Announcing the second issue of nanomajority – a quarterly journal of writing, art, and inquiry. ( www.nanomajority.com)

Issue #2:

Corey Antis: "1:1"

When I decided to start mapping my studio, I discovered that there were plenty of models available to serve as references.

Joel Bettridge: "Reading Hurts - Masochism and Lip Service as a Tortured Text"

"Bruce Andrews is not a poet," a professor to whom I had shown Andrews's Getting Ready To Have Been Frightened as an undergraduate told me.

Cathy Eisenhower: "Itinerary of Ophelia [a story of overdetermination]"

it was
elsewhere first in else
mouth and else corpus and the laboring figure
of a sleeping lady and twitch….

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In the archives:

Issue #1

Nancy Kuhl: "Room 26: The Discrete Notions Exhibit"

The Room 26 Discrete Notions exhibition series features individual artworks and objects that observe, celebrate, critique, and document cultural phenomena. Beginning in the spring of 2004 and changing several times a year, the series includes made and found artworks, verbo-visual commentaries, cultural documents, and literary and artistic records.

Melissa Lenos: "We need another hero… Our contemporary gunslinger, Supernanny"

We begin with a troubled family, terrorized and unable to manage their surroundings. A stranger arrives - seemingly out of nowhere - with no past and no personal details. The family is suspicious of the stranger at first, but once they've accepted this mysterious person into their home, they recognize that he has skills that would be useful to them. The stranger teaches the family to cope with their difficulties, remains for a final battle and then departs into the sunset alone.

Jean Smith: "In the end he says, 'Attraction is ephemeral.'"

Mistrust – a flashing neon sign – trust / do not trust - perhaps because we got together so fast. I feel comfortable with him. I am just being me and he seems to like me. In our Lavalife profiles we both express the idea for a lover – not a relationship – and then we just began to get close. Maybe because neither of us expected to find anything other than lover online. He doesn't want me to change. He wants to get to know me. Seems crazy about me. I am being myself. He laughs at what I say – I laugh at what I say. He says, "Nowhere on all your websites and interviews did I read that you are lovely, funny and sexy as hell." If it could stay like this; but if it doesn't, I don't think I will be crushed. This part feels good too.

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