ALL POWER TO THE MENTAL ILLNESS INTROVRT GRLS
Coda Wei09.26.14
“i am not the same as the enemy though i spent tuesday cooperating with monstrosity” The monstrosity of healing in the lumbar burlesque with Coda Wei, part of Cassandra Troyan’s summer poetry curation.
Summer Arcana
Zoe Tuck09.19.14
“Distill that into / what is a woman and / what is it to be one / you say you met one / walking down the Via / Negativa or did you / just pass her, a lone / wolf perhaps out to / bring down the church?” Incantations of spiritual queenship from Zoe Tuck’s “Summer Arcana”, selected as part of Cassandra Troyan’s summer poetry curation.
The Gooey
Oki Sogumi09.12.14
“The ocean was a cryogenic room, a place for hovering near death”: a beautiful new long work by Oki Sogumi, selected by Summer poetry editor, Cassandra Troyan.
“SOMEHOW GONE OUT THE WINDOW” Erasures for Carl Andre on the Anniversary of Ana Mendieta’s Death
Jennifer Tamayo09.05.14
Jennifer Tamayo takes her black eraser to Carl Andre in a new visual poem, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
AN ESSAY ON THE SIEGE
Rob Halpern08.29.14
“One thing fattens as another lies prone for feeding.”: a new poem from Rob Halpern, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
PLAN OF FUTURE WORKS
Brandon Brown08.22.14
“The thought of / the dying world makes me feel less sad than really / lazy.”: a new long poem by Brandon Brown, selected by Summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
GET A MANTRA, JUST OWN IT GRL
Rachel Ellison08.15.14
“In sound and silence I can see, see the theatricality of your quotidian body”: poems of performative pleasure from Rachel Ellison selected by summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
LITTLE WAR
Jackqueline Frost08.08.14
“And mostly we are exhausted and unmoved, even if at times a flare crests the wind and plaining voices rue inside this very long, little war, the opacity of it, around which we stumble as if looking for a light.” A coterie essay from Jackqueline Frost selected by summer poetry editor Cassandra Troyan.
THE FUTURE IS BETWEEN US
Jackie Wang08.01.14
3 new poems by Jackie Wang on the conditions of being possible. “You’re a woman with a diseased heart,” she said, “which should not be confused with heart disease, as a diseased heart is what you get after bleeding too many unstitched metaphors.”
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.
