New x magazine out this week

Watch out for the new x magazine out this week with work from a wide range of contemporary poets from India to Indianapolis. Since x is the only literary magazine that requires submissions to come from persons who read their work in public, it's bound to have work from someone you've seen reading live before...

Website: www.flippedeye.net/xmag

Way of the word

Right from the beginning of x-bout.com in 2001, we have stated the need to have reviews of spoken word events and performances in the same way that there are reviews of music and theatre events; to create standards by which poets / spoken word practitioners can measure themselves. Due to time constraints it has not always been possible to carry on reviewing consistently but, hopefully, this blog will change that. Welcome to the new webbed way of the word...