The Creativity of the Crisis: Évelyne Grossman in Conversation with Mia Ruf
Interpretation has long been the exclusive domain of theologians, transforming texts into dogmas and precepts to be followed. We should instead imagine an interpretation that is constantly experimenting, with no certainty of finding the final word... Read More
gender sonnets by Ethan Fortuna
° but there are only a few hours we can relish ° chemical transmit song yeast / boots ° whatever enthuses cowering frettilations ° synthesis prescience ‘you’ ° porous / slide ° laid malleable stillness ° readiness ensorcell vigil ° ... Read More
Black Sun Lit / Asterism Books [REVISED]
Black Sun is excited to announce a new distribution partnership with Asterism Books. Currently, all issues of Vestiges (that remain in print) are now available from Asterism. All titles previously distributed by Small Press Distribution are in the process of being shipped... Read More
Five Poems by Valentine Penrose, translated from French by Mia X. Pérez
If it is a stone of sorrow, there I am seated / There, where ribbons fall sideways on the plain / White veils. This is nothing. / Where the wild-eyed goddess plunges the child of another into fire. / The tree refuses to orient itself. The emerald / Keeps its fist clenched... Read More
BETRAYAL by Taos Lopez
It’s a love story that slits its own throat, but it’s not a story at all. It’s your life. Your heart beats as a reminder of the beating you’ve taken. If you could reach it you would pull the plug, but you can’t reach it so you reach for something else. First, you pick yourself... Read More
Six Poems from Flow state by Ryan Skrabalak
Write a music. Write a music more of with more no world, with things arranged. Things rearranged in no. World with no question (past, as night) in the mode of your fog. So that the fog was suited for your music and you made it with. Not owned. That’s your sense of this world... Read More
Four Prose Poems by Benjamin Paloff
I can only wonder at the decisions the ever-elsewhere hummingbird is weighing mid-air, but its suspension in all-at-onceness makes perfect sense in this “rarely” so rare as to mingle with never-forever. Taking the corner wide to skirt the black ice, there’s no need to keep looking... Read More
Four Prose Poems by Ken Taylor
if he talks his voice will not be the thing said, but the way of not saying it. what it aims to spurn. short on collar points. disciple of celestial steering. he keeps his mouth shut. the image will have to carry. not to be seen as holdup to action. he’s lost in thought in... Read More
Dead End Book Launch at Black Spring Books
Thursday, November 16, 2023, 7 PM: Please join Black Sun Lit for the launch and live reading of Michel Surya’s Dead End, with translator Kit Schluter, Daniel Saldaña París, Katy Mongeau, Katie Ebbitt, V Manuscript, Maralie Armstrong-Rial & Mitch Anzuoni... Read More
Five Poems from The Cheapest France In Town by Seo Jung Hak, translated from Korean by Megan Sungyoon
The heart was about to explode when the pipe was raised, still bleeding. The length of happiness was inversely proportional to fear, that bold solidity. Disgusting laughter echoed around. I, too, almost cried... Read More