Two Poems
Playing Identity Cards how the standard deck plays it safe / dons medieval face / kings queens jacks / a display case of crowns & coronets / spotlit / the nudie jokers & old maids shuffled off...
View ArticleMuddy Ford Press and Jasper Launch Fall Lines—A Literary Convergence
I just finished reading the inaugural issue of Fall Lines—a literary convergence, which our friends at Muddy Ford Press and Jasper—The Word on Columbia Arts released last week with a launch party and...
View ArticleReview of Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State
Roxane Gay doesn’t waste time getting the story started in An Untamed State. The novel opens directly with a confession of sorts from the narrator, Mirielle: Once upon a time, in a far-off land, I was...
View ArticleHOW TO KEEP A VERY RIGID VERY SERIOUS VERY PRODUCTIVE EARLY MORNING...
Earlier this summer, I started writing a novel. I haven’t finished it yet, but I did start it. And I’ve written a lot of words. I get up every morning and vomit them all on the page. It’s awful. I...
View ArticleI’m on my way home & peripherally
the little red truck balancing its stack of wooden pallets :: a trailer full of nested traffic cones / & the brick house soon to be knocked down :: the wind—always, in spring, the wind :: bird...
View ArticleLaw of Similarity
i. law of similarity Appearance equals reality. It’s one bit of very old wiring, Daniel Gardner said. The Law of Similarity. If it looks like a dandelion, it’s a dandelion. Gardner’s wallet is...
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A Preview of Volume 1, Issue 1
FictionRita Ciresi : The Love Test Jackson Culpepper : Hired Help Christine Grimes : Taking in Strays Kelsie Hahn : Muscles and Teeth Ryan Kinnerly: Man, Who Parts the Windblown Grasses Michael Dwayne...
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10 Beloved Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird
In 1960 To Kill a Mockingbird first hit book stands in the United States, leaving a deep impression during a tumultuous time of protest and defiance. Critics and activists alike lauded the book for its...
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William S. Burroughs Made a Hip Hop Album, and It’s Pretty Awesome
William S. Burroughs is perhaps known best for his novel The Naked Lunch, his “cut-up” theory of writing, his general Beatnikocity, or the fact that he accidentally killed his wife during a “William...
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Deckle Edge, South Carolina’s New Literary Festival, Announces Dates
I'm very excited to be one of the coordinators for Deckle Edge, South Carolina's new literary festival. We've got good stuff in the works, and we'll be announcing some of the participating authors and...
View Article5 Independent Journals and Presses Doing Something Different
There are a lot of lit journals and small presses out there. A lot. When you think about all the print and online publications available to read or submit work to, it can become overwhelming at times....
View ArticleAmiri Baraka Reads “Somebody Blew Up America” and Other Poems [Video]
For decades Baraka was one of the most prominent voices of politically radical avant-garde poetry, fiction, and theatre. The post Amiri Baraka Reads “Somebody Blew Up America” and Other Poems [Video]...
View ArticleAllen Ginsberg Wrote a Poem for Bernie Sanders
Ginsberg titled his ode to Sanders "Burlington Snow." A note on the handwritten and signed poem suggests he read it at the Maverick Bookstore in Burlington on 21 February 1986. The post Allen Ginsberg...
View ArticleNot Just Surveillance — 3 Current Phenomena Exposing 1984 as an Instruction...
"The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering — a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons — a nation of warriors and fanatics..." The...
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