A View from the Factory Floor
Jaswinder Bolina08.28.13
Accessibility and the avant-garde: a possibly false dichotomy (my favorite kind) squished together like a ball of silly putty in the hands of the Poet. From a forthcoming anthology, The Force of What’s Possible. Art by Danny Jock.
Notes on Conceptualisms and Affects: A Series of Axioms (in Andante)
Laura Carter08.19.13
The Emperor of Poetry has no clothes. Art by Danny Jock.
On-the-Run Expansion Pack: Paging Jared Joseph
Jerimee Bloemeke08.12.13
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.
The Disordered Mind of Yours Truly
Amy Herschleb07.18.13
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.
The Heavy Fucking Sky: A conversation with Thomas Moore
Mark Gluth05.30.13
Context, influence, and desire: an interview with Thomas Moore about his new collection of poems The Night Is An Empire, available from Kiddiepunk June 3rd.
Three Chapbooks
Gina Myers05.22.13
New chapbooks by Marisa Crawford, Jared White, and Brenda Sieczkowski. Small volumes encountering the big issues: Rebellion! Love! Bears eating potato chips!
A Review of Gina Myers’s Hold It Down
Laura Carter05.15.13
“Not more deep, more shallow. You take what you can.” A review of Gina Myers’s Hold It Down and the things that make up a life.
Four Poems
Marisa Crawford05.13.13
Four new poems from maven of mid-90s nostalgia Marisa Crawford detailing the life and times of the 8th Grade Hippie // whatever happened to all the mixtapes in the world??
A Conversation with Jaswinder Bolina’s Phantom Camera
Amy Herschleb03.26.13
This is much less a review of Phantom Camera and much more a summation of a single conversation spanning years which was caught in the throat of Gchat and coughed onto the page, whole hog.
We Cannot All Be Rocks In Heaven: Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese
Laura Carter03.15.13
Laura Carter delves into “this shifting image of myself in which I see my past, my present, my future, all indivisibly reflected” of Brandon Shimoda’s Portuguese, the first collaboration between Octopus Books and Tin House Press.
