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What is Gut Punch Literary?
What is Gut Punch Literary and what are we trying to accomplish? The best place to start is with Who we are. Gut Punch Literary is the contrivance of John Hinton. The light bulb first flickered in 2022. The illuminating thought, to establish a journal focused on real and raw writing. From, poets who don't call themselves poets, who may have never written before, who don't think they are "good enough" to be called a poet. People who want to share their stories but don't quite have the confidence....yet. I am John Hinton, by the way, and I was serving as president of Poetry Society of Indiana at the time. One of the functions I performed as president was hosting open mics at coffee shops, bookstores, libraries, pizza places, any place that would give us space to bring poetry and poets together. People attend open mics for various reasons. The obvious one, to read their poetry. Some come to support their po...
Tear It Down!
Perhaps to elevate language and ideal in this day and age it is imperative to tear down language and deconstruct ideal. Societally we've made everything so cliche that our tongues are empty of great words and our minds are empty of great thoughts. Yet our souls, our souls long to speak and create. Our call is for destruction. The removal of restrictions. Refuting the lie of perfection. Here we say, "Write it real, Write it raw." Tear it all apart. Tear us apart.
A Conversation on Spirituality and Religious Trauma
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