A note on submissions
Submissions for Vestiges_05: Lacunae remain open until December 31. Please direct your work to editors [at] blacksunlit [dot] com with the subject line “Vestiges Submission.” Submissions for digital vestiges will re-open the first of next month... Read More
Introducing Apostasy by Katy Mongeau, forthcoming March 16, 2020
Preorders for Katy Mongeau’s Apostasy are now available. Apostasy is a becoming and a deathwish—bloom, raunch, wilt, and rot. Ecstatic and erotic, mythic and mystical, fecund and feculent, Katy Mongeau’s debut collection of poems... Read More
The Washing and the Clothes Line by Serge Pey, trans. from French by Donald Nicholson-Smith
I learned my letters as I ate my alphabet soup. Tiny letters, without much meaning. For her part, my mother read the earth, because marks on the ground were the writing of the night. From those signs, outside the house, she knew that a fox had passed by along the road... Read More
the beginning of suffering is by Valerie Hsiung
the beginning of suffering is species accordance / the beginning of suffering is echo dislocation / the beginning of suffering is experimentation / the beginning of suffering is interspecies vivisection / the beginning of suffering is eco sideshow... Read More
a murmuring art: translations of Henri Michaux’s asemic texts by Hannah Kezema
you’re a cascade, lightly / undefined and undressed, / mad / now / tangled of word / i, noise-light / might soften / in sprawling / would i seem just an evening under the star of sky / or could i ruminate from each side / into modern...
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Naked Thoughts Book Launch at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop
Sunday, October 20, 2019, 4 PM: Please join Black Sun Lit for the launch of Róbert Gál’s Naked Thoughts, featuring a bilingual + interactive performance by the author and readings by Vestiges contributors Anna Gurton-Wachter, Nicola Masciandaro & Kyra Simone... Read More
Open Call for Submissions: Vestiges_05: Lacunae
Black Sun Lit is now accepting submissions for the fifth volume of Vestiges: Lacunae. The writer of the twenty-first century is both confronted and confounded by a world that has become all too knowable. With erudition and the future at their fingertips, today’s writer is no longer fulfilled by saying the inexplicable but depleted by... Read More
Four Poems by Shira Dentz
wild flusters rose over rocks / tombs / callously forbidding / combing / may when nightfall / cutting emblem / surround serrate / loose—no? regurgitate. / sway a line / tilted and bulbous / creek / fall asleep... Read More
Three Poems from From A Winter Notebook by Matvei Yankelevich
It sounded so much better before I wrote it down, / even my jealousy seemed wingéd, like Marina’s. / Does the road wind up hill all the way? My teeth will rot, / but I’ll be rot, I hope, before that happens — then will words / mean what they say, finally…, then will you... Read More
Fragments from Moon Ring by Annie Le Brun, trans. from French by Alicen Weida
Children of this century, avert your gaze. Lips are no longer on every word. Words climb pell-mell onto the backs of things. And things, wandering in the desert of their own erosion, seek to bribe our bones, the uncertain keepers of a fortified mirage... Read More