Two Poems

Anna Crews

04.07.17

“Reading is boring” Two new poems by Anna Crews, via late winter poetry editor Aurelia Guo.

Body Horror: Eating disorders, anatomy, and place (2)

Oliver Zarandi

04.06.17

Part 2 of Oliver Zarandi’s meditation on body, gore, consumption, and physical influence, steering now toward the worlds of Cronenberg, Basketcase, and Travis Bickle.

Body Horror: Eating disorders, anatomy, and place (1)

Oliver Zarandi

04.05.17

Oliver Zarandi’s essay in two parts on filmic gore, body image, and physical affect cruises through the unnerving anatomical matter found in Day of the Dead, Hellraiser, Frankenstein, and more. To be continued tomorrow.

Tired and Glitzy and Profound: JH Phrydas’ Levitations

Avren Keating

04.04.17

JH Phrydas’ debut book of poems, Levitations, examines the socio-political boundaries of queer embodiment and community. Avren Keating reviews.

INTERVIEW WITH AN EDITOR: GRAMMA POETRY

Shelby Shaw

04.03.17

Shelby Shaw interviews Drew Scott Swenhaugen, editor of Gramma, a new poetry publishing imprint out of Seattle, WA.

Three Poems

Ed Luker

03.31.17

“But every possession is marked / By its own undoing, this giving / Without being given that within” Three new poems by Ed Luker, from late winter poetry editor Aurelia Guo.

So Long and Thanks for The Fish: The Beautifully Absurd in Snowpiercer

John Venegas

03.30.17

John Venegas on the value of absurdity in the construction of plot, taking a deep eye into the strange conceit of Snowpiercer.

from GAG

Grant Maierhofer

03.29.17

“I WOULD NOT ASK YOU TO LEND PERSPECTIVE TO MY LIFE IN MUD.” An excerpt from GAG, a new novella by Grant Maierhofer, out tomorrow from Inside the Castle.

HER COMPANY: A REVIEW OF C.D. WRIGHT’S THE POET, THE LION…

Sean Pears

03.28.17

Sean Pears reviews C.D. Wright’s The Poet, the Lion, Talking Pictures, El Farolito, a Wedding in St. Roch, the Big Box Store, the Warp in the Mirror, Spring, Midnights, Fire & All.

Ideal Home Noise (11): Kieslowski, Foy, Pettibon

Jeff Jackson

03.27.17

The latest installment of Jeff Jackson’s column focuses on a massive set of subversive biblical films from Poland, D. Foy’s exploration of the father, and the pen-and-ink noise of Raymond Pettibon.