“I Cannot Enter Her”: On Search & Escape in the Book of Mutter
Amber Sparks02.09.17
Amber Sparks explores the myth, maze, and memory of Kate Zambreno’s latest innovative work, The Book of Mutter.
FIVE MAWS
Tobias Carroll02.08.17
“And now the maws glowed, as though they contained passage to a throat burning from somewhere below. Wislawn thought that was just swell.” New fiction by Tobias Carroll.
The Immediate Coldness and Failures of Language: A Conversation Between Thomas Moore and Grant Maierhofer
Grant Maierhofer02.07.17
Grant Maierhofer and Thomas Moore in conversation about each of their latest books, PX138 3100-2686 User’s Manual and In Their Arms, as well as community, structure, language, loops, and more.
(Not) Cutting It
Brett Ortler02.06.17
Brett Ortler looks back on the detrimental mental and physical effects of his weight cutting practices as a high school wrestler and how they shaped who he’d become.
Poem
Calum Lockey02.03.17
“Did an artist with such psycho-aesthetic investment in the invagination of commercial space ever stop to consider what might happen if, courtesy of a wildly inverting repetition, the phantasmic derangements of capitalism or branding embroiled in his concession shoppe and its merging of philosophical and commercial notions re-rendezvoused to, vagina dentata-like, bite him in the ass?” New poetry by Calum Lockey, from late winter poetry editor Aurelia Guo.
Grief Lozenge
Elle Nash02.02.17
Elle Nash with a frank and rending exploration of the experience of miscarriage.
BARTHOLDI
Eric Gelsinger02.01.17
“Lenny Bartholdi first made a splash in the literary world when he hacked into North America’s largest publisher, W.W. Norton & Co, and inserted himself into the Norton Anthology of Poetry (5th Edition).” New fiction by Eric Gelsinger.
THE STRANGE POSITION OF DYING: A REVIEW OF MARY RUEFLE’S MY PRIVATE PROPERTY
Kyle Minor01.31.17
Kyle Minor takes a look at Mary Ruefle’s latest book of prose poems, My Private Property, and how hard it is to describe a work of art in a review.
“Female Writers Aren’t Supposed To”: An Interview with April Ayers Lawson
Juliet Escoria01.30.17
April Ayers Lawson in conversation with Juliet Escoria about religion, taboo, women writing men’s voices, web trolls, and Lawson’s debut collection, Virgin & Other Stories, out now from FSG.
pounding the flood alarm in the gazebo by the sea
Vincent A. Cellucci01.27.17
“what gods did we betray / or fool for enrollment into / a universe sliding off our asses” New work by Vincent A. Cellucci.
