The Project for a New Mythology was a short-lived literary journal produced between 2006 and 2009. It was a purely DIY endeavor inspired by Wallace Berman’s mail art publication Semina that Berman shared with friends like Allen Ginsberg, Michael McClure, William S. Burroughs, and others between 1955 and 1964, and which I learned about while attending The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University.

Each issue of The Project for a New Mythology was hand bound in some fashion, except the first one, which was photocopied and stapled at a Kinko’s. The the last two issues were both online.

The print editions

The Project for a New Mythology Volume 1 Issue 1 (Copy)

PFANM Vol 1 Issue 1 Table of Contents (Copy)

The Project for a New Mythology Volume 1 Issue 2 (Copy)

PFANM Volume 1 Issue 2 Table of Contents (Copy)

The Project for a New Mythology Volume 1 Issue 3 (Copy)

PFANM Volume 1 Issue 3 Table of Contents (Copy)

PFANM Vol 1 Iss 3 CD (Copy)

PFANM Vol. 1 Iss. 3 CD Track list (Copy)

The Project for a New Mythology Volume 1 Issue 4 (Copy)

PFANM Vol. 1 Iss. 4 Table of Contents (Copy)

The Project for a New Mythology Volume 2 Issue 1 (Copy)

PFANM VOL. 2 ISS 1 Table of Contents (Copy)

The Project for a New Mythology Volume 2 Issue 2 (Copy)

PFANM Vol. 2 Iss. 2 Table of Contents (Copy)

The online Editions

Volume 3: 2008

Volume 3 was an online edition featuring pieces by Mark Joseph Beukema, Nick Dryden, Robert L. Dean, Chris Gordon, Dale Dobson, William T. Hathaway, and Richard Kostelanetz. Each piece was formatted as a separate PDF that could be downloaded and folded into a booklet with a unique cover image. The cover images were all photos by Nick Dryden. Here is a link courtesy of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Volume 4: Remix 2009

The Remix issue was the last issue of The Project for a New Mythology. Because of the webpage layout and the concept of the issue, the Wayback Machine doesn’t have a good archive to access. This issue contained eight stories presented under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, and readers were invited to download a story they liked, remix it in some fashion, and submit it back to the magazine to be posted alongside the source story. The issue featured pieces by Jenn Zuko, Jeremy Biltz, Stephen McClurg, Gavin Pate, Todd Robins (as T. A. Robins), Colin Dickey, Laura Hawley, and me. My records show we received one remix from Chris Gordon. Who knows, maybe there were other remixes.