as teaser: roundabout, megaphone, augment, sideways, grinder, cauliflower, Shinto, sideswipe, binder, backhoe, condense, pluck, pardon, vulva, quandary, callous, vex, orangutan, bristle, capillary, hermit, hull, station, wellington, subterfuge, cheddar, swirly, foible, dirge, vacillate, entropy, hung, bridegroom, ballast, mast, timely, either, gala, humble, pickles, lactate, attuned, broadside, bellows, ghoul, silkscreen, rind, quicken, bark, telltale, progeny, jackal, rover, eel, ion, splinter, lull, domicile, apropos, gamble, racket, polis, tiny, gargoyle, matron, pariah, obsessed, encrypt, summon, flint, loony, rival, nonchalant, pole, complete, plastic, magpie, skyscraper, compactor, quill, fellow, fallow, quip, contra, sapphire, halva, wobble, till, sassafras, grits, kernel, concubine, axel, august, pumpkin, jubilee, yearling, ripen, marrow, bookish. by Peter G Res tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Rachael Goetzke is a writer and poet; she is currently working on her M.A. in Creative Writing at Wilkes University.
Email: given2fly1981@yahoo.com |
100 samples, as teaser: cerulean, blessed, fermata, dream, inspire, tree, breathing, love, melody, bass, ripple, song, purr, furry, Mom, park, By-way, Virginia, mountains, misty, watercolor, charcoal, symmetrical, patchwork, country, crafty, typeset, thrumming, cherish, blanket, fireflies, goblet, solitude, honey, savory, tremble, sigh, dangling, honeysuckle, tangible, rhombus, stopper, flow, mosaic, beautiful, triumphant, equilateral, sunny, rumble, throng, hymnal, treaty, humble, tryst, trust, weekend, God, Cheesy, Gorgonzola, festival, Bonnaroo, cranberry, spices, woodsmoke, treble, tenor, vivacious, courageous, softener, gala, tea, spoon, chocolate, granules, heritage, bulbous, moonshine, starry, glittery, perforated, crisp, crackly, enchanted, embracing, residual, resting, stone, river, sleek, echo, textured, chewy, glib, giblets, saffron, Heaven, solemn, comforting, promise, laughter. by Rachael Goetzke tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Conor McGuigan has bunions, a uni-brow, and a slight case of scoliosis. Email: soyconor@aol.com |
100 samples, as teaser: barnstorm, caboose, grackle, bamboozle, obi, Yahweh, gulag, crimson, forest, cemetery, birch, zinc, gargle, apron, silo, bingo, Gorgon, manx, braggart, disciple, catalogue, opulence, marigold, mercurial, jack-a-nape, sluggard, bandy, witless, nood, carbuncle, wassail, misanthrope, pipsqueak, crust, gangly, tomboy, jitney, blustery, squall, booger, skank, sloth, envelope, hearth, uncle, wither, pipet, mineral, dunce, zilch, zero, clavicle, glockenspiel, bassoon, Wurlitzer, pang, nee, alee, aubergine, crudités, smellfeast, Merlin, filigrees, rebar, ribaldry, caribou, carnival, fester, smelts, haddie, shank, gubernatorial, sesquicentennial, afro, stylus, albumen, Congo, heliotrope, trollop, Dalmatia, Hullabaloo, Turkish, muscatel, burlap, halcyon, finagle, promenade, hiney, macramé, foil, tangent, hemlock, Wednesday, Appomattox, cravat, trident, intergalactic, cello, epilepsy, muttonchop. by Conor McGuigan tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Melissa Tucker loves the way words make her mouth exercise. Email: melastica@gmail.com |
100 samples, as teaser: abandon, acme, aeon, air, Akasha, akimbo, alabaster, alas, altar, alter, ameliorate, amoeba, ampersand, amulet, anaconda, Anais, ancestry, anemone, anthracite, anticipation, aphid, arcane, argyle, armoire, artichoke, ash, ask, astronomy, asunder, asylum, atlas, aubergine, aura, awesome, awkward, axe, baboon, baguette, bailiwick, balloon, balmy, bambino, bamboozle, bandersnatch, banjo, barker, barnacle, bauble, be, beatnik, behemoth, bellybutton, beloved, betwixt, beyond, bifurcated, bipedal, birdcage, bloodlust, bloom, bollocks, bona fide, boogeyman, book, bookish, bottlecap, bovine, bravado, brave, brevity, brouhaha, Buddha, buffoon, bulb, bully, bungalow, bustier, buzz, cacophony, calliope, callipygian, cameltoe, caramel, carnival, carousel, celestial, chakra, change, changeling, chard, chasm, chauffer, cheeky, cheese, chicken, chiller, chimera, chortle, chrysalis, cilia. by Melissa Tucker tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Kit Kennedy has made lists for decades in the most likely and unlikely places. Email: kit.kennedy@yahoo.com |
