MAAFA is an epic poem about reparations and the female body.MAAFA is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. Maafa undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa has killed her father and been granted eternal life. Maafa is ...
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In Rodrigo Toscano's THE CHARM AND THE DREAD, the unraveling of the American Imperium is rendered frontally, through strange adjacencies. Always an astute observer of tectonic shifts in political culture, Toscano plumbs the inter-locking crises that...
Fiction. Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Blake Butler. Mark Baumer wrote like he was trying to have a consciousness, like he's trying to avoid feeling anything; then it's like he's working really hard to feel more. It's like he's a child of t...
Poetry. Anti-nostalgic and mutagenerative, productive of thought-experience even while centered on finalities—the limitations of human purview—these poems make sound and image about image and sound at the auratic edges of individualist glamour, in a...
Poetry. A lot gets in the way of the revolution. Plants for president. Catherine Wagner is trying to figure out how to be in good relation when the revolution isn't come. OF COURSE is about burnout, and loneliness in a crowd: The lonely is a white m...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Edited by Rebecca Wolff, Sarah Falkner, Tonya Foster, Rav Grewal Kok, Harris Lahti, Andrea Lawlor, Paul Legault, Gabriel Louis, Farid Matuk, Soham Patel, Trey Seger, Charles Valle, Xuan Juliana Wang, M...
Poetry. Lesle Lewis's new poems give, and take, the unit of the meaning of the sentence. She rhymes with Michael Burkard, Robert Creeley, Mary Ruefle, Jean Valentine, James Tate, Fanny Howe. Who speaks here represents an esoteric, doubting, canny, c...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Foreword by Ariana Reines. Collected in this volume are Chelsey Minnis's first two books: ZIRCONIA (winner of the Alberta Prize) and Bad Bad. ZIRCONIA introduced a speaker described as "half-smirking, half-weeping" by the Vi...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Colonial violence is a sticky phenomenon, gumming up the associational matrices of our daily lives and dreamscapes. Edgar Garcia intervenes with a poetic experiment: Every night of the three months of Columbus's first voyage ...
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Drama. Contributors include Farid Matuk, Charles Valle, Trey Sager, Soham Patel, Rav Grewel-Kok, Xuan Juliana Wang, Paul Legault, Max Winter, Gabriel Louis, Harris Lahti, Andrea Lawlor, Jason Zuzga, Sa...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Translated from the French by Matthew B. Smith. SAYING POETRY is a pensive, speculative essay about the nature of poetry and is followed by an intricate, delicate, and interwoven poem about sleep that turns around...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Disability Studies. This is an entertaining book of epistolary poems in prose which light up a young farmer's year through external and internal signs and cues, reaching out and reaching in, the lightness of being, loving, a...
Poetry. Translated from the French by Cynthia Hogue and Sylvain Gallais. Scuffing up the surface of history by scuffing up that of language, Nathalie Quintane manages to get at the myth of Joan of Arc from the inside, turning it from myth to immedia...