The Palindromist
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What Is The Palindromist Magazine?
- General Information on Palindromes
- The Palindromist On Line
- What's ahead in future issues
- How to order a sample, or subscribe
- How to submit your palindromes, articles, letters, cartoons or artwork for future issues
What IS the Palindromist?
The Palindromist is the world's greatest palindrome magazine. Each issue contains articles, cartoons,
puzzles, a contest, and dozens of new, original, high quality palindromes. We strongly encourage readers to create
their own palindromes and submit them for future issues.
Issues are organized around themes; here is what the issues to date have included.
- Contents of issue #7: Sports
- Contents of issue #6: The Literature Issue
- Contents of issue #5: The Kids Issue
- Contents of issue #4: Palindromic Poetry
- Contents of issue #3: Palindrome Books
- Contents of issue #2: Political Palindromes
- Contents of issue #1: Sotades the Obscene
-- Lots of new, original palindromes, including an excellent 51-word poem
-- (palindromic) Confessions of a Psycho Killer
-- Lead article: Sotades the Obscene of Maronea (275 BC)
-- Palindrome puzzlers
-- Palindrome cartoons
-- Palindromes on the Internet
-- Who wrote the great palindromes?
-- Noggin, an obscure 1950s palindrome board game with great period graphics.
Plus other articles:
-- Jon Agee cartoon centerfold
-- A great new palindromist: John Connett
-- New palindromes (e.g. "An era came: MACARENA!" by Fred Klein)
-- Palindrome cartoons and puzzles
-- Palindromes on the Internet.
- The New Prolific Palindromists
- Pop, Abba and other Rock N'Roll palindromes
- The Millenium Election Debacle
- Palindromes of the Gods!
Send subscription requests, submissions or letters to:
The Palindromist Magazine
P.O. Box 1615
Portland, OR 97207-1615
USA
Either mail your submission to the address above, or send us email. As usual, don't send originals (copies or floppy disks are much better), and enclose an SASE if you want it back. Computer input should be ascii text or MS Word if possible, but there are many other possibilities. Email or write us if you have questions.
Identify the author of palindromes where possible; if not, say where they were found. It is fine to quote someone else's work as long as you are clear about it. Please DON'T send us huge Internet lists of palindromes. We've seen 'em, we hate 'em. If you find a new one, just send us the URL or newsgroup; we'll find it.
If you have written a palindrome or charade, please send it in! Don't worry about competing with "A man, a plan...". Do tell us any background or story connected with the palindrome, if there is one.
Anagrams, non-palindromic word squares and transposals are less of a focus; Word Ways magazine covers these subjects very well. However, good, original anagrams maybe be used, particularly if they concern prominent politicians.
- The Authors List of Great Palindromes, a selective list of the best palindromes which gives credit to the gifted palindromists who created them.
- Sotades the Obscene of Maronea (275 BC) - Inventor of the Palindrome
- "A Chronotype of Revolution:"
a scholarly paper on palindromes in Russia and Eastern Europe by Erika Greber of the University of Munich.
- Click here to send email, submit your palindromes, or whine. Or just send email to palindromes@realchange.org
There are several palindrome web sites, but most are strangely disappointing, built around huge lists of palindromes that their creators find or get via email.
These leave me flat -- quality is very erratic, and some sites don't even weed out duplicates. It isn't that fun to read several hundred palindromes, most of them old and well known, at one sitting.
Worse yet, most of these make no effort to give credit to the authors, and simply copy each other's lists.
Luckily, the biggest palindrome site is also the only one (besides ours) that credits authors:
"Leo's Palindrome Collection." Not only does it contain over 1300 English palindromes, it has many other languages (1,200 in German and 1,000 Finnish) as well.
Polisat's Palindrome Page gives another selection of political palindromes.
On a yet lighter note, check out the Fishy Palindrome Page, John Pike's intensely focused effort. Nearly all of the palindromes are original.
For a guide to other sites, check out Jim Kalb's Palindrome Connection, which links to most sites. Or just do a search for "palindromes" in Yahoo or Alta Vista.
