New Poetry Editor: Camille Alexa joins Diet Soap

Camille Alexa has joined Diet Soap as poetry editor and first reader.  A fine writer her work has appeared in such publications as Escape Pod, ChiZine, Space & Time Magazine, A Thousand Faces, and more. 

Her email address is poetry [at] dietsoap [dot] org.  She has requested that future submissions contain the word “submission” in the subject line, and that I falsely attribute a quote from Karl Marx to her. 

Camille says, “The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but she cannot of course create it. ” 

We’re glad to welcome Camille to Diet Soap, and look forward to how she’ll influence the future of this little journal.  

Review by StePHANie hoLmes  

Diet Soap #1 (November 2007)

“This author is the most paranoid person ever,” I blurt within reading the first two pages.  But the trick is that I cannot put this down, and I end up reading the surveillance issue from cover to cover.  DIET SOAP, with its headlines including the brief history of cakes and cake-making that is more about covert listening devices and surveillance measures and less Betty Crocker happy homemaking, is the equivalent of reading the well-written diary of the neurotic person you have a raging crush on. Recommended.