TEMPORAL ANOMALIES explores Blackness as a diaspora of time and space. While the three sections loosely correspond to past, present, and future, time roves and slips in fragments and amalgams. The poems search for a sense of belonging within these d...
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Christian Schlegel’s RYMAN consists of three “talk poems,” in the tradition of the artist David Antin. The first talk was conducted at the author’s desk in the Hudson Valley, the second over Zoom, and the third, in two parts, while he paced a cemete...
In AS I SAID: A DISSENT, Abby Minor rejects the vacated terms of the conventional "abortion debate." Instead, these polyvocal poems explore the “exquisite business” of inheritance, embodiment, justice, and citizenship. Anchored by a documentary stud...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Daniel Biegelson reimagines the lyric "I" as a neighborhood. Hybrids of influences and interlocutors—ranging from Julian of Norwich to Muriel Rukeyser, Sam Cooke, and Adrienne Rich—reveal the permeable borders of self, family...
Literary Nonfiction. GHOST/HOME: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO BEING HAUNTED traces the course of a disease through a body, a ghost through a home, and a feeling through the language that tries to hold it. How does illness travel through us? What do we do w...
Poetry. THE HATCHET AND THE HAMMER is part long poem, part essay in fragments, about real and imagined violence. In this chapbook, the writer looks back at three intersecting traumas—the unraveling of a long-term relationship with a partner with a d...
Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Art. Performance Art. Hybrid Genre. Memoir. California Interest. Stephen van Dyck's PEOPLE I'VE MET FROM THE INTERNET is a queer reimagining of the coming-of-age narrative set at the dawn of the internet era. In...
Poetry. OMBLIGO/INTAGLIO is a meditation on geologic and emotional conditions for permanence—in ice, sand, archives or sound, Catholicism and catheters. The author is vellum and gauze, icemelt and chalk; she vanishes into her material. What is brush...
Fiction. Epistolary. Memoir. Disability Studies. THE BOOK OF SCAB is a lyrical, epistolary fiction/memoir written from the disabled artifact's perspective, unraveling the abjection of youth and its post-Freudian family myths. It takes embodied place...
Fiction. The small future parables of ASSUMPTIONS WE MIGHT MAKE ABOUT THE POSTWORLD take place in a world very much like our own—and not—weaving what amounts to a beguiling meditation on inconsolable loss. In the mundane dailiness of this world, men...
Literary Nonfiction. This anthology is a collection of some of the most exciting voices in the field of writing, art, and activism. Each contributor considers different aspects of aesthetics, from what beauty means to them to how disability has info...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Hybrid Genre. A transgenre (prose poem? flash nonfiction?) exploration of fashion, style, body image, consumerism, and other related ventures into the personal-political, LOCALLY MADE PANTIES is light-hearted, deadpan an...
Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. 2017 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Transgender Poetry. Through a combination of lyric, narrative, & fractured essay, SYMPATHETIC LITTLE MONSTER attempts to make a space & a shape for the little gir...
Poetry. Music. African American Studies. FUGUE MEADOW listens to, thinks alongside, dwells within Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell's legendary Mu sessions, one of the twentieth-century music's unclassifiable masterpieces. Recorded in Paris in 1969, Cherr...
Fiction. LET THE RIVERS CLAP THEIR HANDS is set in the rural Midwest. It draws on the physical landscape of the driftless zone—that area of the Midwest untouched by glaciers—as well as the interior landscape of those who live there. The two stories ...