Mark Lamoureux's disturbing and often distinctly American landscpes explore the interface between fantasy and fatalism, magic and machine. In the tradition of Duncan and Spicer, he is a metaphysical
Poetry. In the de-stabilized intersection of fashion, the war on terror, and cultural constructions of the feminine, GAZE explores the resulting tensions in a series of dichotomies central to an incre
Poetry. "I don't know another poet so formally daring. Rebellious curlicue and lace significant: the pages gleam with pleasure, finesse and audacious measure of human becoming. A consideration of femi
Poetry. "In THE ARAKAKI PERMUTATIONS, James Maughn continues his uncompromising engagement with the catechisms of martial kata and their intersection with the forms of writing. Delving deeper into the
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. "Mg Roberts' ANEMAL UTER MECK defies category at every turn. Here we are repeatedly being reborn into different forms as we heal our severed wings and fly. Our
Poetry. "What's the ANYJAR? I think it's a space where anyone keeps loss. Or it is itself loss, but it's also the jar you make to store loss in. When you are building what you are simultaneously tryin
Poetry. Religion & Spirituality. Relentlessly playful and celebratory, GO WITH ME meditates on life with young children, holding one's beloveds close, making art, embracing the death of a mentor--the
Poetry. "Jesse Nissim writes: 'I am freely quoting a fantasy for less. / I call it a capitalism of the low roof, it is located / along the river with the continual pay per view.' Jesse Nissim's poems
Poetry. "Jen Tynes' HUNTER MONIES is a tracking expedition. I find myself hooked on a voice, and I wander behind it. It echoes and distorts. It turns corners, and I hurry after it, and, only afte
Poetry. Drama. Film Studies. "THE MESHES, by quadruple hyphenate Brittany Billmeyer-Finn (poet-playwright- community organizer-arts educator) is a creative four-part record of the author's imagin
Poetry. "CANT is an evocative soundscape of verbal cues that propose ways to go beyond a semiotic account of phenomena. This immersive score brings into existence sustained listening zones where
Poetry. "Styl(us)istically innovative, Baudelairian, ballsy and deliciously infectious as a record you want to lay the needle on again and again, reading Mark Lamoureux's exhilarating and moving prose
Poetry. "Marci Nelligan writes: 'I don't know what I am but I am not this body only; every woman a distance from her skin by some measure of the measure of the world.' With Cormac McCarthy's Blood Mer
Poetry. "Forgetfulness and remembering are two sides of the same coin—and that coin is anybody! Reading Eileen Tabios, we are reminded about the extent to which we are, after all, the sum of our exper
Poetry. Barbara Tomash's PRE- reawakens her reader to the marvel of language, the common currency of encounter, media, negotiation, courtship. Collecting, collating, collaging the manifold threads spa
The exhausted object have no body of work, says one poem in Kimberly Alidio's AFTER PROJECTS THE RESOUND. But that's just surface. Ever lurking and in ALL CAPS even are potential poems that would affi
Poetry. "Rooted in history, place, speculative space, love, demarcations, memory, bones and blood, mónica teresa ortiz offers us poems of mourning and remembrance. Polyvalent and assured, the poems ex
Poetry. A foreign native lives attentive to ifs. These poems are bodies walking out news, sound tracers, raw history in civic flesh, theaters of identity and talks in love. Poetry is a foreign native
Poetry. Women's Studies. Angela Veronica Wong's ELSA unfolds the story of a fictional 18th-century French demimondaine and mistress of Louis XV. Meditating on gender, identity, and the precarity of wo
