Open Call for Submissions: Vestiges_04: Aphasia
Black Sun Lit is now accepting submissions for the fourth volume of Vestiges: Aphasia. The linger of the last avant-gardes is the survival of their premier violation: the trespassing of generic frames, the grievance against textual patterns of forms. This first lapse would be terminal. Schlegel, Novalis, Hölderlin. Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Rimbaud. Rilke, Stein, Barnes... Read More
Vi Khi Nao, Claire Donato & Rachael Wilson at Topos Bookstore
Sunday, July 22, 2018, 6:30 PM: Black Sun Lit presents Vi Khi Nao, Claire Donato & Rachael Wilson... Read More
Vi Khi Nao, Brenda Iijima, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson & Erin Fleming at Unnameable Books
Saturday, July 21, 2018, 6:30 PM: Black Sun Lit presents Vi Khi Nao, Brenda Iijima, Lynne DeSilva-Johnson & Erin Fleming... Read More
Vi Khi Nao & Susan Daitch at Codex
Wednesday, July 18, 2018, 7 PM: Black Sun Lit presents Vi Khi Nao & Susan Daitch... Read More
Saint-Ouen | Stalingrad by Marie Silkeberg, trans. from Swedish by Kelsi Vanada
Rashomon. The Demon’s Gate you say. / I understood that it had opened. / Only a few more seconds. And it would be opened wide. / Time would stratify. / It snowed. The first snow fell... Read More
Two Prose Poems by Michael Trocchia
He left the shovel out back, leaning against the elm; he left his radio on, tuned to a static sense of time, a pair of wet boots at the pedals of the piano, and his wool cloak, stained with wild game, draped carefully across the keys, as if to warm the heart of a winter... Read More
Two Poems by Alison Prine
On the shore your face strained / by laughter is washed in sun. / The recognition in our gaze / is cumulative. / Every morning I wake / to watch dawn unfold over the harbor. / At night I crave to go back into / the conversation our bodies have in sleep... Read More
Sheep Machine Pre-release Reading at Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop
Thursday, May 17, 2018, 7 PM: Please join Black Sun for the prelaunch of Vi Khi Nao’s Sheep Machine, with readings by the author, Moina Pam Dick, Liz Bowen & Katy Mongeau... Read More
Love, Anti- (notes toward) by Anna Moschovakis
I never made it to Love, and now I hear it’s defunct. Anti-Love meets regularly, though attendance is spotty. At least I’ve done most of the readings. Love, by contrast, will be a recuperation project... Read More