Wee Groucho Sparrow watercolour by Colin Thom

Reason Gone Mad - a digital zine

Edited and Curated by The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press´editor across the pond, John Tessitore

We know. It’s all going to hell. We know. For the past two years, the team at The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press has been trying its best to fight back the armies of darkness, through poetry. We even donate the proceeds from our anthologies to charity. Our bleeding hearts are in the right place. But we need a laugh too, dammit!

Comedy, like poetry, is about connection. It makes us feel less alone. And we need some light-hearted connection right now. Groucho Marx once defined humor as “reason gone mad.” Actually, we’re not sure if Groucho said that. We just found the quote on the internet, and we like it, but we can’t find the original source. It doesn’t matter. We like the quote and it’s even better for our purposes if he DIDN’T say it. A perfect quote that may not be an actual quote…that seems like a pretty good title for a volume of poems that revels the absurdity of it all.