Poem of the Week: Erín Moure from The Acts

Poem of the Week: Erín Moure from The Acts

_____1_____ compression. To use a kind of compression, so compressed that the links between the image/phrase break down, but the whole poem still retains its connection. inter-text. Using and repeating…

Joshua Whitehead: Can You Be My Fulltime Daddy: White&Gold[Questionmark]

Joshua Whitehead: Can You Be My Fulltime Daddy: White&Gold[Questionmark]

CAN YOU BE MY FULLTIME DADDY: WHITE&GOLD[QUESTIONMARK] : :: :: : : :::::: : : :: : : : :installingmusicsoftware: : :: :::: : : :: ::borntodierecordinstalled: :: : :…

Billy-Ray Belcourt: Two Poems

Billy-Ray Belcourt: Two Poems

LOVE AND OTHER EXPERIMENTS he told me he was into natives, but he couldn’t love the traumas hidden in my breathing.   how do you tell a ghost that It’s…

Julie Carr: Two poems

Julie Carr: Two poems

THE LIGHT OF IS IS: ON ANGER The “recalibration theory of anger” posits that anger is developed through the process of natural selection as an effective bargaining tool Or, anger…

Canisia Lubrin: That Instrument of Laughter

Canisia Lubrin: That Instrument of Laughter

THAT INSTRUMENT OF LAUGHTER Nowadays I like to say cool Cool cool thrashing my tongue like iguana before even a li’l wind ruffle my branch. Because that was the dark,…

Sandra Simonds: Two Sonnets

Sandra Simonds: Two Sonnets

IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER, THE WORLD IS FORMED Then undone, undid, undo. Into you’ll see until. No till nor record keeping, no tock unbinding. No backward grandfather clock unearthing. All…

Nyla Matuk: Manifesto

Nyla Matuk: Manifesto

MANIFESTO For Kate Block   Schiaparelli with a shoe: Prada with a cigar? In scandalous blouse and bonnet, Picasso’s Dora Maar   blossoming as a shoe or bicycle?   Schiap’s…

Tommy Pico: from Nature Poem

Tommy Pico: from Nature Poem

Like poison oak or the Left Eye part in “Waterfalls” you become a little bit of everything you brush against. Today I am a handful of raisins and abt 15…

Safiya Sinclair: from Cannibal

Safiya Sinclair: from Cannibal

CRANIA AMERICANA   The Caucasian skull is large and oval, with well-proportioned features. The nasal bones are arched, the chin full, the teeth vertical. This race is distinguished for the facility…

Fred Moten: the gramsci monument

Fred Moten: the gramsci monument

the gramsci monument if the projects become a project from outside then the projects been a project forever. held in the projects we the project they stole. we steal the…