100 samples, as teaser: thus, therefore, tarnish, thumbprint, trawler, typewriter, tomato, tennis, tentmaker, traveling, tulips, tilts, thread, thyme, tease, tinted, ticket, transgress, twist, transmutes, transmogrify, tethered, tissue, tinge, thaw, threads, tea, tempest, trajectory, trickle, trickster, tricolor, tiara, trestle, truly, theorem, not, nub, necessity, nuance, nevertheless, nautilus, newsprint, normal, neophyte, narrow, nothing, noon, nails, notwithstanding, naughty, bowl, beets, buttons, blowtorch, basket, bocce, basil, boredom, blouse, bleak, bent, bore, boundaries, brittle, bamboo, bartender, bronze, bites, bifocals, bucket, book, bookshelves, physics, palette, prime, pigeon, particulars, perhaps, plug, peony, pithy, prosperity, penny, pebbles, perfect, pluots, pumice, psalm, porcupine, penguin, penultimate, precious, pajamas, parched, preposition, percussive, periwinkle, plenty, pears. by Kit Kennedy tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Jennifer devours words like a bowl of pasta. Email: jenniferdiskin@aol.com |
100 samples, as teaser: grace, empathy, despair, crinkle, wrinkle, dimple, blue, violet, purple, kiss, lips, tongue, taste, tomorrow, heron, circus, cannon, fire, extinguish, explode, ringmaster, clown, lion, panther, seek, hide, find, lose, search, lust, love, yodel, delicious, gnocchi, ghumpkis, church, picnic, pizza, Fridays, wings, vinyl, occlude, stick, needle, time, rest, bed, comfort, hunger, sorrow, quakes, piano, violin, cello, harp, flute, tune, loose, move, tangle, hair, poppy, peony, delphinium, tomato, plants, hoe, weeds, disease, sad, diagnosis, nervous, anxious, friendship, joy, yellow, green, pink, yellow, brown, black, tulips, season, lilacs, fall, cherry, blossoms, crocus, daffodils, forsythia, summer, heat, sun, zinnias, fast, fly, tomatoes, seagull, ocean, cross. by Jennifer Diskin tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Cinephile Heather M. Davis writes, watches, listens, scoots, and avoids doing dishes. |
100 samples, as teaser: foible, frivolities, screen, foam, sardonic, film, letter, intention, juggernaut, poignant, rebel, sleuth, crocked, handsome, air, flesh, scene, heading, voluptuous, lady, stag, action, character, dialogue, gentleman, thanks, cheers, true, betwixt, play, pup, nugget, posh, shat, fisticuffs, Mike, feckless, sensation, renowned, doctor, inkling, miscellaneous, keen, kid, josh, haggard, illustrious, clever, butternut, clad, bra, word, wine, regardless, nice, confectionery, crew, facetious, production, edit, draft, parenthetical, clap, smitten, transition, shot, imbibe, adversary, gnarly, aforementioned, script, cast, ampersand, colleague, Kennedy, popcorn, freaks, cinema, pank, Dresden, scooter, concern, residency, London, blue, loot, smile, bog, bash, traveler, eruption, obligatory, pleasant, pulp, rancor, based, muppet, bangs, fundamental, culprit. by Heather M. Davis tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: I'm singer/songsmith for The Sw!ms and Kock107, I dj at Panked! Dance Party and I also draw a bunch of things and drink true pilsners with friends. URLs: myspace.com/theswims |
