Alessandro Porco on Steve Venright’s Variegraphy

Alessandro Porco on Steve Venright’s Variegraphy

I believe in domains of exis­tence vivid and com­pelling beyond even this mirac­u­lous real­ity we call the world.[i] – Steve Venright Canadian poet, pataphysician, and psychonaut Steve Venright has been…

Kim Fu on Claire Messud

Kim Fu on Claire Messud

The Burning Girl by Claire Messud, W.W. Norton, 2017 Reviewed by Kim Fu Julia Robinson, the protagonist of Claire Messud’s latest novel The Burning Girl, is a study in privilege…

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…

Kyle Flemmer on Derek Beaulieu: a, A Novel

Kyle Flemmer on Derek Beaulieu: a, A Novel

a, A Novel, Derek Beaulieu. Jean Boîte Éditions (2017). As the first entry in Jean Boîte Éditions’ new series of Uncreative Writing, Derek Beaulieu’s lengthy erasure poem a, A Novel…

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…

Durga Chew-Bose: 3 Questions

Durga Chew-Bose: 3 Questions

Sometimes what feels risky to me might seem quite guarded to readers. –Durga Chew-Bose Tess Liem: In your writing, especially in “Heart Museum,” you use repetition to create rhythm and…

Moon Howl: Open Call Poetry Folio

For Lemon Hound 3.0.1’s first Open Call, we received hundreds of incredible submissions. After two years of hiatus, it’s no surprise that we returned to a poetry community that was…

Lauren Turner

Lauren Turner

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY, PLEASE HANG UP Mangos are the ripest weapons on hand. You ask me what I’ve wanted the longest and I say a mate whose jugular I…

Shriram Sivaramakrishnan

Shriram Sivaramakrishnan

////////\///////// In a painting I never drew, an autumn forest awaits discovery under a torrent of tiny strokes, each an impression of my left thumb. The forest, a forest of…

Jessie Jones

Jessie Jones

BLOOM Scraped into shallow, almost hostile questions of spring, girl feels the full girlishness of her being flood in. The first tulip discovering its great head. Girl falls into the…

Mikko Harvey

Mikko Harvey

I BUILT A PLAYGROUND   I built a playground where you can be alone, like you like to be. And I know how you like to play games about time,…

nathan dueck

nathan dueck

WONDER Whom will we worship? With which weekly show? Wonder Woman TM! When will viewers bow down? Wednesdays! Which warrior wins network renown? Wonder Woman TM! Why will viewers bow…