Simulacra

You are about to embark on a journey beyond the outer reaches, through liminal spaces, into the uncanny valley, where the familiar becomes foreign, the self fractures, and alienation, paranoia, and absurdity await. BarBar Vol. IV, our latest collection of poetry and prose, invites you to confront the void-an infinite regress of pastiche-where reality unravels, and simulation ascends. Here, hyperreality distorts perception, leaving only echoes of existence tangled in existential dread and cosmic horror.

In this volume you will find the poetry and prose of Jacob Smith, Cameron L. Mitchell, Chafic LaRochelle, Jourden Fenner, Emma Wells, Madison Britt, Heather Whited, John Arterbury, Debra Tillar, Ziaul Moid Khan, Frank Talaber, Sam Levy, Zoe Moon, A.N. Kersey, Franchon Whitby, Rebecca Stillwater, William M. McIntosh, Nick Young, Abdullah Aljumah, Laura Jane Round, Paul Shovlin, Sabine Chishty, Ann Calandro, Eliza Kohler, Sebs Corrigan, Antoine Bargel, Thomas J. Misuraca, Bridget Hayes, Michaela Brady, Alexander Tkachuk, Richard Stimac, Alanah Tuohey, Allison Goldstein, Paul Hostovsky, Obidi Ojochide, David M. Alper, Bethany Gardner, Gabriel Noel, Jennifer Handy, Michael Theroux, Peter Grieco, Benjamin McPherson Ficklin, Megan Cartwright, Kayleigh Tabor, Andy Lewis, Ralph Dranow, Aleda Estlin, Chibuike Ukah, Allie Nadeau, and Bill Simmons.