The Artists & Their Works

Will Alexander

The Pope at Avignon

Inalienable Recognitions

Laura Avery

Barbed Wire Sunset

Bernard Bador

“STAINED GLASS FROST…”

“MIRAMAR”

“BEZELIK”

“PAIN RIPS WATER…”

“WINDOWS LOCKED INTO…”

“EARTH HOLLOWS OUT…”

“AZURE FRACTURES…”

“THE SUN STUMBLES…”

For Tristan Tzara

James Beach

Votiving

H.

J.J. Blickstein

Afternoon

Ashes and Pause

Goya’s Dog

Graffiti

Trivium

The Suicide of Dorothy Hale, 1938-1939. Oil on masonite with decorated wooden frame.

Dream Monk eats the Middle Ages or One hand for each Harlem. One heart for Nellie.

By the hair, the moon in the skin

Girl with a Death-Mask, 1938. Oil on Metal.

La Casa Azul

Pornography, History, Gravity, Water (Ulysses)

Arson

still life with you girl, oil on wood (1942)

Waiting

Alan Britt

Sulfur Sunrise

David Capps

Eye

how to describe a yawn as a projectile:

Disappearance

“The skeleton wondered”

“There was a famous gambler…”

Envy

Poem (after Derrida)

The Wave

A ‘Merz’

The Next Big

To Sleep Talk

“The law of large numbers”

Osaka: Pink District

Holy Roman Numbskulls

Scampering

Foundation

“What does it mean to lie to oneself?”

Tracks in Winter

Vitae

“Tumultuous house”

Sleep

An Imperfection

“I was born in a conch shell”

Failed Moral Systems

Consolation

Poem as Body

The Mitten

“It is impossible to be here with you”

“It would be strange”

Letter to Eve

Leaving

“Your presence bares facts”

The Center of the Lake

The Cherry Tree

Music Gone

Exonerate

The Candle

J. David Capps

Death Dream

Where is Your Bitter Girl?

This is Hell, Take Off Your Shoes

Catullus Translation

We’re Ass to Mouth in Here (Catullus 16)

Translation & Spunkification by Sean Northrup & Jared Demick

Aimé Césaire

To Africa

Crusade of Silence

Several Miles from the Surface

Horse

Translated by Clayton Eshleman and A. James Arnold

Lily Cho

Centuries Past

Darkness the Second

Idea Birth

“This pumping thing”

Scaling the Cliffs

Recipe for a Super Villain

Ken Cormier

“A Squeeze of the Hand”

Stop Writing to Jazz

Sing Sweetly

I Require

Eating

Chris Degon

Particle Bird

Untitled

Clayton Eshleman

Zurn Heads

Munch Dissolves

Octavio’s Labyrinth

Meanother

Prayer for Will Alexander

Jared Demick

“it’s lovely how the…”

Short-Changed Poems

If I should rain tonight

Jared Demick Translations

“city”- Oswaldo de Andrade

“Outside Contact”- Vicente Huidobro

“Eyes”- D. Thomaz de Almeida

Gordon Fraser

LoJack me love

Like a staple gun to the face

Taxidermy your neighbor’s pets and children

Victoria Ganim

3 Hinges

Ricky Garni

I Find Judy, Poncho

Joe Giglio

over(t)time

on vacation

first edi(c)t

1-thought(ful)>>>mo(m)(ve)ment

"in light of <l"

for after

shaping (thought)

stick figures-3

stick figures #6

stick figures #7

stick figures #8

boplines #1

boplines #2

bop line(age)s #3

a theist

dr(e)am (s)hopping

atonal love ballade #1

Joe Giglio Visual Art

Rainbow Shards

Eye’s Habit

Howard Good

The Reference Librarian of Arcane Griefs

Josepha Gutelius

New Year’s Transformers

Interpretation of Dreams, for My Daughter

Leigh Herrick

Fire

Desertification with Extinction

A Tragic Blue (Vallejo)

spring

Paige Hill

Vampire Poem

Old Age Poem

D. Michael Jones

the morning visitors

Jean Jones

Dealing with the Great Absurd

Awakening

Pierre Joris

3 Pages from Canto Diurno #4: The Tang Extending from the Blade

Heller Levinson

Value Is

“with bituminous”

“with horizon”

“with trespass”

Evacuation

Cymbalology

“smelling mermaid”

“with mermaid”

the road to mermaid road

Finning the Mesmeric Mermaid Wake

in the hol(y)(iness)ding of mermaid

the road to bumpy road

the road to clear road

the road to empty road

“Barbara Do You Want to Sit Here?”

