ATLAS

With the long poem, Atlas, Glenn Bach documents his ongoing investigation of place, meaning, and memory.

Originating with Atlas Peripatetic in 2003, which used the urban sounds of Long Beach, California as inspiration, Atlas has expanded to encompass additional texts informed by significant places in Glenn’s life, such as Brooklyn, Milwaukee, and California’s central coast.

Incorporating a variety of creative techniques borrowed from the visual and sonic arts, including sampling, remix, and erasure, Atlas illuminates our emotional and mysterious relationships with the landscape in the face of environmental catastrophe. With Atlas, Glenn has consolidated his poetry practice into a single poem that continues to unfold in scope and complexity.

Atlas updates and links may be found here, as well as on Twitter (@AtlasCorpus) and BlueSky (@atlascorpus.bsky.social)

Currently at just under 1,400 pages, Atlas is organized into sequential chapters and sections ranging in length from 12 pages to four hundred. Glenn has been submitting individual excerpts to small magazines and journals since the poem’s origins in 2003. The first excerpt was published in DIAGRAM 4.1 in 2004. Since then, pieces from Atlas have appeared in over eighty national and international journals. The first manuscript excerpt, cricket (eclipse), won the 2024 Stone Corpse Press Micro-Chapbook Contest and is scheduled for a Summer 2024 release. A second micro-chap excerpt, verdugos, is forthcoming in the 2024 Summer Series from Ghost City Press.

Books

cricket (eclipse), Stone Corpse Press, winner of the 2024 Micro-Chapbook Contest (forthcoming Summer 2024)

verdugos, Ghost City Press (forthcoming Summer 2024)

Selected Journals

E-ratio (17 January 2024)

Where the Meadows Reside, 1.2 (10 January 2024)

Bulb Culture Collective (2 January 2024)

Great Lakes Review (23 December 2023)

#Ranger, #3 (Nov 2023)

BlazeVOX, Fall 2023 (Oct 2023)

BoomerLitMag, Vol VII, No. 3 (Sept 2023)

Otoliths #69 (May 2023)

StepAway Magazine (21 April 2023)

Bluepepper (3 April 2023)

The Hyacinth Review (8 July 2022)

The Hyacinth Review (23 June 2022)

The Hyacinth Review (23 May 2022)

The Hyacinth Review (25 March 2022)

Word For/Word #38 (1 February 2022)

The Hyacinth Review (21 January 2022)

Slouching Beast Journal (August 2021)

Slippage Lit (April 2021)

Sublunary Review (7 March 2021)

Unearthed (22 December 2020)

Moss Trill (16 December 2020)

The Pi Review (16 November 2020)

Plumwood Mountain (31 October 2020)

folio : Peter Ganick (August 2020)

8 Poems (June 2019)

talking about strawberries all of the time (6 April 2019)

Nightingale & Sparrow (#1, February 2019)

streetcake (#61, January 2019)

Barren Magazine (#1, August 2018)

experiential-experimental literature (11 July 2018)

Sheila-Na-Gig (vol. 2.3, Spring 2018)

experiential-experimental literature (11 July 2013)

On Barcelona (8 July 2013)

Thanks to the editors of the following journals for agreeing to publish excerpts:

21 Stars Review, 42opus, 8 Poems, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Alba, ‘a-pos-tro-phe, The Argotist Online, Aught, The Babel Tower Notice Board, Barren Magazine, Big Bridge, Bind, Black Bough Poetry, Black Robert Journal, Black Zinnias, BlazeVOX, Bluepepper, BoomerLitMag, Brick and Mortar Review, Bulb Culture Collective, CAB/NET, Chiron Review, The City Key, CP Quarterly (fka Crêpe & Penn), DIAGRAM, D.O.R, Dusie, E-ratio, experiential-experimental-literature, foam:e, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Free Verse, Great Lakes Review, Great Works, Hamilton Stone Review, horse less review, hutt, The Hyacinth Review, Idiolexicon, Indefinite Space, jubilat, Konundrum Engine Literary Review, Listenlight, M58, Malleable Jangle, Melancholia’s Tremulous Dreadlocks, Moonlit, Moss Trill, mprsnd, Needle Poetry, Nightingale & Sparrow, On Barcelona, Otoliths, Pearl, periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, Peter Ganick’s LiveJournal, The Pi Review, Piebald Poems, Pinstripe Fedora, Plumwood Mountain, Pom-Pom-Pomeranian, puppyflowers, #Ranger, Saint Elizabeth Street, Sawbuck, Shampoo, Sheila-Na-Gig, Slippage Lit, Slouching Beast Journal, Snorkel, Softblow, StepAway Magazine, stonestone, streetcake, Sublunary Review, talking about strawberries all of the time, There, The Tiny, Unearthed, Upstairs at Duroc, Version (9) Magazine, The Vital Sparks, The Wandering Hermit Review, Where the Meadows Reside, Whimperbang, Wild Orphan, Word For/Word, Zafusy and ZenoMagazine.