It's an artist's dream. The song will play itself. So all you need to do is make it sing a little, make it human, and not fuck it up. We named the magazine after a possum that lives in the creek near our house. Skanky is of West Indian derivation, coming from words like ska and skank, which is a kind of dance.
Possums are the only North American marsupials.
We publish solicited work and random submissions that float through the mail. Eileen Myles, Alice Notley, Carl Thayler, Diane di Prima and Tom Clark have been in our first two issues. Tom Devaney, Julia Connor, Linh Dinh, and Betsy Fagin also have been carried in the possum's pouch. Books by Carl Thayler, Leslie Davis, Sotere Toregian and Tom Clark are scheduled for publication during the coming year. Publishing these and our small magazine challenges our own poetic ideals and broadens our imaginative possibilities.