Barebacks
Rodney Wilhite01.30.15
“one log at a time until the neighbors / were feeding their fires with shingles”: New poetry from Rodney Wilhite, selected by Spring poetry editor Louise Mathias.
David Bowie Is or Is Not
Kati Heng01.29.15
Kati Heng does and does not find David Bowie at his exhibit in Chicago.
Two Texts
John Mortara01.28.15
“i just got a fuckin sword at a yard sale hey / i’m a fuckin viking bro”: Two new formally inventive pieces from John Mortara.
Facing the Past: An Interview with Travis Jeppesen
Thomas Moore01.27.15
Thomas Moore caught up with Travis Jeppesen in conversation upon the rerelease of a new version of his first novel, Victims.
On Bjork’s Vulnicura
Nicholas Grider01.26.15
Nicholas Grider takes a look at the emotional heft of Bjork’s latest.
WOULD YOU HOLD THIS EGG, PLEASE?
Carrie Oeding01.23.15
“Will you tell me if I offend you?”: New poetry from Carrie Oeding, selected by Spring poetry editor Louise Mathias.
Trying to Generate Heat: an interview with David Roderick
Weston Cutter01.22.15
David Roderick answers some questions about his new book, The Americans.
Two Fictions
Sally Rodgers01.21.15
Sally Rodgers offers up two fictions, one a salve and one a weapon, in this exclusive preview of Caketrain Issue 12.
A Review of Don Mee Choi’s Freely Frayed,ᄏ=q, & Race=Nation
Joyelle McSweeney01.20.15
Freely Frayed takes a look at how the work of Korean poets such as Don Mee Choi and Kim Hyesoon grapple with the US’s manipulation of their home country as a military toy. Joyelle McSweeney reviews.
Gew-Gaws
Brian Allen Carr01.19.15
Art from a thrift store versus art in the MOMA: Brian Allen Carr ponders three curious paintings that came into his life via malt liquor.
