Nate Pritts

The first issue of H_NGM_N came out in October of 2001 mostly because I realized I could put it out, & that I should. I had spent part of that past summer in my hometown of Syracuse, NY, with special permission to noodle around in the Collections Archives at Syracuse University where they had, among other things, all of Ted Berrigan’s papers pertaining to “C” magazine. If you haven’t seen a copy of it, or don’t otherwise know, “C” was a legal-sized, mimeographed magazine, stapled down the side, that came out starting in 1963.

The reason why the letter “a” is deleted is a secret. Mostly, I thought it looked interesting in a way that HANGMAN didn’t, but because also it presented a coded introduction to the aesthetic I wanted the magazine to embody – writing that would make the reader work, that would force the reader to become involved in the happening moment of the poem.

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