Introducing Aunonomic Reasoning by Will Alexander, forthcoming September 16, 2025
Preorders for Will Alexander’s Aunonomic Reasoning are now available. Precipitous philosophies. Synaptic-nerve narrations. Syntactic spirals. Hyper-coiled horizons. Will Alexander’s mental range has arrived. An anomalous scripting of the word “automatic,” Aunonomic Reasoning is a whirlwind of lingual torrents... Read More
One Poem by Tenaya Nasser-Frederick
when the moon wears the sky’s blue / nothing would be purposefully / brought to excess; each rational, / unsure what to do next / except reappear from this life-filled place, / keep broken good news about you /
and no bad news from you. angels /
fly into the mistake. splayed, your heels /... Read More
Two Poems by Jane Lewty
un-sun-kissed, unkissed, / I mean idle and torrid / a not-beach babe / in windowless rooms / around which satellites / catch & spasm, / amplify & detect / something prevents me / from co-creating these / enjoy-ful duties of / worship (of which / the longing that passed / & passes needless, / is... Read More
Two Poems by Francesca Kritikos
The season of lilacs is monstrous / if monstrosity can be defined / as proportional to beauty / and inversely proportional / to the time / in which that beauty survives / I feel as though I’ve lost everything / though I am aware that I lack for nothing / I play my body like... Read More
Four Poems by Augusto Lunel, trans. from Spanish by Michael Martin Shea
The ocean is a boy nursed by whales, / the sky a great eyeball from which rain falls; / the light a sound that crumples in the sand, / powdered sailing ship / from which a dawn departs with every wave. / The breeze is a bird wrapped in a handkerchief... Read More
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, Sheila E. Murphy, Tenaya Nasser-Frederick, Rodrigo Toscano, 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