The Spring 2025 Issue of BlazeVOX25 Is Now Live

Written By Geoffrey Gatza

Dear Readers,

The Spring 2025 issue of BlazeVOX25 is now live. This season, we turn our attention to the margins—those spaces unclaimed by utility, economics, or private ownership. The works gathered here ask questions rather than offer answers, tracing the outlines of what literature can become when it resists the pressures of commodification and instead engages in acts of aesthetic and political refusal.

Contributors explore the porous borders between self and world, between architecture and memory, between the known and the speculative. Through formal rupture, associative logic, and language shaped by the contingencies of place and time, these texts intervene in the prevailing narratives of late capitalism and gesture toward new modes of meaning-making.

We invite you to step into the issue:
🔗 Read BlazeVOX25 Spring 2025

You’ll find the full list of contributors and a brief introduction from editor Geoffrey Gatza.

Thank you for reading, and for staying with us on the strange and luminous edge of what literature can be.

https://www.blazevox.org/blazevox-journal/blazevox25-spring-2025


Geoffrey Gatza

Bio Note: Geoffrey Gatza is the author of the poetry collections The House of Forgetting (2012), Apollo: A Conceptual Poem (2014), and A Dog Lost in the Brick City of Outlawed Trees (2018).

 

Divya Victor, in an article for poetryfoundation.org, said of Apollo: A Conceptual Poem “The diversity of these works echoes the complexities of the subject, but together they posit something specific, the heightened relationship between the interior self and the exterior world.”

 

Gatza’s poems have been published in anthologies, as well as magazines and journals including Fence, Tarpaulin Sky, The Pickled Body, Peach Mag, Tupelo Quarterly and various others. His play on Marcel Duchamp was staged in an art installation in Philadelphia and performed in NYC.

 

Gatza is an award-winning editor, publisher and poet. He is the driving force behind BlazeVOX, an independent press located in Buffalo, NY, specializing in innovative fictions and wide ranging fields of contemporary poetry. Geoffrey Gatza is lives in Kenmore, NY.

editor@blazevox.org

http://www.blazevox.org

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