100 samples, as teaser: Trebuchet, bestiary, Patrice, behooved, fathom, action, abyss, abscond, snack, snood, sneed, camshaft, axe, battle, cauldron, measly, mere, Hognir, Thor, harmonies, fist, whisk, wisp, jostled, scridge, pigeon, meeju, beeju, valkyrie, kraken, win, heap, magic, alchemist, Elven, rune, ruins, thorn, present, outdoors, downstairs, equip, item, beast, scram, twilight, lunar, loon, moon, avoid, mouse, eject, jade, onyx, burst, jammed, house, nimble, tumble, parlor, cellar, mashed, safari, ski, hammer, partisan, blade, shuriken, jawa, scooter, empire, transform, morph, power, ranger, maiden, ice, bathe, seer, Tattooine, shark, bomb, pop, ramp, raw, claw, draw, fast, outlandish, brandish, wield, field, congealed, fricassee, varmint, lad, cheers, might, points, three. by Brian Langan tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Freelance writer and PR maven Donna Talarico is amazed how just 26 letters can create so many gosh darn fun words. |
100 samples, as teaser: discombobulate, boggle, conundrum, Google, lucidity, blink, freedom, imagine, silly, sunshine, earth, dandelion, capture, coincidence, balderdash, delicious, quirky, unique, dream, memory, memoir, conversation, butter, cognitive, believe, social, album, collection, cherish, passion, precipitation, nurture, nature, together, smoothly, fuzzy, fluffy, cat, accomplishment, vast, slumber, narcolepsy, buzz, lager, brew, grow, magenta, vibrant, fizz, kumquat, fresh, potato, pajamas, cloud, universe, wanderlust, Jupiter, campy, s'more, smorgasbord, book, page, generation, juicy, yummy, clean, nifty, neat, Einstein, hearty, hoppy, cheese, Muenster, enticing, lather, squirt, envelope, divvy, scroll, leaf, escapade, rendezvous, sexy, flair, personality, onomatopoeia, liberty, voice, cranium, blister, unicorn, fantasy, spacious, wonderland, flight, originate, Idaho, echo, destination, spooky. by Donna Talarico tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Alicia Grega is a multidisciplinary artist, arts journalist, and muse for hire. |
100 samples, as teaser: absinthe, abundance, abyss, adore, adventure, advocate, agent, agitate, aglossostomography, ambrosia, amorous, anachronism, anarchy, anthracite, antiquity, aphrodisiac, apostrophe, aqua, arcade, arouse, asteroid, aubergine, autodidactic, autonomy, avalanche, avocado, azure, bacchanalia, balloon, ballyhoo, baroque, bazooka, beatific, believe, bhavana, bizarre, blizzard, bohemian, boing, boudoir, boulevard, brazen, breeze, bubble, burlesque, burn, busk, butter, cabbage, cacophony, calliope, calypso, camaraderie, canoodle, cappuccino, caravan, carnal, carnival, carnivore, carpet, carrion, cascade, catastrophe, catharsis, cathedral, causality, chandelier, chaos, charlatan, chasm, chicken, chime, cigarette, cinder, clairvoyant, climax, coarse, cobblestone, cock, cocktail, comrade, concrete, confection, congregate, connoisseur, conquer, consciousness, contaminate, convivial, cookie, create, crimson, critique, crucify, cruelty, crusade, crystal, culture, curiosities, dada by Alicia Grega tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Jim Warner’s the Asst. Director of Graduate Writing at Wilkes University whose three favorite words are: Buy. My. Book. For more shamelessness: misterjimsneighborhood.com |
100 samples, as teaser: fuck, fucked, fucker, fuckhead, fuckstick, fuckwit, motherfucker, abstract, acrophobia, agog, airborne, album, ale, agoraphobia, alienation, AM, analysis, anarchy, anchor, angular, anthem, antibiotic, aorta, anachronistic, arachnophobia, architecture, arise, ashes, askew, asshole, asswipe, astonish, authority, avenger, backbeat, backfire, backlash, badger, baffle, ballistic, bamboo, banal, bandstand, bandwidth, bank, bantamweight, barbarian, barrelhouse, barf, barnacle, barnstorm, barrister, baseline, bastard, beat , beatitude, beep, biff, biohazard, biped, bisect, bitch, bizarre, blackball, blackmail, blacktop, blazer, blindside, blister, blizzard, bloat, bloodclot, bloodshot, blowout, blowtorch, blue, blueprint, bog, boggle, boing, bolo, bolt, bombastic, booger, boondoggle, bootleg, bounceback, boxcar, braggadocio, brickhouse, broadside, buckshot, bullhorn, bullseye, bunk, burgundy, burial, burlap, buzzsaw, bullshit by Jim Warner tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Andrea Talarico believes in the independent bookstore, the small press, and the perfect simplicity of the word pulp. URL: scranthology.com |
