Lance Mazmanian

Lance Mazmanian, word/visual author, once Random House distributed with Harlan Ellison, got a coffee as payment. Mazmanian was published 2025 by London Writers' Salon, Fiction On the Web UK, WILDsound Festival (TIFF; Canada), more. Leonard Cohen (RIP) thought he and Mazmanian should print a poetry chapbook together. Til the Scrapbook File.

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► Lance Mazmanian's microchap & (selected) poems are available below. Download the PDF by clicking the title.

Origami Microchap with Selected Poems

Nine Fun Times

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Cover photo from fubiz.net
by Sebastião Selgado

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Luna Pira dreXeL

Strange room. Near it, beauty and mischief.

In sunbeam of unknown star she quilts a
banner with icy-type foil. Her mind is
flowerscape

and chocolate, razored pastel. Accordion
and dinnerplate. With sail of gossamer,
painted black and purple.

With it all, she navigates the secret coral.

And... She sits, head on shoulder arms
folded, watching wind and night sky.
Soaking sun, precision cloud. Toes wiggling.

A traveler and a stormfront, with latte.

Haiku

At the Gielgud, Dame Judi:
lightning on a mountaintop,
up close.

Coffee and liquor pours
blanket plasma for
friends in fire and snow.

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