Four Poems by Christina Vega-Westhoff
Be or at have from repetition of linear reasoning one guest speaks into micraptorphone recycled belief claw line tangent of entropy polyanalaze eyes for days closed like lizards whispers of elation chime of calendar away from online entity official language vs corruption charge nomination... Read More
Three Poems by Anselm Berrigan
I have ripped my / Surface into the foreground, so as to / Hopefully, die on terms I at least might / Begin to utter. I got to see your work / Because it’s 100 years since you came / To this town, & somebody decided / To honor your decision. That’s a whole /... Read More
Five Poems by Kimberly Alidio
A blurb for we are all we have not just our care and theories what we’ve read poignant details eliciting attention meaning and insight and sensory signals or our geopolitics the lands and bodies incur inter spread across continually die for the commons horizons maneuvers campaigns direct actions disjointed... Read More
Vestiges_07: Catachresis Cover & Contributors Preview
Vestiges_07: Catachresis will feature work from Christophe Tarkos, Martha Ronk, Will Alexander, Andrew Joron, Edwin Torres, Kimberly Alidio, Garrett Caples, Anselm Berrigan, E. Tracy Grinnell, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, David Buuck, John Yau, Christina Vega-Westhoff +more... Read More
[A canoe emerges from an armor of mist…] by Monroe Lawrence
For you / I will remember / places touched by Rust / & thorn, / sky gleaming / Larks—a dull, / pried-apart / freedom / That darts & bursts & folds / in a dream of distances. / I will / dream / of mist & /... Read More
Three Poems by Andrew Maxwell
Within us you only you whisper. / This wet flesh of rainlight / descending / through duskfall. Your touch comes / as suddenly. Lavishly as if / this moment still / only ungathers. / Enflames now as rainlight. As smokelace. Your thorns / fill our throat and we / swallow... Read More
Open Call for Submissions: Vestiges_07: Catachresis
Black Sun Lit is now accepting submissions for the seventh volume of Vestiges: Catachresis. To wilt tears for an infatuation who has no name of their own. To weep rain like a sentence that passes through the unrequited glimpse. Language is the instrument of our shivers; literature the wink that slips into a wince... Read More
Two Poems by Emily Hunerwadel
and I wake up to find / everything whittled to sound / the floorboards covered / with it / my vermin selves / such were they / dreamt this way / until the scenery mutinies / and the floorboards multiply / in disguise / the dream character / a homing device / for what’s left... Read More
Three Poems by Kirstin Allio
I was against the hypnotizing cliché, clouds gathered, shadow-puppeting the sheet of sand. The tide-line was stenciled in washed trash. A traditional line of waves kept breaking. Form and freeform. Forgiveness wasn’t a form of innocence, it was futuristic... Read More
So-Lair Storm Virtual Book Launch
Tuesday, October 1, 2024, 7 PM ET: Please join Black Sun Lit for a virtual celebration of So-Lair Storm, with readings by author Andrés Ajens and translator Erín Moure followed by a conversation moderated by Michelle Gil-Montero, with Sonja Greckol... Read More