
Author: Timothy Alborn
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)
1-10 11-20 21-30

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
4. Carol #25: I Saw Three Pangrams
5. Villanelle #1: My Tentative Valentine
6. Sonnet #9: My Cat, and my Case, Rest
8. Carol #8: Have a Tall Loblolly Christmas
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