A SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT QUALITY
is an experimental text journal.

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Issue N^o. 3 is out! ASBDQ is available at St. Mark's Bookshop, McNally Jackson, Printed Matter, and Spoonbill & Sugartown.

See excerpts from Issue N^o. 1.

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Now accepting submissions for Issue N^o. 4.
ASBDQ is open to anything that's text.

Please email submissions to asimilarbutdifferentquality@gmail.com.
Include your name and title(s), if any.
Deadline: Rolling submission.

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MANIFESTO

Accidents. Words are everywhere and inevitably beautiful. What tries to be poetic is often not because true poetry is an accident. What we call Poetry is paradoxically unpoetic, too narrow to encompass the full manifestation of language in everyday conversation, movie dialogue, graffiti, theatre, lyrics, notes, diary entries, grocery lists, receipts, voicemails, text messages, emails, spam, tweets, etc, etc. To poetry without boundaries, except the words. Not poetry, but words. To an immediate, unpretentious and zesty poetry.

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Gathered, edited, designed by Helena Zhang in New York.

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