100 samples, as teaser: cocoon, villanelle, marzipan, bilocate, peppermint, fever, divine, autumnal, hymn, writ, olive, matrimony, traverse, belladonna, arrow, gourmand, illuminate, pocket, parish, solstice, deciduous, willow, weft, peckish, gut, coxcomb, chimerical, madrigal, voluminous, midsummer, plume, ghost, mercurial, prism, lunar, fish, capsicum, aquarium, cellar, quiver, quake, fatuous, vulva, staccato, Victorian, wampum, shell, aluminum, elderflower, somnambulist, twilight, twin, forked, champagne, paginated, ingénue, alliterative, illusory, gravitate, aquamarine, pastry, terror, skin, abyss, cluster, incarnadine, fever, flyleaf, freckle, ember, ingest, genuflect, parcel, wake, warble, enumerate, darn, sapling, pumpkin, musculature, penumbra, womb, bark, limned, calliope, schism, flesh, pluck, echo, garner, cyclical, thunder, lantern, candle, gargantuan, sediment, silt, brocade, season, blather, fontanelle, cormorant, cinnamon by Andrea Talarico tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Jennifer Hill has a relationship with words. |
100 samples, as teaser: maelstrom, mirror, miraculous, metrical, earring, err, architecture, sparrow, pillow, fragment, fragmentary, figment, figure, fig, father, feather, fist, festival, written, wrote, writ, write, willow, weft, weave, woven, quingy, quince, queer, inquire, library, looksee, bibliotheque, moniker, bubble, billow, bustle, blubber, blather, blithering, dunce, dander, dance, dither, dome, demand, drab, dud, distal, discovery, circus, circle, circular, surround, sibilant, succulent, suckle, sickle, scythe, somnambulist, soma, summer, spring, spigot, spill, silt, lake, love, lather, lust, lusty, leer, lascivious, liscentious, misanthropic, bituminous, luminous, liminal, lime, glorious, gorgeous, gather, gill, glisten, glitter, gallant, gustatory, glug, google, goo, celestial, celestine, stellar, still, star, silent, quiet, quiver, quill, quest by Jennifer Hill tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Raised by an Educator, Joseph enjoys words as they play on the page. URL: onemorecast.com |
100 samples, as teaser: sensuous, labyrinthine, onomatopoeia, luxurious, tusk, salvation, platitude, exceed, adore, onyx, rhomboid, incredulous, cleave, delightful, librarianesque, gazpacho, crayon, plaza, ethereal, testament, splendid, languid, fecund, sepia, fresh, absolute, porcine, tarragon, value, unique, apricot, tango, spirit, horrific, dominion, peony, forward, perhaps, brook, gamine, gossamer, puzzle, stricken, alliterative, urchin, palomino, drift, graphite, chemise, unity, contemplative, chartreuse, assimilate, forgiveness, bosky, resolve, acceptance, earthen, passionate, confluence, albumen, orchid, Helvetica, alabaster, curvature, quirky, encyclopedic, healing, thrice, etymology, loge, headwaters, joy, cope, cerise, marmalade, umbrage, poppy, implication, daffodil, arboretum, effusive, rue, abidingly, seldom, coinage, unflappable, decrepit, purr, zealous, sodden, evanescent, acrid, shall, imagine, abidingly, raw, handwritten, linen, clarity by Joseph Meyer tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Christophe Casamassima is the editor of Furniture Press Books. |
