Fiction. "Here we find, written down, bound in books, displayed to the eyes, intoned to the ears, a noise, a bawling, a buzzing of charades, of tales, of puns, insinuations, epistles, sonnets, epigrams, books, prolix documents, violent sweats, lives wasted away with gnashings of teeth to deafen the stars, lamentations resounding in the caverns of hell, woes that stun the souls of the living, sighs to cause the merciful gods to faint, all that for the sake of these eyes, these ears, this blush, this tongue, this tooth, this hair, this dress, this coat, this little shoe, this sun in eclipse, this crazy person, this slut, this stench, this deathbed, this privy, this menstruation, this corpse which, by means of a superficial appearance, a shadow, a phantasm, a dream, a Circe-like charm in the service of procreation, deceives us by taking the form of beauty"—Giordano Bruno.

Derek Fenner is a graduate of the Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics MFA Program and currently resides in Lowell, MA above Page's clock. He is the director of "Unlocking the Light", a federal grant for a program he helped design to incorporate art in the professional development of the Department of Youth Services in Massachusetts. Previous to this, he began an art mentorship program and taught art to juveniles in a maximum security lock-down facility for the State of Massachusetts. Some of the work he did with these students was chronicled at the Rhys Gallery from February 10th - March 4th, 2006 and called Temporary Walls: The Visual Voices of Detained Youth. He is the author of My Favorite Color is Red: Experiments with Lines 1999-2005. Read Ron Silliman's Review. Derek has also finished his portraiture series: 100 People You Should Know. View his online gallery. He also runs the Union Square Poetry Series, a bi-monthly Saturday reading at P.A.'s Lounge in Somerville, MA with Daniel Bouchard.