Notes
Phantasm,
vol.
5,
no.
1,
issue
25,
1980
Independent
literary
journal
of
original
poetry,
fiction,
artwork,
articles,
features,
photos,
commentary,
reviews,
interviews,
and
announcements.
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Phantasm Bimonthly Magazine was beginning to run late for its scheduled every-other-month publication dates and was renamed Phantasm Literary Magazine. |
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An index of authors to the previous two volumes and several advertisements for publications by Heidelberg Graphics are shown including Phantasm, The Middle Aged Princess and the Frog, After the War, Back in Town, Greyhounding This America, The Face of Poetry, and Focus 101. |
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In editor/publisher Richard Peabody Jr.'s 1980 Gargoyle issue 15/16 "Small Press Editors' Round Table," Larry S. Jackson opens with, "There are not too many little magazines as long as there are people with the desire for publishing them. Publishing a literary magazine is an experience I recommend to anyone who has thought about it. You don't need much to get started except determination and time." |
He goes on to reply to several other questions and concludes in answer to the last, "Phantasm is a multi-cultural eclectic magazine. I like to promote creative expression of all genres. In order to enjoy life one should experience variety. The American heritage generates a myriad of writers encompassing all schools. Anyone who studies would not say Western civilization is going bankrupt. Besides literature there are other ways of embracing cultural traditions …."
