Notes on Conceptualisms and Affects: A Series of Axioms (in Andante)

Laura Carter

08.19.13

The Emperor of Poetry has no clothes. Art by Danny Jock.

Arboreal

Ambika Thompson

08.14.13

I grew up as a tree in Camrose. Just off of Marler Drive and Mount Pleasant Drive. In the park on 60th street and 41st Ave. The one with the Starship Enterprise jungle gym. Art by Danny Jock.

On-the-Run Expansion Pack: Paging Jared Joseph

Jerimee Bloemeke

08.12.13

A dissection of the image of the artist: Jared Joseph as Frank Quitely, as Hosni Mubarak, as Jared Harvey. The words that build a poet.

Sunora: Part 2

O.B. De Alessi

08.09.13

The private world of ten-year-old John is shaken by the unwrapping of his sister’s birthday present, the doll Sunora. The conclusion of a new story written and illustrated by O.B. De Alessi.

Sunora: Part 1

O.B. De Alessi

08.08.13

The private world of ten-year-old John is shaken by the unwrapping of his sister’s birthday present, the doll Sunora. The first part of a new story written and illustrated by O.B. De Alessi.

Cheating: Video Games’ Moral Imperative

Michael Thomsen

08.01.13

“We have made the desire to behave without rule a malady, and creative and efficient obedience the most respected form of behavior in game culture.” SPOILERS.

Some Notes on Andy Mister’s Liner Notes

Laura Carter

07.30.13

An interview with Andy Mister on the “meta-modern” Liner Notes, narrowing the margin where music and writing meet.

The Disordered Mind of Yours Truly

Amy Herschleb

07.18.13

Anhvu Buchanan’s The Disordered is a catalog of what ails you in the most understanding and awful terms––no stones cast or unturned––in the precise language of a photograph or a feeling.

KING OF JOY

Richard Chiem

07.15.13

Richard Chiem’s writing is the deep voyeuristic clarity a smoker breathes in outside baggage claim after a long cramped voyage across oceans. Inward, then expansive, perfect in the present. His collection You Private Person is one of our favorites of the year… hell, in years. Here’s something from a forthcoming novel titled King of Joy that includes fire, pitbulls and porn. Art by Danny Jock

Bringing Back the I: Ana Božičević’s Rise in the Fall

Laura Carter

07.12.13

The Self and Sensibility of Ana Božičević’s Rise in the Fall.