About Us
Haggard and Halloo is an online/print poetry community launched from Austin, TX. Our online writers are from all over the US, Ireland, UK, New Zealand, etc. We accept poetry, short-short stories, dreams, rants, letters to and from fictional or real people, lists, visual art and other creative forms of writing. We post a new poem each day, sometimes two and receive many submissions a week. Please be patient while we review your work and don’t send 10 poems at once or bother with 3 page stories. We post on flow & feeling and cannot contact everyone about their poem. We’ll try though. Contact us @ haggardandhalloo@ gmail.com.
You may submit writing via email, but we prefer you use this website. Note: We are less inclined to post Anonymous work.
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Reviews:
Haggard and Halloo, Issue #21
24 pages, $5, Austin TX
This zine reminds me of a scrapbook filled with old memories of images combined with desires for the seven deadly sins. Fittingly, this issue is entitled “The Invincible Low,” and most of the poems, whether satirically funny or dry, are reminiscent of diary entries. With the cut and paste style images, the entire zine seems surreal, sort of like a Dali painting, but with more emotion married with poetry. (LR)
reviewed in Broken Pencil # 22
Haggard and Halloo #25: All the More Born
24 pages, $5
Earthworms look like penises emerging from TV antenna gardens, dark clouds of dark birds flutter by, female forms haunt brains filled with lust, swords, syringes and a rooster-or is it a cock?
What makes Haggard and Halloo’s winter issue is the kooky, quirky illustration and collage work of Travis Catsull-a mind seemingly warped enough for me to want to call him “friend.”
The experimental poetry encountered here leaves me cold… but perhaps this is simply a reflection of my own mindset, in the midst of our summer’s heat wave.
“Tongues can whisper the sweetest dreams,” claims Michelle Greenblatt in “Eat”. That much, at least, my tired brain can relate to: I seek this type of underlying sensuality in the poetry scattered around me, but not enough of it is present, in Haggard and Halloo, to hold my interest.
“Arise,” an angry winged figure urges, in another of Catsull’s delightful illustrations, and the zine’s contributors could find inspiration here: this is, ultimately, a nice little zine full of talent, but passion is lacking.
Haggard and Halloo is worth picking up and leafing through for the few little gems hidden here-and the many diamonds in the rough. (Andree Lachapelle)
reviewed in Broken Pencil #29
“Haggard and Halloo is a marvelous site/journal for experimental fiction and poetry.” - Algabrostic Spastigraphy
Editor @ August 18, 2005