Bitpunk.fm

• Bitpunk.fm — an analog-only tapezine. 22 issues of music, poetry, and more, mailed on cassette. Get a tape for free by sending a postcard, or mail art, to: P.O. Box 273029, Fort Collins, CO 80527-3029.
• Wasted Blood — a collection of anti-war poetry.
• Coriolanus.fm — a community theater audio drama of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
• War Erasures — an online collection of anti-war erasure poetry.
• Poetry on Tape — live poetry and music, every Friday at 12:00 Eastern on Substack.
• Bandcamp — jazzy spoken word.
• Rewinding the Future: The Cultural Anarchism of Cassettes — innovations on the cassette medium.
• Quaker Poetry — poems inspired by the Religious Society of Friends.
• The Bloody Sonnets — translations of Hviezdoslav's WWI sonnets into free verse. The final versions are in Wasted Blood.

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The box I prepared for my death
overflows with typewritten typo'd poems,
a few fuzzy faded photographs
and my voice —
     hidden in a cache of cassettes.

Leaving no room
for crisp drives
stricken with bit rot,
where I decay
into digital dust.
      

bitpunk.fm is under the creative direction of Josh Datko. He is a poet, essayist, antiwar veteran, cassette maximalist, and composer and sound designer of the trumpet-synth score of Coriolanus.fm.