A SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT QUALITY
is an experimental text journal.

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Please join ASBDQ for a SIMULTANEOUS READING on MARCH 26, 10 PM at The Poetry Project Friday Night Reading Series. Location: St. Mark's Church, 131 East 10th Street.

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Issue N^o. 2 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. 3.
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, JUNE 2009

Accidents. Words are everywhere and inevitably beautiful. What tries to be poetic is often not because true poetry is an accident. The poetry genre is paradoxically unpoetic, too narrow to contain the full beauty of language that permeates everyday conversation, movie dialogue, graffiti, theatre, song lyrics, notes, diary entries, grocery lists, receipts, rap, 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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