See of Joy

Two Hats

from hands this guitar

Horse

Heller Levinson, Joe Giglio & Sedric Choukroun

part beatitude part beast

Michael Main

Objec(tox)City

the road to rainfallen road

in the mu(sing)s of miles

in the temperature of felled trees

Root Sepulchre

Mary Newell

[If] not love

Carol Novack & Sheila E. Murphy

Room

John Olson

Mozart’s Birthday

The DNA of Poetry

Sometimes A Great Nougat

The Yolk In the Yoke

A Washcloth Wetter Than Calculus

Critical Mass

Apparatus

Arc

Brought to a Boil: An Essay On Experimental Poetry

Adrian Paulsen

Tanencal

Antediluvian Dreams

Peruvian Poetry

“Anarchy”- Carlos Oliva

“A Mask's Confessions”- Miguel Ildefonso

“The Secret Place of the Desert”- Miguel Ildefonso

“South”- Hector Ñaupari

“Pre-Banisteriopsis”- Josemari Recalde

“Sermonem ad Mortuos”- Josemari Recalde

“The Fire’s Vertebrae”- Harold Alva

Translated by Anthony Seidman

Jeremy Pilapil

Dali Felt Disappointed.

Noir

Everything in a Second

Danny Tells Me Something

Andrew Roberts

She Looks After You

Telegrams. In the Dark.

Supernova

Anthony Seidman

Cosmic Weather

On Why I Stick My Arm into the Earth

Motoro

When the Fires Reach Me

Nightmare of Bar Las Playas

Geophagy

Ars Poetica

A Murder Of

Advent

Felino Soriano

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Painters’ Exhalations 151

Painters’ Exhalations 152

Painters’ Exhalations 153

Painters’ Exhalations 155

Painters’ Exhalations 159

Ray Succre

She Counts What Splits the Days

Morning Paper

Three Lives

Fitful Night in the Mexican Hotel

Renee Wagemans

This Journey

Interview Directory

Clayton Eshleman Interview

Interview with the Ladybug

Joe Giglio Interview

Pierre Joris Interview

Heller Levinson Interview

Randall Nelson Interview

John Olson Interview

Ulf Stolterfoht Conversation

Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop Interview

BOOK REVIEWS

Jared Demick Reviews

--> “ Was I holding your hand or merely an opinion?”: Jennifer Martenson’s Unsound

--> Knickknacks of Shrieking People: Novica Tadić’s Assembly--> “Disappearance is within us”: Jean Daive’s Under the Dome: Walks with Paul Celan

--> Heller Levinson’s ToxiCity: Poems of the Coconut Vulva

--> Clayton Eshleman’s Reciprocal Distillations

--> Clayton Eshleman’s An Alchemist with One Eye on Fire

--> The Complete Poems of César Vallejo

--> Commentaries I-IX on Ulf Stolterfoht’s Lingos I-IX

--> Heller Levinson’s Smelling Mary

--> “I believe I’m a creature a creation an invented person”:  Caroline DuBois’s You Are the Business

--> “My language is full of dirt and shit”: The Grindstone of Rapport: A Clayton Eshleman Reader

Special Features

A "Poemic"

What happens when Jared Demick’s poems merge with Lily Cho’s comics…a writhing screepsquall of a tale…

Exquisite Corpuscle

“Northampton Exquisite Corpse”- Angela Bouchard, Lily Cho, and Jared Demick

“Grizzly Adams Graveside Exquisite Corpse”- Angela Bouchard and Jared Demick

Collaborative Poem

Heller Levinson, John Olson, Ken Cormier, Lily Cho, Jared Demick, and Anthoy Seidman riff off each other Breton-boplicious style.