Today at noon, fly fishing’s latest literary venture spreads its wings for the first time, and given all the extreme content we’re bombarded with on a daily basis, I’d say it’s a welcome interlude.

Announced some time ago, the Rise Forms site was not your average e-zine (most of which trend towards exotic locations and “extreme” adventures).

Instead, it was pitched as a literary magazine; something created in a more thoughtful mold.

Because I’m immensely powerful (and fly fishing’s most-beloved blogger), I received an advance copy yesterday, and thought it’s not quite as earth-shaking as revealing diplomatic cables, I’m throwing a screen shot of the cover up on the Underground:

Rise Forms inagural issue

Available for download at noon today (click image to visit site)

True, the art direction of the interior is lacking, but there’s little you could do to improve the artfully arranged words from the likes of Underground Fave writer David Motes. You’ll also find a series of illustrations, poetry, prose – the usual suspects in a literary effort – something fly fishing’s largely lacked.

Some might suggest Rise Forms is already an anachronism; a throwback literary mag that was obsolete before it even launched.

Even given the rapidly transformed, ADD-driven online landscape, I don’t believe that’s true. If it is, then we’re the poorer for it.

See you reading something slowly and deeply, Tom Chandler.

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