THE ERSTWHILE EPOCH!
Charity Coleman03.11.16
“I’d saw my arm off for the sake of boundaries now but / I remember when it was otherwise like I remember when / extinction wasn’t a free pass for perennial despair”: A new poem by Charity Coleman, selected by late winter poetry editor Ed Steck.
from the Unlovable
Shiv Kotecha03.04.16
“This is mostly a story about you. // I made you.” New poetry by Shiv Kotecha, selected by late winter poetry editor Ed Steck.
From Serenade
Brooke Ellsworth03.02.16
“Kathy Acker interviewed Spice Girls and said it’s up to them and people like them to ‘keep on transforming society as society is best transformed with lightness and in joy.’ I just want to eat clean food and love people xoxo”: An excerpt from Brooke Ellsworth’s collection Serenade, forthcoming from Octopus Books.
Inverted Excerpt
Christopher Rey Pérez02.26.16
“¿if a narco will kill me why god does not kill me first?” New poetry by Christopher Rey Pérez, selected by late winter poetry editor Ed Steck.
In the Garble: A Review of Alice Notley’s Negativity’s Kiss
Nick Sturm02.18.16
“Negativity’s Kiss imagines a brutal, satirical world where all language and communication, including the answer to who shot (the protagonist) Ines, are mired in the Garble, an internet-like substance that obscures truth.” Nick Sturm reviews Alice Notley.
Yellow
Joseph Mosconi02.12.16
“SORCERY AND SANCTITY ARE THE ONLY REALITIES.” New poetry by Joseph Mosconi, selected by late winter poetry editor Ed Steck.
Look at this picture of a dolphin penis on my iPhone
Precious Okoyomon02.10.16
“do you want to knife each other ?” New poetry from Precious Phillips.
Three Poems
Bridget Talone02.05.16
“Submission is submission is submission / is the grass.” Three new poems by Bridget Talone, selected by late winter poetry editor Ed Steck.
PRE ALPHA / THE YELLOW BOOKS OF THE PLASTIC EATING PHILISTINES
Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford01.29.16
PRE ALPHA is a play-through of an unfinished video game called Egaeus, which is currently being developed by Alejandro Miguel Justino Crawford, and THE YELLOW BOOKS OF THE PLASTIC EATING PHILISTINES is an index of acquirable yellow book objects in the video game. Presented in tandem as a part of Ed Steck’s late winter Fanzine poetry feed.