SWINE is an on-line magazine of contemporary poetry that seeks to publish poems that breathe some aesthetic force attributed to its namesake. Swine are omnivores. They are cloven-hoofed. They are infamously a host to parasites. Swine are often associated with gluttony and are fattened almost exclusively for industrial slaughter. A biblical story explains how Jesus cast demons into a herd of swine. The structure and composition of their internal organs are the best approximation to those of a human. Swine cannot sweat so they root in mud. They are smarter than dogs. Swine are intelligent, sanitary animals that are perceived as violent, wild, low, and unclean. An agent of aesthetic paradox, Swine represent a friction between the domestic and the savage, the gross and the refined, the real and the conceived. Most importantly, they squeal.
SWINE believes in poetry that provokes, and to that end it seeks to provoke its poets. Every poet published in the magazine answers the following 10 questions as a way of excavating their ideas about poetry, writing, or something else entirely.
1. What is the meaning of this? 2. Who do you think you are? 3. On whose authority? 4. What were you thinking?
5. Where would you get an idea like that? 6. Why on earth? 7. Since when?
8. You and whose army? 9. Did it ever occur to you? 10. How do you sleep at night?
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1. What is the meaning of this? 2. Who do you think you are? 3. On whose authority? 4. What were you thinking?
5. Where would you get an idea like that? 6. Why on earth? 7. Since when?
8. You and whose army? 9. Did it ever occur to you? 10. How do you sleep at night?