Anselm Berrigan has just about finished tweeting in reverse chronological order most of the material from a long poem made of a spatially regulated succession of single floaty lines called…
Tag: vol. 4
Debaucher’s Trivia as Villanelle “What does it matter what you say about people? What’s the last word in A Touch of Evil?” — Jason Camlot, The Debaucher What does it…
COCK TEASE She had a raw mouth for twelve, barely-there breasts and a name that made her reckless and surly by turns. She liked to be touched and could see…
PIGS by Les Murray Us all on sore cement was we. Not warmed then with glares. Not glutting mush under that pole the lightning’s tied to. No farrow-shit in milk…
When on occasion I teach poetry, one of the main things I try to instill in my students is, to quote Spicer, “Poet, be like God.” To go from trying…
“I fucked up bad”: Justin cracks his neck, talking to nobody. Fifteen responsible children, final semester college seniors, bloodshot, collars undone, gorgeously exhausted, return from Wall Street interviews in attitudes…
Novel or update? Viegener’s 2500 Random Things About Me Too is composed entirely of Facebook status updates from the 25 Things About Me meme that we all did a few…
Matthew Tierney is the author of three books of poetry. Poems excerpted from Probably Inevitable. His previous book, The Hayflick Limit, was shortlisted for a Trillium Book Award. He is…
I’ve written in several places about erasure texts (most recently in the latest issue of Evening will come) as typified by Jen Bervin’s nets. Berlin’s Natalie Czech creates uncanny limit-case…
Review by Alan Reed First, I must confess to not being entirely impartial when it comes to Eric Chevillard. He is already among my favourite writers, he has been for…
A sound installation from one of my excellent students from our OffThePage event featuring Chantal Neveu, Laura Broadbent and Jon Paul Fiorentino. Borders: Benjamin Spencer