Harbinger Asylum is a poetry and arts journal based in Houston, Texas. We were nominated as best poetry magazine in the year 2013 by the National Poetry Awards. Harbinger Asylum is printed and distributed by Transcendent Zero Press, an independent poetry publishing company. Cover art by Elena Botts. Graphic design by Chad Sorg.

Harbinger Asylum: Fall 2014

Literature & Fiction

Pickering, Dustin

Poetry

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The Future of Poetry is NOW: Bones Picking at Death's Howl

Harbinger Asylum is based in the literary scene of Houston, Texas. We seek writers of high quality and interest to the literary community worldwide. This edition has writing from poets concerning editing, language, and what it means to be a divine legislator. Cover artwork by Sandra Beck.

Harbinger Asylum: Spring 2016

Authors, Various

Harbinger Asylum: Fall 2019

Bottone, Joseph

Alfier, Tobi

Bladon, Henry

reneau jr., henry 7

Chappell, Melissa

Independently published

O'Riordan: Spurious Conversations With Dolores

Buddha, Alien

Bohdan, Stefan

Zwibel, Chani

Literary

<p>It is a rare occasion in the publishing industry to see a book that reflects two minds writing on separate planes about the same topics. Imitations of Love Poems is the heart and mind bared on the topics of love, religion, conscience, youth, life, and film. The poetry of Dory Williams opens the collection with a childlike vision of the world. God is seen as the perfect form of Love. Williams’ use of language, irony, and common sense proverb leads the angels of our understanding into a world that is beautiful and tricky, but also wonderful and kind. She writes, “The rights of children are our rights.” The seemingly buoyant style Williams introduces is the product of a cheerful mind often fraught with sadness and the love of man and God. Her worldview, expressed ironically with wit, is that romantic love is the highest state of love given by God.Dustin Pickering takes an alternate approach to the same questions. His tribute poems are dark and sophisticated, thick with allegory and grief. His poetic stance is one of darkness, of facing love in the winter. His approach to God is far less conventional; it is even mystical. He conveys a direct sense of whom or what God is while defining human nature in terms of its relation to truth. Truth becomes an icky concept with lines like: “Yet vain hopes are all I have held. / Her breasts so lush were vanity revealed.” Pickering, in defining human nature, wants freedom from it. He hopes to be genuine and perfectly altruistic but the darker strain in human nature is impossible to overcome.This collection of verse by two disabled poets promises its reader an awakening in how disabled people survive in loneliness, difficulty, and dependence. As America takes interest in the plight of the disadvantaged, Imitations of Love Poems is an important collection to peruse with pleasure and sympathy. Love, in its universality, is also stunningly individual in its expression.</p>

Imitations of Love Poems

Williams, Dory

United States

Transcendent Zero Press

Pieces, Paces, Prayers, and Poems

<p>Spurious Conversations With Charlie Manson</p>

The Son of Man: Spurious Conversations with Charlie Manson

Jones, Ken

Focks, Red

Romero, Ammi

Dragoo, Scott

Woodson, Michael

Harbinger Asylum is a literary journal based in Houston, Texas. We anthologize a wide spectrum of voices. This edition brings the reader poets at all levels of the craft, including first time published poets and popular contemporary poets. All who purchase this edition will get a free copy of a chapbook by Albanian poet Ardita Jatru. Please email a screenshot of your purchase to Editor@transcendentzeropress.org with ALBANIA as the subject header.

Harbinger Asylum: Spring 2018

Clark, James

Flynn, David

Smith, Michael T.

Smith, Willie

Bennett, Stefanie

Greenberg, KJ Hannah

Huffman, AJ

Luis, Diego

Tierney, Lily

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