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ZAUM Definitions submission guidelines 1 : a literary and art magazine (current issue) providing college students a venue for publishing their work. The magazine is distributed and produced by students at Sonoma State University in California. (merch) Composed of poetry, prose, fiction and visual art, zaum strives to challenge conventionality and achieve an expression beyond rationality. zaum has been published at Sonoma State for 30 years and has received many awards for its visual and literary content. We are currently accepting submissions (submit to zaum) for our next edition. If you would like to submit please review our submission guidelines. 2 : a word used to describe the linguistic experiments in sound symbolism and language creation of Russian Futurist poets (about zaum) such as Velimir Khlebnikov and Aleksei Kruchenykh. As Kruchenykh has it, zaum is a transrational language, "wild, flaming, explosive (wild paradise, fiery languages, blazing coal)," which awakens creative imagination (zaum staff) from the manacles of everyday speech.