March Love, love! mini-ode to the awkward heroes of sexology, stroking, fucking, tonguing, poking–while thoroughly amazed! And to shepherds! try to be kind, not bitter. Sit on the…
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white infinity net Snow touching snow. Petal and rhizome, asterisk, osteocyte. Splitcell and starry matrix of bone a sharp pain behind my left eye insomnia prickles bright as ice cream…
CRAIG HAS VERY NICE SKIN from Everything is Awful and You’re a Terrible Person (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017) by Daniel Zomparelli My skin is sitting weirdly on my body…
I I’ve been thinking about Dalmatians. I want to say Dalmatian and mean what I say. You might say I am trying to re-live that day in which I saw…
I WANT TO TEXT YOU ABOUT ROBERT DUNCAN Robert Duncan had something to say about psychosis but I have no one to text it to. If I have no one…
INT. SHARON OLDS POEM—NIGHT Sharon’s at the window, but you’re further down the page, waiting for her husband who will return now but not forever. Sharon’s legs are jelly from fucking,…
Our Lady of Perpetual Realness and Other Stories, Cason Sharpe. Metatron Press (2017). It’s 2017, the year of the great avocado toast debacle, and Cason Sharpe’s debut chapbook of short…
The Doll’s Alphabet, Camilla Grudova, Coach House Books (2017). Camilla Grudova’s debut short story collection The Doll’s Alphabet is palpably weird. A gothic pastiche of peeling wallpaper, scurrying cockroaches, and…
A Loss for Words from The Last Word (Coach House Books, 2017) by Julia Cooper Here we are in the pews of a bright, white-walled church in the opening minutes…
INTERVIEW WITH AN EMPIRE Q: Why does a Black woman like yourself write the kind of poetry you do? A: I’m not sure what you mean by “the kind of…
Afterglow (a dog memoir), Eileen Myles. Grove Press (2017). People have feelings about dogs. Lots of feelings. Their antics are one of the Internet’s enduring consolations. I spent a whole…
With The Original Face, Guillaume Morissette takes GIF art to the novel The Original Face, Guillaume Morissette. Véhicule Press (2017). “I don’t think I’ll ever make anything that’s even half as…