This issue marks the one year anniversary of The Transcendental Friend—thank you all for your interest and kind support! In celebration of the event, Morningred Dot Com has produced an audio CD of sound projects incanted, concocted, and otherwise confabulated by past contributors to the journal, using whatever instruments they might have had at hand. The disk is called Snake Hiss - you can download some mp3 samples from this month's Project page; for ordering info, click here.


This issue of the Schizmata offers "Pas de deux + others," recent work by the remarkably inventive Stacy Doris, protégé of Lully and de Sade, ballet not included.

This month's Report from Afield is the first edited by Leonard Schwartz, connoisseur of Gnostic and early Christian speed metal techniques, and includes work by Danish poet Katrine Marie Guldager (translated by Anne Mette Lundtofte) and Russian poet Alexander Ulanov (translated by the author and Michelle Murphy).

Kristen Prevallet, currently under the employ of "Angel" Heurtebise in the manufacture of musical instruments made of fire, presents early work by Jean Cocteau in this month's Idiosyncratica.

The Bestiary features a short piece by virtuoso radio player (and part time microscopist) Heather Ramsdell, called "Newt."



Garrett Kalleberg