Editor’s Note: Vestiges_07: Catachresis
look for me in synaptic recipe. unknot my cravat of syncopated spanish onion revealing serrated chandelier tears. peel the telepathic tuxedo sequins for violent thyme boiling poise... Read More
Five Poems by Stanislav Belsky, trans. from Russian by olga mikolaivna
Negligence triumphed. / Departing at noon / from a sketch of a station, / you’ve stopped contemplating / when you will return to the sky. / Poetry — it’s a railroad roar, / a jig of semantic pistons, / condensed nonsense / of chance conversations — / an insidiously expanding / conspiracy against the eternal...... Read More
Lana Turner & Black Sun Lit AWP Offsite Reading at Makachi Space
Thursday, March 27, 2025, 6:30 PM: Please join Lana Turner & Black Sun Lit for an AWP offsite reading and the west coast launch of Vestiges_07: Catachresis, featuring Will Alexander, Shane Book, Isabel Sobral Campos, Tongo Eisen-Martin, Tilghman Alexander Goldsborough, Brenda Hillman, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Joyelle McSweeney, Sheila E. Murphy, Tenaya Nasser-Frederick, Lindsay Turner &... Read More
Excerpt from Jon Day by Ann Pedone
I wander lymphic. Foreclosed of all intercourse. Without any in-grown to speak of. I flounder straight into the radiation of alpha gamma theta. Waxed without waxing. Fucked without adequate. Mustard or syrup. Which litters. Which dwells outside of all. Known and recorded uterine tendencies. I can weather you out... Read More
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