
in-sti-gat-or: one who initiates an event simply to enjoy the unpredictability of the effect.--Sink/Swim Press
During my senior year at NJCU, I took a course titled "Workshop: Writing the Memoir." Interested in non-fiction writing, I signed up for the course. Needless to say, I learned a lot from it and enjoyed myself immensely. One of the things, however, that I took from the class that is still with me, is the 100 word group. 100 groups are made up of seven people--one for each day of the week. Each day, someone writes 100 words based on a word, phrase, or idea present in the previous day's 100 words. The 100 words can...
Featured in the April issue of the Instigatorzine is a poem by two writers, Laura McKeon and Melida Rodas, titled, "Amber." "Amber" takes its form and creation from the running dragon style of poetry. Running dragons are extended haikus, often written competitively between two or more poets. The first stanza is two lines. The next stanza is three lines. This repeats until the end of the poem. The beginning of the poem revolves around nature, spring, or winter. The next poet writes three lines, with one word in the...
When I started this zine, I did a search on Google for magazines titled "The Instigator" but didn't find anything. Somehow, I missed a magazine titled "Instigator Magazine." I found this magazine later, but continued with the project anyway, thinking they would never find such a small, low budget zine like ours. Our contribution to the world is virtually meaningless, considering we only publish about 200 copies of our zine. For a while, the website was hosted at http://theinstigator.hostei.com. Recently, we upgraded...
As everyone knows, Instigatorzine is not run by a single person. We are a team. I created this blog for my fellow teammates to post news, information, thoughts, or anything relevant to the zine.