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Incite!

Incite! was a fanzine I published from 1985 until 1998, while I was first a student, then a professor, at Harvard University.. Although it evolved over the years, its main focus was on independent music, with side forays into various aspects of pop culture and personal reflections. In 2012 I digitized all 30 copies and posted them on my home page at Lehman College, but they didn’t survive a migration to a new platform. So I’m replanting them here, with some new bells and whistles—specifically, links on most pages to songs from records I reviewed or bands I discussed. Each issue includes a short description (from 2012) of the context in which it was written; a nice overview of the fanzine can be found here, in something my friend Stephanie Burt wrote for the London Review of Books when I first posted it at Lehman.  I’ve included an index of all thirty issues below, with links and short descriptions of their contents.  

List of issues (all articles are by Tim Alborn unless otherwise noted)

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Top 25 (other stuff)

Besides limericks, I’ve written sonnets, epodes, villanelles, song parodies, and one soliloquy. And each holiday season I cram Spelling Bee words into Christmas carols and holiday poetry. These are the top 25, based on Facebook likes, loves, and laughs. Click here to see them all, from the most recently-posted, or find your favorites below!

1. Soliloquy

2. Carol #14: The Nearly Twelve Pangrams of Christmas

3. Song #4: This Old Sam

4. Carol #25: I Saw Three Pangrams

5. Villanelle #1: My Tentative Valentine

6. Sonnet #9: My Cat, and my Case, Rest

7. Carol #21: Joy to The Bee

8. Carol #8: Have a Tall Loblolly Christmas

9. Carol #33: Spelling Bee

10. Carol #28: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

11. Carol #9: They Came Upon a Midnight Clear

12. Sonnet #20: Pirate School Dropout

13. Carol #22: Sam Ezersky’s Coming to Town

14. Sonnet #16: The Iceman Goeth

15. Carol #26: Banjo and Baboon (to the tune of “Sleigh Ride”)

16. Villanelle #4: Vanilla Nell

17. ‘Twas the Night before Hanukkah

18. Carol #37: Orangutan (to the tune of “O Christmas Tree”)

19. Villanelle #3: Comfort Food

20. Epode #3: The Dancing Octopus

21. Sonnet #5: The Winged Walrus

22. Sonnet #14: The Chemical Debutante Ball

23. Song #3: Giddy Long Little Doggie

24. Epode #1: Pound, Pounded

25. Sonnet #4: Roberta’s Revenge

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