Things to See in Uglahoma
Christian TeBordo07.30.14
An excerpt containing Uglahoma, the piss-rain of The Great Teen Spirit, and Outback Steakhouse, from Christian TeBordo’s forthcoming Toughlahoma.
Body Map: The Face Hole
Sabra Embury07.29.14
Body Map is a series that invites authors to write about the body. In this edition, Sabra Embury talks about the meat flap above the eye.
The End of Safety Third Enterprises
Scott Daughtridge07.28.14
Scott Daughtridge gets the inside scoop on the retirement of Atlanta’s Safety Third Enterprises in conversation with founder Matt Debenedictis.
True Black (II)
Thom Donovan07.25.14
“Immanent like no description passes for witness / Repeated until we are one with violence”: a new poem from Thom Donovan selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
Basement Magic: Notes from a new D&D player & an interview with Zak Smith
Ken Baumann07.24.14
Ken Baumann gets his feet wet in the world of D&D, and asks 5 questions of game consultant / painter / porn star, Zak Smith.
from The Vanishing of Camille Claudel
Erin M. Bertram07.23.14
A new excerpt from Erin M. Bertram’s hybrid-genre manuscript exploring the haunting life of French sculptor Camille Claudel. Art by Danny Jock.
“From a reflection in both paintings”: Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future as the Fragments of Narrative
Laura Carter07.22.14
Valerie Mejer’s Rain of the Future passes over and over through sleeping and waking states to weave a sense of identity among our mass collective history. Laura Carter reviews.
Nature V. Diane Cook
Annie Liontas07.21.14
Annie Liontas in conversation with Diane Cook about the work of nature, monogamy, luck, and god within Cook’s forthcoming collection, Man V. Nature.
WHEN THE LAMBS RISE UP AGAINST THE BIRD OF PREY
Anne Boyer07.18.14
The nature of the lamb and the predator take form in a new poem by Anne Boyer, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
A Question of Form
Jeff Alessandrelli07.17.14
Jeff Alessandrelli talks form and contemporary poetry through a review Edward Hirsch’s A Poet’s Glossary.
