Contact for orders:
Michael R. Allen, editor
michael@eco-absence.org

Each issue costs $2.00 by mail.
Issue #1 is available at Subterranean Books in St. Louis.
Issue #2 is available at Star Clipper Comics and Subterranean Books in St. Louis

Inter-Action Saint Louis
a journal of a particular urban ecology


Photograph by Rob Powers.


Inter-Action St. Louis is a zine edited by Michael R. Allen that preceded Ecology of Absence. Inter-Action Saint Louis has been on hiatus since its second issue but may resume publication as part of the broader Ecology of Absence project.

Inter-Action Saint Louis is a print-based journal of the ecology of place particular to Saint Louis, Missouri, and its bioregion.

Inter-Action Saint Louis unabashedly declares that particular ecology to be worthy of artistic reflection.

We urge artists and writers in Saint Louis to think about their relationships with the place.

We publish literary and non-literary art and criticism that inter-acts with the ecology of Saint Louis and its bioregion.

Number One (December 2002): Lost. Remembered.

  • a riff-raff afternoon - matthew berliant
  • We Lived in a Trailer Court Called Shangri-La - Colleen Umbogy McKee
  • St. Louis Diary: November 20, 2001 - Michael R. Allen
  • Bay Window, N. Euclid - Christopher Parr
  • On the fifth floor, there are trees - Michael R. Allen
  • Toward a Definition of Urban Ecology - Michael R. Allen

    Number Two (March 2003): Two Ways of Navigating Saint Louis

  • Transportation word find - Mary J. Holman
  • proximities - Michael R. Allen
  • A Tour of the Forgotten - Colleen McKee