The Bathroom

Uhhh confession, I picked this one based on the name. Actually a lot of these journals and magazines have really great names. Anyway.

www.bathroommagazine.wordpress.com
thebathroommagazine@gmail.com

Editor: Nicholas Michael Ravnikar

I like the mission: “The Bathroom wants to publish writing that exhibits intellectual irreverence and satirical sloppiness.” This goes for writing of various genres as well as visual work and “undefinables.” Editor Nicholas Ravnikar is seeking pieces that “investigate the art as a product of the linguistic and/or cognitive process.”

Browsing through the archives, most of what was published was poetry, and it’s fairly “experimental,” without being too out there to be unenjoyable (subjective, much?). Lots of the poems published have really great images and phrases.

Submissions: The Bathroom asks for submissions 3-5 pages in length, with some specific guidelines/suggestions for formatting. They want the submissions in plain text in the body of the email, but also attachments of separate works.

People published: Pat Clifford, Megan DiBello, Travis Cebulla, Matt Specht, Mark M. Geise, Donald Illich, Michael Sumrak, Davis Strauss

(Looks like mostly men, opposite of Fringe Magazine.)

Here’s a poem they published that I liked.

bodhranii instructions by John Dey

rain         many        drops

rain    where falls,    down        o so drops

sound halo for objects

delight the inner-thing of – yes – hum

come to stasis my, ground

the vertical cross-brace is against the back of my hand
the horizontal cross-brace is resting on the back of my
wrist

now around me

clear see