Michael Redhill on Albert Goldbarth (DONE!)

Coin BY ALBERT GOLDBARTH When the surgeons slit into my father they went to Jupiter they went so far, to a barren red moon of Jupiter’s. I’d never been there.…

Books Recieved

As of September 26, 2017 As of July 2017 A Swarm of Bees in High Court, Tonya M. Foster, belladonna 2015 Cancer Angel, Beth Murray, belladonna 2015 Gates & Fields,…

Poets’ Essays: On Three Recent Collections

The Mystery Shopping Cart, Porcupine’s Quill 2013 The Pigheaded Soul, Jason Guriel, Porcupine’s Quill, 2013 Career Limiting Moves, Zachariah Wells, biblioasis 2013 Several books of poetry criticism were published in…

A Few Of My Favorite Prose Items

10:06, Ben Lerner, I had to pull myself away to get this done. If you loved Leaving Leaving the Atocha Station (2011) you’ll love this. A Man In Love, Karl…

Alisha Dukelow on Anne Boyer: A Handbook of Disappointed Fate

Alisha Dukelow on Anne Boyer: A Handbook of Disappointed Fate

 A Handbook of Disappointed Fate, Anne Boyer. Ugly Duckling Presse (2018). Against late capitalism’s yes, cruelly optimistic in its desire for automatonic affirmation of its circulation and law, Anne Boyer’s…

Leslie Kaplan: an excerpt from Excess—The Factory

Leslie Kaplan: an excerpt from Excess—The Factory

From Excess—The Factory (AK Press, 2018) By Leslie Kaplan, Translated by Julie Carr & Jennifer Pap The courtyard, crossing it. A factory courtyard’s absolute nostalgia. You walk between formless walls. Sheets…

Lemon Hound 3.0.4: Spring Creep

Lemon Hound 3.0.4: Spring Creep

Colm Tóibín noted, after watching countless performances of his play The Testament of Mary, “what happens to powerlessness once you add voice.” He was becoming aware of the power of…

There Is No Capital I: In Conversation with Nathanaël

There Is No Capital I: In Conversation with Nathanaël

Tatum Howey: Nathanaël is what we wish we could be. Nathanaël is the consequence or possibility of fruition of our actions. Nathanaël embodies what we desire. Desire makes you aware…

Alex Manley: two poems

Alex Manley: two poems

KNIFELIKE Three reptiles crane their necks, watching the shooting star. Consider the infinite possibility of a camera,                    then discontinue.     …

Dani Couture: four poems from Listen Before Transmit

Dani Couture: four poems from Listen Before Transmit

Four poems from Dani Couture, excerpted from Listen Before Transmit. LISTEN BEFORE TRANSMIT After Peter Gizzi The connection severs itself due to your finger hovers A pause inactivity of a…

Elizabeth O’Brien: one poem

Elizabeth O’Brien: one poem

BUT TELL THE INCREDIBLE UNSTOPPABLE GIRL WONDER She’ll never regret starting over. Not how growing makes her arms and shoulders ache, or the weight of the quarter-folded tent, which she…