100 samples, as teaser: zwei, zur, zu, zounds, zote, zoooop, zooms, zoomed, zooey, zoo, zones, zoned, zone, zoe, zip, zion, zingggg, zing, zinc, zhok, zeus, zest, zend, zen, zeme, zeiss, zeal, zan, yuse, yum, yuh, ys, yrs, yr, yow, youths, youth, yours, your, young, you, york, yore, yooee, yongst, yon, yolk, yoke, yok, yip, yin, yields, yield, yi, yff, yet, yes, yen, yelps, yelp, yell, yehhh, yeats, yeasts, yeast, years, yearned, yearn, yeard, year, yeah, yea, ye, yd, yaws, yawn, yawl, yarns, yarn, yards, yard, yanks, yank, yang, yale, yaks, yah, yachts, yacht, ya, y, wynn, wyn, wyatt, wus, wuh, wu, wry, wrought, wrote by Christophe Casamassima tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: I’ve always loved words, they taste sweet on my tongue, and still I try to keep them out of my mind so as to attain a higher spiritual state. URL: naplesyellow.com |
100 samples, as teaser: Plinth, aggregate, Philistine, agora, tipple, snicker, pismire, beneficent, cellar, attic, smarmy, melancholy, Mongolia, feckless, erotic, bifurcation, feculent, fecund, phantasm, fimiculous, eschatological, epistemology, coprolalia, echolalia, onomatopoeia, obstreperous, yes, pluvial, congeries, asperity, callithump, vibraslap, cahone, obsequious, sycophant, ecstasy, perfidy, elan, clitoris, fellatio, hirsute, delicate, percussion, synthesis, antithesis, thesis, dissertation, fornication, prudery, pilfer, Vanadium, beans, cataract, shoal, mink, sable, milk, gathering, quickening, blues, jazz, persnickety, viral, orgasm, fortuitous, lunatic, flimsy, balderdash, mollycoddle, penultimate, orientation, eliminate, remunerate, analog, participate, exhume, exegesis, syllogism, stoichiometry, mendacious, meticulous, reciprocal, demented, linoleum, olive, the, around, amid, midst, punish, imbricate, praise, esteem, experience, splith, ejaculation, segmented, scratch, positive, Buddha by J. Michael Mollohan tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Martha Deed dribbles loose words along the banks of the Erie Canal to attract rare migrating Canada Geese. |
100 samples, as teaser: nuance, synergy, half-mast, compost, mortifies, neighborly, numinous, intervening, cirrus, monkey, clouds, woebegone, variables, lifeguard, three, amoeba, afterthought, surveillance, sharks, collateral, damage, inhibits, political, mercenary, bathtub, operational, acre, succulent, fertilizer, atomizes, tars, spangled, munificence, verb, articulate, rooftop, paltry, spill, volcano, whistle-stop, worthless, falcon, trains, free, robin, waterfalls, fall, indwelling, mauve, rhinoceros, duplicate, wishful, wasteful, thinking, earn, fair, hymnal, afficionados, officiate, brass, trophy, monumental, incremental, excremental, office, bank, wish, want, get, nothing, free, fee-for-service, customer, cadence, help-line, advocate, judge, defendant, pew, bench, warrant, earnest, sermon, husband, death-defying, advance, retreat, escape, immunize, ermine, gimmick, authorize, jellybean, Linux, warn, disposable, green, sharp, café, oregano by Martha Deed tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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500 Favourite Words Bio: Gregory Betts has copyright over all of these words. Request permission to re-use them at epc.buffalo.edu/authors/betts. |
100 samples, as teaser: allure, rebut, abet, abide, imbibe, describe, collide, collude, attribute, conclude, elude, denude, obtrude, obtuse, confuse, blue, moon, saloon, few, phew, excuse, achoo, bruise, peruse, balloons, platoons, afternoons, tunes, sand dunes, snooze, booze, druids, fluids, abide, ibid, did, id, i.d., item, might, meant, mean, monster, master, mysterious, monsterious, mathematical, problematical, senseless, antiphonious, unleashed, projected, pataphysical, reasoning, otherwise, open skies, cosmic, consciousness, consternation, Canadian, revival, survival, denial, rival, revolution, revel, revelationary, drivel, drab, dabble, hubble, hubris, Confucius, excuses, huddle, hug, snuggle, glamour, stammer, hammer, psychosis, hypnosis, personal, point, bleed, stab, stable, staple, maple, papal, poplar, pooper, prancer, valance, dalliance, dandy, doomsday, mastectomy, vasectomy, snip by Gregory Betts tiny 8-page booklet. $2, + S&H. |
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